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Blockbuster Game Development Costs Are Out Of Control
1.5.2023
The production of big-budget games has felt unsustainable for a while now, and all evidence points to major blockbusters only getting more expensive in the years to come. Testimony in the regulatory fight over Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard shows that game publishers are spending...
What is Immutable, explained
1.5.2023
Explore Immutable, the leading Web3 game development platform to build and scale Web3 games
$2,000 The Last Of Us Part II Statue Set Recreates One Of The Game’s Best Fights
28.4.2023
Whether you love it or hate it, the end of Abby’s third day in The Last of Us Part II is one of the sequel’s most memorable moments. While playing as Abby, the secret second main character of the game, the player is forced into a brutal fight with long-time protagonist Ellie in a Seattle theater....
The Reason Regulators Blocked Microsoft's Activision Deal Makes No Sense
28.4.2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) potentially torpedoed the biggest tech acquisition in history this week and hardly anyone understands why. There are plenty of reasons to prevent a giant corporation from trying to buy huge competitive advantages just because it can flood the zone...
Plus: Jedi Survivor is the game you're looking for* (*except PC tech issues)
28.4.2023
But look, Mark Hamill's in that cool ad for it
You Should Play This Xbox Game Pass Shooter With A Great Lance Reddick Performance
28.4.2023
Quantum Break, Remedy Entertainment’s ambitious 2016 video game/TV show hybrid, is back on Xbox Game Pass after a brief removal from digital stores due to a licensing issue. This is good news, particularly if you want to see a great Lance Reddick performance.Read more
The Toughest Gym Leaders In Each Pokémon Game
28.4.2023
Gym leaders in the Pokémon games are often touted as these great challenges trainers will have to face on their journey, but in a lot of cases, it’s a simple game of Rock Paper Scissors to weaken each gym’s signature Pokémon type. Because most of them are simple affairs, when a gym leader sticks...
The 9 Worst Reasons We Haven’t Finished A Game
27.4.2023
Did you know most people don’t actually finish video games? A game like Elden Ring can sell 20 million copies, but if you look at the trophy completion percentage, only a little under half of the people who bought the game on PlayStation actually saw it through to the end. There are a lot...
Your First Look At Armored Core VI In Action, The Next Game By Elden Ring Devs
27.4.2023
Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon, the long-awaited next game in the FromSoftware series that most definitely isn’t a Soulslike, dropped its first gameplay trailer on April 27. The trailer comes along with an official release date: August 25 of this year.Read more
Iskra Ranks #1 on Dapp Radar Setting the Pace for World of Win’s IGO
27.4.2023
PRESS RELEASE. Web3 game company Iskra unveils the release of its own launchpad for games, the Iskra Launchpad, with World of Win set to be the first project to conduct its initial game offering (IGO) on the platform. The release of the Iskra Launchpad comes right after Iskra dominated the number...
FTX Bankruptcy Claims Another Casualty: Web3 Video Game Storybook Brawl Shuts Down – Here's the Latest
26.4.2023
At this point, one would have thought the FTX domino effect was over, but the latest report suggests the opposite.
After forcing many over-leveraged firms to close shop, the FTX liquidity crunch has claimed the another crypto-related business.
The latest Bloomberg report revealed that Storybook...
UK Blocks Microsoft Activision Deal Over Game Pass
26.4.2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced its decision to block Micorosft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Wednesday citing concerns it would hurt competition in the growing cloud gaming market where Microsoft dominates thanks to Game Pass. It’s a shocking turn...
Wartales Is A Game For Anyone Who Wants To Go On A Big Adventure
26.4.2023
Wartales is currently in Early Access on Steam. It’s being developed by Shiro Games, the French studio behind the Viking RTS Northgard. And it has been taking up a lot of my time this month.Read more
Square Enix Releases 'AI' Game, Reviews Throw It In The Trash
26.4.2023
Square Enix, a publisher never afraid to embarrass itself with the latest technological fad, has quietly released an “AI-driven” game onto Steam. And it sucks.Read more
Welcome To Hell! Here’s A Trailer For A Funko Pop Game
26.4.2023
Funko Fusion, announced Tuesday, is an upcoming video game starring Funko Pop characters that will mix together takes on various Universal-owned IP into a pop-culture mishmash that I assume somebody, somewhere is probably excited about.Read more
Rare '90s Pikachu Pokémon Card Sells For A Wild $300K
25.4.2023
There’s a lot you can do with $300,000: buy a couple Teslas, invest in some stocks, get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X (or a few of them). It’s an amount of money some people will never see in their lifetimes. Yet, someone with the cash to burn took their $300,000 and bought a super-rare Pikachu Pokémon...
Bonkers Halo Mario Kart Mod Deserves To Be Its Own Game
25.4.2023
The Halo series has had so many legendary vehicles that it’s a wonder we haven’t seen an official racing spin-off by now (no, that Forza Warthog doesn’t count). While players have created no shortage of Forge-crafted mini-games focused on vehicle hijinks, one brave modder has finally given us what...
New Racing Game Is Basically Mario Kart For Disney Adults
25.4.2023
Last week, Disney Speedstorm launched via paid early access. The (eventually) free-to-play kart racer is a multiplatform spin on Mario Kart and stars a wide array of Disney characters including Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Belle, Jack Sparrow, and more. And while it’s a lot of fun to play, its free-to-play...
Gorgeous New Game Is Like Dark Souls But Way More Chill
25.4.2023
The most important hurdle every character-action game has to clear is to make me feel like I’m improving as a gamer in the skill-based hack-and-slash department. Sometimes clearing that hurdle means giving me a time-stopping dodge ability to pummel frozen enemies, or a plethora of otherworldly...
Europe ‘Ahead of the Game’ in Web3 After MiCA Law, U.S. House Finance Chair Says
25.4.2023
Patrick McHenry is seeking to push his own stablecoin bill through Congress but faces Democrat skepticism