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Two Of The Best Shooters Of All Time Are Now Free (And More Of The Week's Top Stories)
16.11.2024
This week saw the classic shootersUnreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the...
Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
13.11.2024
In 2008, when GOG.com was launched, it was called Good Old Games. As Steam was on the rise and digital distribution was clearly to become the future of gaming, a Polish company that had just released its first game—a relatively obscure RPG called The Witcher—wanted to get in on the act. The goal...
Both Nintendo And Sega Had Oddly Timed Announcements This Week
9.11.2024
Whether you think the art you consume should be a distraction from the real world or a reflection of it is up to you and your capacity for curiosity. While such a divide doesn’t exist for fans of film, music, literature, or television, for some reason, it does for people who enjoy things like...
Take-Two Boss Isn't 'Worried' About GTA 6 On Xbox Series S
7.11.2024
Grand Theft Auto 6 is easily the most anticipated video game release of 2025. The open-world game is likely to push consoles hard, which is why some fans have been nervous about the game’s performance on Xbox Series S. But according to the boss of Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two...
New Star Wars Outlaws Director Focusing On 3 Things To Improve The Game
4.11.2024
Star Wars Outlaws is an offline single-player game that came out over two months ago, but Ubisoft is increasingly treating it like a post-launch live service game with continual updates and, now, a new director. The French publisher revealed that Massive’s Drew Rechner is the already-shipped game’s...
Snag Guardians Of The Galaxy, Mafia, And Dishonored For Free With Prime Gaming This November
4.11.2024
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’ve mostly survived the Great Launch Season of 2024. After a month of incredible megaton releases like Metaphor: ReFanatazio, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the rest of the year is thankfully going to look and feel tremendously...
New World: Aeternum, As Told By Steam Reviews
1.11.2024
On launch, New World broke records and amassed a massive playerbase of over one million concurrent players. But like my high school bully, that towering monstrosity of an MMORPG somehow managed to peak quickly and drop off the face of the planet. Despite the lackluster reception after its first...
Sony Shuts Down Studio Behind Concord Less Than Two Years After Buying It
29.10.2024
Firewalk Studios is shutting down, Sony announced in a press release on Tuesday. The team was responsible for Concord, the company’s sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after it’s launcher earlier this year. The news comes less than two years after...
Netflix Shutters AAA Game Studio It Built With Former Blizzard, Bungie Devs
22.10.2024
From the moment it was announced that Netflix had hired a team of former Blizzard, Bungie and Sony developers to create a AAA game, it felt too likely that little or nothing would come of it. Non-gaming companies deciding to try to grab a slice of the giant pie by spending money to recruit...
Bandai Namco Reportedly Cancels Nintendo Project And Other Games
15.10.2024
Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well...
Destiny: Rising Announced For Mobile, From Developers Of Diablo Immortal
14.10.2024
Rumored to have been in development for years in or aroundan increasingly fractured Bungie, Destiny: Rising has been a poorly kept secret for the last couple of months. But now it’s official, with NetEase announcing the mobile game today.Read more
The Wolf Among Us And Other Great Telltale Games Are On Sale Right Now
11.10.2024
Throughout the 2010s one of the most interesting developers around was Telltale Games, the developer behind a number of exceptional narrative-driven adventures set in the worlds of popular franchises. The team was most known for its Walking Dead series, generally considered an emotional...
DOOM Eternal Leads A Hell Of A Strong Month Of Free Prime Gaming Titles This Month
10.10.2024
It’s a new month, which means it’s time for another drop of free games via Amazon’s Prime Gaming subscription. In case you don’t know—and who could blame you—being an Amazon Prime subscriber neets you a whole bunch of benefits beyond two-day shipping and Prime TV. For example, you also get benefits...
The 14-Year Wait Is Over: Red Dead Redemption Finally Hits PC Later This Month
8.10.2024
Over a decade after it first landed on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Red Dead Redemption is finally going to be available to play on PC. Rockstar Games announced the hit open-world Western will arrive at the end of October alongside its zombie apocalypse add-on, Undead Nightmare. Read more
New Law Will Force Companies To Admit You Don't Actually Own Digital Games
27.9.2024
AB 2426, a newly passed piece of legislation in California signed into law earlier this week by governor Gavin Newsom, will force companies selling digital goods—like games—in the state to warn consumers that they don’t actually own that content, but instead are licensing it and could lose access...
TCG Card Shop Simulator: the second 'surprise hit' Steam sim of 2024?
24.9.2024
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Indie Dev Announces Switch 2 Game As More Rumors Swirl
17.9.2024
We are officially halfway through September and there’s still no sign of a Switch 2 or of the usual Nintendo Direct that typically airs around this time of year. Instead, we have an indie studio hyping up a Switch successor console on its Kickstarter page and fans buzzing about possible secret...
Diablo 4 Players Have Spent $150 Million On Skins And Microtransactions
16.9.2024
Blizzard’s 2023 action RPG dungeon looter Diablo 4 has been criticized for its microtransactions and pricey skins. But apparently, that hasn’t stopped plenty of players from spending over $100 million on in-game cosmetics and other items since it launched.Read more
Microsoft Promises No games Cancelled Amid 650 More Xbox Jobs Cut
12.9.2024
Microsoft is laying off another 650 employees from its Xbox gaming division, the company announced in an overnight companywide memo. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer stressed that no new games were being cancelled or studio closed as a result of the latest round of cuts. Read more
Ubisoft Is Fixing Those Early, Annoying Star Wars Outlaws Stealth Missions
9.9.2024
Some early missions in Star Wars Outlaws require precise and careful sneaking, but the game doesn’t always play along. The issues have been frustrating many players, and Ubisoft knows it, and is planning to fix the problem and make it less “unfair.” Read more