I’ve just set foot for the first time on PUBG creator Brendan Greene’s new planet, and I’ve gotta say: it definitely looks like a planet. I see some rocks. I see a few trees. One day I walked around in a forest, the next, a desert. I see gentle hills and scattered boulders and a…
When I first got to sit down and play a couple dozen turns of Civilization 7 last year, I had one key takeaway: It was a lot more different from its predecessors than I was expecting. And for me, that was definitely a good thing. Leaders and civs have been divorced from each other on…
The creators of Marvel Rivals don’t want console players swimming in the same Jeff-infested pool as PC players. Or using our equipment to gain an advantage. That’s evident after an announcement made today on Marvel Rivals’ Steam page, where NetEase characterizes the use of keyboard or mouse adapters as a form of cheating. “We believe…
Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima left the office after dark one night last week, tweeting just one word on the way out: “Tired.” After a long and influential career in the industry stretching back to the mid-1980s, he’s starting to wonder how much time he really has left. Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2, doesn’t…
If you Google the size of Elden Ring’s map, chances are you’ll see the same figure repeated throughout the results: 79 km2. What those sites won’t tell you—and might not even realize themselves—is that the source for that 79 km2 figure is a reddit post from user Lusty-Batch, who on February 27, 2022 said that…
It’s finally over for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, as its final update is now live on Steam. Episode 8: Balance, as it’s officially known, adds a new Infamy Set based on the super-villain Libra, as well as new Notorious exotic weapons and a new mission for the final battle against Brainiac. The biggest…
Having already launched one generation of chipsets on its Socket AM5 platform, AMD faces an uphill struggle in selling 800-series chipset motherboards when older, cheaper options are perfectly capable of running CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. However, it arguably has an easier task than Intel given the low sales figures of its Core…
EA’s Behind the Sims presentation was stuffed with a variety of news—a new start screen for The Sims 4, new base game items, and a townie home refresh—but some non-Sims 4 news I’m particularly excited about is the fact that the MySims: Cozy Bundle is getting a PC port, heading to our desktops on March…
Marvel Rivals landed with a wide roster, boasting 33 heroes when it launched on December 5. Just over a month later, the hero shooter’s received two additions to its lineup, thanks to the arrival of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman with the advent of Season 1. NetEase has set an impressive pace—and according to game…
NCsoft is working on a “modern reinterpretation” of its Blade and Soul MMO called Blade and Soul Neo, a remaster that promises a range of visual enhancements, gameplay updates, and a way for fans to “re-live that pure MMO action fantasy experience they once knew.” Blade and Soul Neo will follow the storyline of the…