Little-known, underground indie videogame platform Steam sure is doing well for itself. The service recently hit a new historical high of 41,666,455 players online at once, per the stoic record-keepers over at SteamDB. That’s just a little over the population of Canada and a whole lot higher than the last time it graced our pages…
MercurySteam, located in Madrid, Spain, was founded in 2002. They are a development studio, the ones behind the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games and Metroid: Samus Returns. Today, they confirmed that they have “several new titles” planned, and they also confirmed that Nordisk has acquired 40% of the studio. Nordisk Games is based in Copenhagen,…
10 years ago it was conventional wisdom that most popular Japanese games would never come to PC. Fast forward to now, and not only is it rare for a Japanese game to skip PC, but we’re getting deep cuts from the back catalogue too. Case in point: Rainbow Cotton was a Sega Dreamcast exclusive when…
Higher-quality streaming, and more Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb updated Xbox Wire on Tuesday with news that the Xbox app for Windows 10 received an update that allows gamers to stream from an Xbox One to a Windows 10 device in 1080p and 60 frames per second. The new feature isn’t that surprising, as last week…
Japanese owners of the action-packed Daemon X Machina for the Nintendo Switch can claim free downloadable content based on the Code Geass anime franchise. The Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Set is now the second large content based update for Daemon X Machina and it includes the following cosmetic items: Arsenal: Lancelot Outer Suit:…
…so we’d better stick with Hogs of War. The headline news with Evercade’s Gremlin Collection 2 is undoubtedly the inclusion of Loaded and Re-Loaded, two top-down PS1 shooters which seem to perfectly capture the feeling of the mid-’90s gaming landscape, at least in the West. The first Loaded launched soon after the original PlayStation arrived…
Category: Developer_Direct January 21, 2025 How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 on Thursday Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Developer_Direct returns this Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, and will bring you a deep-dive into some of the incredible games on the way for Xbox players this year. The show…
Last night, I was annoying my fiancee by swearing every time I died to the early Silksong boss, Splinter Sister—the boss herself isn’t the problem, it’s the stupid little mooks she summons. Meanwhile, there are people not only no-hitting the game’s hardest bosses, one true student of the needle has no-hit every boss in the…
Whew! We’re still recovering from last night’s densely packed Media Showcase, featuring our closest look yet at Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of War, Days Gone and more, plus a few surprise announcements (Shadow of the Colossus!!) and some rather excellent music to open the event. Of course, E3 isn’t just about what happens on stage. We’ve…
Many players still feel unsure about doing a PUBG Mobile top-up outside the game. There’s always that concern about account safety, fake services, or whether the platform is actually reliable. At the same time, in-game prices can feel quite high, especially if you top up PUBG Mobile regularly. This is why more players start looking…