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New Dead Space Remake Will Be Next-Gen Only
22.7.2021
This is not a drill: Dead Space is no longer dead in space. EA’s famous sci-fi horror series is getting resurrected, kind of. The new game will indeed be a total remake of the first game, as recent rumors have suggested. EA announced the news at its EA Play showcase today. It’s coming...
Horizon’s Aloy Joins Genshin Impact, Is Cute As A Button
22.7.2021
Horizon heroine Aloy trades the machine-infested wilds of a future Earth for the lush, fantasy lands of Teyvat when she arrives in Genshin Impact this fall, developer miHoYo announced today.Read more
Leak: Battlefield 2042 Sandbox Mode To Include Bad Company 2 Maps
22.7.2021
Last month, EA pulled back the curtain on climate-change shooter Battlefield 2042 and detailed two of its four modes. The other two remained couched as future announcements—one mentioned only by name (Hazard Zone), and one shrouded entirely in mystery. A since-deleted GameRant article (that...
PUBG Skin Looks An Awful Lot Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dev Objects
22.7.2021
In the great river of “borrowed” ideas, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds floats midstream. Itself broadly based on the wonderful Japanese film Battle Royale, it then saw its central conceit lifted somewhat wholesale by Epic with the original version of Fortnite. Now, a million iterations later,...
Raphael Lacoste's Art Of Assassin's Creed
22.7.2021
Artist Raphael Lacoste has been at Ubisoft for 16 years, and in that time has managed to work on eight Assassin’s Creed games, from the very first one right through to the latest, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.Read more
It's Not Every Day You Get To See New Footage From A Game Nintendo Cancelled Over 20 Years Ago
22.7.2021
Earlier this month a Mother fan pounced on a Japanese auction listing that was selling a Nintendo corporate CD-ROM from 1998, solely because that disc included footage of the cancelled EarthBound 64 for the Nintendo 64.Read more
My Speedrunning Career Lasted A Bit Less Than A Week
22.7.2021
I’m no speedrunner. In fact, I’ve never loved a video game enough to attempt to speedrun it until recently, when I found the PlayStation 2 oddity X-treme Express. But after almost a week of watching my promising attempts slip away at the last second, and feeling my affection towards the game turn...
Genshin Impact Players Insist On Reaching New Region The Hard Way
22.7.2021
Genshin Impact just added a gorgeous new region inspired by traditional Japanese culture, and players want to reach it on their own terms—or get unceremoniously teleported back to land trying.Read more
Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch
21.7.2021
In August of last year, Ubisoft launched a mobile Tom Clancy action-RPG called Elite Squad, which featured characters from Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, The Division, H.A.W.X., and EndWar (remember those last two?). Today, less than a full year later, Ubisoft’s Owlient studio announced...
Guilty Gear Strive’s First DLC Character Is The U.S. Secretary Of Defense
21.7.2021
Guilty Gear Strive introduced two new characters to the fighting game’s canon when it launched last month, but both are pretty tame compared to the first post-release fighter, a man whose fighting style revolves almost entirely around using an alien coffin procured from Area 51.Read more
The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer
21.7.2021
Ubisoft Singapore has always been kind of known [internally] to be one of the worst Ubisoft studios in terms of culture,” said one former developer at the publisher of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. “People would visit [from other studios] and be like, ‘What the fuck is wrong here?’”Read more
Konami Kills PES Brand, Launches eFootball
21.7.2021
This fall, Konami’s soccer game won’t be PES. Instead, the Tokyo-based game maker is releasing a free-to-play game called eFootball. Launched in 1995, Pro Evolution is the Tokyo-based game maker’s long-running series and a rival to EA’s Fifa. PES is known as Winning Eleven in Japan, where it’s...
Smash Player Effs Up Opponent
21.7.2021
Last night, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor styled on his opponent so hard that the entire venue lost their minds.Read more
I Had My Sexual Awakening Thanks To Final Fantasy X
21.7.2021
Final Fantasy X’s 20th anniversary is this week, and while it’s not my favorite Final Fantasy, it is one I come back to whenever I think about sex. No, not in the way you’re probably thinking (although Kimahri Ronso, if he wanted, could get it). But Final Fantasy X represents one of those...
Early NEO: The World Ends With You Players Locked Out Of Game
21.7.2021
Over the weekend, NEO: The World Ends With You fans discovered that Square Enix was accidentally leaking the game early to people who pre-ordered it on Switch. Now, with a week still to go before its official release, access to the upcoming action RPG has been rescinded.Read more
Destiny 2 Player Uses Glitches, Skill, And Luck To Solo Latest Raid Boss
20.7.2021
One person should not be able to defeat the final boss of Destiny 2’s Vault of Glass raid. The fight is designed in such a way that multiple players in completely different locations have to work together to win the battle. And yet, using a combination of consummate skill, a bit of luck, and...
Infamous 'Lost' Nintendo Mean Girls Game Now Fully Revealed
20.7.2021
In the late 2000s, 505 Games and Crush Digital Media planned to release a Nintendo DS game based on Mean Girls, the coming-of-age comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. However, there’s no proof that the game ever came out, leaving many expert DS observers to regard the game as “lost...
GTA Online's New Update Is Like Fast And Furious On Steroids
20.7.2021
Today, Rockstar released the latest big update for Grand Theft Auto Online. Los Santos Tuners is all about sweet cars, fast races, dangerous crime, all while hanging out with like-minded automotive gearheads. And unlike past GTA Online updates, Tuners not only adds things that the community...
Final Fantasy XIV Director Apologizes For Overloaded Servers
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV server congestion has been a huge problem for the player base as of late, and you probably won’t be surprised to find out the culprits are, in part, difficulties introduced by the covid-19 pandemic.Read more
New FFXIV Update Will Now Kick Idle Players, And That Kinda Sucks
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV is suffering from success. There’s been a recent explosion in active users driving up queue times and flooding the FFXIV subreddit with daily threads complaining about said queue times. Square Enix is working on the problem but in the meantime, the latest patch, deployed during...