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Microsoft Adds FPS Boost To 13 More Xbox Games
22.4.2021
Microsoft announced today that 13 EA Play games now support FPS Boost on Xbox Series X/S consoles. A bunch of these FPS-boosted titles support 120Hz including Star Wars: Battlefront, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, Titanfall 2, Battlefield V, and more. Read more
Epic Games Store Adds New Apps Including, Um, Another Game Store
22.4.2021
Epic announced today that a slate of new non-gaming apps are now available on the Epic Games Store. The most interesting new app added is the indie games storefront Itch.io, potentially giving the thousands of smaller games on their store a huge new audience of EGS users. Read more
New Battlefield Game Promised For Later This Year
22.4.2021
Today, EA announced it’s working on two new Battlefield games and promised a console/PC release for later this year.Read more
Behold, A Little Pikachu Photo Printer From Nintendo And Fujifilm
22.4.2021
Nintendo and Fujifilm have joined for a small printer called Instax Mini Link for Nintendo Switch Smartphone Printer.Read more
There's A Full Console Port Of Virtua Fighter 5 Inside Yakuza
22.4.2021
The Yakuza series has contained playable Sega minigames for a while now, from Outrun to Virtua On, but folks digging around in the code for Yakuza: Like A Dragon and Yakuza 6's new PC release have found something a bit more substantial: basically the entire Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter...
Mother 3 Gets An Updated English Patch On Its 15th Anniversary
20.4.2021
The folks behind the wonderful English translation of Mother 3 are still working on the project over a decade later. Earlier today—which also happens to be the 15th anniversary of Nintendo’s milestone RPG in Japan—they dropped a new patch that irons out some lingering bugs in the unofficial...
Apparently, Some Steam Users Have More Than 25,000 Games
20.4.2021
And you thought your backlog was bad. According to the patch notes of a recent Steam Beta Client update, some Steam users—or, more specifically, Steam libraries—may own north of 25,000 games. Woah.Read more
Here's Everything Coming To And Leaving Game Pass Soon
20.4.2021
The baseball game is the big one, but that’s not the only game en route to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s everything coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service in the next few weeks:Read more
Apex Legends Coming To Phones
19.4.2021
Battle royale Apex Legends is coming to phones, developer Respawn announced today. The mobile version will begin testing in certain regions this spring, with a wider rollout to come.Read more
Prescription Video Game Could Help People Who’ve Had Covid
19.4.2021
Researchers are testing whether a video game can help treat the cognitive effects of covid-19. A study uses the game EndeavorRx, which, last June, became the first video game requiring a prescription to play.Read more
Xbox Cloud Gaming For Windows 10 And iOS Launches Limited Beta Tomorrow
19.4.2021
As promised back in December, a browser-based version of the Xbox Cloud Gaming service for Windows 10, iPhones, and iPads is kicking off tomorrow, with a limited number of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers invited to stream and play games directly through Edge, Google Chrome, or the Safari...
The Week In Games: Nier-ly There
18.4.2021
It’s another week, which means another batch of new games. We’ve got some exciting things on the horizon, like NieR Replicant Don’t Make Me Type The Numbers and the next gen version of Judgment. Here are the video games coming this week:Read more
Report: Amazon Cancels Lord Of The Rings MMO
17.4.2021
Amazon has cancelled an in-development Lord of the Rings MMO it first announced in 2019, Bloomberg reported today.Read more
Destiny 2’s Guardian Games Return With A Tennis Ball Ghost
15.4.2021
After debuting last year, Destiny 2’s limited-time Guardian Games event is returning on April 20, alongside a super neat tennis ball Ghost.Read more
Wasteland 3's First Story Expansion Is The Battle Of Steeltown
15.4.2021
Coming June 3 to consoles and PCs, The Battle of Steeltown takes Wasteland 3 players to the towering factory complex that creates the weapons, vehicles, robots, and armor that keeps the Patriarch in power. Apparently, it’s got problems, and it’s up to you to solve them. Read more
Skate City Rolls Onto PC And Consoles May 6
15.4.2021
Skate City, the artful street skating game from Alto’s Odyssey creators Snowman, finally makes the leap from Apple Arcade to PC and console next month, bringing its chill lo-fi beats and dreamy rides to PlayStations, Xboxens, Switch, and PC on May 6. Read more
Maybe Your 'Pile Of Shame' Is A Problem
15.4.2021
Because everything has gone to shit and very few new games are coming out—look at you, you’re all playing Outriders for God’s sake—we’re going to be spending the month looking at backlogs, aka the games we own but haven’t played. And I would like to start that month by saying that anyone using...
Sony Quietly Adds ‘HDMI Link’ Function To PS5, But It’s Kind Of A Bust
14.4.2021
Today, Sony released an update for the PlayStation, adding, among other things, support for external storage of PS5 games. But, as reported by The Verge, Sony quietly snuck in a handful of bonus features in the update, including the ability to automatically deactivate HDR, plus a new suite...
Gaze Upon My Browser Extensions and Despair
14.4.2021
They’re not what any of us would call “intimate,” but you can really tell a lot about a person from a quick glance at the browser extensions they use. Is your boyfriend’s browser decorated with favicons from Evernote, Trello, and literally nothing else? He’s either a type-A perfectionist or zen...
Capcom Says Covid-19 Made Company Vulnerable To Ransomware Attack
14.4.2021
Capcom has officially closed the investigation into the ransomware attack against its servers from late last year, concluding that the ongoing covid-19 pandemic—what else—had a hand in the security breach.Read more