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12 Games Killed In 2021 That Prove Preservation Is Vital
17.12.2021
2021 was a helluva year for games. Some of it good, most of it bad, and a handful of it truly disappointing, particularly around preserving older titles. Games deserve to be played in their entirety forever, regardless of when they came out, yet this year saw so many of them unceremoniously...
EA Plans Battlefield ‘Universe’ Following Awful Battlefield 2042 Launch
2.12.2021
A tectonic shift is coming to the Battlefield franchise, GameSpot reports, with Electronic Arts restructuring various studios and committing to a “connected universe” of projects in the long-running first-person shooter series.Read more
Beloved Shooter Titanfall Will Be Pulled From Stores Permanently
1.12.2021
Titanfall, the game which catapulted Respawn Entertainment to the status of EA’s star studio, is being pulled from digital storefronts and subscription services on March 1, 2022. This, to me? Sucks. However—given the game’s recent brush with some very bad hacking—it isn’t particularly surprising...
Bobby Kotick Has Always Been A Siimy Douchebag
24.11.2021
Bobby Kotick is a weasel of the highest order. And while he may finally be facing a reckoning for some of his actions as CEO of Activision Blizzard, it’s been a long time coming.Read more
Posing In Apex Legends Is Crashing The Game
20.10.2021
Have you ever flexed so hard in a game you made it crash? That’s apparently a dream coming true for Apex Legends players, where performing Epic animated poses is breaking the game. Respawn is asking players of the battle royale shooter to stop using them.Read more
Amazon MMO New World Bugs: 7-Day Respawn Timers, Immortality
29.9.2021
Amazon’s New World has launched, and as with many a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, it launched with some pretty annoying bugs. Bugs like being told you have to wait a week for your character to respawn after dying or, on the other end of the mortality spectrum, your character...
Apex Legends Servers To Stay Borked For A Bit
20.9.2021
Apex Legends players have been having a miserable time of late. When the game’s not being hacked by disgruntled Titanfall players, players sometimes devolve into having enormous fights over controversial in-game strategies, such as tap strafing. The latest grief to befall them is a whole new raft...
Titanfall 2 Hacking Rumor Blown Out Of Proportion, Respawn Says
9.9.2021
Titanfall 2 hasn’t exactly had a hot girl summer. Since May, hackers have regularly hit Respawn Entertainment’s first-person shooter with direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks, making the game virtually unplayable. The situation hit a fever pitch yesterday, when viral social posts suggested...
Apex Legends Dev Fired Over Past Sexist, Racist Comments
11.8.2021
Daniel Klein, a lead game designer on Apex Legends, was recently fired from his job at Respawn Entertainment after screenshots of old blog posts and public conversations surfaced showing the developer making both sexist and racist comments.Read more
Respawn Dev: Apex Legends Hackers Failed At Anything But Forced Overtime
7.7.2021
It was a weird weekend in the world of Apex Legends. On Sunday, players discovered that in-game playlists and notifications had been hacked by hackers who disliked different hackers—specifically, Apex hackers up in arms about the hacker-powered plight of Titanfall, one of developer Respawn’s...
Apex Legends Hackers Fill Game With Messages Complaining About Titanfall Hackers
4.7.2021
Early this morning, Apex Legends seems to have been hacked by folks who feel Respawn hasn’t done enough to fight hackers in its original game, Titanfall.Read more
EA Hires Call Of Duty Boss To Lead Battlefield Team
3.6.2021
Electronic Arts has appointed Byron Beede as the new SVP and general manager of the Battlefield series. Beede previously spent nearly 20 years at Activision Blizzard, where he most recently worked as the executive vice president and general manager of the Call of Duty series.Read more
A Short Film From Medal Of Honor Has Been Nominated For An Oscar
17.3.2021
It’s not quite a video game winning a film award, but a short film that was part of Respawn’s 2020 VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). It’s possibly the first time a video game studio has been nominated for...
Apex Legends Drops Onto Switch On March 9
2.2.2021
Titanfall spin-off Apex Legends is set to bring its online battle royale action to the Nintendo Switch on March 9, according to new details released by developer Respawn Entertainment.Read more