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Pioneering Sega Developer Reiko Kodama Has Died
27.10.2022
Reiko Kodama, one of the most important developers in the history of both Sega and the wider role-playing genre, has died at the age of 59.Read more
Microsoft Says Xbox Price Increases Are Coming
27.10.2022
Many of us are living through an inflationary crisis the likes of which haven’t been seen for decades, meaning the price of pretty much everything—from clothes to power to food—has gone through the roof over the last 12 months. Video games are no exception.Read more
Overwatch 2 Players Are Getting Hit With Server Errors Following Latest Update
26.10.2022
Right now there’s a Halloween event running for Overwatch 2, but a fair amount of players are facing a different kind of terror: A previously known server error with the code “LC-208” appears to be disproportiantely hitting players after the most recent update. Read more
The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
26.10.2022
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3...
Report: After Sony, Microsoft Wants Its Own Genshin Impact Now
26.10.2022
I was today years old when I found out that Microsoft tried to turn Genshin Impact into an Xbox console exclusive. According to sources, its failure to do so is one of the big reasons why the publisher is trying to sign deals with Chinese gaming studios. Read more
Every U.S. PlayStation 2 Game Manual Is Now Scanned In 4K
25.10.2022
Physical game manuals are hard to come by these days, especially as the industry begins to heavily lean into cloud streaming and digital-first infrastructures. But if you remember those good ole times when game boxes came with chunky pamphlets for you to peruse before jumping into your recent...
Alan Wake Remastered On Switch Looks Rough
20.10.2022
Good news! The fantastic third-person shooter, Alan Wake, is out now on the Nintendo Switch. Bad news! It’s uh…a pretty rough port, with early impressions suggesting it’s buggy, looks terrible, and has some framerate issues, too. Read more
Gotham Knights On Consoles Is Stuck At 30FPS, While PC Requires Some Serious Hardware
19.10.2022
Warner Bros. Montreal revealed the full recommended PC specs for Gotham Knights, and they are frightening. The graphics card alone costs as much as a PlayStation 5, and that’s only to play the game on “high” settings at 1080p. The news comes a week after the studio confirmed that the Batman game...
Red Dead Redemption’s PS Plus Delisting Is Another Bad Omen For Digital Libraries
18.10.2022
If you’ve held off on building up a digital library of games, the original Red Dead Redemption is here to remind you that you might not be missing out after all. Rockstar’s 2010 open world Western was just removed from PS Now/Plus after six years. And as the industry moves to include more...
Xbox Game Pass Is A Huge Treat For Horror Fans This Month
18.10.2022
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we updated our guide to the best Halloween games on Game Pass, so naturally Xbox has gone and made it all out of date by announcing a slew of spoopy titles its add to the subscription service. With names like Amnesia and Soma, get ready for the top-level...
The New PS5, Xbox Custom Controllers Will Have You Breaking The Bank
18.10.2022
In 2015, Microsoft revealed the Elite Series Xbox controller, a premium gamepad for players who can recount their Call of Duty kill/death ratio faster than their Social Security number. An entire console generation later and Sony’s now getting in the game too with the DualSense Edge, a souped...
Classic Shooter Perfect Dark Is Unofficially Coming To PC 20 Years Later
17.10.2022
The eternal mystery of why so many major gaming companies work so hard to not sell us their classic games remains as inexplicable as magnetism. But as the N64's GoldenEye 007 finally reaches the official Nintendo Switch Online service next year, thanks to a successful decompiling, somewhat less...
Nintendo Switch Price Cheaters Accidentally Rocketed A Game To Mass Audiences
13.10.2022
Price tourism, the scummy practice where people spoof their location so as to take advantage of emerging economies in the poorest parts of the world, isn’t exactly looked fondly upon by the games industry. Picking up a full-price game for a buck-fifty by pretending you’re in Brazil both rips...
Two Unreleased NES Games Have Turned Up On eBay
12.10.2022
Not one but two unreleased NES games have recently appeared on eBay, and one of them in particular should be of huge interest to fans of the Nintendo Power Glove, and/or Donkey Kong Country developers Rare.Read more
A Rare Opportunity To See The Huge Money Spent To Keep Game Pass, PS Plus Bursting With Games
11.10.2022
Video games are a nearly $200 billion industry. That’s a lot of money sloshing around an increasingly small group of notoriously secretive companies. Where does it all go? At least some of it is poured back into competing storefronts and subscription services like PlayStation Plus and Game Pass....
Fans Think Xbox Boss Just Revealed Game Pass Streaming Device
10.10.2022
Xbox fans have been waiting for a glimpse of a new, standalone Game Pass streaming device called “Keystone” since it was first teased at E3 2021. Now Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer may have just given it to them in his latest shelfie. It looks like a micro-Xbox Series S.Read more
Oops: Valve Shows Switch Emulator In Steam Deck Vid, Then Deletes It
7.10.2022
There are a lot of reasons why people buy Steam Decks, Valve’s new portable gaming PC. It lets them take beloved Steam games on the go. Others use it to get the most out of Xbox Game Pass on PC. And some people use it to run a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu. Valve admitted as much in a recent...
No Man's Sky Is Getting A Major Overhaul As It Launches On Switch
7.10.2022
To say that No Man’s Sky has come a long way since its 2016 launch would be an understatement. But despite all of the welcome expansions to the epic-scale space sim, gameplay elements like survival, crafting, and the interesting choice of inventory layout have remained an obstacle for some players....
Apparently The $70 Skyrim Anniversary Edition On Switch Runs Like Crap
6.10.2022
Another year, another busted version of Skyrim. After being on the market for over a decade, Bethesda’s game that never dies just saw its Anniversary Edition update hit Nintendo Switch. (This edition, which hit other platforms last year, includes a new fishing mini-game along with other exclusive...
Nintendo Won’t Allow Topless Women On The Switch Anymore
6.10.2022
It’s a sad time for titty lovers everywhere. Last week, the publisher of Hot Tentacles Shooter announced on Twitter that the game will no longer be available on the Nintendo Switch, because Nintendo no longer allows “uncensored boobs” on its consoles.Read more