BlizzCon 2023 Livestream Will Be Free, But IRL Tickets Are $300
29.6.2023
BlizzCon 2023, a massive celebration of Blizzard games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo is back in-person for the first time in four years, and offering two very different paths to enjoy the ceremonies. For the first time ever, you can watch the livestream in its entirety for free,...
Someone Killed An Ultra-Powerful Diablo IV Boss In Less Than 15 Seconds
29.6.2023
A powerful world boss in Diablo IV has been slain in only a dozen or so seconds. And while that’s impressive enough on its own, it’s even more amazing that it was basically one very powerful Necromancer that wiped out this usually hard-to-kill baddie. Read more
Here Are The Best 2023 Steam Summer Sale Deals
29.6.2023
OK, PC gamers, Steam’s annual Summer Sale is here. The event is active through July 13 at 1 p.m. ET and, as one of Steam’s biggest discount sessions, it covers a ton of best-selling indie and AAA games, like Dead Cells (now $12) and Sekiro’s GOTY edition (now $30).Read more
Hell Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 Makes It Easy To Do Fatalities
29.6.2023
This past weekend I played a beta version of Mortal Kombat 1. I was part of an “online stress test” organized by NetherRealm Studios so the team could prepare the servers ahead of the game’s official launch. To quickly sum things up: So far, so good.Read more
Free-To-Play Shooter Shuts Down For Good Due To Cheaters
29.6.2023
Developer Yager Development has announced that its free-to-play multiplayer shooter The Cycle: Frontier will go offline forever on September 27. The developer gave a few reasons for the shutdown, including an interesting one: Cheaters ruined the experience for everyone involved.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI’s Gay Romance Fails To Commit Where It Counts
29.6.2023
Back in May, it was announced Final Fantasy XVI would be banned in Saudi Arabia. Officially, it was because developer Square Enix refused to alter scenes in the game for the territory, which led to rumors and speculation that the 16th game in the long-running RPG series would have explicit gay...
Shooter Dev Threatens To Ban Anyone For Sharing Game Secrets
29.6.2023
No one likes a spoiled surprise. But if you’re Battlestate Games, developers of the indie extraction shooter Escape From Tarkov, then you really, really, really don’t like it. Recently, the dev has threatened to ban anyone who datamines or even shares datamined content from the game. The threatens...
Avatar Is Getting A New Action-Adventure Game And It Looks A Bit Mid
29.6.2023
On Thursday, fans of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender received an adrenaline shot in the arm by way of an announcement trailer for a new action-adventure game set in the universe that’s due out later this year. Unfortunately, its gameplay looks a bit bland, and the trailer...
Silent Hill 2 Remake Studio Says It's Done With Psychological Horror—And That’s A Good Thing
29.6.2023
Polish horror game developer Bloober Team told Engadget it’s leaving the psychological horror subset—a genre that defined all of its biggest titles, like Layers of Fear and the cyberpunk title Observer—far behind. The studio is currently responsible for the (impossible, diehard fans say) task...
Niantic Lays Off 230 Employees, Moves Away From In-House Development
29.6.2023
Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio and is moving away from in-house game development. As such, the Pokémon Go studio is laying off 230 employees, shuttering NBA All-World and cancelling its upcoming Marvel: World of Heroes.Read more
It’s Sony’s Fault We Have Console Exclusives, Says Microsoft CEO
29.6.2023
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to drag Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard under a microscope, the company’s CEO wants you to know it’s actually Sony’s fault that console exclusives exist.Read more
Hyped RPG Baldur's Gate III Took Six Years To Make Because It's Scary-Big
29.6.2023
Baldur’s Gate III director Swen Vincke doesn’t think the sprawling fantasy role-playing game would exist if the team behind it, Larian Studios, had been gobbled up by another game company. “It would have been canned, guaranteed,” he told me during a recent interview. “There’s no way that a...