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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Players Are Freaking Out Over This Mysterious Contagion
25.3.2024
A lot of things can go wrong in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Just last night, I encountered a minotaur while working through a main quest, who whopped my ass three times without fail in one of the most frustratingly hilarious encounters I’ve had thus far. While there are plenty of emergent moments like this...
New Sonic Game Leaks, Looks Like Fall Guys
25.3.2024
A gameplay trailer for Sonic Toys Party—an as-yet-unannounced Sonic game from Sega—has leaked online showcasing Fall Guys-like multiplayer battle royale action. Read more
PS5's Stylish Action Exclusive Stellar Blade Will Have A Free Demo Soon
25.3.2024
One of the year’s most hyped PlayStation 5 exclusives, the stylish character action game Stellar Blade, will get a free demo, and soon. Developer Shift Up revealed that it will go live on March 29, with save data carrying over to the full game when it launches on April 26, so you can finally take...
BlockDAG nears $7M in presale earnings, outpaces Near Protocol’s growth & impacting Game-FI sector
25.3.2024
BlockDAG Network‘s impressive presale performance, raking in $6.9 million in its third batch, has positioned it at the forefront of the crypto sphere, especially compared to Near Protocol’s notable price rise and influence on the Game-FI sector. This article unpacks the dynamics of Near...
9 Things To Know Before Starting Rise Of The Ronin
22.3.2024
Rise of the Ronin is Team Ninja’s most ambitious game to date, one that takes the studio’s best elements and combines them into a kind of “Greatest Hits” album. It’s also the developer’s biggest game thus far, with an open-world environment replete with side activities to complete and map markers...
GTA 6 Production Reportedly Falling Behind, Rockstar Urges Staff To Return To Office To Avoid Delay
22.3.2024
Grand Theft Auto VI is likely one of the most anticipated games in history, with millions of players around the world waiting for any scrap of info or screenshot of the upcoming open-world crime simulator. However, as remote workers struggle with an unwanted return-to-office mandate from Rockstar...
Massive Pokémon Fan Game Site Taken Down Without Warning Via DMCA
22.3.2024
Relic Castle, a popular forum focused on the creation and sharing of Pokémon fan games, has gone offline with no advanced warning. The folks behind the site blame a DMCA takedown notice for the sudden shutdown. Read more
Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs
22.3.2024
Undawn is a zombie survival shooter that launched in June 2023 on mobile and PC, but I don’t blame you for knowing anything about it. According to Reuters, the game, which appears to have been on very few people’s radar, didn’t perform well for Chinese conglomerate Tencent, despite Oscar-winning...
Players Aren’t Happy With Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Microtransactions
22.3.2024
Dragon’s Dogma 2, the sequel to Capcom’s 2012 cult RPG, is out now and critics have been raving about the game’s expansive world and intricate systems. But some fans that have purchased the game aren’t too happy, and on Steam, user reviews currently have it sitting at a rating of “Mixed.” The cause...
Halo Season Two Sticks The Landing—I Told You So
21.3.2024
The season two finale of the Halo TV series does everything a video game adaptation should do and then some, proving a point I’ve been making for well over a year: This show is good.Read more
Pixels Crypto Game Fuels Resurgent Ronin Blockchain
21.3.2024
This year's bull market has seen a resurgence of many crypto narratives from yonder cycles, including crypto gaming. In that sector the Ronin network – whose game Axie Infinity reigned over the last gaming moment – is back again
Rise Of The Ronin: The Kotaku Review
21.3.2024
Rise of the Ronin feels like a game that’s already one or two generations old. Developer Team Ninja has called it their “most ambitious” title to date, but that ambition is overshadowed by lackluster graphics, outdated design concepts, and performance issues that put the game more in line with...
World Of Warcraft’s Latest Mode Throws Out All The MMO’s Rules
20.3.2024
World of Warcraft players are buckling up for The War Within expansion that’s due to launch sometime in 2024, but in the meantime Blizzard has something different to offer. Before the next three-part Worldsoul Saga gets started with The War Within, the World of Warcraft team is introducing a mode...
El Paso, Elsewhere Dev Drags Industry’s ‘Sudden Silence’ In Uplifting Black Voices
20.3.2024
El Paso, Elsewhere was a big game for indie studio Strange Scaffold when it launched in September 2023. The Max Payne-like, narrative-driven vampire shooter centered a Black male character in the leading role, something you don’t see too often in the games industry. Well, Strange Scaffold founder...
First Trailer For Captain America And Black Panther WW2 Game Reveals 2025 Release
20.3.2024
At Epic’s 2024 State of Unreal keynote, the first trailer for Marvel and Skydance’s upcoming game, 1943: Rise of Hydra, premiered and revealed our first look at the main heroes of the game, Captain America and Black Panther. Read more
PS5 Pro May Not Run GTA 6 At 60 Frames Per Second
20.3.2024
Details about the PS5 Pro keep leaking all over the place, with us recently learning that it’s likely targeting a holiday 2024 release window and that it will apparently feature “PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution,” whatever that is. While headlines are suggesting this is “the most powerful...
SEO on game platforms: why don't we talk about it?
20.3.2024
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Alone In The Dark Nails What I Love About Survival Horror
20.3.2024
Alone in the Dark, a 2024 reimagining of the 1992 survival horror classic that paved the way for generations of horror games after it, is out on March 20, 2024 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows. Following the story of either Emily Hartwood (played by actress Jodie Comer from Killing Eve)...
Monopoly Go Spent Almost $500 Million On Marketing, More Than Spider-Man 2's Dev Budget
19.3.2024
Monopoly Go, a single-player mobile board game, launched on April 11, 2023. Since then it has made over 2 billion dollars, been downloaded 100+ million times, and become one of the most popular digital games on the planet. But to reach this point, Scopely, the studio behind the hit game, has spent...
Massive Dragon’s Dogma 2 Spoilers Leak Days Before Release
19.3.2024
I come to you bearing bad (but probably expected) news. Spoilers for Capcom’s high fantasy RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 have leaked ahead of its March 22 launch, with some players streaming four-to-six hours of raw, uncut gameplay over the March 15 weekend. As is customary with these sorts of things,...