Team Fortress 2 resides in the long shadows cast by Valve’s pair of popular titans, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2. But the class-based FPS has managed to endure despite its little-brother status, perpetuated by a passionate community that includes a competitive scene that’s still producing fireworks. During May’s Physgun Fireside Denver LAN, one fan I…
It’s a shame that Mimimi Games, the studio behind the Shadow Tactics games, closed down in 2023. But other studios have picked up the real-time stealth tactics slack, resulting in games like Sumerian Six, and the upcoming prequel to the Commandos series. Commandos: Origins is being developed by Claymore Game Studios and published by Kalypso….
Not long ago we were treated to the official music video for Super Nintendo World which is set to open its gates to the public at Universal Studios Japan later this year. Now, thanks to the official Universal Studios Japan Twitter account, we can get a further look at some of the things that those…
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…
“We’re already working with Nintendo on a path forward”. Following an official response from Nintendo yesterday about the censorship in the Switch versions of Dispatch, the developer AdHoc Studio has now shared a lengthy statement. In this update, which follows a comment it made to Nintendo Life earlier this week, the studio explains how the…
World of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm is back for another go from January 14 to February 18. If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain—Blizzard put a pirate Fortnite in their MMO. Why? Well, for the most part, the company’s making an attempt at branching out and evolving its existing game systems—having a…
Hot off our 2017 PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year Awards, we’ve been looking for new ways to recognize the very best games on PlayStation platforms. So we decided to ask the real experts: you! Today, we’re launching Players’ Choice, a new game-of-the-month award decided by players. How does it work? On the last day of…
We love gaming. We play games, create games, and know first-hand how much gaming means to all of us as individuals and collectively, as a community. And today, we officially welcome Activision Blizzard and their teams to Xbox. They are the publishers of some of the most played and most beloved franchises in gaming history…
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one a bit shocked by Apple using the worst memory crisis in recent history to put out the most affordable MacBook it has ever launched. The Asus CFO, Nick Wu, seems similarly surprised. In a recent earnings call, he was asked about the MacBook Neo and had quite a…
Matchmaking in Overwatch, the boulder to my Sisyphus. This is something that haunts me and every other poor sod still clambering to get out of Elo-hell. It may at times seem like a horrid place to be but ex-Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan still assures players that it was the best it could be. “The matchmaking…