Square Enix reportedly no longer hosting online event in June, individual announcements expected

US: Amazon opens official Nintendo Merch storefront

Popular North American retailer Amazon has worked alongside Nintendo to open a dedicated storefront for Nintendo merchandise. There’s a wealth of lovely goodies available including cute Yoshi t-shirts, Zelda hoodies, figures and plushies. It is well worth having a browse if you are looking to add more Nintendo merchandise to your collection as you don’t…

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Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: ‘It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another … it’s the complete opposite’

The funny thing about Arc Raiders is how friendly it is. Trios mode is fairly reliably violent, and you’ll occasionally get popped by people like Fraser, but in solos mode most players are, unexpectedly, quite cooperative. It’s a little weird, given the nature of videogames, and developer Embark Studios was perhaps a little surprised by…

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Diablo 4’s poor Sorcerers spot a glimmer of hope for the Hydra to the tune of a 400% damage bump—turns out it’s likely just to compensate for a bug fix

Diablo 4’s sorcerers have had, uh… a bit of a hard time, the poor guys. While they were super promising in the game’s beta—with a ton of sorcerous excitement when the game opened its gates—things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing since. For starters, the pre-season one patch crushed them disproportionately—alongside other nerfs, it unilaterally ramped…

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‘Please have faith in us once again’ says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won’t arrive for ‘at least 6 months’

Pirate survival game Windrose is a megahit, but after two weeks of sailing the early access seas, a lot of pirates have run out of new discoveries and have fully explored the game’s initial three biomes. Many players are naturally asking: what’s next? And, perhaps as importantly: when? Today developer Kraken Express outlined some of…

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We’re joining Frosthaven’s party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot

There’s something about dark fantasy and the observation that it’s a bit cold out that goes together like whiskey and… well, ice. Frosthaven, an adaptation of a board game by the same name, understands this—and also happens to’ve just launched into early access. Led by Julian Gollop, head of Snapshot Games and creator of X-COM,…

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