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Diablo II: Resurrected Plagued By Login Issues, Some Players Demand Refunds
13.10.2021
For the past six days, Diablo II: Resurrected players in the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom have experienced intermittent difficulties when attempting to log in to the game’s online servers. Now, some are taking to social media to demand refunds. Read more
FFXIV Director Wants You To Be Normal About The Game’s Success
13.10.2021
In a recent interview with PC Gamer, Final Fantasy XIV Director Naoki Yoshida spoke at length about the MMO’s influx of players, and his mixed feelings about World of Warcraft comparisons. At the heart of it all is Yoshida’s consistent refrain that video games are just that: video games. So don’t...
New Chinese Action-RPG Is Like The Witcher, But More Focused
13.10.2021
Sometimes, I want the gritty fantasy storytelling of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt without dealing with hundreds of hours of content or an open world map. Xuan Yuan Sword 7, the latest entry in an action roleplaying series that has been a cornerstone of Chinese gaming for almost 30 years, scratches that...
Far Cry 6's Autosave Bug Keeps Killing Players Repeatedly
13.10.2021
Arkane’s recent and well-regarded immersive sim isn’t the only death loop of the fall. Thanks to a rare autosave bug in Far Cry 6 that spawns players milliseconds before a death, some players have found themselves stuck in an unbreakable feedback loop, with no apparent way to break the cycle.Read...
All The Possible Video Game TV Series Announced In The Last 48 Hours
13.10.2021
On Monday, publisher Raw Fury announced a new first-look deal with dJ2 Entertainment for adapting their publishing catalogue into film and television series. And in the same moment, we’ve just heard word of a live-action version of the classic action-adventure, System Shock.Read more
FFXIV’s Biggest Expansion Yet, Endwalker, Will Take Your Breath Away
13.10.2021
I recently had the opportunity to spend several hours exploring the new lands, jobs, and dungeons coming in Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion when it launches November 23. I flew through the wretched ruins of Garlemald, strolled the serene streets of the scholarly city of Old Sharlayan,...
Destiny 2 Gets Slightly Unsettling Goose Game Mask
13.10.2021
Bungie has changed up how Destiny 2’s annual Festival of the Lost Halloween celebration works this year, as well as adding a new pulse rifle, and scaly dinosaur armor. But this Untitled Goose Game mask is all that matters.Read more
Old Video Shows The Birth Of Mortal Kombat's 'Get Over Here' Move
13.10.2021
You’d be forgiven for thinking that every move and every system you’ve ever enjoyed in a video game has been planned to the last meticulous detail. But hey, sometimes a thought just comes to you, and the results stand the test of time.Read more
13 Years Too Late, Fallout 3 Removes Game For Windows Live
13.10.2021
There are probably some readers out there young enough to not even know what Games For Windows Live even was, but for those of us who lived through it, we remember: how pointless it was, how broken.Read more
Sorry, No More Telling Your League Of Legends Opponents They Suck
12.10.2021
Riot announced today it will disable chat between opposing League of Legends teams in the game’s next update as a way of cutting down on the toxicity that’s often present in these conversations.Read more
Deathloop, As Told By Steam Reviews
12.10.2021
It’s safe to say that Deathloop stood tall as one of the most anticipated games of the year. Amid a release slate flush with sequels and remakes, here was a brand-new concept from Arkane, a studio that hasn’t missed in nearly a decade, making creative use of its time-loop feature to deliver a truly...
Epic Finally Admits Among Us Inspired Fortnite's Impostors Mode
12.10.2021
If it walks like Among Us, talks like Among Us, and quacks like Among Us, it was probably at the very least inspired by the runaway success of Innersloth’s murder mystery party game. Epic Games is now finally copping to that in the patch notes for a new update to Fornite’s Impostors mode.Read more
It's 2021, And Breath Of The Wild Is Finally Playable In Arabic
12.10.2021
Depending on how you count it and break down the regional differences, Arabic is the fifth most-spoken language on Earth. And yet until very recently, Arabic speakers had no way of officially playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game released in 2017, in their native tongue.Read more
I Have Seen Hell, And It Is Epic Thinking About A Fortnite Movie
11.10.2021
“Epic Games is considering launching an entertainment division focused on scripted video programming”. Funny how a sentence can feel both so absurd and yet so inevitable at the same time.Read more
Your Hard-Earned Monster Hunter Rise Progress Won’t Transfer From Switch To PC
11.10.2021
Monster Hunter Rise won’t include an option to transfer saves from Switch or play with folks on other platforms when it arrives on PC early next year, the series’ official Twitter account confirmed today.Read more
Halo Infinite Vs. Battlefield 2042: Battle Of The Betas
11.10.2021
The holidays come a little early this year for fans of first-person shooters. On November 19, EA will publish Battlefield 2042, a game about how, in the wake of catastrophic climate change, we’ll still all shoot each other for scraps. That’s followed on December 8 by Halo Infinite, the sixth...
Everybody Deserves A SpongeBob SquarePants Xbox
11.10.2021
In celebration (read: cross-promotion) of the recent release of Nickelodeon’s All-Star Brawl, Microsoft is running a sweepstakes in which one lucky gamer can win an Xbox Series X console dressed up like SpongeBob SquarePants, complete with a matching controller. Only one lucky gamer? That’s...
New World Server Transfers Delayed, Previously Promised Cross-Realm Moves ‘Not Possible’
11.10.2021
During the mad rush to play Amazon’s massively multiplayer RPG New World during launch week, its developers told players not to worry about which of the game’s crowded servers they chose to play on, as free transfers were on the way. Not only have those free server transfers been delayed,...
Forza Horizon 5 Is More Forza Horizon And That’s Fantastic
11.10.2021
An hour or so into my time with a preview build of Forza Horizon 5, I found myself kangaroo-hopping through cactus-dotted hills in a yellow Ford Bronco. I wasn’t heading to a race or a PR stunt location. I had no particular goal in mind. It was just me, the lush desert, a burly SUV, and a chill...
Happy 20th Birthday, ScummVM!
11.10.2021
The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, which we all know better as ScummVM, turns 20 this week, and anyone who has ever enjoyed a classic adventure game on a modern PC (or mobile device!) over the last two decades probably owes its creators a drink or two.Read more