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The Last Of Us Star Was Afraid This N64 Classic Would Ruin His Life
2.2.2023
Nick Offerman, the actor who portrayed survivalist Bill in the knockout third episode of HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, has revealed that not only has he not played the game the show is based on, he also hasn’t played any video game in a quarter century because he “lost a couple...
Report: Halo Infinite Won't Get Story DLC, Series Switching To Unreal
31.1.2023
Things are changing at Halo developer 343 Industries following massive layoffs across Microsoft—including reportedly 95 people at the Halo developer. The studio is switching to Unreal Engine, has no plans to make more story content for 2021’s Halo Infinite, and continues trying to figure out what...
Phil Spencer Says Halo Studio Remains ‘Critical’ To Xbox Despite Cuts
28.1.2023
Things haven’t been going great for Xbox recently. Microsoft is facing stiff resistance in its attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard. It released hardly any big exclusive blockbusters last year. And it just cut over 10,000 jobs last week, including many senior developers at Halo Infinite studio...
Call Of Duty’s Next Season Undoes What People Hated About Warzone 2.0
26.1.2023
Season two for Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare II multiplayer and Warzone 2.0 arrives on February 15. An official blog from yesterday details the many changes we can expect for the game’s various modes, some of which ought to make fans of the original Warzone very, very happy people. Ya’ll didn’t...
Everything We Saw At Today's Xbox Developer Direct
25.1.2023
Today Microsoft held its Developer Direct presentation, focusing on a number of new games coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass. We got a fresh look at some anticipated titles, as well as a neat little rhythmic surprise from the developers of The Evil Within. But enough chatter, let’s get into what...
This Racing Game Promises The Best Dirty Video Game Cars You've Ever Seen
25.1.2023
Forza Motorsport is one of a handful of big 2023 Xbox exclusives, and the racing sim’s devs are talking a big game from dynamic weather and changing track temperatures all the way down to minute details like how dirt accumulates on your car over the course of each lap.Read more
The Last Of Us Show Might Be Better If It Worked More Like The Game
24.1.2023
Though HBO’s The Last of Us largely preserves the story and lore of the original game, it rarely seems interested in adapting the actual things most players spend time doing when playing The Last of Us. In prioritizing the game’s narrative over depicting specific gameplay mechanics, there’s...
343, Hit By Layoffs And Key Departures, Says It Will Keep Making Halo
22.1.2023
When Microsoft—a company that made “$198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income” in 2022—made the decision to axe 10,000 workers last week, a number of those came from their video game operations, particularly 343 Studios, the overseers of the Halo series.Read more
Former Halo Infinite Dev Blasts Management Over Layoffs
19.1.2023
Of all the Microsoft teams caught in the blast radius of mass layoffs announced yesterday, it’s possible Halo Infinite maker 343 Industries was among the worst hit. The studio has faced a wave of departures following Halo Infinite’s multiplayer struggles, and the new cuts have sparked strong...
Xbox Exec Praises Devs For Releasing Games Amid Culture of ‘Cancellation'
18.1.2023
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer juxtaposed the joys of gaming with the current sense of despair in the world after accepting the Andrew Yoon Legend Award at the 12th Annual New York Game Awards on Tuesday night. He also applauded creators who still release “their visions” into the world in...
5 Classic Retro Games You Can Play For Free
17.1.2023
In the down moments of playing a distressingly long Mario Party 2 game this weekend—my friends get a garbage truck full of NES and Super NES games with their Nintendo Switch Online membership—I started wondering what other retro games were only a download away on publishers’ official...
Halo Infinite Devs Use Fan's Pokémon Map To Help With Game's Aiming Issues
13.1.2023
Halo has a long tradition of community-made maps and game modes that range everywhere from serious to silly. Recently, one map and mode combo that’s more on the playful and fun side of things caught the attention of 343 Industries as an opportunity to fix long-standing shooting issues. Named after...
Someone Recreated The Entire Halo 1 Warthog Finale In Halo Infinite
10.1.2023
The fantastic and famous final level of the original Xbox classic Halo: Combat Evolved features the Master Chief driving a Warthog as he tries to escape the Pillar of Autumn spaceship before it explodes. And now this iconic ending has been fully recreated by one player in Halo Infinite Forge.Read...
Rare Puts Conker’s Face On Something That’s Not A New Game, Again
15.12.2022
In the 20 years since Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, the studio has only produced one actual game in the Conker series, which was the 2005 remake of Conker’s Bad Fur Day called Conker: Live and Reloaded on the original Xbox. I don’t know how well a foulmouthed squirrel passing through a series...
In 2022 Halo Infinite Struggled, While The Master Chief Collection Thrived
15.12.2022
The story of Halo in 2022 is a tale of two cities: Halo Infinite’s struggling modern live-service title with a potentially promising future, available in parallel with a thriving, active history of its best years in the form of The Master Chief Collection. A year in with Halo Infinite and it’s...
Halo Infinite's December Update Is A Very Big Deal
6.12.2022
There are those who said this day would never come, but here we are: After a remarkably shaky launch last year, Halo Infinite just profoundly leveled up in one of the best ways possible. With a new/old map, a custom games browser, new customization options, and the proverbial more, the game feels...
Oh Hey, That New Anime Need For Speed Game Is Very Good
1.12.2022
After it leaked earlier this year, many were curious about the next Need for Speed game’s apparent new direction. It seemed to be going full anime, complete with cel-shaded characters. And while that isn’t entirely the case, NFS Unbound is still a fresh and exciting shift for the franchise, which...
24 Halo Infinite Forge Maps Inspired By The Classic Games
30.11.2022
Warthogs and battle rifles are only as good as the environments you can drive and shoot them in. And now that Halo Infinite’s iteration of Forge is officially available in beta form, the Halo community has been hard at work bringing the franchise’s legacy into the modern era. Read 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...
Halo Infinite Just Leveled Up, But Still Has A Ways To Go
9.11.2022
Yesterday’s Halo Infinite Winter Update proves one thing: This game still needs more updates, and specifically updates like this, and on a regular basis. With two new maps, a unique game mode, expansions to the campaign sandbox, the forge beta, and yet more besides, the Winter Update proves that...