New rules have been laid out by regulators in China that aim to reduce the amount of money gamers spend within video games. As reported by Reuters, the rules were announced today (December 22), and will make changes to how games can reward their players for logging in and making purchases, on top of limiting
Image: Nintendo Life Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s been an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, and Switch has enjoyed an excellent seventh year on store shelves. Industry-wide layoffs in the latter half of the year made for a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and at times the pandemic-related backlog
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Christmas is a time for joy and togetherness, yes, but also lends itself to strange spirits, sacrifice,
Street Fighter 6 is the Game of the Year. Yeah, 2023 has been a truly incredible year for game releases (though certainly not for the industry, what with all the brutal rounds of lay-offs), but even among such stiff competition, Street Fighter 6 stands tall. Or, at least, that’s what I’d say. I know that
Hello, Hitchhiker. I’m Craig Hauser, level and combat designer at Angry Mob Games. We just released Trinity Fusion, an all-new action roguelite where the only way to save the multiverse is to end it. We’ve been working on the game for four years now, and we’re happy to finally get the game out there in
The latest edition of UK gaming magazine EDGE is now available and this month’s issue contains a number of reviews including Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Black Tabby Game’s, Slay the Princess. The horror adventure game, Slay the Princess, was this month’s highest scoring game with an 8/10 from EDGE. EDGE magazine Issue 393 also
We made it! The winter solstice has passed and the days are growing longer. To celebrate this (plus some other, non-astronomical events), we’re taking a week off! I imagine many of you will too. Oh how happy we’ll all be, gathering at the window with our loved ones to count aloud the extra seconds of
What could’ve easily been a totally forgettable licensed game in the traditional style turned out to be a charmingly old-school experience in all the right ways. The kind of game where the enemies are all the same three guys on a motorcycle and the textures pop in on every frame, but you couldn’t care less
pixel strike 3d is on Xbox! You may take one look at the screenshots or trailer accompanying the release of Pixel Strike 3D, before being pushed away. But that would be a shame. This could well be the new multiplayer first-person shooter you should be playing. What if we tell you it is free to play?
Insomniac Games has released an update in response to the recent cyberattack that impacted the studio. In a statement on the official Insomniac Games Twitter account, the developer thanked fans for the “outpouring of compassion and unwavering support.” “We’re both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll
Throughout the year, we’ve seen thousands of games launch on Nintendo Switch, from the lowliest of scammy cash grabs and shovelware to some of the highest-quality video games ever conceived. Despite approaching its eighth year on shop shelves, and with some Switch ports delivering a less-than-smooth experience, many developers continue to work wonders with Nintendo’s
TinyBuild, the games label behind the Hello Neighbor series, has laid off the entire staff of Versus Evil, an indie publisher under the TinyBuild umbrella, just days before the holidays. This news comes from various former Versus Evil employees on Twitter. “Unfortunately our parent company has made the decision to lay off the entire team
Until we worked in the games industry, many of us almost never played a video game in the year it was released: they’re expensive, there’s a lot of them, and they can be very time-consuming, so there are plenty of good reasons to leave it a while — even, potentially, a few years — before
Dark Souls 2‘s PS3 and Xbox 360 servers are set to close on March 31, 2024, at 5am PT / 8am ET / 1pm GMT / 2pm CET. One More Soul Snuffed Out It will have been ten years since the release of the most divisive game in From Software’s more recent history when servers
Bloober Team is set to expand its horror game catalog by partnering with Skybound to make a licensed horror game based on one of its properties. Bloober Teams With Skybound Not content with creating a brand new survival horror IP with Private Division and the small matter of that Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team
I can’t wait to see the looks on their goofy little faces. As my red and white interstellar sleigh streaks across the starry sky towards Jemison, I stare out at the train of alien reindeer – headed up by an Aceles with a red nose – stretching out in front of my modded ship’s cockpit.
Internet service providers have reportedly begun sending DMCA notices to users in light of the Marvel’s Wolverine PS5 leak. A playable build was leaked as part of the recent ransomware attack on Insomniac Games, and at least one ISP — Comcast Xfinity — has started cracking down on users downloading the build on behalf of
Bohemia Interactive recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its survival game DayZ, and fans of the game can now own a piece of the game’s history with a merch box. DayZ began life as a mod for the military sim ARMA 2 and that went on to produce the DayZ: Battle Royale mod with would