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Microsoft Asks Controversial Activision CEO Bobby Kotick To Stay For Two More Months
13.10.2023
Longtime Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, is almost gone, but not quite yet. Nearly two years after over 1,000 of his employees called on the controversial executive to resign, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Kotick will remain the head of the Call of Duty publisher until...
Diablo IV’s Season 2 Patch Notes Are Over 10,000 Words Long
12.10.2023
Diablo IV’s second season, the “Season of Blood,” is set to go live next week, bringing with it some big changes that Blizzard hopes will improve the action-RPG and bring back players. And while we’ll have to wait to see if Patch 1.2.0 can pull that off, I can at least tell you that, yes, update...
Hackers Think They’ve Found Mario’s New Wonder Voice Actor
12.10.2023
Fans believe they might have discovered who the new actor for Mario is in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.Read more
This ‘Playable Documentary’ About A 1984 Classic Is One Of The Year’s Best Games
12.10.2023
When you first fire up The Making of Karateka, Digital Eclipse’s excellent interactive retrospective about Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s 1984 masterpiece, you’re greeted with this quote from his journals, written when he was just 18 years old:Read more
Nintendo Reveals Bowser Likes 'Em Thicc
11.10.2023
Bowser is attracted to Princess Peach. We didn’t need Jack Black singing about it in the massively successful Mario movie to figure that out. However, according to official Nintendo marketing materials, it seems Bowser prefers his Princesses bigger and thicker. Read more
PS5 Finally Gets Cloud Gaming Later This Month
11.10.2023
Sony’s cloud gaming efforts are starting to ramp up. PS Plus subscribers will be able to start streaming big-name games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Resident Evil 4 remake directly to their PlayStation 5s in the coming weeks. The company also hints that PS5 cloud gaming might be coming...
Excuse Me, They Gave The Overwatch Hamster Nipple Rings
11.10.2023
Overwatch 2’s newest season is now live and suitably spooky, featuring demons, monsters, Diablo characters, and nipple rings on a hamster. Wait, what?Read more
Overwatch 2 Players Raise Hell Over Moira's Pricey Lilith Skin
11.10.2023
Overwatch 2’s Halloween-infused seventh season, Rise of Darkness, went live on Monday, bringing with it a swath of creepy new skins for its heroes, including a hotly anticipated skin based on Diablo IV’s Lilith for sardonic healer Moira. Unfortunately, players who eagerly dived into the season...
Someone Used A Modded Game Boy To Play A Church Organ, And It’s Awesome
11.10.2023
Modded consoles are pretty awesome, letting people tap into the raw computational power of gaming machines to run emulators, custom software, and more. But what if you combine a modded console with a modded musical instrument? And not just any musical instrument, but a modded pipe organ? Well...
Activision Blizzard Games Should Hit Game Pass In 2024
9.10.2023
When speculation rife that Microsoft expects to finalize its purchase of Activision Blizzard this week, and COD: Modern Warfare III out in a month, it seems people have been wondering when Activision’s games will start appearing on Microsoft’s Game Pass. According to a tweet from Activision...
Report Claims Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology
9.10.2023
An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT. The claim appears alongside a laundry list of alleged issues behind...
NFT-Funded Film, Backed by A-list Director Soderbergh, Seals Historic Global Sales Agreement – Crypto Adoption on the Rise?
9.10.2023
Who says NFTs are dead? ‘Calladita / The Quiet Maid' - a movie funded by the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), set to premiere at the Tallinn Film Festival - has secured a global sales deal.
'The Quiet Maid' is the first European feature film financed by the sale of NFTs. It is a debut film...
This Last of Us Clicker Bread Sculpture Is Scary As Hell
6.10.2023
A bakery in San Francisco constructed a sculpture of a Last of Us Clicker, one of the series’ menacing, mushroom-infested zombies, out of bread. And it looks pretty darn scary.Read more
Detective Pikachu Returns Has A Fun Joke About The 2019 Movie
6.10.2023
Detective Pikachu Returns is out on Switch today, October 6, and as someone who considers the original 2016 3DS game to be one of my favorite things Pokémon has ever done, I’m stoked. But Nintendo’s adventure game sequel exists in a weird place, because the 2019 live-action Detective Pikachu movie...
Metal Gear Solid Paid Voice Actor Jennifer Hale Only $1,200
5.10.2023
Voice actor Jennifer Hale needs little introduction, having gained fame playing characters like Metroid Prime’s Samus Aran, Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old Republic, and of course Mass Effect’s one true Commander Shepard. She’s also known for Konami’s Metal Gear Solid series, in which she’s...
Sony Adding Free Movies To Most Expensive Versions Of PlayStation Plus
5.10.2023
Today, Sony announced a new app coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles that’ll offer PlayStation Plus Premium and Deluxe members access to a bunch of Sony Pictures Entertainment films. Read more
New Pokémon Live-Action Drama Gets First Trailer
5.10.2023
A Pokémon live-action series is coming to Japan, but it’s not of the Detective Pikachu variety. No, the next Pokémon live-action project will be a drama about a woman trying to find adventure in her life through playing Pokémon, rather than it being set in the Pokémon universe.Read more
Diablo IV Is Coming To Steam In 2 Weeks
4.10.2023
Today, during Blizzard’s Diablo IV Developer Update livestream, members of the game’s dev team dove right into the myriad changes expected to arrive with the game’s next big update: Season of Blood. But tweaks to loot drops and XP rewards won’t be the only new experience for PC players, as the game...
Overwatch 2 One Year Later: Why Am I Still Doing This?
4.10.2023
The path leading up to the October 4, 2022 release of Overwatch 2 was tough to navigate, like a half-cleared trail in a dense wood. The messaging around the game was winding and discombobulating (it wasn’t clear if it was a standalone sequel, if the original Overwatch would shut down, if/when...
Our Fave Cosplay Looks From Dragon Con 2023
3.10.2023
Atlanta Georgia’s annual convention, Dragon Con, is infamous in the cosplay community for the quality of looks on the show floor. And of course, this year’s convention did not disappoint, from elaborate Godzilla costumes to a lengthy cosplay parade.Read more