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The Last Of Us TV Show’s Release Date Accidentally Leaks Online
1.11.2022
Someone at HBO Max made an oopsie today by accidentally publishing the release date for when The Last of Us’ found-family duo of murder papa and cub Joel and Ellie will hit our TV screens next year.Read more
Game Pass Is Shaping Up For Another Low-Key Killer Month
1.11.2022
Xbox Game Pass closed out October with a bang, and November is already off to a great start. The first-party drought is temporarily over, with Obsidian Entertainment’s Renaissance-era murder mystery RPG Pentiment on the way in the coming weeks. If you just want to turn your brain off, however...
The Week In Games: Final Fantasy Farming Simulator
1.11.2022
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Sega's Lost 'Erotic Thriller' Has Been Found
1.11.2022
In the mid-90s, with the Saturn bombing and the video game landscape changing rapidly, Sega rolled the dice and made a few risky bets. One of those was, uh, sinking $3 million into the creation of an adult-oriented FMV game called Sacred Pools that was so bad it ended up being binned before it...
Racer Ross Chastain wasn’t sure it would 'actually work' as he'd only done it as a kid in NASCAR 2005
31.10.2022
Video games can teach you many things. For example, jumping off a very tall cliff is deadly, or people will stop looking for you if you just hide in a closet for a bit. But I never thought I’d see a video game teach someone how to pull off a buck-wild racing maneuver involving a wall, high speed...
Gorgeous Retro Soulslike RPG Looks Just Like Octopath Traveler
31.10.2022
Duel Corp. looks so pretty that you’d be forgiving for thinking that it’s an upcoming RPG from Square Enix. But it’s actually made by some indie developers who decided to make a Soulslike from retro pixel art. And the effect is incredible. Read more
Real-World Hotel Unhappy It's Being Used As A Modern Warfare 2 Deathmatch Map
31.10.2022
Amsterdam is one of the prettiest parts of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and also home to the Breenbergh Hotel multiplayer map where players repeatedly shoot at each other in the main lobby. Now the real-life Dutch hotel the level is based on has caught wind of the imitation and criticized...
Myst Sequel Riven, GOAT Or Worst Puzzle Game Of All Time, Gets Remake
31.10.2022
Due to an ancient witch’s curse, Myst, officially the worst game ever made, will never go away. Further proof of this affliction is that original creator Cyan Worlds has just announced it’s remaking Myst’s almost-as-awful sequel, Riven. So if you love randomly flipping levers between sitting...
God of War Ragnarök Leaks Early, Spoilers Are Everywhere
30.10.2022
The upcoming God of War Ragnarök, one of the biggest PlayStation games of the year, isn’t supposed to be out until November 9, but over the past 24 hours video and social media sites have been flooded with clips of people playing their way through the entire game.Read more
Ex-Bayonetta Actress Asks Fans To Donate Boycott Money To Anti-Abortion Group
28.10.2022
The former voice of Bayonetta has gone from calling out bad pay for gaming industry talent to plugging the controversial anti-abortion group Billboards 4Life. This all started out with her boycott of Bayonetta 3, after misleading fans about her removal from the project. She’s now urging them...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Players Abhor The New Hulu-Like Menus
28.10.2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is ostensibly a game about shooting people in the face. But like lots of other modern games, it’s also about playing dress-up and navigating an endless sea of unlocks and monetizable cosmetics. While the shooting is good, the stream of menus in-between has some...
For Years, 'Joe Biden' Has Silently Been Crushing This Fighting Game
28.10.2022
If you’ve been following the fighting game community, you might’ve noticed something strange happening at some recent Guilty Gear tournaments. A player hailing from the U.S. named Joe Biden has been sweeping the competition, placing in the top 10 in the last 20 or so tourneys he’s competed...
Steam Game Bails On Loot Boxes To Win Back Players
27.10.2022
These days it’s rare to see an online game without built-in live-service monetization, let alone one that’s getting rid of that stuff. But that’s exactly what the Subnautica devs behind Moonbreaker are doing. Recently launched in Early Access on Steam, the tabletop RPG is throwing out both...
Yoko Taro Is Gonna Delete These Fans' Saves Forever And They're Gonna Like It
27.10.2022
Usually, when a game’s online servers are sunsetted, players don’t get the opportunity to go out in a self-aware blaze of glory before the final dawn arrives. But then again, most games don’t have the bizarre Nier creator, Yoko Taro, as their director.Read more
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Fans Can't Believe They Have To Play In Fair Matches
27.10.2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 drops on October 28, though if you preordered it, you’ve likely already gotten some through some of the campaign. But ahead of the game’s full release, which will give folks full access to the multiplayer component, some are decrying the game’s skill-based matchmaking...
Turns Out The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II Disc Is Basically Empty
27.10.2022
Players who received early physical copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II have reported that the discs included contain only about 72MB of data, forcing players to connect to the internet and download the other 100+ GB of data to actually play the game. Read more
The Unsettling Power of Dishonored’s Dunwall
27.10.2022
Out of the thousands of games I’ve played, a handful have worlds so vivid and memorable, I can immediately call them to mind.The bustling Holy Land of 2007's Assassin’s Creed, the industrial Midgar of 1997's Final Fantasy VII (and its solid 2020 remake), the vast Tamriel of 2011's...
Pioneering Sega Developer Reiko Kodama Has Died
27.10.2022
Reiko Kodama, one of the most important developers in the history of both Sega and the wider role-playing genre, has died at the age of 59.Read more
Zoo Tycoon Is Getting A Bright, Cheery Board Game Adaptation
27.10.2022
Zoo Tycoon has been a management gaming mainstay for over two decades now, and quite frankly I’m shocked and appalled that it has taken this long for someone to be allowed to make a board game about it.Read more
The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
26.10.2022
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3...