In spite of a bloodletting that saw the end of BioWare—a lion in winter, sure, but still a studio with a rich legacy—and around 400 employees laid off, EA seemingly still has videogame irons in the fire. Per a report from Variety, the corporation is working on a new Battlefront game, said to be in…
If you have a Capcom ID, you may want to check your email to see if you are one of the 11,774,247 caught in the latest Capcom data breach. Capcom has issued a public apology (via Notebook Check), declaring that “unauthorised access by a third party occurred to our online membership service ‘CAPCOM ID’, resulting…
A thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts. A classic xkcd webcomic came to mind while I watched last week’s Zelda Direct live. In the one-panel comic, two people from the far future (as evidenced by their Jetsons-style bubble ship) say their goodbyes. Here’s the interaction: “Bye!”“May the Force be with you!”“Huh?”“It’s just something my grandma…
Clear your weekend – Free Play Days is calling! Dying Light 2: Stay Human – Reloaded Edition, Let’s Build a Zoo, and Tropico 6 are available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, October 22 until Sunday, October 25. Both Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories…
We prattle on about GPU prices so much nowadays that even we’re getting sick of it. Yet for as long as the memory crisis rages on and prices keep rising, we’ll keep bringing it up. We’ll also keep trying to spot the best prices for graphics cards, which is exactly how I spotted these specific…
Immersive sim legend Warren Spector shared some thoughts on yesterday’s closure of BioWare, and they’re uncharacteristically spicy—so much so that he led into them with a warning for sensitive readers. “I try very hard not to curse at any time but especially in public. Unfortunately for my vocabulary and the delicate sensibilities of some who…
(Image credit: Playground Games) Key deets (Image credit: Playground Games) 🚘 The treasure chest is in east Sotoyama on the shore of a big lake, north of Soni Circuit. It’s winter time in Forza Horizon 6‘s Horizon Meets series, so once again we have a new Treasure Hunt to find to get some seasonal points…
In the era of speedy solid state drives, I barely remember the last time I saw a loading screen. I say ‘barely’ because it was, in fact, last night as I waited for Star Wars Zero Company to compile its shaders for a second time following a crash I encountered during the tutorial mission. Some…
Photo Modes are a rewarding way to get to grips with some essential elements of photography, while letting you more closely examine and appreciate a game’s art design and increasingly photorealistic visuals. Feature-rich Photo Modes put an entire suite of virtual lighting rigs at your fingertips, subtracting concerns about space requirements, or the patience of…
When you had to make those 24 exposures count. Gather round, kids, and I’ll tell you a tale. A tale of gaming events where you weren’t packed in like sardines, a tale of the future of the industry: Sega’s Dreamcast, and a tale of photographic limitations where you had a limited number of shots, no…