It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.” I’m guessing that MachineGames did…
America’s Army was at one time the world’s most (in)famous videogame military recruitment tool, but now that it’s out of the picture the British are taking their shot. The British Army has revealed a new “Fortnite experience” called Operation: Belong, and it plans to livestream an influencer-led competition on it next week. Yung Filly and…
The single most expensive hat trade in Team Fortress 2’s history went down this week, with one player exchanging goods worth over 10,000 of the game’s crate keys (around $1.80 each) for an unusual Arcana Crone’s Dome, the characteristics of which make it the only one in existence. It’s a witch’s hat with some Halloween…
And it’s not getting much better. GDC’s annual State of the Game Industry report has been released in the past 24 hours, and it’s not pretty reading. 2023 was a pretty awful year for game developers, with mass industry layoffs and studio closures — from Vanpool, Volition Studios, Brace Yourself Games, Crystal Dynamics, Free Radical,…
The Mythic raid boss blocking a mountain of World of Warcraft guilds from progressing has finally been nuked from orbit. Tindral Sageswift is the penultimate boss in WoW’s Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid. It’s a long fight: Tindral is a druid, and he shapeshifts into several forms over the course of the encounter, each with…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes…
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS, or download here Hey y’all! This week the team discusses The Last of Us Part II Remastered, as well as the upcoming Tomb Raider I-III Remastered release. Plus a listener letter led a discussion on some of the team’s toughest fought boss battles. Stuff…
Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry and science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke’s ashes were on board a pirate US lunar lander that, after a failed moonshot, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Friday and burned-up on the way down. The intention had been to leave the ashes, among those from around 70 individuals including actors James Doohan…
You have to wonder whether the creators of Lonestar were cursing their luck last November, when turn-based, space duel roguelike Cobalt Core was released. Lonestar, you see, is a turn-based, space duel roguelike, and if the two games don’t exactly look like twins, they could certainly be first cousins. Both centre on nose-to-nose spaceship battles…
Fight through fearsome Vaults and avoid lethal hazards while fighting alongside your Seneschal Companion in Diablo IV’s Season of the Construct. On January 23, dive into a new Seasonal Questline where you’ll receive your very own Seneschal Construct. As an exclusive deep dive for Season of the Construct, we’re going to give an overview of…