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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
Helldivers 2's Galactic War Is Orchestrated By Just One Guy
29.2.2024
When Helldivers 2 players first jumped into the frenetic third-person co-op shooter, they believed they were cleansing the galaxy of the Terminids, a bug species with a fierce hold on a number of systems. Soon after though, the robot automatons entered the fray, splitting the helldivers’ forces...
FF7 Rebirth’s Character Folios, Explained
29.2.2024
As a massive RPG, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has an extraordinary number of ways to grow and customize your characters. One of Rebirth’s newest additions to character building is the Character Folio, a network of abilities and stat boosts that make your characters even more powerful as you invest...
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...
Dropper’s strategy to rope in AAA game developers to Hedera
29.2.2024
Dropper has devised a three-pronged strategy for attracting AAA developers and linked players to the Hedera network. These consist of a Web3 gaming infrastructure that simplifies the technological requirements of the backend and a fund that enables new non-dilutionary funding avenues. Furthermore...
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
Cinematrix Is The Best Commute Game Since Wordle
28.2.2024
As someone whose commute to and from the office every day is under half an hour, I am always looking for something short and sweet to do while riding the subway. Sure, there’s the New York Times Games app and its offerings like Wordle and the more recent Connections. But as of February 26, there...
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’s New Mobile TCG Is Giving Marvel Snap
27.2.2024
The Pokémon Company announced quite a few things during its short but sweet Pokémon Presents broadcast on February 27. One of those announcements was for a brand-new digital version of the popular Pokémon trading card game coming to mobile devices later this year that’ll let you explore the card’s...
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...