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The Best Moments In E3 History
30.3.2023
Before E3, everyone gets excited for the big new announcements. But after E3, all anyone remembers—and cherishes—are the kind of screw-ups, misfires and awkward heroism you can only get when corporate executives and video game developers have to get on stage and act like salespeople in front...
Report: E3 2023 Canceled
30.3.2023
E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled according to IGN. This follows multiple video game publishers and companies pulling out of the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo over the last few weeks.Read more
Fortnite Is The Future Of Music Streaming
30.3.2023
The blockbuster industries of pop music and gaming have been collaborating for almost as long as games have existed—at least since 1983, when Journey got their very own Midway arcade cabinet. Those kinds of branded crossovers have only grown with time, especially in online games like Fortnite...
New Doom Game Is Cute And Fun Until You Run Out Of Energy
30.3.2023
Mighty Doom, out now on iOS and Android, is a free-to-play Archero-like top-down shooter starring the one and only Doom Slayer, aka the Doomguy. In many ways, it reminds me of those weird ‘80s cartoons that adapted gory, adult action films into kid-friendly animated shows, like Rambo or RoboCop....
Horizon Forbidden West’s DLC Is A PS5 Exclusive Because...Clouds, Apparently
30.3.2023
Horizon Forbidden West was cross-gen on release, so it might have been surprising when Sony announced that the story DLC Burning Shores would be a PlayStation 5 exclusive. The publisher finally provided fans with some answers on the PlayStation blog as to why: the last-gen console wouldn’t be able...
Retro Atari Game Found After Being Lost For 40 Years
30.3.2023
As efforts to preserve video game history continue, we still stumble upon things that once seemed lost to time. This includes games dating back to the Atari 2600 days, such as this 44-year-old title made by Atari back in the 70s.Read more
This Action-RPG May Have The Funniest Renaming In Game History
30.3.2023
In a world where Google shapes everything, determining whether or not information is readily available to the average person based on key search terms, changing the name of a product or service can be a huge move. In some cases it can help, because moving away from working titles and establishing...
15 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing The Resident Evil 4 Remake
30.3.2023
While some of Capcom’s newly released Resident Evil 4 remake is different than it was in 2005, including core and not-so-core (sorry, perverts!) gameplay mechanics, the horror game is still prepared to kick your ass. Read more
Resident Evil 4 Makes EXCELLENT Use Of The PS5's Adaptive Triggers
30.3.2023
So the Resident Evil 4 remake is, surprisingly absolutely nobody given the quality of the source material, good. It looks great, it has some modern ideas about inventory and, on the PS5, it also knows how to make the most out of the DualSense controller’s fancy adaptive triggers.Read more
PlayStation Plus Has A Couple Of Hidden Gems For April
29.3.2023
The time has come once again for PlayStation enjoyers to fire up their console’s jet engine and check out April’s helping of PlayStation Plus games. Imma keep it a buck with you, I half expected Sony to come out of the gates swinging with a cavalcade of Capcom titles this month, more specifically...
Blizzard Just Fixed A 15-Year-Old Bug In World Of Warcraft Classic
29.3.2023
If you ever suspected that your version of the legendary weapon, Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings, could trigger shields that would absorb more damage than seemed normal, Blizzard’s QA department might have just proved you right. As it turns out, Val’anyrs’ stats contained an extra zero. Whoops!...
The Last Of Us PC Port Has Us In Tears…Over Its Amazing Glitches
29.3.2023
Here I was expecting The Last of Us’ long-awaited arrival on PC to be a mostly non-eventful yet worthy addition to fans’ Steam libraries. The series just celebrated a hit HBO TV adaptation and the Part I remake on PS5 definitely makes a compelling case to revisit this storied game…certainly the...
Activision Blizzard May Have Pulled Out Of China Over Messy Miscommunication
29.3.2023
Last November, Activision Blizzard made a shocking decision when it suddenly ended its partnership with Netease, the company which brought games like Overwatch and World of Warcraft to China, after 14 years. Now we know why. According to the New York Times, Netease suggested it could sway Chinese...
Resident Evil 4 Remake: The Kotaku Review
29.3.2023
Resident Evil 4 remake—a complete reimaging of the classic 2005 survival horror game out now on consoles and PC—follows Capcom’s previous Resident Evil refreshes. Following the somewhat standalone Resident Evil 1 remake, we got the excellent Resident Evil 2 remaster. After that, we got the good...
A Godlike Elden Ring Player Is Helping Thousands Kill The Final Boss
29.3.2023
Hear ye, hear ye, fellow Tarnished, for another Elden Ring legend has been born. This time, instead of a loin cloth-wearing guy with a jar on his head that solos the scarlet rot goddess Malenia, it’s a loin cloth-wearing girl with a jar on her head that has helped some 3,000 other players slay...
Bobby Kotick Calls Out PlayStation In Email To Whole World
29.3.2023
As we grow closer to the finish line in the months-long struggle for Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard, things are getting tense. Governments are getting involved, weird promises are being made and the people at the centre of it all—like Activision CEO Bobby Kotick—sound like they’re starting...
In 10 Minutes, Nintendo Rekindled Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Lost Hype
29.3.2023
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom may go on to be one of the biggest games of the year, but that hasn’t saved it from lingering fan doubt. The stakes are high: not only is the open-world adventure a sequel to one of the best games of all time, it’s also releasing for what’s seen as increasingly dated...
Diablo IV Quest Designer Shows How The Narrative Sausage Gets Made
28.3.2023
Diablo’s lore isn’t necessarily the popular action-RPG series’ main appeal. When you’re in the thick of it, hecticly chasing endless streams of glorious loot, it’s very easy to forget the details of where you’re fighting or who even lives in this world. Even so, Diablo IV’s developers think it...
Unreal: Diablo IV Streamer Beats World Boss Almost Entirely Solo
28.3.2023
Twitch streamer wudijo has done the unthinkable and beaten Diablo IV’s big world boss, Ashava the Pestilent, (mostly) by himself on the hardest difficulty. I’m stunned, especially since the dragon is already a tough challenge to face.Read more
PUBG's Creative Director On The Success Of Battle Royales
28.3.2023
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill...