Six months after laying off approximately 80 developers because “overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size long term,” Riot Games has announced that it is ending development of its fighting game 2XKO. Servers for online play will remain available and the game is also playable offline, but “active…
Valve honcho Gabe Newell recorded a video to kick off The International 2026, the latest edition of Valve’s annual Dota 2 championship tournament, and as noticed by GamesRadar, the reaction to it is pleasingly wholesome. Plenty of esports fans are thrilled to see the return of one of the world’s premiere tourneys, naturally, but in…
After closing out last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live with the surprise reveal of Black Myth: Zhong Kui, developer Game Science strongly implied there’d be a long wait before we’d see more of its follow-up to the global breakout success of Black Myth: Wukong—a success that was, nonetheless, dogged by the controversy surrounding its studio’s…
Ahead of The Duskbloods’ network test next week, veteran Soulsborne YouTubers VaatiVidya and Oroboro have uploaded long gameplay videos and explainers for the Switch 2 exclusive PvPvE game, while IGN and Automaton have published new interviews with project lead and Soulsborne commander-in-chief, Hidetaka Miyazaki. As a veteran Souls sicko, here are my biggest takeaways from…
As $70-$100 controllers are only getting more and more impressive, you might be wondering what the pro controller market can do to make you spend that extra $100 or so. It turns out the answer might be to shove a screen on it. Ain’t that always the way? That’s what you will find on the…
A strong partnership. FromSoftware games have historically being quite vague in communicating what you actually have to do. This is often a big part of the fun, but we suspect a lot of players have been put off by just how impenetrable the company’s game have been in the past. In a new interview with…
Summary Pilot a bathtub on wheels across brutally steep off-road hills. What began life as a joke became a Foddian rage reality. Out Now on Xbox with XPA. Every game has an origin story. Mine starts, fittingly, with a coffee machine and a terrible idea. Back before Elegant Horse Studios was really Elegant Horse Studios,…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. You ever think about…
The great Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks continued today with a new video from Leek, and this one is particularly impressive, and damaging, because now it looks like the leaker really does have access to a playable build of the game. The bulk of the video shared on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit (which,…
Sick beat. Famitsu has provided the latest figures for boxed sales in Japan covering the two weeks from 3rd August to 16th August. Surprising no one, Nintendo is still absolutely dominating, with Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation the only title representing the PS5 in the top ten. Otherwise, Rhythm Heaven Groove leads the pack with…