The 27th annual D.I.C.E. Awards took place yesterday. While it doesn’t have the mainstream flashiness of the Game Awards, D.I.C.E. is a more industry-focused (and arguably more prestigious) event that honors the best games and creators of the last year. It is hosted and judged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) along
When FromSoftware originally delivered the wonderful, twisted baby Elden Ring, it did so with some help from Bandai Namco, which served as a co-publisher and, at that point, was a co-holder of the game’s IP. However, it appears that FromSoft has now taken full ownership of the latter. While we’ve all been concentrating on the
The Xbox logo is staying! Blimey. It’s quite the thing having the opportunity to watch the reaction to rumours and leaks play out in real time on social media. If you’ve dipped your toe into these murky waters recently, you’ll have no doubt seen all sorts of wild speculation which escalated to a level beyond
Update: This article has been updated with a statement shared with TechRadar Gaming by a Blackbird Interactive spokesperson. Canadian game development studio Blackbird Interactive is laying off a number of its staff, employees have revealed. The studio, which employed around 220 members of staff as of December 2023 according to its studio overview fact sheet,
Image: Nintendo McDonald’s will be running a new Happy Meal promotion in Japan featuring a bunch of new plush-like Kirby toys. This promotion will begin later this month on 23rd February 2024 and features two waves, with four Kirby in each. Fans of the pink puff will have a chance to grab different versions of
Payday 3 will be getting an offline mode relatively soon in response to sales and player activity that are at “significantly lower levels” than developer Starbreeze would like. The offline mode is part of an updated comprehensive roadmap of improvements and new content that will be made to the game throughout 2024. Payday 3 offline
Today, on a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast, we shared an update on plans to continue to bring more games to more people around the world, with the exciting news that the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass will be Diablo IV, beginning March 28. Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt
Do you know why Obsidian’s latest obscure RPG is called Pentiment? The word (not a real one) comes from the term pentimento, which refers to a change an artist makes to their work as progress on the project continues. Pentimento, in turn, comes from the Italian pentirsi, which means to repent or change your mind.
As promised earlier this week, Microsoft and Xbox executives Phil Spencer (head of Xbox), Sarah Bond (president, Xbox) and Matt Booty (Head of Xbox Game Studios) got together today to share some important “updates on the Xbox business.” You can check out the full update below, but the headline is that four future formerly Xbox
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Mario vs. Donkey Kong – The rivalry that originally heated up on the Game Boy Advance system returns on the Nintendo Switch system! Donkey Kong has stolen all the Mini-Mario toys from the factory, and it’s up to Mario to get them back.
It’s been three years since EA announced it was making a new college football game after a years-long hiatus. Dubbed EA Sports College Football 25, not much has materialized about the game since its reveal in the way of updates, but the publisher has broken its silence with a new trailer confirming a release window
V Rising remains on track to reach 1.0 in the second quarter of this year, in what finance people call Q2 but I like to call Aprilmayjune. The latest developer blog post goes into detail on some of the new features coming for the full release and in particular its changes to PvP, higher tier
A state-of-the-art airship hovers above a vast toxic dust cloud, shrouding an ecologically devastated Earth. That’s what most people notice when they see Forever Skies for the first time. And while this creates an interesting and unique premise to explore, it’s one that was inspired by rather somber real-world circumstances. Read on to learn about
Developer Far From Home has released a new Forever Skies trailer, revealing that the game will be PS5 exclusive. The first-person sci-fi survival game will have its exclusive console release on the PlayStation 5 on the same day that the full version of the game launches on Steam. The final version of the game, which
Hello! Last year was a busy one for the small team at Hello Games, with lots of No Man’s Sky updates and the announce of Light No Fire. We have big plans for 2024, and we’re starting the year off with a very different kind of update. We’re calling it Omega, and for the first
If you’re based in the UK and constantly wish there was a physical Pokemon Center store, you’ll want to set some time aside, as a pop-up is coming to London once more. The UK finally got a Pokemon Center back in 2021, but much like in the US, it’s online only. Occasionally, though, we get
Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Fantasia: Music Evolved or Taiko no Tatsuijin. Drums Rock or Beat Saber. If it’s a rhythm game that is available for play, I’m right at the front of the line to play it. That was the case with the release of AVICII: Invector back in 2019 too, even if my
Capcom has confirmed that Dragon’s Dogma 2 will have an uncapped frame rate at launch. In a new post shared to X (formerly Twitter) today (February 14), Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno announced that the game will be released with an uncapped framerate (via IGN). This means that the fantasy role-playing game won’t have