The days are getting longer and temperatures are rising, which means it must be time to talk about the next Call of Duty. Activision is going back to the well with Black Ops 7 this year—a deviation from the CoD release pattern that hasn’t gone unnoticed or without concern—but Treyarch and Raven are zagging away…
Electronic Arts pulled the plug on Anthem in early 2021, finally putting an end to BioWare’s ill-advised foray into the looter shooter genre. The game itself continued to run, though, quietly trundling along like an empty subway cleaving through the pre-dawn hours of a cold, forgotten Tuesday. But the ride is almost over. “We have…
After mainlining Dune: Awakening (and nothing but Dune: Awakening) for about a month, I’m currently decompressing by playing just about every other game that comes across my desk. Since I didn’t get a chance to dive into Next Fest because it took place during the June of Dune, I’m busying myself with free demos on…
Less than two weeks ago, it looked like the Stop Killing Games initiative was in trouble: Founder Ross Scott said the deadlines for petitions filed in the EU and UK were rapidly approaching, but both were still far from the number of signatures required to take them to the next step. The situation has changed…
Yesterday, Microsoft started its latest round of layoffs, aiming to eliminate 9,000 jobs after previously cutting more than 12,000 employees over the last two years. The latest downsizing has led to studio closures and game cancellations—including Blackbird, an unannounced MMO in development at ZeniMax that Xbox executives were reportedly thrilled about before abruptly killing the…
Tony Hawk! Donkey Kong Bananza! Patapon 1+2! After last month, we bet you thought July was cooling off a little, right? Well… a little, but not much. The Switch 2 has been here for a month now, and we’re swimming in games old and new on the new platform. And look, we all know what’s…
Yesterday, despite posting $26 billion in profits and outperforming Wall Street forecasts in the last quarter, Microsoft began its latest round of restructuring with a targeted goal of laying off 9,000 employees. Many of those cuts have affected the Xbox gaming division, leading to cancellations of projects like Rare’s Everwild and an unannounced Zenimax MMO,…
The situation at MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy has taken another weird turn in the form of a video chat between founder Leslie Benzies and employees. According to an IGN report, Benzies has committed to a “re-launch” of MindsEye, presumably with the goal of setting the game on a redemption arc, even though the…
On the long list of crimes for which I am responsible, a single entry is king: I have barely played more than an hour of Hades 1 in my life. Is it because I’m a bad person? Yes, but also I feel like I missed the boat on it a little bit. Gone are the…
He said “I’ve been to the year 3000”. Sega has shared the opening theme to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and, rather than pulling in familiar faces such as Crush40, Kellin Quinn, or Madeline Wood, there’s a very familiar voice to a certain generation of people from the UK. James Bourne of the British pop-punk band Busted…