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Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
Two Popular Team Fortress 2 Mods Temporarily Removed Due To 'Arrangements' With Valve
12.9.2021
Here’s an odd bit o’ news: Two popular Team Fortress 2 mods have suddenly and mysteriously been removed from the internet and can no longer be downloaded. According to the devs, this is due to “arrangments with Valve” but neither team has explained what that means. According to devs for both mods...
Alan Wake Remastered Is Ditching The Energizer Batteries And Verizon Billboards
11.9.2021
Alan Wake is a spooky third-person action game with creepy shadow monsters and weird characters. It also contained a ton of product placement, including an Energizer-branded flashlight you use in the game to push back the evil. Next month’s remastered re-release removes that and all the other bits...
Get This: 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand Started Out As A Tom Clancy Game
11.9.2021
In an interview with NME, a developer who worked on 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand revealed that originally the game was going to be a Tom Clancy title. But because the publisher didn’t actually own the rights to Clancy’s name, this plan was scrapped. Read more
Sports NFTs on the Rise with NFL’s Dak Prescott on Ethernity Chain
10.9.2021
plashThere’s something deeply satisfying with owning something both special and unique. Special in that it represents a key person, event, or item. Unique in that it is one of a kind, or even one of few. For sports enthusiasts, this has been a celebrated passion, with cards
The Tiny Tina Borderlands Game Looks Like An Obnoxious Good Time
9.9.2021
During today’s PlayStation Showcase, the folks over at Gearbox Software finally provided us with a more complete look at the upcoming Borderlands spin-off known as Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.Read more
The Uncharted Series Is Coming to PC
9.9.2021
It was announced at the PlayStation Showcase today that the Uncharted series would be ported to PC. Read more
Titanfall 2 Hacking Rumor Blown Out Of Proportion, Respawn Says
9.9.2021
Titanfall 2 hasn’t exactly had a hot girl summer. Since May, hackers have regularly hit Respawn Entertainment’s first-person shooter with direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks, making the game virtually unplayable. The situation hit a fever pitch yesterday, when viral social posts suggested...
Alan Wake Is Getting Remastered, And It Is About Damn Time
7.9.2021
Today, it was announced that Epic Games will be publishing a remaster of the 2010 Xbox cult classic Alan Wake later this fall on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. The company had previously announced a deal with Remedy Games, the development studio behind the bureaucracy-set, blockbuster third-person...
343 Is Changing Halo Infinite's Motion Tracker To Be More Like The Old Games
5.9.2021
On Friday, 343 Industries released a lengthy post summarizing many of the changes, fixes, and improvements made to Halo Infinite after receiving tons of feedback from its technical preview in August. One of the biggest changes is that the motion tracker is being tweaked and will operate more like...
More Tips Than You Probably Need For The Quake Remaster
4.9.2021
We were all a little surprised just how quickly the recent Quake remaster came about, going from rumors and ESRB sightings to available on PSN and Steam in no time flat. Now, many people are playin’ id Software’s landmark 1996 first-person shooter for the first time. Welcome!Read more
Bungie Has Big Plans For Destiny 2
3.9.2021
Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is still six months away but it’s already sounding like one of the game’s most ambitious updates yet. Over the last two weeks Bungie has shed more light on the next annual expansion and the vast changes it will bring with it, from weapon crafting to overhauled subclasses....
The Halo 2 Condom
3.9.2021
In 2021 video game marketing tends to be pretty slick, but it wasn’t that long ago that the medium, in the process of trying to drag itself out of the advertising dark ages of the 1980s and ‘90s, was still prone to some decisions that have aged a lot worse than the games they were selling.Read more
If You’re Going To Preview Far Cry 6 At Least Do It Right
1.9.2021
Far Cry 6 is still over a month out from release and while there remains plenty we don’t yet know, a massive batch of hands-on previews dropped this week across various gaming outlets and influencer videos, shedding more light on the game. The problem is what they illuminate, and what they don’t....
PUBG's Creator Leaves Company To Form New Studio
1.9.2021
Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, the man whose modding and design efforts helped create the Battle Royale genre as we know it, has left PUBG’s parent company Krafton to form his own development studio.Read more
Apex Legends Removes Tech That Grew Beef Between PC and Console Fans
1.9.2021
Apex Legends, the battle royale movement shooter developed by Repsawn Entertainment, is no stranger to controversy. Because Apex supports crossplay, PC and Console players have been beefing for a while over the slight differences and advantages each side gets from their platform of choice. All...
Here’s An Extremely Early Look At The Dead Space Remake
31.8.2021
Well, the announcement of a new Dead Space wasn’t just a shared visceral hallucination among those of us who’ve long wished for such a revival. Electronic Arts showed off some extremely early footage of the upcoming action-horror game during a live stream on EA Motive’s Twitch channel today.Read...
Kickass Cyberpunk 2077 Modders Become CD Projekt Red Devs
31.8.2021
If you know anything about Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world romp about committing crimes with neo-John Wick, you know that it launched in rough shape. Much of the game’s eight-month lifespan has been defined more by patches and updates than anything else. But this news might help: The developer,...
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Puddlegate's Latest Victim
31.8.2021
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.3 was touted as another round of bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as giving players a new outfit and car. But some players quickly noticed other changes. Puddles seemed fewer and farther between. The roads were less slick and reflective. In general, the game’s...
Wild What You Can Make With Doom Technology These Days
30.8.2021
Doom changed everything in 1993, and the tech behind Doom would go on to power countless mods, fan games, and full commercial releases. However, as always, time marches forward and what was once cutting edge becomes yesterday’s news. Yet, right now in 2021, a small group of devs is toiling away...