Hello PlayStation fans! Our first Marvel’s Avengers War Table stream has just concluded, and we’ve unclassified a massive amount of new intel and insights about the game. While we have talked extensively about the original narrative and stellar voice cast behind our Reassemble Campaign, this was our first formal dive into co-op. As War Zone…
Making a big game that will stand out from the crowd and sell well requires many things to be exactly right. Alongside designing and building the story, graphics, and gameplay, developers have to battle through endless bugs—from a simple animation not syncing correctly to something that ultimately breaks the whole game. Any tool that can…
It’s about ensuring the “game experience” is at its best. Nintendo’s new GameChat function opens up new ways for Switch 2 owners to communicate with friends and families online, but the early showcase of other player screens showed some choppy framerates. It turns out this is an intentional decision to ensure GameChat saves system resources…
Coming to the exA-Arcadia arcade system. Back when Mortal Kombat was only just making its impact felt in the world of arcades, Data East’s North American office decided it would create its own take on the digitised one-on-one fighter. With a story penned by none other than Back to the Future co-scriptwriter Bob Gale, Tattoo…
An update to Nvidia’s official “Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule” has been spotted on Reddit. Long story short, the next 580 series of Unix GPU drivers will be the last to fully support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures. So, what does this actually mean for gamers? For instance, does it imply that the days are…
If names like “The Battle of Grimdal’s Tomb” or “The Battle of Red Axe Pass” resonate with you like “Crécy” would to a medieval English longbowman, then the wilfully low-fi graphics of SOVL: Fantasy Warfare are a Proustian rush waiting to happen. Units are represented by color-coded rectangles, with line art for artillery, monsters, and…
So many franchises today focus on delivering high-end visual experiences to tell their stories. They often forget that people played their games when visuals weren’t at a premium, because they were easy to play and had a level of fun needed to inspire long gameplay sessions. In this exclusive Old School Gamer Magazine list, we…
Surviving the harsh wastes of Arrakis is much less intimidating with friends, but Dune: Awakening multiplayer isn’t the easiest thing to set up thanks to some awkward menus. With a much more linear opening than most survival sandboxes, there are also a few kinks to iron out if you’re looking to play with others. Below,…
Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he “basically announced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project’s current direction, or put it on the shelf to…
Helldivers 2 has endured another chaotic weekend, with developer Arrowhead Game Studios taking the drastic step of capping the game’s player count players to help servers cope with demand following its stratospherically popular launch. In the midst of all that, however, the studio also dropped a more general patch to address several other issues. Patch…