Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma promised “a renewed commitment to Xbox” when she took over from Phil Spencer in February, and in the months since we’ve seen some movement on that front: A promise to avoid “soulless AI slop,” the end of the “this is an Xbox” strategy, and most recently, a reduction of Game…
Masters of Albion has Peter Molyneux’s paws all over it. The art style and arch British humor channels Fable, and it’s even set in a place called Albion (not the same Albion as Fable, of course). It’s all very gentle, very quaint, like I’ve just opened an Enid Blyton or Jill Barklem picture book. But…
If you’ve grown a bit weary of survival games where a stick and a rock can automagically be combined to make a tree-felling axe and you can build a comfortable base in a matter of minutes, how about something a bit more authentic? Wordless Forest is a FMV (Full Motion Video) survival game that could…
In February this year, Turkiye’s Family and Social Services Ministry announced draft legislation to impose various restrictions and overweening oversight on Steam, Epic, and other gaming platforms. The country’s parliament has now approved the bill, with some minor changes, which will mean tough times ahead for such platforms, and newly limited access for Turkish players….
The Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake is just over yon horizon, scheduled to dock this summer, nevermind the leaky hull that Ubisoft always springs when trying to keep a secret. The fourth mainline Assassin’s Creed game was an unequivocal pirate game favorite in the years before we had Sea of Thieves. It’s still got a…
When I first opened the warlock skill tree while reviewing Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred last week, I spent a good 20 minutes just reading through all the different skills and upgrades Blizzard stuffed in there. And that was just one of the new classes in the expansion; the other six have been reworked too….
Fake messages asking for cryptocurrency to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz have been sent to multiple ships and shipping companies. The Greek maritime risk management firm MARISKS issued the warning, which was first reported on by Reuters, saying that unknown scammers, claiming to represent the Iranian authorities, had sent various messages demanding…
Vampire Crawlers may be in a completely different genre than Vampire Survivors, but the progression path still has that signature Survivors DNA. With the right upgrades, you can become an unstoppable force of nature that shreds enemies like paper. Picking the wrong upgrades can seriously slow you down in the early stages of Vampire Crawlers,…
After a year of leaks and horsing around that Ubisoft probably didn’t find nearly as funny as I did, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was finally given the official curtain-lifting today. The reveal of “gaming’s worst-kept secret” was pretty much what we expected—it’s a remake of Black Flag—but hidden in Ubisoft’s big announcement roundup is…
My complaints about the generative AI bubble, and the tech industry in general, can often be reduced to the question ‘What are we even doing here?’ Case in point, one of the things Google thinks will save the games industry is the ability to predict when someone is about to stop playing a game so…