When the original Bloodlines throws John DiMaggio at you right there in the tutorial you know you’re in for some quality voice-acting. The whole cast was stacked with actors familiars from games and TV like Grey DeLisle, Steve Blum, Fred Tatasciore, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Dee Bradley Baker—the list goes on. Bloodlines 2 may not have…
A new Bloomberg report based on interviews with former Microsoft employees has offered more fuel for speculation about the continued viability of Game Pass, including Microsoft’s own alleged estimate for how much sales revenue Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 lost by being on the subscription service. Unlike Steam, which offers its own real-time metrics…
Sweepstakes casinos might be getting kicked out of California. Online sweepstakes casinos are under legal pressure California has passed anti-sweepstakes Assembly Bill 831 Chumba Casino, Global Poker and others face being banned In a shock move, California is pushing to ban sweepstakes casinos. This is bad news for gamers living in the Golden State, many…
A security vulnerability found in the Unity engine, which had laid dormant for almost a decade, was recently patched. Games made using the engine also need to be patched, however, so expect a lot of games you wouldn’t expect to still be receiving updates to suddenly download one out of the blue. Overcooked 2, for…
Three days into the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta, Activision has shared patch notes for a new multiplayer mode with less strict skill-based matchmaking (SBMM). The behind-the-scenes online matchmaking practice, which seeks to pair players with those of a similar skill level, has grown controversial among some competitive FPS fans, and this is…
I was at an impasse the first time I reached the end of open world RPG Sword Hero‘s combat arena demo. I managed to bandage up the stump where my right arm used to be, recently hacked off by the big burly knight man locked in the arena with me, but could no longer pick…
A trio of advocacy groups are speaking out against Roblox’s new “sensitive issues” label for community-created content. Women in Games, Out Making Games, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Talent (BAME) in Games released a joint letter on Tuesday arguing that Roblox’s decision to implement a new content filtering system for certain topics is “a…
GameStop is openly dismissing Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike, promising to keep selling subscriptions online and in-store at the old $19.99 per month rate, as reported by GamesRadar. The offer came just a day after GameStop joked “own nothing” when the price increases were announced earlier this week. In a post on X…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
It’s hard to think of a more charged environment in which to start work on a game. In the wake of 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, the studio that invented Call of Duty had imploded. A power struggle between Activision and Infinity Ward’s leaders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, had led to the expulsion of the…