With regulators and lawmakers tightening the noose around Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard and the latter’s handling of workplace misconduct, it has been revealed that Xbox CEO Phil Spencer approached Bobby Kotick to express an interest in a business deal merely days after Kotick and his leadership team were accused of wrongdoing. The explosive Wall
Call of Duty’s anti-cheat software Ricochet has a new feature that turns on a god mode of sorts when a cheater is identified, allowing victims to destroy the miscreants. As exhibited by YouTuber TimTheTatman in a viral video, Ricochet grants players a Damage Shield that repels all of an identified cheater’s bullets, letting their victims take
Total War: Warhammer 3 single-player reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC. Stay tuned for our multiplayer review later in the week. Total War: Warhammer 3’s single-player mode presents us with a tense, challenging, multilayered campaign driven along by a compelling story and a memorable cast of rivals. The Chaos Realms cleverly draw these larger-than-life figures
Image: Nintendo / Retro Studios Earlier this week, it was discovered Retro Studios had a new Twitter banner, and now there’s been another minor development. A Nintendo advertisement over on ArtStation has been spotted promoting the team behind Metroid Prime 4 – informing users of the website that their “next mission awaits” and that “Retro
Despite much moaning and groaning, Xbox has had some smashing console exclusive games during its four generation lifespan. Crackdown was one such game, released in the early years of the Xbox 360 and feeling like a futuristic take on Grand Theft Auto. This is most likely because the creator of that famous but controversial game,
Audio player loading… Horizon Forbidden West is all the rage. The most recent Sony exclusive to hit PS4 and PS5, Aloy’s latest adventure has been heaped with praise across the board. Its story is rich, its world is beautiful, and its technical design is just dazzling. In our review of the game, we reckoned its
The Pokémon Company International announced today that the Pokémon brand has been awarded License of the Year at The Toy Foundation’s 2022 Toy of the Year (TOTY) Awards. Known as the “Oscars” of the toy industry, the annual TOTY Awards recognize the top toys, games and children’s properties, with winners decided by votes cast by
When starting development on Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios had a specific vision in mind, and that vision is something called NASA-Punk. Speaking with Xbox Wire, the game’s lead artist Istvan Pely said when trying to establish an artistic vision for the game, the team wanted a realistic take. And one that was “believable and relatable.”
Ubisoft doesn’t seem opposed to accepting an offer of a buyout as it once was, and should one come in the future, it would review it in the interest of all stakeholders. Speaking during its Q3 2022 call to investors, the subject of consolidation in the industry was brought up. Speaking on the subject, Ubisoft
Season 8 in Crossout is known as Steel Gladiators. If you’ve purchased one of the Battle Passes for the game by now, then you will know what to expect. Once again there are two available. Let’s jump in and see what we have this time. Steel Gladiators has 54 new levels to rank up in
Earlier this week, a report published on Xfire by trustworthy insider Tom Henderson claimed that Electronic Arts partially attributed Battlefield 2042‘s misfortune on the surprise release of Halo Infinite. According to Henderson, the publisher recently held a town hall meeting to acknowledge Battlefield 2042’s missteps and subsequent failure, and conduct a postmortem of sorts, during
I go long stretches where I forget Starfield exists, but I’m excited everytime I remember. Bethesda games are big, in all dimensions, and I want to see what happens when their new scifi RPG debuts later this year. The thing to remind me this time: an extremely brief video showing the creation of some key
Valheim‘s latest update is now available on the survival game’s public test branch, letting extra-adventurous players get their hands on frost caves, full controller support, and Steam Deck support before the update rolls out for everyone.
Guerrilla Games has revealed that it had to revamp Horizon Forbidden West PlayStation 5 version’s loading screen tips because the game loads too quickly, thanks to the console’s SSD. Folks over at Engadget spoke to game director Mathijs de Jonge and technical director Michiel van der Leeuw, who discussed how they overcame the challenge of making
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Monark reviewed by Cameron Hawkins on PlayStation 5. Monark has a lot of interesting ideas that could have come together into a great tactical JRPG, but what’s here feels more like a prototype. Its Madness mechanic adds interesting choices to its fights, but is mostly irrelevant and annoying outside of combat. And while its well-voiced
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update [Sat 19th Feb, 2022 06:30 GMT]: Bandai Namco’s day one coverage of Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2022 has concluded. You can watch the full replay above. While there were no major game announcements, we did get to see Android 21 (Lab Coat) in action. A new