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EA Made A LotR Game With A Tiger Woods Engine
6.12.2022
Making video games is very hard. It can take years of work to ship even a small game. One aspect that can take up a particularly large amount of time and resources is building a custom engine, which is why many devs utilize Unreal, Unity, or another pre-existing engine to help speed up development....
Fortnite (?) Is Now One Of The Best-Looking Games On Earth (?!)
6.12.2022
One of the big reasons Fortnite became one of the biggest games on the planet is because it could run on anything, from phones to tired laptops to hand-me-down desktops. That’s created an expectation that the game is graphically basic, but as we head into 2023 the shooter—first released...
300 QA Devs Unionize At Microsoft-Owned ZeniMax Studios
5.12.2022
The gaming industry’s recent wave of labor organizing just exploded. Roughly 300 quality assurance staff at ZeniMax studios, which includes Bethesda and games like The Elder Scrolls Online , announced today that they will unionize with the Communications Workers of America. And unlike union drives...
Starfield Will Be $70 As Microsoft Confirms New-Gen Price Hike
5.12.2022
Starting next year, Microsoft will raise the price of its first-party games from $60 to $70, joining other publishers and video game companies who are doing the same. Welcome to the era of the $70 game, folks. Read more
Callisto Protocol Devs Rush Out Patches For Busted PC And Xbox Versions, Promise More Updates
5.12.2022
Space survival horror shooter Callisto Protocol has now received two big patches after some versions of it were panned for performance issues at launch, and more fixes are on the way. After releasing the latest update to address frame rate drops and other problems with the Xbox Series X/S edition...
PC Players Report The Callisto Protocol Is Plagued With Performance Issues
2.12.2022
With today’s launch of The Callisto Protocol, a consensus across the games media is that this is a decent PS5 Dead Space-like, but a terrible PC game. The reason being, the game is grimly stuttering, even on top-end machines. I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to stutter, but you do need...
This Atari Retrospective Sets A New Standard For Game Anthologies
1.12.2022
Yesterday in a Twitter thread, the gaming historian Frank Cifaldi said this about the work done by his organization, the Video Game History Foundation: “We all know where the ROMs are hiding online. We don’t need games, we need CONTEXT to tell stories.” It helped me realize why I think Digital...
The Week In Games: Midnight Protocols
28.11.2022
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Steam Deck’s Greatness Makes It Hard To Go Back To The Switch
28.11.2022
Recently, I’ve been playing Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope on the Nintendo Switch. The original Mario + Rabbids was one of my favorite Switch games. So far this new entry is even better, adding more chaos and depth to the previous game’s already-great tactical action. But after owning a Steam Deck...
You Can Get An Xbox Series S For Under $200 Today
28.11.2022
The Xbox Series S is one of my favorite purchases. It’s the little machine that could, a less powerful version of a next-gen console, that somehow is able to run everything anyway. Today you can get one for under $200, the cheapest it’s ever been—even cheaper than last week’s cheapest ever....
Grand (Fantasy) Designs
28.11.2022
Patrick Hailla is an artist at Legou Games, the studio behind Rise Of Kingdoms.Read more
Expensive Cars Have DLC Now, And It's Taking The Piss
24.11.2022
For a few years now some car companies have been experimenting with an idea ripped straight out of video games. Someone, somewhere figured that hey, if people are willing to pay for a game then spend more money inside the game they already bought then they might do the same for cars—a far more...
343 Releases Previously Unseen Images From Halo 2 Development
24.11.2022
In Halo, “the sandbox” often refers to the weapons and vehicles on a map at any given time: all the toys you have to play with. But for a whole other set of Halo fans, that sandbox is the game itself. Be it through Forge or ambitious modding projects like SPV3, playing with the very core of...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are The Fastest-Selling Games In The History Of Nintendo
23.11.2022
Where there’s cute and lovable Pokémon, there’s always a way. Despite less-than-stellar reviews and tons of performance hitches and bugs, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just broke sales records on the Nintendo Switch and beyond, moving 10 million copies in their opening weekend alone. Read more
Microsoft Explains Why Elder Scrolls VI Will Be Exclusive And Call Of Duty Won't
23.11.2022
The court proceedings to justify why Microsoft should be allowed to acquire Activision Blizzard are still currently ongoing. In a response to the UK market regulator’s statement about the acquisition, the publisher suggests that it makes good business sense for them to make a “mid-sized” game like...
Xbox Admits PlayStation Exclusives Are ‘Better Quality’
23.11.2022
In its latest written response sent to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group, Microsoft uses a lot of data to show that its buying of beleaguered publisher Activision Blizzard isn’t going to hurt Sony or Nintendo. In fact, as its bizarre frenzy of self-negging continues,...
The Week In Games: When The West Was Evil
22.11.2022
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Nintendo's Latest DMCA Takedowns Are Over (Checks Notes) Fan-Created Steam Icons
22.11.2022
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Nintendo is using its army of lawyers and chests of money to go after people who appear to be some of the biggest fans of its games and franchises. Yeah, you probably have, huh? This time, Nintendo is going after people who create and host custom artwork...
NFTs, Crypto Banned From GTA Online Servers
22.11.2022
An update to publisher Take-Two’s “legal enforcement policy” for Grand Theft Auto Online was made late last week, which sought to clarify a whole bunch of boring legal and rights stuff, but which is also specifically cracking down on the sales of NFTs within the game.Read more
Ubisoft Back On Steam Just In Time For Assassin’s Creed Valhalla's Final Update
21.11.2022
Ubisoft was one of many publishers in the last few years to ditch Steam for its own storefront or Epic’s launcher. And like so many, including Activision, Ubisoft is now coming back to Steam with the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on the platform, after 2019 comments from...