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Assassin’s Creed Comic May Have Hidden Message From Frustrated Artist
27.1.2023
This year the Assassin’s Creed franchise turns 15 years old. In that time, the franchise has expanded into multiple games, mobile spin-offs, books, movies, shorts, and more. It’s a big, complicated universe that involves historical conspiracies, shadowy cults, and ancient aliens. And those ancient...
New Far Cry Multiplayer And Far Cry 7 Both In Works At Ubisoft
27.1.2023
Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has at least two new Far Cry experiences coming down the road. One will effectively be Far Cry 7, the next mainline game in the hit first-person shooter series. The other is a standalone multiplayer spin-off and likely the company’s latest attempt to create...
5 Games To Expect From Ubisoft In 2023 (And Some To Be Skeptical Of)
26.1.2023
Cancellations, right? That really does seem to have been the New Year’s theme for the French publisher so far, with at least seven projects recently scrapped, while other big names seem to slip ever-further toward the distant horizon. Yet, until last year, the problematic multi-billion dollar...
The Samurai Yakuza Game Will Guest-Star A World-Famous Wrestler And An Internet Hottie
26.1.2023
Sega and its Ryu Ga Gotoku studio announced that some big stars in the worlds of professional wrestling and Hollywood will make cameos in the upcoming samurai Yakuza spin-off, Like A Dragon: Ishin!Read more
The Queen Of Elden Ring Won’t Stop Finding New Ways To Beat The Game
26.1.2023
At the start of 2023, Twitch streamer MissMikkaa made headlines for beating Elden Ring’s notorious rot queen, Malenia, Blade of Miquella, with two completely different controllers at the same time. It was a ridiculous feat of dexterity and focus, but would you believe this method of play was...
Everything We Saw At Today's Xbox Developer Direct
25.1.2023
Today Microsoft held its Developer Direct presentation, focusing on a number of new games coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass. We got a fresh look at some anticipated titles, as well as a neat little rhythmic surprise from the developers of The Evil Within. But enough chatter, let’s get into what...
The Saga Behind Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Keeps Getting Weirder
25.1.2023
Have you heard of The Day Before? It’s an upcoming zombie-themed survival horror MMO with strong The Last of Us vibes. You might just have had it on your Steam wishlist, as it consistently ranked highest among wishlisted games, outpacing titles such as Bethesda’s Starfield and falling just behind...
Twitter Keeps Sharing 'Useless' Video Game Knowledge That's Actually Amazing
24.1.2023
It’s right there in the Bible—ask, and it will be given to you. It’s also right there on gaming Twitter, where the small gaming podcast Super Pod Saga posed an innocent question on January 15 and people showed up to respond in droves: “What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge...
Marvel’s Avengers Is Dying, But Spider-Man Remains Trapped On PlayStation
23.1.2023
Late last week, Square Enix announced that its beleaguered 2020 live-service game, Marvel’s Avengers, will no longer receive new content or major updates after March 31. And all official support for the game will end on September 30, 2023, with digital sales ending on that date too. While you’ll...
GTA Trilogy Arrives On Steam, Still Broken (But On Sale)
19.1.2023
Today, after some leaks and rumors, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition on Steam. The good news: It’s on sale, meaning you can grab all three classic games for cheap. The bad news: It’s the same infamously messy remaster that hasn’t received a substantial...
Someone Made a GeoGuessr For Elden Ring
19.1.2023
If you played Elden Ring and are a fan of the wildly popular GeoGuessr game genre—in which you’re dropped into a Google Street View and tasked with pinpointing your location—then you may want to thank Redditor u/TheEdenChild. They recently announced they’d created an Elden Ring-based take...
Ubisoft Employees Asked To Strike Over CEO's Comments, Pay Demands
18.1.2023
Ubisoft hasn’t had the best couple of years. A string of flops and disappointments means the company isn’t in the best shape as it heads into 2023, so in an attempt to get everyone firing last week CEO Yves Guillemot sent an email to staff telling them “The ball is in your court”. It did not...
Beyond Good & Evil 2 Still In Development, Claims Ubisoft
16.1.2023
After Ubisoft recently announced they had been swinging the axe Barbarian-style, it was assumed by many that any hope of the infinitely-delayed Beyond Good & Evil 2 could now be put to rest. Seven games were canned in the last six months, along with yet another delay for the beleaguered Skull...
GTA 6’s Leak Showed Us The Future, Now It’s Hard To Care About GTA Online
13.1.2023
Last year, footage of the next Grand Theft Auto—assumed to be GTA 6—leaked online. While Rockstar quickly tried to erase the videos from the internet and plug the holes in the ship, it was impossible to completely contain such a massive, unprecedented leak. So fans around the world got a very good...
Ubisoft's Never-ending Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete, Decade-Long Saga
13.1.2023
Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing....
The Next Assassin's Creed Is Smaller Because Past Games Got Way Too Big
12.1.2023
The last few Assassin’s Creed titles have been gigantic games that can easily take over a hundred hours to fully complete, with huge maps crowded with POIs and tons of side quests to distract you from the main story. According to Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the upcoming spin-off, is smaller...
Ubisoft Has Canceled At Least Seven Games In Six Months
11.1.2023
In a new financially-focused press release, Ubisoft has confirmed that it has canceled three more unannounced games, meaning that since July 2022 the publisher has now canned at least seven different video games. It’s more bad news for the publisher, who also confirmed that recent games like Mario...
Twitch Streamer Plays FromSoftware Games In A Truly Absurd Way
10.1.2023
Spend any time on the internet—whether Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube—and you’ve likely seen some streamer doing some absurd-ass playthrough of a Soulsborne game (probably Elden Ring). Whether it’s beating Margit with a harp or two Malenias simultaneously (one with a dance pad), there are some wild...
Anarchist Fallout Mod Claims To Be Funded By The Government
5.1.2023
The Canadian government has apparently used taxpayer money to pay for an anarchist Fallout mod. And not just once or twice, but four times. I have so many questions, mainly: “What does it take to get rejected from a Canadian arts grant?”Read more
Steam Awards Crown To 'Best Game You Totally Suck At'
3.1.2023
At this point, it goes without saying that Elden Ring is one of the most popular games of the past year. It’s won copious trophies, including the coveted Game of the Year accolade at The Game Awards. It blasted developer FromSoftware into mainstream critical acclaim. It was even the most completed...