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Horizon Forbidden West Adds New Game Plus And More Fancy Features
3.6.2022
Stray! Final Fantasy XVI! The Resident Evil 4 remake! Sony’s big not-E3 State of Play showcase, held last night, was unexpectedly packed. But amid the fray flew a kernel of under-the-radar news for a game that’s already out: Horizon Forbidden West received a wave of much-requested features...
Microsoft Promises To Play Nice With Future Unions Too
2.6.2022
Microsoft is trying to strike a more conciliatory tone with organized labor as it looks to get its $69 billion mega video game merger with Activision Blizzard OK’d by the Federal Trade Commission. Vice chairman and president Brad Smith wrote that the company is “committed to creative...
Sonic Frontiers Clip Gets Breath Of The Wild Trending On Twitter Again
31.5.2022
Earlier today, Sega shared a brief look at Sonic Frontiers, the next installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise launching on every major gaming platform later this year. It’s open-world and very green, so you know what that means: Folks couldn’t help but make comparisons to The Legend...
The Best Assassin’s Creed Game Is Coming To Game Pass
31.5.2022
In April, Microsoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Origins would come to the Xbox Game Pass library, but didn’t say when. Today, in a blog post, Microsoft said that Ubisoft’s open-world action RPG will officially be available early next month, alongside a number of other games. Here’s everything...
Sequel to Iconic RPG Ni No Kuni to Feature NFT Integration and Play-to-Earn Mechanics
29.5.2022
The new installment of Ni No Kuni, an RPG franchise brought by independent gaming studio Level 5 and animated by Studio Ghibli, has launched with blockchain elements present. The game, which has been designed for mobile and PC platforms, introduces a token system that lets players use their...
Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge
21.5.2022
The video game market is consolidating like never before, and Electronic Arts is scrambling like everyone else. The Battlefield and FIFA maker recently pursued a merger with NBCUniversal, and also held potential acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and other companies, according to a new report...
Borderlands 3 (And Its Billions Of Guns) Is Currently Free To Download On PC
19.5.2022
This week is the start of the Epic Game Store’s annual “Mega Sale,” and as the name implies, there are currently a massive number of games on sale. But while there are a bunch of games available for cheap, Epic is planning to give away a couple games for free, too. First up: Borderlands 3 from...
Bungie Calls Out Gaming Racism After Buffalo Shooting, Won't Be 'Muzzled' By Sony
18.5.2022
Yesterday players expected Bungie to reveal the latest content coming to Destiny 2 in the form of Season 17. Instead, following the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, Bungie called on fellow gaming companies to examine how racism and radicalization occur in their own online communities even...
PS5, Xbox Delays Are Setting Switch Up To Dominate The Rest Of 2022
13.5.2022
Following yesterday’s delay of Redfall and Starfield, Microsoft’s two big blockbusters for the year, the release slate for the back half of 2022 might seem especially barren. Pop quiz: Have you been paying attention to the Switch?Read more
So Much For Video Game Release Dates
12.5.2022
Bethesda’s open world space RPG Starfield is the latest major 2022 release to slip to next year. But will it be the last? Probably not. So who’s next? God of War Ragnarök? Bayonetta 3? Gotham Knights? This fall, traditionally the biggest release season of the year, remains an almost entirely blank...
Now Would Have Been A Good Time For Another Batman Arkham Game
11.5.2022
Yesterday, Gotham Knights showed off a dozen minutes of gameplay and my excitement started to fizzle. Weird, floaty superpowers. Chunky Jason Todd. And a menu screen that looks ripped straight out of every failed live-service loot game. Gotham Knights may turn out to be great, but right now it’s...
Zelda Player Kills Guardian With Anime-Ass Swordplay
9.5.2022
Is there a better argument for Breath of the Wild having one of the all-time great open worlds than the fact that, so many years after release, players are still messing around with the game’s items and physics to pull off cool shit that we’ve never seen before?Read more
Bungie Defends Abortion Rights Even As People Urge It To Stick To Games
5.5.2022
A studio best known for blockbuster games about shooting aliens now increasingly has a reputation for not taking shit from the people who play them. Creator of Halo and Destiny 2, Bungie, took fire from angry gamers this week, for coming out in support of abortion rights. Instead of flinching like...
NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain
4.5.2022
You know what no one could ever have predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable jpeg images might not be end-game, long-term sustainable. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flatlining,” down 92 percent from last September. Which makes it just...
Remake Prince of Persia v problémech, už měl být hotový, teď mění vývojáře
4.5.2022
Ubisoft odebral vývoj chystaného remaku Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time svým indickým pobočkám a dokončí ho autoři originálu. Hra už přitom měla být již více než rok a venku a nové datum vydání dosud nemá
Prince Of Persia Remake Does Not Sound Like It's Having A Good Time
4.5.2022
Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time is an absolute classic, and while the original—first released in 2003—is still very enjoyable, the modern remake that’s currently in development will hopefully be an improvement. If, that is, the thing can ever find its way out of development hell.Read more
Even Game Pass Knows It’s Backlog Season
3.5.2022
It’s that time of year again, when the release cadence cools down a bit, giving you time to make your way through your backlog from the spring (or the fall). Game Pass, for the moment, isn’t adding too much to the top, and is in fact removing quite a bit from the bottom. Here’s everything coming...
Former Nintendo President Believes Gaming Experiences Could Benefit From Blockchain And ‘Play to Earn’ Models
3.5.2022
Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former president of Nintendo of America, has offered his take on blockchain and play to earn models when applied to the gaming industry. The executive declared that he was a big believer in blockchain technology, and that players investing their time in games should...
Tomb Raider's New Owners Have Been Snatching Up Old Series For Years Now
2.5.2022
The video game industry is undergoing a tidal wave of consolidation right now, and Swedish holding company Embracer Group is riding it to become one of the newest players in a rapidly shrinking space. A few years ago most people had never heard of it. Now it’s bigger than rivals like Ubisoft...
Ubisoft's Six-Year Development Hell Pirate Game Leaks In New Footage
29.4.2022
Narrated test footage for Skull and Bones has leaked online, showing off a big part of the blockbuster’s transformation since it was last officially shown at E3 2018. It’s pretty and also looks like a textbook modern Ubisoft game. Players will collect blueprints, loot materials, and build up their...