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Painful Cuts At PlayStation, A Big Pokémon Reveal, And More Of The Week's Top News
2.3.2024
This week was marked by more inescapable upheaval on the gaming landscape, as PlayStation announced massive cuts across its studios and canceled some games in development. But there was some lighthearted fun to be had as well, with Hideo Kojima sharing his amusing reaction to Oscar Isaac’s...
Upcoming Retro-Inspired Car Combat Game Is Rad As Hell
1.3.2024
We don’t get a lot of car combat games these days, and that’s a shame. I miss when we regularly got fast-paced vehicular combat games that mixed guns, explosions, and high-speed chases into one enjoyable experience. You know, stuff like Twisted Metal and Interstate 76. Well, thankfully Fumes...
That Terrible Wonka Event Has Become A Video Game Parody Gold Mine
1.3.2024
If you somehow haven’t heard about the infamous “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” event that was held in Glasgow on February 24 and canceled a day in, the entire saga is wild. The children’s event (tickets cost £35, roughly $44 USD) was promoted as “a place where chocolate dreams become reality,” only...
You Can Get A PS5 And Spider-Man 2 For A Great Price Right Now
1.3.2024
If you’re still looking for a PlayStation 5, Best Buy has you covered. Right now, you can pick up Sony’s latest console for $50 cheaper than usual, and the best part of the buy is that it comes bundled with a digital copy of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.Read more
Helldivers 2 Players Scammed By Fake Steam Listings
1.3.2024
Helldivers 2 is officially suffering from success. There had already been signs, namely the need for the developers to upgrade its servers to hold the sheer amount of people who wanted to play, but the latest development is likely the surest. Overnight, two new fraudulent listings, ostensibly...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox Physical Edition May Have A Whole Lotta Discs
1.3.2024
The award-winning 2023 game Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t have a physical disc edition out in the wild yet. In November, Larian announced that a Deluxe Edition of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG is set to launch this year that will give you a boxed copy for your shelf and physical discs for PC, PlayStation...
Dragon's Dogma 2 And 26 More Games To Get Hyped For In March
1.3.2024
Really, how are we in the third month of 2024 already? After two full months of incredible releases such as Infinite Wealth, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Helldivers 2, to name a few, it’s time for another calendar full of fresh games. Read more
Spyro/Crash Bandicoot Developer Ditches Activision, Goes Indie
29.2.2024
This year has been filled with bad video game industry news. Layoffs every week. Thousands of jobs cut. Studios closing. It’s awful stuff. So I’m here to share some good news. Toys For Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4 and the remastered Spyro collection, is leaving Activision and becoming...
Gods Unchained Goes Mobile: Play-to-Earn NFT Game Launches on Google Play and Apple App Store
29.2.2024
On Thursday, the creators of the Immutable X-powered non-fungible token (NFT) game Gods Unchained announced that the game is now accessible on mobile devices. The Gods Unchained application has made its debut on both the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store across the globe. God’s...
Final Fantasy Game Broken Due To Leap Day
29.2.2024
Folks trying to play Theatrhythm Final Bar Line--a Final Fantasy-themed rhythm game—were unable to due to a bug preventing the game from connecting to servers on February 29, aka a Leap Day. A similar bug happened in an EA racing game, too, forcing players to change the date on their consoles...
Helldivers 2 Devs Tease That Mechs Are Coming To The Game Very Soon
29.2.2024
Helldivers 2 is on a tear and showing no signs of stopping anytime soon. This week alone has been huge for the massively popular co-op shooter, as the community collectively mourned the loss of a planet they’d fought hard for. With the defeat behind them, Helldivers 2’s zealous player base has...
Fans Say Tomb Raider Trilogy Is Better On Epic Store, Devs Claim That's The Wrong Version
29.2.2024
According to Tomb Raider fans, the best version of the recently released Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection isn’t on Steam or Xbox. Instead, it’s on the Epic Games Store. Or, well, it was, until today when the studio behind the remaster patched it out of existence, leaving some players...
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...