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The Acolyte Showrunner Wants To Bring Knights Of The Old Republic To Our Screens
7.6.2024
The showrunner behind Disney+’s latest Star Wars series, The Acolyte, has reiterated her interest in creating a live-action TV show based on the wonderful 2003 video game, Knights of the Old Republic. Yes. Do that. Do that very now.Read more
30 Years Later, Tamagotchi Player Discovers In-Game Secret
7.6.2024
Remember Tamagotchi, the virtual pets who lived in an egg-shaped device you could clip to your keyring that dominated elementary schools in the ‘90s? You’d have to feed and care for them regularly throughout the day, and they’d suffer if you left them for too long. It was a nightmare for teachers...
One Of The Best Superhero Games Ever Is Free Right Now
6.6.2024
The Epic Games Store is once again handing out a very good game for free. This time around it’s Marvel’s Midnight Suns, one of the best games of 2022 and one of my favorite superhero adventures out there. Read more
The Danganronpa Devs Are Making An ‘Extreme Baseball RPG’
6.6.2024
Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka, character artist Rui Komatsuzaki, and composer Masafumi Takada have been booked and busy since wrapping up the murder mystery series with 2017’s Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (we ignore Spike Chunsoft’s attempts to make a gacha game out of it around here)The...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Will Bring Back DAII’s Divisive Approach To Romance
6.6.2024
Dragon Age II is a big centerpiece in conversations around video game romance. The 2011 BioWare RPG let players pursue whoever they wanted, regardless of what gender player character they chose. With Inquisition, BioWare opted to define your party’s identities, which meant not every love story...
Report: Original Halo Is Getting Another Remaster And It Could Come To PS5
6.6.2024
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusives. New reporting at The Verge offers a few more...
If You've Got Game Pass, Please, You Have To Play This Wonderful RPG
6.6.2024
In an age when so many new games are trying to recapture the greatness of old classics, it’s hard to find the ones that actually live up to their inspirations. For RPG enjoyers it’s often about finding something as good as the 90’s era of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series. However, in that case...
After All These Years, I Still Wish Destiny Had An Offline Mode
6.6.2024
As I sit here, on June 6, 2024 at 11:45 a.m., two days after The Final Shape launched—Destiny’s last expansion in the story arc it clumsily started more than a decade ago—I am notably not blasting aliens nor taking in sweeping sci-fi vistas. I am not playing at all.Read more
Pharrell’s Lego Movie Looks Like A Wild, Refreshing Take On A Biopic
6.6.2024
Hollywood loves a biopic. If there’s one thing that’s going to get greenlit other than a superhero movie, it’s a loosely biographical film about a historical figure or artist. But Pharrell Williams, the 51-year-old pop artist and beat maker behind hit songs like “Happy” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,”...
A 1-Minute Trailer At Summer Game Fest Costs $250K
6.6.2024
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest begins later this week and people around the world are excited to see all the trailers and teasers. And a new report, corroborated by Kotaku, reveals the high price it costs publishers and devs to show their games at the event.Read more
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Has A New Name And It’s Not As Good
6.6.2024
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is no longer the name of the fourth game in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series. Now, it’s something that sounds way less cool and doesn’t roll off the tongue. The developer has announced that it’s going to be called Dragon Age: The Veilguard.Read more
Elden Ring Inspired Final Fantasy 14's Next Expansion, But Not How You Expect
6.6.2024
Square Enix’s hit MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV, is known for taking inspiration from the franchise’s long history. Past expansions have pulled heavily on specific games, such as 2019 expansion Shadowbringers offering a reinterpretation of Final Fantasy III. But with Dawntrail, the next expansion...
MultiVersus Selling Players Extra Lives Was A 'Bug,' Dev Says
6.6.2024
In MultiVersus, Warner Bros. crossover fighter, there’s a feature that lets you pay real money to refill your lives during its campaign missions. That sounds scummy, right? Well after fans were rightfully annoyed by it, developer Player First Games has claimed that the feature was a “bug” and...
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...
Why I’m Excited For Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
6.6.2024
I recently got to preview Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (with my travel and lodging furnished by Square Enix), and I’d like to share with you an anecdote from my time with the game. I think it’ll help underscore why I’m so personally excited for this expansion to a game I’ve recently fallen in love...
PlayStation Hero Shooter Concord Follows Helldivers 2 With $40 Price Tag
6.6.2024
Concord, Sony’s next big live-service video game, will apparently cost $40 according to a pre-order page found on the PlayStation store in Australia. This puts it in the same price range as Helldivers 2 and seems to be another sign that Sony’s live-service titles won’t all be free-to-play like...
Indie Dev's Reply After Cloning Someone's Game: 'Happens Every Day Homie'
5.6.2024
Here’s a weird one. A video game developer was contacted by another developer and the two shared some tips and advice with each other. Then a year later, one of those devs turned around and cloned the other’s game and, when questioned about it, replied that this kind of thing happens “every...
Here’s What Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Stunning World Looked Like During Early Development
5.6.2024
Video game studios can often be so secretive that it’s easy to forget the games are made by people. A gorgeous vista in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth was once just a basic surface on which Square Enix’s developers would eventually build entire worlds. That’s why it’s always fun to look...
Star Wars: Hunters Is A Fun New Shooter Trapped On Switch And Phones
5.6.2024
A new Star Wars game launched yesterday and it’s pretty fun. Odds are, however, that you didn’t know that a new Star Wars game launched yesterday because Star Wars: Hunters—an Overwatch-like F2P shooter—is only available on mobile devices and the Nintendo Switch. That’s a shame, because Hunters...
The Last Of Us Show May Stretch Part II's Story Across Three Seasons
5.6.2024
HBO’s The Last of Us live-action series is currently shooting its second season. Based on the first looks we’ve seen and the set photos that have been circulating online, the second season will likely cover the earliest sections of Ellie’s revenge tour in The Last of Us Part II. From the sound...