Some big changes out of EVE Online developer CCP Games today, including that it is no longer called CCP Games: The studio has parted ways with Crimson Desert maker Pearl Abyss, entered into an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind, and ditched its nearly 30-year-old name, rebranding itself as Fenris Creations. Pearl Abyss acquired CCP—sorry,…
Uphill battle Several weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled a pair of SDKs intended to make it relatively easy for iOS and Android developers to port their apps over to Windows 10 (for mobile devices). Called Project Islandwood (iOS) and Project Astoria (Android), Microsoft envisioned its toolkits transforming Windows from an also-ran into the mobile space to…
Nintendo of Europe has revealed the most played games on the Nintendo Switch last year and it seems it was a battle between the mighty Fortnite and the addictive Animal Crossing: New Horizons in Europe. There are some fantastic games in the top twenty so it just goes to show that Switch owners generally have…
The next Splatoon 2 Splatfest kicks off this Friday at 10pm UK time / 2pm PT and players have the choice of deciding to choose between Team Invincibility or Team Super Mushroom in the special Super Mario-themed Splatfest. As an incentive, Nintendo has announced that the top one hundred players on each Splatfest team will…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paige Burger, who is displayed on card number 3105, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Paige is part of the Old School Gamer Magazine crew. Daughter of the creator and publisher, Paige has made a huge impact on promoting and signing up gamers for the magazine. She travels to…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In March, MLB The Show 26 led the US charts, while Crimson Desert took the top spot in the EU and ranked among the top three in the US. Meanwhile, The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin dominated the free-to-play…
35 years young. The Game Boy turned 35 at the weekend, which no doubt prompted many people to dig out their dusty handhelds from storage and turn them on for the first time in decades. We imagine some of those same people will have been dismayed to discover that their childhood handheld no longer functions…
Stalker 2 really is a monumental achievement when you take into consideration, well, everything. Even though its devs just didn’t have another delay in them, our own Stalker 2 appreciator Joshua Wolens found its bugs a charming harkening to the original, rather than an insurmountable obstacle, in his Stalker 2 review. During a talk with…
Sales figures have come in from Nintendo France for the Nintendo Switch and it paints a good picture for the country. The console has proved to be popular there since launch and so far the Kyoto company has shifted 3.3 million Nintendo Switch systems in France alone. This means that an impressive eleven percent of…
Age of Empires 2 simply cannot be stopped. 26 years on from the game’s original launch, and six years since the release of its almighty Definitive Edition, real-time strategy’s most benevolent tyrant is still getting the kind of support that would put most live-service games to shame. Only last month, developer Forgotten Empires unleashed a…