The latest in Riot Games’ numerous departures from MOBAs is a fighting game they’re calling Project L. Over the weekend, Riot Games posted a video giving a new look at the game and explaining how they plan to make it accessible to a wider audience by simplifying controls. They still haven’t announced a release date,
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Radiohead’s surprising collaboration with Epic Games is out now. The Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is a virtual environment designed to accompany and celebrate Radiohead’s classic Kid A and Amnesiac albums. It’s an odd project, but it’s one that makes sense for a band that are often experimental and technologically progressive. Then they’ve also made items
Three-eyed gantry shuffler Sam Fisher hasn’t starred in his own game since 2013’s Blacklist, but Ubisoft are currently giving away the third and arguably best game in the series, 2005’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. It’s free to keep if you download it before November 25th.
If you’re wondering what games are coming up in 2021, we’ve put them all in one convenient location. This list will be continually updated to act as a living, breathing schedule as new dates are announced, titles are delayed, and big reveals happen. This should help you plan out your next several months in gaming
It’s time to break out and dust off your arcade sticks and prepare for a weekend of 3v3 battles in The King of Fighters XV open beta. Starting tonight at 7 p.m. Pacific and running until 7 a.m. Pacific on November 22, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 owners will have the opportunity to go hands-on with eight characters
Black Friday is a time of excess, kicking off a season of even more excess. In that spirit, I’ve been thinking about buying four more of my current monitor and lashing them together into a makeshift array using rope fashioned from my corgi’s shed hair. There’s no way that I could achieve such an impressive
Star Citizen, the ever-in-development interstellar flight sim about piloting impressive spaceships you can buy with your real hard-earned money, is holding the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo 2951 (IAE 2951) from today until December 1. Typically, to get yourself behind the yoke of a space cruiser in Star Citizen, you’d have to cough up at least $45 for access to
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says he is “evaluating all aspects of our relationship with Activision Blizzard and making ongoing proactive adjustments” in the wake of the Wall Street Journal’s report on alleged misconduct and criminal behaviour within the publisher. Spencer made the comments in an email sent to Microsoft staff and seen by Bloomberg.
Tencent has acquired a minority stake in Playtonic, the developer behind Yooka-Laylee and its 2D sequel, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. This news comes by way of Playtonic, which announced the news in a blog post made today. The studio says it will retain “full creative control over its IP” and will use Tencent’s investment
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report detailing evidence that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was aware for years of the company’s long history of sexual misconduct. The report also points to Kotick withholding information about these events from the board of directors and surfaces abuse allegations levied at Kotick himself. You can read the full
Are the tiny computer people who write all the information down on the hard disks inside your PC old and tired? Yeah, mine too. Well, I have good news! The superb Samsung 870 Qvo 2TB SSD is the cheapest it’s ever been here in the UK. RPS Supreme Overlord Katharine checked it out way back
Paradox Interactive say they’re happy with progress on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but they’re still refusing to say who’s making it. The topic came up again during the Swedish publisher’s Q3 interim report, in response to the question, “Any news on Bloodlines 2 or its developer?”
Earlier this month, Riot Games announced Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, a beat-matching game with some serious side-scrolling/platforming gameplay. Riot calls it a “fast-paced rhythm runner,” and that phrase was personified in Hextech Mayhem’s explosive (literally) launch trailer that premiered during today’s Riot Forge Showcase with Nintendo Switch. You can watch the gameplay
Activision have made a big deal of fighting cheaters with Call Of Duty: Vanguard, bragging about new anti-cheat tech Ricohet, and a new progress report on their anti-cheat efforts makes clear they really want wrong’uns gone. If you get banned for cheating, they’ll ban you from the whole Call Of Duty series (well, as much
Square Enix and People Can Fly have revealed new expeditions, an improved loot system, and more are coming to Outriders with the upcoming New Horizon update. In a new trailer revealed this morning, you can catch a glimpse of what to expect in New Horizon but during the big Outriders stream held today, the team detailed even
Cyberpunk RPG Mechajammer describes itself as “an isometric Deus Ex”. It’s got a low-tech scifi open world to explore, dark and alluring pixel art, and lots of options for how to pick your way through combat. It’s also now got a release date: December 2nd.
Wholesome Games held a new showcase of indie games this evening, and the pick of the litter was Little Kitty, Big City. It’s a game about exploring a (big) city as a (little) kitty, and generally doing cat things. Watch the trailer below.
The writer behind some of the stories and dialogue featured in Assassin’s Creed games like Revelations, Black Flag, and even last year’s Valhalla, Darby McDevitt, has returned to Ubisoft. This news comes by way of Video Games Chronicle, which reports that McDevitt is back at the company just seven months after leaving it. In that