Earlier today, Matthew Ball, CEO of investment strategy firm Epyllion, released an early version of a presentation called “The State of Video Gaming in 2025.” The slideshow, which incorporates data from market research firms like IDG, Newzoo, and Circana, summarizes worldwide market trends in the gaming industry. I’ll be honest: Things aren’t great. Following a…
Helldivers 2 is being made into a movie, and if we’re lucky it’ll feature a star-studded cast from top to bottom—and if we’re really lucky, we’ll get to watch them all die horribly at the hands of marauding bugs, bots, and creepy aliens. That ambitious plan was shared on the Helldivers 2 Discord by Arrowhead…
If you’ve ever thought to yourself that what you really want from life is a videogame inspired by Romanian folkore, David Lynch, and heavy metal, then wow, this is your lucky day. Because the “dark fantasy hack-and-slash adventure” called Moroi, set to launch in early 2025, claims to be exactly that. Moroi takes place within…
Riot Games says it “screwed up” recent changes to League of Legends that were intended to simplify the game’s overly complex reward systems, but instead dramatically slowed level advancement and new hero unlocks. Head of studio Andrei “Meddler” van Roon said in an update posted today that “the numbers we shipped were pretty far off…
Just before all the hubbub about the Sims 4 anniversary updates yesterday, its predecessor got an unexpected update too. The Sims 3 just got its first patch in years this week and so far EA’s just said nothing about it. According to an old archive of Sims 3 patch notes, the last time the game…
I am very tired. I should be long past videogame all-nighters, but last night saw me incapable of dragging myself away from my PC. I needed to get through one more wave of demonic horrors. Build one more tower. Kill one more elite. More than any of that, though, I desperately needed to figure out…
Cramp Rock. It’s not every controller review that we have to start with a rundown of the current state of Fortnite, but bear with us, we promise it’s relevant. The classic looting and shooting that we all know and love is now just a small part of the “Fortnite ecosystem” *squirms*, a hub-world for games…
Category: Xbox Game Pass January 15, 2025 Celebrate the New Year With UFC 5 Joining the Play List and EA Sports Week Charlie FortescueDirector, Global Corporate Communications, EA EA Sports UFC 5 Get ready to unleash your fury as EA Sports UFC 5 is now on the Play List for all EA Play members (conditions,…
TikTok users are reportedly ditching the Chinese-owned app in droves as a possible US ban approaches, many jumping onto the “Goodbye to my Chinese spy” meme in the process. But the kicker is that many of them are choosing to jump onto RedNote. Yup, RedNote is Chinese, too. Apparently, more than half a million TikTok…
“Without Nasir, there is no DOOM”. Co-founder of id Software and one of the minds behind the seminal FPS Doom, John Romero, has honoured a legendary Square programmer on social media, calling him an “inspiration”. Sharing his thoughts in the wake of Japanese broadcaster NHK’s interview with Nasir Gebelli, who lead programmer on the Final…