Unravel’s Adventure Begins February 9th, 2016 on PS4

‘Progression is awful, this is not a mobile game’: The Marvel Rivals challenge-based battle pass has players begging for but an ounce of post-match XP

Marvel Rivals—the NetEase free-to-play hero shooter featuring a wide roster of Avengers and various other Marvel figures who probably wish they were—released yesterday, and it hasn’t had any trouble finding interested players. At time of writing, there are currently more than 300,000 people playing Marvel Rivals on Steam alone. Some of those players, however, have…

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Back in 2009, an experimental free-to-play Battlefield predicted our grim live service present: ‘It will need to be the most popular Battlefield game of all time to be profitable’

It cannot be overstated how alien a concept “free-to-play” was just a few hardware generations ago. Long before we’d settled on a label for them, the only notable free-to-play games were browser-based MMOs, early MOBAs based on mods, and Korean games that had few players in the West. Free-to-play was niche in these parts, but…

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Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down

First shared on Bluesky by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, Sony has provided a glimpse of PlayStation’s future and priorities through a written summary of its Game & Network Services Segment Small Meeting Q&A. Answers were provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino, Studio business CEO Hermen Hulst, and SIE senior vice president of finance…

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The Steam Deck gets a 3D printed ergo keyboard dock thanks to some creative modification and a clever clip-on hinged design

The Steam Deck is good at many things, but a wonderful typing experience it is not. Either you’re furiously flipping away at those thumbsticks like some kind of—shock horror—console gamer, or you’re jabbing your fingers and thumbs at the touchscreen like—even bigger shock horror—a mobile gamer. Well, thanks to some clever modding, the Steam Deck…

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The new Crimson Desert patches are grand and all, but the Ray Reconstruction performance and lighting options are still all kind of b0rked on my machine

I’ve been having a grand old time running around Crimson Desert‘s gigantic open world, picking up sheep, committing crimes, and generally making a nuisance of myself to the good citizens of Pywel. I’ve been playing it since launch day, in fact, which is why I’m not surprised I’ve found myself awash among a sea of…

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