Valve has achieved something remarkable with Counter-Strike 2, and has done it almost under-the-radar. The developer has managed to transition one of the largest and most change-averse competitive playerbases around from CS:GO to CS2 without any significant pushback, large-scale complaining, or splitting that playerbase. OK sure, it did rather brutally disappear CS:GO when the time…
Unless the FTC’s Lina Khan runs in at the last minute to physically tackle Bobby Kotick before he can sign anything, it’s looking very likely that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard will close in the very near future. I mean very near, you understand, as in possibly this Friday, pending word from the UK market…
Move aside, Pac-Man 99. Pac-Man 99 has only just been laid to rest, but Bandai Namco is back with another stab at the battle royale genre, announcing Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs for the Nintendo Switch, launching early 2024. The game is an expanded version of Pac-Man: Mega Tunnel Battle, which was originally released…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A grand historical strategy game in the classic Total War style, set in Ancient Egypt. Release date October 11, 2023 Expect to pay £50 / $60 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher SEGA Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site Total War: Pharaoh isn’t the best Total War…
More than 30 years after release. Back in 1992, Game Freak – now most famous for developing the insanely popular Pokémon series of video games – produced an adaptation of Tatsuya Egawa’s million-selling manga Magical Taruruto for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. Released exclusively in Japan in April of 1992, Magical Taruruto-kun was directed…
Ubisoft’s free-to-play competitive FPS XDefiant, surely a contender for the silliest game name in history (sorry Warface), has announced another delay following a recent public playtest. The game was due to launch with a “Preseason” this month but, following what the developers describe as “inconsistencies in the game experience”, has been delayed to an unspecified…
Brick by brick. After last week’s reveal, LEGO and Nintendo have unveiled all five sets coming in the Animal Cross X LEGO collaboration, which we now know launches in March 2024. At least that saves the bank balance during the holidays! All five sets are available to wishlist now on LEGO’s website, and we’ve even…
RuneScape has announced that it’s ditching its new battle pass system barely a month after it debuted, calling it “not reflective of a direction we’re taking RuneScape in” following widespread player uproar. The battle pass—called a Hero Pass in RuneScape terminology—arrived on September 4, promising players a gamut of buffs, cosmetics, and special missions. It…
“Their role had been fulfilled”. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom brought us more history and detail than we ever thought possible on the Zonai, but in the wake of this knowledge, a major part of Breath of the Wild was absent — Sheikah technology. Now, in an interview with The Telegraph, Tears…
If you thought Intel’s Arc Alchemist lineup was be all sewn up by now, one year on from the release of the Arc A770 and Arc A750, surprise! Intel has a brand new budget graphics card: the Arc A580. The Arc A580 sits in the middle of Intel’s existing GPU stack; above the A380 that…