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2023's Coolest Video Game Map Is Here
12.9.2023
It’s rare that a video game map will make me excited. Hell, it’s rare that I even notice them, as most maps are serviceable and little more. So before playing a few hours of Ubisoft’s open-world racing game, The Crew Motorfest, I didn’t expect to be blown away by its in-game map. And yet, I was....
Forza Motorsport's Blind Drive Assist Is A Breakthrough For Gaming Accessibility
12.9.2023
Recent Forza games have been trailblazers for upping the ante when it comes to accessibility. 2021's Forza Horizon 5 came with in-game sign language for cinematics, and a time-slowing option for those with slower reaction times. Incredible stuff. This October’s Forza Motorsport is aiming to push...
Fan-Made Gran Turismo Poster On Roku Swaps 'Racer' For 'Racist'
11.9.2023
A fan-made poster for Gran Turismo, a movie inspired by a video game inspired by a real-life racing event, which tweaked the flick’s tagline of “From Gamer To Racer” to “From Gamer To Racist,” somehow made its way onto the Roku streaming app, and fans are having a laugh. Read more
There Are Officially Too Many Video Games Launching In October 2023
24.8.2023
Oh no! I just looked at a calendar after all these video game showcases and realized that later this year has become really, really packed, with Alan Wake II, Spider-Man 2, and more all launching in a 10-day span of time later this fall (and that’s after Remedy announced it was delaying the Alan...
Gran Turismo Movie Slammed For Fumbling A Tragic Real-Life Death
8.8.2023
The Gran Turismo film hits theaters on August 9 in the U.K. and August 25 in the U.S., but initial reviews aren’t looking too good. However, it’s receiving especially harsh critique for the “based on a true story” narrative retelling a harrowing real-life deadly accident to provide character...
The Gran Turismo Movie Actually Has A Plot
15.6.2022
Gran Turismo is a video game series entirely devoid of character. That’s not a criticism, just a fact: it wants to be a glossy car brochure, not tell a story, and it’s an approach that has served the games well over the decades. Now that Hollywood is making a Gran Turismo movie, though, that could...
Everything Shown At Xbox’s Big 2022 Press Conference
12.6.2022
E3 might have taken 2022 off, but the show(s) must go on. Today’s big one is the annual Xbox showcase, which shares title billing with the one first-party studio that’s only released games on PS5 since getting acquired by Microsoft for the price of a presidential election.Read more
Gran Turismo 7 Update Eases Up On The Grind After Fan Outrage
8.4.2022
Last month Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi apologised to fans angry at the state of the game’s microtransactions, announcing a credits handout and a promise to “dramatically change GT7’s car economy to help make amends” in the wake of some disastrous downtime. The first of those changes...
Gran Turismo 7 Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits, Big Changes Coming
25.3.2022
A live-service game is once again apologizing for its microtransactions, and promising to do better. In a new blog post, Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged frustrations with the state of the game and announced developer Polyphony Digital will issue 1 million credits to every...
Gran Turismo 7 Players Use AFK Exploit To Farm Millions Like Capitalism Intended
22.3.2022
Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing sim bogged down by microtransactions. Yet, instead of dialing back on that bit of the game, a recent update sees developer Polyphony Digital make progression even more grindy. Now, some players are turning to a new remote play exploit to farm millions...
Gran Turismo 7 Woes Highlight The Danger Of 'Always Online' Games
21.3.2022
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Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic
21.3.2022
Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection....
PlayStation’s Big New Exclusive Has Been Nearly Unplayable For Over 24 Hours
18.3.2022
PlayStation racing sim Gran Turismo 7 has been offline for maintenance for over a day. Normally, that wouldn’t be a huge deal, but because so much of the game requires an online connection, including a great deal of single-player content, fans have effectively been locked out of Sony’s latest...
Idris Elba Is On The Gran Turismo 7 Soundtrack
4.3.2022
Lending his vocals to the Gran Turismo 7 soundtrack, Idris Elba appears as a featured artist on The FaNaTiX’s song “Vroom”. The track features in the game’s new Music Rally mode, and appears early in the game. Though the song titles are displayed on-screen, it appeared during a race in...
The World's Best Guitar Hero Player Was A Cheat
3.2.2022
For the last few years, a Guitar Hero player called Schmooey was widely believed to be the best in the world, having racked up achievements and displayed feats that other players thought impossible. A discovery made last month, however, shows there was a very good reason for that.Read more
No Man's Sky Dev Brings Back Older Games To Brighten One Kid's Life
27.1.2022
Before Hello Games made a name for itself with the procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, its developer was all about Joe Danger, a cartoonish motorcycle stuntman racing through an eponymous series of console and mobile games. After years of being defunct due to iOS updates, the...
Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2021
26.12.2021
Well, 2021 was a wild, awful mess of a year. I don’t need to recap what made 2021 so bad because, if you are reading this, you already know. We all live on Earth (I assume) so no point going over it all. Just, yeah, what a shitty year, huh?Read more
Wrestling Man Collects 2,706 Copies Of Burger King Video Game
29.11.2021
What drives a man to spend his time and money procuring a couple thousand copies of Burger King’s stealth-action advergame Sneak King? I have no idea, but wrestler and professional thumbtack enthusiast Leeroy Patterson seems to be having a great time doing it.Read more
Forza Horizon 5 Had The Biggest Launch Week In Xbox History With Over 10 Million Players
20.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 is a very good game. It’s also a very popular game. Your Twitter feed might be currently filled with people sharing screenshots and videos from the open-world drive ‘em-up. Mine is. And now it’s been confirmed that the latest Forza title has become the biggest launch in Xbox...
Forza Horizon 5 Is Actually A Bleak Dystopia In Which Humanity Must Flee The Cars
19.11.2021
Sure, cars are cool. Yes, they go fast. But cars have also fundamentally altered our cities and civilizations in ways that we still haven’t recovered from. Large sections of our world are just permanently off-limits because cars need that space. It sucks. And in the world of Forza Horizon 5,...