The final major update arrived yesterday. It’s been a long development cycle for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with the team not only celebrating the initial launch of the game but also multiple updates and DLC fighters over the past five years. Now that the Sora (Kingdom Hearts) amiibo has arrived, the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai…
Microsoft reiterates it will remain exclusive to Xbox. There’s been conversation about Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service potentially being released on rival platforms, but at the end of last year, the company’s gaming CEO Phil Spencer ruled this out. If you were hopeful this might change one day, it seems not. In Xbox’s latest business…
The generative AI company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E has a new toy: Sora, a text-to-video model that can generate pretty convincing 60-second clips from prompts like “a stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street…” and “a movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet…”…
Four years after pre-orders went live. Intellivision CEO Phil Adam has issued a Valentine’s Day update on the troubled Amico console, and it makes for pretty depressing reading if you’re one of the many people who pre-ordered the device all those years ago. Rather than give any update on the progress of the Amico, Adam…
Elden Ring’s optional megaboss Malenia is one of those memetic videogame tests of skill now. Like the Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy 7 or the White Palace in Hollow Knight she represents the ultimate challenge in her game, and might just be the boss design high-water mark in FromSoftware’s notoriously boss-centric body of work. So…
Lothrik, a dataminer who previously made accurate build planners before Diablo 4 was out, has released a sheet of data that supposedly shows the likelihood you’ll find an Über Unique in the wild. Blizzard hasn’t confirmed whether the data is correct, but the numbers line up with D4 Craft’s datamined info from last year. Diablo…
To mark the fifth anniversary of the most excellent post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus, developer 4A Games announced today that it has now sold more than 10 million copies, and teased—very gently—the arrival of the next game in the series. Metro Exodus was a major departure from the first two games in the series, 2033 and…
The galactic campaign against the Terminids isn’t close to over, but Super Earth has bigger problems on its hands. As announced on social channels, Helldivers 2 is pressing pause on its bug war and pointing fleets of helldivers toward an emerging front. The Automatons, a faction of titanium death machines and Terminator wannabes, have launched…
I’ve been boating around Skull and Bones for about thirty hours now, but I probably could have achieved the same amount in twenty if I’d been smarter. Skull and Bones isn’t an especially challenging game but it demands a lot of time, and the grind can wear if you’re the kind of player who wants…
RBO looks like just the thing for a group of goofy Discord friends: a “physics-powered” heist game in which one player must protect their house and possessions while a group of unallied intruders attempt to rob it. Publisher tinyBuild officially announced RBO today, although public testing started at least a couple weeks ago judging by…