Data dive: anatomy of a Steam game launch
9.6.2021
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Battlefield 2042 Reveal Nods At Fan's Famous Mid-Flight Bazooka Kill
9.6.2021
It’s official: the next Battlefield game will be Battlefield 2042. Battlefield 2042 is set in the near future on an Earth ravaged by ecological disaster, with the United States and Russia fighting over the planet’s rapidly diminishing resources via mercenaries. Today’s trailer teased some of...
Overwatch Adds Crossplay
9.6.2021
Where once Overwatch players were divided along the lines of both platform and whether or not they’d push the damn payload, now they can at least not push the payload together.Read more
Investors Still Think Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Makes Too Much Money
9.6.2021
Grass is green, the sky is blue, and Bobby Kotick is still rich. Earlier this year, Activision halved the CEO’s pay and annual bonus target after he spent years pulling in tens of millions of dollars (even after laying off employees), resulting in sustained pressure from investors. A group...
Battlefield 2042 Won't Have A Campaign
9.6.2021
When Battlefield 2042, the next entry in DICE’s long-running series of first-person shooters, releases this October, it will launch as a multiplayer-only game. Sorry, fans of those War Stories. No campaign this time around.Read more
FFVII Remake Doors Look Much Better On PS5
9.6.2021
One of my only complaints about the original release of Final Fantasy VII Remake was the texture pop-in and weird, blurry texture of Cloud’s apartment door in the Sector 7 slums. I am pleased to report that these issues have been resolved in the PlayStation 5 version, though Cloud still refuses...
My New Switch Obsession Is A Game About Covering Up A Murder
9.6.2021
Just when my game library was beginning to feel stale, Overboard! relit my gaming spark. The visual novel takes the fun trappings of mysteries and whodunnit puzzles but turns the genre on its head.Read more
Série Battlefield se vrací do budoucnosti, nabídne bitvy až 128 hráčů
9.6.2021
Vydavatelství Electronic Arts konečně poodhalilo detaily o dalším díle populární série válečných stříleček Battlefield. Tentokrát se podíváme do blízké budoucnosti, kdy spolu vedou ozbrojený konflikt USA a Rusko. Hra vyjde ještě letos
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
Next Battlefield Game Is Battlefield 2042
9.6.2021
The rumors were true. The next Battlefield game, Battlefield 2042, is set in the future, EA announced during a digital showcase today that started after a “countdown to a countdown.” A gameplay reveal is scheduled for June 13.Read more
Wholesome Games Respond To Backlash In The Classiest Way
9.6.2021
Wholesome Games is a gaming community, focused around a Twitter account, that brings attention to gorgeous, sweet, friendly games, for no reason other than the sheer joy of it. So of course, after they recently announced a second, higher profile Wholesome Direct showcase for this weekend, June...
Jde to i bez přesčasů. Autoři Ratcheta a Clanka chválí pracovní podmínky
9.6.2021
Permanentní vyčerpávající přesčasy jsou dlouhodobě jedním z největších problémů, s kterým se potýkají vývojáři videoher. Autoři aktuálního hitu Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart se ovšem zaklínají, že oni se pověstnému „crunchování“ tentokrát zcela vyhnuli