Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta Adds Campaign Mission ‘Entrenched’
A series first. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is getting an open beta at the end of this month, and all platforms (including Switch 2) are invited. Activision and Infinity Ward have now provided an update, announcing the beta will also allow players to experience a campaign mission. Players will have access to the…
Poll: Do you turn your PC off at night?
An electrician once told me that turning your computer off and then on again uses more electricity than just leaving it on for hours, an oversimplification if not an outright lie that I believed for years. While it is true that turning your PC off and on puts wear and tear on the components, so…
ARK: Survival Evolved Sunsets Official Switch Servers This Month
“We want to thank everyone who has been part of this journey”. Developer Studio Wildcard has announced official server support for the Switch version of its dinosaur-themed survival game Ark: Survival Evolved will be sunset at the end of August. The studio shared this news in a community update on the game’s message boards. This…
Saber’s AI Rideshare Stimulator controversy almost closes on high note with CEO apology, then he calls Portal scribe who mocked him an ‘unsuccessful writer’
The Rideshare Stimulator AI fiasco almost, but not quite came to a close today when writer Stella Sacco shared that she had received a private message from Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch, who apologized for his hurtful comments to the press regarding her employment and capabilities. In a separate post on LinkedIn, Karch reflected on…
Retro Review: Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
The first major expansion for the “Dragon’s Dogma” series, “Dark Arisen” comes with plenty of new weapons and enemies. For those who haven’t played the series yet, Capcom provides the type of title here that like an “Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout” or “Diablo” fan can quickly get attached to. But unlike the afformentioned games, regardless of…
Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says ‘it just wasn’t for me at the time’
On an August 13 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, actor Matthew McConaughey spoke about almost playing Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us TV series, and why he ultimately turned down the role. McConaughey said he was in contact with showrunner Craig Mazin about playing the part, and that he seriously considered taking…
Quake Gets New Levels for 30th Anniversary
According to an official press release from Bethesda, the classic 1996 FPS, Quake, is receiving a brand new episode called “Dawn of the Machine. This update, which is free for owners of the recent Quake remaster on platforms like PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. In addition to 19 new levels, the anniversary update offers fresh achievements, multiplayer…
Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes
First reported by Empire on X, “The Everything App,” Simpsons creator Matt Groening may have let slip the existence of some upcoming return for The Simpsons: Hit & Run—though this was immediately disputed by another grandee of the Simpsons Industrial Complex. “I think the original game is coming back in some form,” Groening said in…
Witcher 3 designer says it wasn’t easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn’t ‘just fakery’: ‘People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us’
It might seem silly to ask in our post-Red Dead horse testicles world, but how much exacting detail is too much? How much is not enough? Gamedev can go on forever if you don’t prioritize the things that players actually notice, but if you’re making an immersive fantasy RPG, it’s critical that the intended illusions—bustling…
I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn’t make me feel better
When I first played Half-Life at the tender age of 11, I found it a terrifying experience. Admittedly, I was scared of pretty much everything at 11. Wasps, heights, loud noises, football (or more specifically, everyone finding out how bad I was at football). I was an anxious child all around. Hence, playing an interactive…
