Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey recently spoke with Shacknews about the price of the upcoming Oculus Rift VR headset, his Tesla Model S car, and supporting Apple’s Mac platform. The interview took place in San Francisco during the Windows 10 Showcase event in late February. Oculus VR was there demonstrating Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition running…
Epic Games has announced that they have pushed back the date for the next season of the popular free to play video game Fortnite. In a statement published on the Epic Games website the company said “we need to balance the Season 3 launch with time for the team to focus on themselves, their families,…
Hello, PlayStation Blog! I am thrilled to announce that X-Morph: Defense is coming to the PlayStation 4 on 30th August. In my last PlayStation Blog post, I described the game’s general concept and its core features. This time I’d like to tell you a bit more about X-Morph’s story campaign, unique destruction system, and split…
The new season will premiere on Netflix on January 16th. Netflix has released another trailer for the eagerly anticipated second season of Castlevania: Nocturne, ahead of its release on the streaming platform later this week on January 16th. The eight new episodes will follow on from the events of season one, which took place in…
More games have been added than previous years. If you’re subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online, you might be feeling like this year has been pretty stacked for new games on both the regular tier and the Expansion Pack. Sure, not all of them have been all-timers — we don’t expect many people were asking for…
“What is best in life?”. Taito has revealed that its 1987 action platformer Rastan Saga (also known as plain old Rastan) is joining the Arcade Archives range this week. Directed, produced and partly programmed by Yoshinori Kobayashi, Rastan Saga takes inspiration from the Conan series of fantasy novels, comics and movies, and places you in…
God of War was built around three core pillars that would influence all design decisions for the project: Combat, Father/Son, and Exploration. When I started at Santa Monica Studio in May 2015, the Exploration pillar was the least defined. The franchise had traditionally been a solely linear experience, but the team was hoping to add…
The latest UK video games charts are now in from the United Kingdom. While the lockdown continues for certain areas of retail, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has managed to regain its position at the top of the charts with a sales increase of 135% week-on-week. There were 225,000 boxed games sold in the UK last…
Some of the greatest stories about games are simply about how developers made the thing work. Ask any developer for their favourite workarounds and you’ll get a full evening’s worth of entertainment about how a giant tram is actually an NPC with a hat on, or how rabbits are actually what makes Azeroth work, and…
All your Chromebase belongs to Acer It was rumored earlier this month that Samsung and Hewlett-Packard were both working on Chrome OS all-in-one desktops, but it looks like Acer has beat them to the punch. Not only that, but Acer’s new Chromebase AIO is the first of its kind to sport a touchscreen display, the…