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28 Xbox 360 Games To Buy Before The Store Closes This Month
11.7.2024
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console’s storefront will permanently go offline...
A Famously Canceled Fallout Game Finds New Life As A Free Mod
11.7.2024
Back in the good ol’ days, the Fallout series was a beloved isometric CRPG series developed by Black Isle Studios, a renowned developer that shut down in the early aughts. Before its closure, it worked on two incarnations of a proposed Fallout 3 before both were eventually canned. One of these...
Earn Bitcoin for eating tickets, Immutable says ‘big studios are showing up’ — Web3 Gamer
9.7.2024
Immutable co-founder Robbie Ferguson says the Web3 ecosystem is at a “critical inflection point,” and Notcoin’s price jumps 17% as other gaming tokens tumble
Okay, I Watched Miami Vice And It Rules
8.7.2024
On July 4, 2024, film critic Brandon Streuessnig posted a movie clip on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption, “gf asked me to show her my favorite movie tonight. Probably the most important step in the relationship. No goin back now.” The clip in question shows the opening moments of Michael...
Dr Disrespect Skins Removed From Abandoned Online Shooter, Players Refunded With Fake Money
8.7.2024
Free-to-play tactical shooter Rogue Company has disabled all cosmetics themed around Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm in the game following the streamer’s admission that he was banned from Twitch back in 2020 for having “inappropriate” conversations with a minor. Players will get refunds but only in...
Some Mortal Kombat Fans Worry The Latest Game Is Already Dead, But It Might Be More Complicated
2.7.2024
Mortal Kombat 1 is the latest entry in one of the most iconic fighting game franchises. But compared to other major players like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, its registration numbers for EVO, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, are minuscule, coming in at 645 compared to SF6’s...
Convention Booth Tries To Sell Porn Game With Underage Nudity For $250
1.7.2024
The Guy Game is an infamous 2004 trivia game that featured actual women flashing their breasts in the style of Girls Gone Wild videos. It was banned from sale in 2005 after the studio behind the game was sued for including footage of an underage girl. This weekend it showed up at a video game...
Payday 3 Gets Offline Mode That Uh, Requires You To Be Online
25.6.2024
Payday 3 launched with no offline mode for solo players. Now, nearly nine months after launch, it’s getting an offline solo mode. But, there’s a catch: You’ll still need to be online to access it. Read more
Original Fallout 3 Was Canceled Because Even 'Death March Crunch' Couldn't Save It, Says Series Creator
20.6.2024
Years before Bethesda released Fallout 3 in 2008, another version of the game existed. Codenamed Van Buren, the original Fallout 3 was in development at Black Isle Studios, the developer of Fallout 2, as well as the acclaimed Planescape: Torment. The project was canceled in 2003, leading to...
Redfall Fans Are Finally Starting To Get Refunds For Abandoned DLC
20.6.2024
Microsoft’s shocking decision in May to close a collection of Bethesda-adjacent studios saw Dishonored and Redfall developers Arcane Austin suddenly closed down, before the studio was able to complete Redfall’s promised content. Those who bought the game’s never-to-be-released Hero DLC are now,...
Metroid Prime 4 Gets Proof Of Life During Nintendo Direct
18.6.2024
It’s been in development since before the dawn of time, and now, as foretold in the Ancient Scrolls, our faith can turn to fact. Metroid Prime 4, first announced in 2017, then re-announced in 2019, is confirmed to be a game that we will one day be able to buy. The game will launch in 2025, and...
Hands-On With Astro Bot: Pure Joy
12.6.2024
I can’t remember the last time I played a PlayStation game and felt this happy. I’ve loved plenty of first-party Sony games and their expensive melding of Hollywood cinematics, refined gameplay, and dense systems. Astro Bot is in many ways the antithesis of that. It’s no less refined, perhaps even...
Suicide Squad Promises It Won't Go Full Anthem And Abandon Its First Full Year Of Content
10.6.2024
Suicide Squad is currently in the midst of its first post-launch season starring the Joker, and while player numbers for the loot shooter have failed to materialize, the game will still deliver its promised year-one roadmap, publisher Warner Bros. confirms. That means that it won’t pull a full...
Xbox Swears Fable Is Coming In 2025 With New Story Trailer
9.6.2024
Today at the big Xbox 2024 Summer Game Fest showcase we got yet another trailer for Fable, a game that feels like it’s been coming for a long, long time. But this time Xbox promises a 2025 launch date. We shall see! Read more
That PS2-Era Thing Game Is Getting A Fancy Remaster
7.6.2024
Announced today, The Thing, a 2002 video game sequel to the 1982 film The Thing—yes, they both have the same name, it’s weird—is being remastered by the experts over at Nightdive Studios and will be released on consoles and PC later this year. Read more
Report: Warner Bros. Execs Thought Suicide Squad Would Make A Ton Of Money Despite Development Woes
6.6.2024
Anyone who played Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could probably guess that something went terribly wrong during development. Bloomberg now reports that the multiplayer bomb from a studio beloved for its single-player Batman: Arkham games was plagued by several issues leading up to...
The Story Behind PO’ed, 2024’s Weirdest Remaster
30.5.2024
In 2024, I doubt most people have played or even heard of PO’ed, a’90s first-person shooter featuring strange aliens, bizarre weapons (like a frying pan), and hard-to-navigate levels. The odd Doom-like shooter was released first on 3DO in 1995 and later ported to the original PlayStation in 1996....
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev's New Game Still Mostly 'Ideas' And 'Fragments'
30.5.2024
Larian Studios, the team behind 2023’s exceptional Baldur’s Gate 3, has already announced it’s working on two new projects after the success of the RPG last year. One of them is codenamed Excalibur, but from the sound of it, that’s about all the studio can definitively say about the game....
EA Ruined Some Players' It Takes Two Saves So It's Giving Them New Ones
29.5.2024
It Takes Two, the award-winning and pretty dang good co-op game, received an update today making it verified on Steam Deck and removing the need to use the EA App launcher. But that update also killed old cloud saves. EA’s solution for fans who might have lost progress: Download this other save...
Sony Announces Smaller PlayStation Showcase Featuring 14 Games
29.5.2024
Sony’s big summer PlayStation showcase has turned out to be a smaller State of Play event scheduled for May 30. The company announced it will include updates on new first-party games coming to PlayStation 5 as well as PS VR2.Read more