In a bid to expand its advertising business, Discord has invented a new in-app currency to give away in exchange for watching commercials. They’re called Orbs, and you can use them to buy cosmetics from Discord’s shop. I’ve pondered these Orbs myself and find them inoffensive, at least so far. At the outset, Orbs will…
Firaxis’ attempt to right the ailing vessel that is Civilization VII continues, with its latest update bringing a major balance pass for all civs, plus a bunch of new systems designed to enhance oceanic play. And if you’ve already picked up Firaxis’ latest and most divisive entry in the series, you have the opportunity to…
A better looking fitness band Microsoft is getting ready to launch new hardware devices during a press event scheduled for October 6 (two Tuesdays from now). One of the things it’s likely to reveal is a second generation fitness band (Microsoft Band 2), and based on some leaked images making the rounds, it appears Microsoft…
The 29th annual DICE Awards, honoring game makers “whose work pushed the boundaries of interactive storytelling, technical innovation,” went down last night, and you’ll never guess who took home the big prize for game of the year. I’ll give you a hint: They’re French. No, not Ubisoft, I mean Sandfall Interactive, the team behind Clair…
Florges? For Spring? Groudonbreaking. In the magazine business, the back page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on…
Save some space. Ahead of the release of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition next month, Nintendo has supposedly updated the file size of the Switch release. Listings online previously suggested the game would take up around 15 GB of space and now the estimated file size on the Switch eShop says the game will require…
“Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, everybody’s done something”. Electronic Arts has been in the headlines for all sorts of reasons over the years, but Hazelight Studios founder and director Josef Fares (who is known for expressing his honest opinion) can’t help but feel the third-party video game giant is still “getting more s**t” than it deserves. His…
Go on and tell us. Well folks, with Nintendo releasing its financial results this week, many of us thought that a Direct announcement wouldn’t be too far behind, but alas. Maybe next week. Anyway, we got news that the Nintendo Switch has now sold over 139 million units, which is just astonishing, while Mario Kart…
Has it all gone Pete Tong? It feels like absolutely ages ago that I first reviewed The Touryst on Switch, and returning to it so far down the line, and on the Switch 2 no less, I’ve been excited to see just how it’s held up in the six years since I last took a…
Bandai Nampo revealed more information about the third season of the intense Dragon Ball FighterZ last night. The company mention that a new Z Assist Select system will come to the game which allows you to select a character’s Assist Attack. There are three different Assist Attacks which you can mix up and users will…