One might wonder, given the endless selection of good videogames out there: Why play a bad one? But let me turn that idea around on you. Given the endless selection of good videogames out there, what’s more enticing than one you’ve never heard of? Maybe it’s bad, but has one fascinating idea. Maybe it has…
NetEase’s free-to-play hero shooter, which I will always think of as “Muvvel Ruvvels” after hearing my English co-workers mangle the pronunciation, is having a good launch day. When I started writing this story Marvel Rivals had just past 360,000 concurrent players according to SteamDB, and now it’s looking at 400,000 in the rear view mirror….
From our very first conversation about bringing Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast to PS4, we knew Trophies would be a high priority for us. After all, not only were we bringing back a beloved classic, and not only was this going to be the first time PlayStation players were going to experience the…
Top 10? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… We’re back with the latest look at the UK charts, and, as we edge another week closer to the Switch 2 release date, it’s another sleepy week in Nintendo land. Once again, there are no first-party showings for the House of Mario…
If it exists, you best know Epic Games is probably going to get its hands on it and churn out a 1,200 V-bucks skin for the pleasure of feral Fortnite fans. Something it seemingly won’t be snagging anytime soon, however, is a Helldivers 2 collaboration despite Fortnite’s newest season leaning very heavily into that game’s…
It’s aliiiiive! With the Switch 2 now available, Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pass owners now have access to GameCube games – rejoice! Alas, it’s only three for the time being, but they’re absolute bangers, and more will come. For those particularly nostalgic for Nintendo’s adorable little box from the early ’00s, you might have…
Hello, PlayStation fans! I’ve been writing this blog from the conference back stage, and I’m so glad I can finally talk about the next Call of Duty. Everyone here at PlayStation couldn’t be more thrilled about tonight’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 news and what it means for the PlayStation Nation. It’s hard to…
We all have a game or two we can always go back to. No matter how many times we’ve beaten it, done all the sidequests, or maybe even gotten that Platinum trophy, there’s just something satisfying about a world, a character, a battle, or something you can’t quite put your finger on that keeps you…
Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ and founder of game development studio RocketWerkz, says that Unity Technologies has threatened to revoke his company’s license to use its Unity game engine over terms of service violations that he denies ever happened. In a Reddit post last week, Hall alleged that Unity—whose relationship with game developers has…
People have had a problem with how Windows 11’s Task Manager shows CPU usage stats for a long time. While recent discussions have revolved around the idea that the app only bases its reporting on base clocks, Dave Plummer, the creator of the original Task Manager, explains in a recent video how it might actually…