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That Terrible Wonka Event Has Become A Video Game Parody Gold Mine
1.3.2024
If you somehow haven’t heard about the infamous “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” event that was held in Glasgow on February 24 and canceled a day in, the entire saga is wild. The children’s event (tickets cost £35, roughly $44 USD) was promoted as “a place where chocolate dreams become reality,” only...
You Can Get A PS5 And Spider-Man 2 For A Great Price Right Now
1.3.2024
If you’re still looking for a PlayStation 5, Best Buy has you covered. Right now, you can pick up Sony’s latest console for $50 cheaper than usual, and the best part of the buy is that it comes bundled with a digital copy of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.Read more
Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox Physical Edition May Have A Whole Lotta Discs
1.3.2024
The award-winning 2023 game Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t have a physical disc edition out in the wild yet. In November, Larian announced that a Deluxe Edition of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG is set to launch this year that will give you a boxed copy for your shelf and physical discs for PC, PlayStation...
Spyro/Crash Bandicoot Developer Ditches Activision, Goes Indie
29.2.2024
This year has been filled with bad video game industry news. Layoffs every week. Thousands of jobs cut. Studios closing. It’s awful stuff. So I’m here to share some good news. Toys For Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4 and the remastered Spyro collection, is leaving Activision and becoming...
Fans Say Tomb Raider Trilogy Is Better On Epic Store, Devs Claim That's The Wrong Version
29.2.2024
According to Tomb Raider fans, the best version of the recently released Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection isn’t on Steam or Xbox. Instead, it’s on the Epic Games Store. Or, well, it was, until today when the studio behind the remaster patched it out of existence, leaving some players...
GTA 6 Devs Slam Rockstar Games For Return-To-Office Mandate
29.2.2024
A new report confirms that as Rockstar Games is entering the final stages of development on Grand Theft Auto 6, the company is mandating that employees must return to the office five days a week starting in April, to no applause from anyone.Read more
Former Call Of Duty Devs Form A New Studio To Make The Anti-COD
29.2.2024
The last few years have seen a number of high-level departures from Activision Blizzard, with a great deal of those folks going on to found their own studios and compete directly with the giant. The latest team to spring up from the exodus is Netease-backed BulletFarm, founded and led by David...
EA Cancels Respawn Star Wars Shooter Amid Mass Layoff
28.2.2024
Respawn’s unnamed Star Wars first-person shooter, first confirmed by EA in January 2022, has reportedly been canceled as the publisher pulls back on licensed games amid a large round of layoffs. Read more
Remastering One Of The Best Star Wars Games Ever Made Wasn't Easy
28.2.2024
First released back in 1995, Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter that plays similarly to Doom, but included new (for the era) features—like rooms on top of rooms, looking up and down, and jumping—elevating it beyond a simple clone. It also had an original Star Wars story and introduced...
Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuit
28.2.2024
Nintendo filed a civil lawsuit on February 26 against Yuzu software developer Tropic Haze, claiming that the team’s tech let folks illegally pirate 2023’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom over one million times a full week and a half before it even came out. According to the Mario maker...
New Pokémon TCG App Fixes A Decades-Old Error
28.2.2024
I’ve seen thousands of Pokémon cards in my time, and I had become so desensitized to an error on nearly every card in the United States that I’d forgotten about it. If you’ve ever seen an American Pokémon card, you’ll know that the back of each features art of a Poké Ball opening up. These devices...
The Best Games of 2024 (So Far)
28.2.2024
This year has carried over two significant trends for the video game industry from 2023 into 2024: a lot of excellent games are coming out, and, unfortunately, the people who make them are suffering. It’s still early, but we’ve gotten some fantastic new games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and...
New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games
27.2.2024
New data from Norway examines how video games influence children, their social behaviors, and their spending habits. It turns out, younger players are being bullied over their lack of cosmetic skins, are using in-game items to become more popular, and are struggling to avoid all the ads...
Palworld Devs Are Sorry For Fixing The Game
27.2.2024
Don’t you just hate it when a glitch you exploit in your fave video game gets fixed? I do, too, and apparently, so do Palworld players. Developer Pocketpair recently patched up a popular bug-turned-feature in the Pokémon clone that let players do something they weren’t actually supposed to: capture...
Kalos Is The Perfect Setting For A New Pokémon Legends Game
27.2.2024
During today’s Pokémon Presents, Game Freak announced that Pokémon Legends: Arceus wasn’t a one-off. The Legends subseries will continue with Pokémon Legends: Z-A, set in the Kalos region featured in X and Y. Folks, I was hooting and hollering, both because Legends: Arceus is the best thing Game...
New Jaws Game Is-OH GOD THE FACES
27.2.2024
I was ready to be excited when I heard we were getting a new Jaws game. Past video games based on the classic ‘70s shark attack film have been great. Even that short-lived mobile Jaws game. Even if this new game is just in Roblox—a free-to-play online game built out of user-created maps...
Pokémon Legends Z-A Seems To Confirm Those Switch 2 Rumors
27.2.2024
This morning’s Pokémon Presents event gave a look at a number of updates across its portfolio, including the announcement that the next Pokémon game will skip 2024 altogether. Releasing worldwide in 2025, the curiously titled Pokémon Legends: Z-A also seems to quietly confirm what we’ve been...
Everything We Saw At Today's Pokémon Presents
27.2.2024
It’s February 27, and that means it’s time for another Pokémon Presents to celebrate the series’ anniversary. It’s Pokémon’s 28th year in 2024, and the announcements this year were underwhelming compared to previous years where The Pokémon Company made announcements like Legends: Arceus and Scarlet...
Sony Explains Why The PS Portal Ain’t The Vita 2
27.2.2024
In a new interview, Sony explained that the PlayStation Portal—a portable gaming device that lets players remotely play PS5 games without needing to be in front of their TV or console—was never intended to be a Vita or PSP successor. It also revealed some other details on the oddly popular handheld...
PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts
27.2.2024
This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had “initiated a reduction” in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation’s first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty...