15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who’s harder to beat in co-op than solo

The handshake deal in FromSoftware games, the obfuscated difficulty option that’s always been there since Demon’s Souls, is co-op: Summoning phantoms controlled by other players or the computer⁠. In OG Elden Ring everybody’s best friend was the Mimic Tear, a powerful summon to make a copy of yourself to fight by your side. This has…

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Not content with making three WW1 first-person shooters already, the creators of Verdun and Isonzo are now making a Gallipoli FPS

BlackMill Games has been making World War 1 shooters for over a decade now, first with Verdun, and then with Tannenberg and Isonzo. Now it’s making Gallipoli, which will shift focus to the Middle Eastern theatre, to dramatize the battles between the Triple Entente and the Ottoman Empire. While it’s not as well-known as other…

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Analyst says EA plans to milk Battlefield for everything it’s worth: ‘Their goal is three studios making Battlefield on a 3-year basis, so they can get to Battlefield annually’

One of the prevailing impressions of the Battlefield 6 beta, which wrapped up today after two gangbuster weekends, was that Battlefield has finally caught up to Call of Duty. It has its snappy gunplay, it has its attachments, and it will eventually have its free-to-play battle royale mode. EA believes anything CoD can do, it…

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Roblox changes policies on ‘romantic and sexual content’ and promises better moderation on the way as Louisiana AG repeats assertion that the platform ‘is a breeding ground for sex predators’

Immediately following a lawsuit filed by the state of Louisiana alleging that Roblox “is overrun with harmful content and child predators,” Roblox Corporation has updated its policies on “romantic and sexual content” to prohibit material that even just “implies” sexual activity. Roblox is also rolling out new restrictions on unrated experiences that will limit their…

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