Today Bethesda posted a recap of the year Starfield has had in the form of a few fun facts: in 2023 players visited a collective 1.9 billion planets, spent 26 million hours building ships, and ate more than 18 million battlemeal multipacks. (Weirdly, no sandwich tally was provided.) The same post also sheds more light…
As the meme goes, the real treasure is the friends you made along the way. Even more so if you are planning to go mining for gold and valuable gems, as you have more hands and backpacks to take the loot out. For the second anniversary of Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder, our latest VR…
It is now official: In a farewell message to employees, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that he will be leaving the company. Kotick’s future with Activision Blizzard came into question almost as soon as Microsoft announced its intention to acquire the company back in January 2022. The decision appeared to be all but…
On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a “recent data security incident” with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone gained “unauthorized access” to customers’ usernames and hashed passwords for a period of four days. And it gets worse: Comcast says that “for some customers,…
Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that “products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.” But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that…
Overwatch 2 has had some trouble in the past year-and-a-bit since its release—between promised PvE content being absent, an outright admission that the game has been in decline, and a ‘colourful’ reception on Steam, the game’s freemium model has been a point of contention—especially for players who bought Overwatch 1 fully-priced. A recent controversy has…
Crazy Taxi & Golden Axe feature, too. Sega has published its Management Meeting 2023 Presentation slides, which give us a few more small details about its plans to revive some of its classic franchises (via Gematsu). The quintet of revivals — potentially new entries in classic series’ or reboots — were revealed at The Game…
Category: ID@Xbox How Dungeons of Hinterberg Bridges Reality with Fantasy When Creating Its Massive Overworlds Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published December 20, 2023 Summary Inspired by the real glaciers in the Alps, Dungeons of Hinterberg’s Glacier overworld offers a unique and playful experience of magical snowboarding, exploration, combat, and discovery, with hidden secrets, adventures,…
On February 2 – Harley Quinn, Deadshot, King Shark, and Captain Boomerang will be unleashed into the streets of Metropolis, with the impossible task of defeating the world’s greatest superheroes in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Play Video In the latest episode of our Suicide Squad Insider video series, we give you an in-depth…
A promising new sprout. Two years ago, a new developer called Singularity 6—comprised of various ex-Riot, Sony, and Blizzard staff—announced Palia, a “Massively Multiplayer Community Sim” that would aim to bring together the best parts of Stardew Valley and World of Warcraft. Since then, the title has been in early access on PC, and even…