The Game Awards featured over three hours of new game reveals, fancy CG trailers, and updates on previously announced games that had been radio silent. A lot of news came out of the event, so if you missed out on the festivities, we gathered all of the big headlines in one place to make it
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Shortly after Telltale Games announced a game based on The Expanse at The Game Awards tonight, a group of former Telltale employees announced they too were boldly going into an interactive sci-fi story based on a TV show. New studio Dramatic Labs announced Star Trek: Resurgence, a Telltale-style game about choosing your own adventure in
The lead engineer behind the Nintendo Entertainment System and its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. First reported by Polygon, this news comes by way of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University, which announced today that the legendary designer died on December 6. He was 78 years old.
It is important to keep in mind what is going on within Activision Blizzard at this time regarding ongoing allegations about the work culture. The ongoing lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company is over reported toxic workplace culture. The bulk of the suit focuses on “violations of
The next patch for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is a big one: 78GB big. Ubisoft today announced that next week’s patch “will “will require players to re-download the entire game as part of a data restructuring.” The whole base game, downloaded all over again. It’s for a good cause, at least. This should make the game
The Expeditions series is a mixed or middling bag, but each new entry remains thick with potential. Expeditions: Rome is no different: a sprawling, 50-hour RPG in which you can lead a Roman legion through “Greece, Egypt and Gaul.” It now has a release date, January 20th 2022, and a new trailer below.
Remember when we used to order pizza delivery inside EverQuest II? Final Fantasy XIV is teaming up with GrubHub to offer a new “Eat Pizza” emote for those that use Grubhub’s delivery service from December 9 to December 15. And with all that time you spend waiting in queue to play, you’re sure to work
I’ve seen Titan Quest described as the best Diablo 2-like available, and I’ve seen it praised for its colourful environments when its competitors (including Diablo 2) are either grey or brown. Well, now there’s even more Titan Quest. The Eternal Embers expansion is out now, with Asian-inspired locations and loads of new things to hack
The first game from Embark Studios, a veteran team led by former EA and Dice head Patrick Söderlund, is set to be revealed this week. The game is called Arc Raiders, and we got a glimpse of what to expect in a cryptic teaser video. The video is one of those “trailer for the trailer”
Halo Infinite reviewA rickety storyline can’t stop this from grappling back lapsed fans with its open world and nostalgic gunfights. Driving around with three snipers in the back of your jeep is overkill. But the shiny soldier boy of the Halo games has never cared less. This is the prime indulgence of Halo Infinite, the
Fortnite changes faster and more dynamically than any other ongoing game. Yesterday’s epic finale to the two-year-long Chapter 2 event was again met with a radical shakeup to Fortnite’s core gameplay formula. For the start of Chapter 3 – which begins today – developer Epic Games introduces a new gameplay movement through a character who
A side effect of fatherhood is that I now see everything through my five-year-old’s eyes. Hot Wheels Unleashed is, to me, most likely a middling racing game and lesser Trackmania – but then, if I think about it, I know my kid would love it. Hot Wheels Unleashed’s Batman expansion, featuring a handful of cars
Update 12/03/21 7:19 p.m. Central time: A new report from The Washington Post further details today’s layoffs at Raven Software. According to the outlet, “at least a dozen” contractors on Raven’s QA team have been let go. As the outlet points out, that’s about one-third of the QA department’s overall testers. More contractors are expected to
It’s the launch of a new MMO expansion, and you know what that means: queues. Early access to Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion kicked off today and players are reporting hours-long waits, frequent errors and more while trying to join servers. In a forum post, Endwalker’s developers say that the game’s surge in popularity over
Sony is reportedly working on an Xbox Game Pass competitor that will include three tiers of service and essentially see PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now merge. This news comes by way of a new Bloomberg report that says the service will be subscription-based, much like Sony’s current Plus and Now offerings and of course, Xbox Game
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is now “content complete” and will launch in early 2022. This news comes by way of developers Crows Crows Crows and a new trailer that pokes fun at themselves for the development delays thus far.
Battlefield 2042 had quite the rocky start when it launched just a few weeks ago, mainly regarding bugs that plagued the experience for many players. Recent updates, such as Update 3, which was revealed yesterday, indicate that EA is committed to improving the 2042 experience. Now, new shake-ups at the company provide further evidence that
Every year, streamers Yogscast host Jingle Jam, a charity livestream. This year’s edition has just kicked off, and if you donate a minimum of £35/$47 you’ll receive the Jingle Jam 2021 Games Collection. It’s a bundle of over 50 games including several indie greats, such as Wildermyth, Heaven’s Vault, Northgard and Unrailed.