For most of its life, Xbox was simple to comprehend. It was a console brand centered on a physical device, a controlled ecosystem, and a familiar promise to the player: buy the box, enter the platform, and stay inside the experience Microsoft designed for you. That model helped to define the modern console era, but…
The Division Resurgence is a free-to-play mobile take on more-ish third-person shooter The Division. Announced in 2022, it finally hit iOS and Android on March 31. Now, with very little fanfare or prior warning, The Division Resurgence has launched for PC. The quiet release could have something to do with it being in early access:…
Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky, through 2.5-D urban environments. Most of the time, they…
Just two days after revealing Ballistic, an upcoming 5v5 round-based tactical FPS “experience” that sure as hell looks a lot like Counter-Strike, Fortnite is continuing its brazen campaign to become every other videogame all at once. Today, Epic announced Lego Fortnite Brick Life, a “social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world.” Set in “an…
If you’re still hanging on to that old password, here’s some news that should change your mind: Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the team over at Cybernews have discovered an open instance containing a gigantic 12TB of user data, in what they’re referring to as the “mother of all breaches”, and it seems like it…
Horizon Zero Dawn recently reached two major milestones: the game turned one, and it crossed the 7.6 million mark in sales numbers. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we released a free avatar bundle and Photo Mode theme for PlayStation 4. In addition, we’re running several promo discounts on Horizon Zero Dawn and related items, which…
Hollow Knight: Silksong will get a little easier next week with the release of the game’s first patch, which among other things promises a “slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.” But what if, for some demented reason, you wanted to make the game harder? As it turns out, that’s on…
DIY kit is a game-changer. Despite being a ‘dead’ console, the Game Boy range has been supported over the past few years by some incredible community-made upgrades and mods, many of which focus on improving the console’s display. We’ve now got what appears to be the ultimate upgrade in this regard – an OLED touchscreen…
The first Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival for the MMO’s next expansion kicks off today. We should be getting a little glimpse at a trailer, the expansion’s name, and more than likely producer Naoki Yoshida’s usual mind games with a t-shirt that’ll give some sort of hint about one of the new jobs. But first,…
My thumbs are raw. My pulse is elevated. My regrets are many. Nestled in a corner of this weekend’s Summer Game Fest Play Days event in Los Angeles is, I suspect, a perfect videogame in the making. N+ Infinity Times Two is a floaty ninja platformer—the latest in a series that started over 20 years…