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Hogwarts Legacy Is Dominating Twitch Right Now
8.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy is officially out on Friday for current-gen consoles and later this year for last-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch, but those who splurged on the Deluxe Edition got early access starting on February 7. And the game is already garnering a massive audience on Twitch. In fact,...
Hogwarts Legacy Doesn’t Care If You Use Unforgivable Curses
25.1.2023
Warner Bros.’ big Harry Potter game is just around the corner and it’s continuing to sound very weird in some very specific ways. According to a new developer interview, Hogwarts Legacy won’t judge you if you want to go do some crimes, whether that’s blowing people up or going full Voldemort...
Suicide Squad Leak Has Fans Worried About Its Online Features
17.1.2023
A lot of fan expectations are riding on Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Nearly eight years after Arkham Knight closed out Rocksteady’s Batman trilogy and just a few months after sister studio Warner Bros. Montreal’s extremely middling Gotham Knights, people are hungry for...
Revealing Mortal Kombat II Code Leak Pulled By Warner Bros.
11.1.2023
Over the Winter holiday, someone filled all Mortal Kombat appreciators’ Christmas stockings up with something a lil’ extra: Mortal Kombat II’s source code on GitHub. The lawyers at Warner Bros. took exception to this by issuing a swift DMCA takedown notice that Github adhered to by disabling public...
Jilted Witcher And Superman Actor Henry Cavill Is Doing A Warhammer 40K Series
16.12.2022
Leading Hollywood big bod man Henry Cavill is working with Amazon to produce and star in a Warhammer 40,000 series. The mega corporation has secured the rights to the tabletop miniatures game about aliens, demons, and religious fascists, and it sounds like the former face of The Witcher’s Geralt...
Harry Potter Game Shows Off Some Straight-Up Wizard Murder
14.12.2022
Hogwarts Legacy is just a couple months away and if you haven’t been paying attention, the Harry Potter spin-off isn’t messing around. The game will let players learn the series’ infamous unspeakable curses and even use them on students. A new gameplay reveal ups the ante even further though...
Hades II Is A Sequel From A Studio That Doesn't Make Sequels
9.12.2022
When I played Bastion in high school, it was the first time I felt that American video games could be art. Most games I knew were overtly concerned with how efficiently I could kill a living being, or their color palettes were a dreadful combination of brown and gray. Bastion stood out as...
Kevin Conroy, Beloved Batman Voice Actor, Dies At 66
11.11.2022
Kevin Conroy, the legendary Batman voice actor who rose to prominence in the beloved ‘90s show Batman: The Animated Series and later played the dark knight in the acclaimed Arkham games, has passed away at the age of 66 after a short battle with cancer. The news of Conroy’s passing was announced...
Oops: Gotham Knights Briefly Ditched Its Anti-Piracy Protection
28.10.2022
Gotham Knights got its first significant post-launch patch on PC yesterday. The update was aimed at fixing online multiplayer errors and squashing some bugs. Unfortunately, it also temporarily squashed the Batman game’s Denuvo DRM protections, seemingly leaving it vulnerable to pirates. That’s...
Batman Arkham Studio Bosses Out Ahead Of Suicide Squad Release
26.10.2022
WB Games president David Haddad announced on Rocksteady’s website today that the video game developer’s co-founders, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, are leaving the studio at the end of 2022. Rocksteady, which created the Batman: Arkham series, is set to release its anticipated pseudo-spin-off...
11 Gotham Knights Tips To Kick Criminal Ass And Clean The Streets In Style
26.10.2022
When you’re first getting to grips with Gotham Knights, it can be a counterintuitive mix of familiar mechanics grafted onto a confusing hodgepodge of systems from other games. There’s Arkham-inspired melee combat, a Destiny-style progression system, and RPG elements that might lure you into...
Gotham Knights Sounds Like A Big Disappointment
20.10.2022
Reviews for Warner Bros. first Batman game since 2015’s Arkham Knight dropped today, and they are not reassuring. While a few critics like Gotham Knights just fine, many are underwhelmed by its story, bored with its repetitive missions, and report issues with framerate drops and other aspects...
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...
Former Rooster Teeth Director Says She Was Underpaid And Called Slurs
17.10.2022
Iconic Halo-inspired web series Red vs. Blue put online content company Rooster Teeth on the map. Over a decade later it’s branched out into gaming Let’s Plays, reality TV shows, and even anime, but it’s also increasingly the subject of allegations over an internal frat boy culture and toxic...
Gotham Knights’ Biggest Spoiler May Have Leaked And WB Is Fighting Back
10.10.2022
With less than two weeks to go before its release, Gotham Knights fans are being asked to dodge spoilers online after a seemingly major leak. Some official art books for the game appear to have shipped early, and at least one player started sharing screenshots of the game’s alleged ending...
Tattoo Artist Wins Lawsuit Over Her Art Appearing On Randy Orton In WWE 2K
3.10.2022
For any bystander looking at the worlds of professional wrestling and video games from the outside, what’s happening inside can look like a veritable circus. In 2022, each has had more than its fair share of ongoing legal litigation and backstage drama. Now, however, a new lawsuit has seen the...
It Sure Sounds Like Mark Hamill Is Playing The Joker In MultiVersus
30.9.2022
MultiVersus has been getting tons of new characters, with drunk scientist Rick Sanchez from the time-hopping adult cartoon Rick & Morty being the latest addition to the Warner Bros. crossover fighter. The roster’s expansion won’t stop there, though, as datamining has suggested for some time...
The Story Behind Mortal Kombat’s Iconic Dragon Logo
23.9.2022
You’ve probably seen the silhouette of Mortal Kombat’s dragon logo so often that you don’t even think about how little sense it makes. There weren’t any dragons in the original Mortal Kombat, and it doesn’t factor into the backstory about an interdimensional martial arts tournament to determine...
Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
20.9.2022
Kim MacAskill, a writer whose career includes work on upcoming Rocksteady game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was recently nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the nonprofit organization Women in Games. However, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she cannot in good...
MultiVersus Patch Might Stop Velma From Calling The Cops, Being A Karen
8.9.2022
In an early version of the 1.02 patch notes for the fighting game MultiVersus, it appeared that the developers had patched out Velma’s controversial police car attack. Instead, the detective would call Mystery Inc. to take the baddies away in their Machine. So rather than having the police...