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Starfield, Bethesda's Next Big RPG, Delayed To 2023
12.5.2022
Starfield, the next big RPG from Elder Scrolls and Fallout developers Bethesda, has been delayed from a 2022 release into 2023, the company just announced.Read more
New 40K Game Is XCOM With Space Marines, And It's Great
12.5.2022
Like I’ve said before, there are too many Warhammer games, and one of the big downfalls of that carefree licensing is that when there are so many games coming out with the same branding they just become background noise. Which is a shame when one comes along that deserves to stand out.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Players Sent To In-Game Jail As Devs Mull Mod Controversy
12.5.2022
At least two Final Fantasy XIV players pulled into an in-game jail by moderators while streaming the massively multiplayer online game this week. Many believe this was done to reprimand them for using third-party modifications to optimize HUD details for high-level raiding, a frequent pain point...
Nintendo Showcase Standout Gunbrella Has The Best New Video Game Name Of 2022
12.5.2022
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11.5.2022
Also: more on those Steam lawsuits, lots more
Lawsuit Claiming Steam Gives Valve Too Much Power Is Moving Forward After All
11.5.2022
A U.S. district judge has decided that an antitrust lawsuit against Valve over how it operates and uses the Steam platform can move forward. The company suing Valve, Wolfire Games, alleges that the Half-Life and Portal developer uses its digital storefront and its huge amount of control over the...
Now Would Have Been A Good Time For Another Batman Arkham Game
11.5.2022
Yesterday, Gotham Knights showed off a dozen minutes of gameplay and my excitement started to fizzle. Weird, floaty superpowers. Chunky Jason Todd. And a menu screen that looks ripped straight out of every failed live-service loot game. Gotham Knights may turn out to be great, but right now it’s...
Waiting For Hollow Knight: Silksong? Here's The Perfect Game To Tide You Over
11.5.2022
A sign of a great game is when, no matter how many days I’ve spent with it, I justify yet another morning playing before I start to write. Haiku, the Robot is one such game, an absolutely captivating Metroid-me-do, that I want to be playing right now, instead of finally stopping to tell you to...
Everything At Nintendo's First Switch World Showcase Of The Summer
11.5.2022
E3 proper might be skipping this year, but that doesn’t mean we’re not getting an E3 season. Nintendo kicked it off today with a 20-minute Direct focused on indie games coming to Switch in the coming weeks and months.Read more
COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
11.5.2022
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the …
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Pokémon x Converse Sneaker Collab Looks Lovely
11.5.2022
Pokémon and Converse Japan have announced a collaboration that will see four pairs of Chuck Taylors released, each one—appropriately, given the shoe in question—paying a coloured homage to the series’ earliest roots.Read more
Mass Effect 4 Merch Has Fans Talking About Commander Shepard’s Return
11.5.2022
If there’s one thing Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard has earned, it’s some goddamned rest.Read more
Fortnite Cheat Seller Ordered To Pay Epic Games Undisclosed Damages
10.5.2022
Last week, Epic Games won its lawsuit against a man accused of selling Fortnite cheats, GameSpot reports.Read more
Scary, $5 Retro FPS Perfectly Captures Classic Resident Evil Vibes
10.5.2022
A few years ago, Resident Evil 7 successfully took the classic horror franchise in a new direction with its jump to a first-person perspective. RE7 was very good and very scary, and made me think about what a classic Resident Evil game would be like in first-person. Thankfully, Nightmare of Decay...
Pokémon Legends Arceus Outsells Classic Games, Proves Risks Pay Off
10.5.2022
According to the fiscal report that Nintendo released today, Pokémon Legends: Arceus sold 12.64 million units last year. While it doesn’t usurp Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s combined sales figure of 14.65 million, it’s nevertheless impressive for an original title that deviated...
Switch Is Still Outselling Everything Else Despite Ongoing Chip Shortage
10.5.2022
Today, in its annual earnings statement, Nintendo cited the ongoing chip shortage as a reason for a precipitous annual dip in Switch hardware sales…while in the same breath saying it hit company targets. Well, technically.Read more
EA's FIFA Series Loses Its Name After Nearly 30 Years
10.5.2022
Next year’s FIFA won’t be called FIFA anymore, EA announced Tuesday. The mega sports franchise is parting ways with soccer’s international governing body and will be renamed EA Sports FC, but EA promises nothing else will change.Read more
Internet Hero Saves Abandoned Nintendogs Thrown Away In Old Cartridge
10.5.2022
Last month, Ben was riding on the last train home from a concert, when he spotted an odd little black object on the floor. It turned out to be a left-behind Nintendogs DS game cartridge. After getting back home, he got it to work and discovered two lost pups inside the game. His tale of rescuing...
Sony Bets New PS5 Stock On A Post-Covid World (Whenever That Happens)
10.5.2022
We’re over a year into the PlayStation 5’s lifecycle and Sony still can’t make anywhere near enough of them. It hopes that could change soon. The company is promising to sell 18 million more PS5s in the next year if the current covid lockdown in China only lasts a couple of months. With the global...
EA Plans New Lord of the Rings Game with Middle Earth Enterprises
10.5.2022
Electronic Arts announced plans for a new mobile game based on the popular fictional universe of J.R.R Tolkien. Titled Lord of the Rings: The Heroes of Middle Earth, this game will deal with some of the unexplored storylines from the beloved novels. It will be a joint venture for Electronic Arts...