Category: Announcements March 20, 2025 Xbox Joins Partners Across the Industry to Unveil Accessible Games Initiative Team Xbox At Xbox, our goal is to empower as many people as possible to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want, in a way that works for them. This includes the more…
After years of being accepted as just how things are done, crunch—working horrifically long hours for weeks or months at a stretch in order to meet an arbitrary deadline set by an executive who’s probably still going home on time every night—is now widely frowned upon in the videogame industry. But it also seems to…
It’s wild to think how influential Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was. The actually pretty good videogame from 2010 gave us a meeting of four alternate Spider-Mans, though that wasn’t enough for one its writers, Dan Slott, who thought it would be better with all of them. That inspired him to write the crossover Spider-Verse, which in…
Buddy, you’d be amazed at my capacity for forgetting videogame adaptations. Remember when I wrote about The Sims movie yesterday? I don’t. What’s more, now I’m suddenly remembering that, somewhere out there, Amazon is working on a Mass Effect TV show. What’s more, perhaps you could be in it, provided you could play any of:…
Today we’re very excited to announce Rebellion’s first new game since we launched Sniper Elite 4 on Valentine’s Day! If you follow Rebellion you might already know that we don’t just make games. We also publish the legendary British comic 2000 AD, famous for characters like Judge Dredd, Sláine, Nemesis, and — of course —…
The hit mobile game Pokemon GO has been updated for both iOS and Android devices today. The update brings the iOS version of the game to Version 1.163.1 and the Android version to Version 0.197.1. Pokemon GO is available now on both iOS and Android and is free to play. Read on below for the…
PAX East happened this weekend and there were plenty of excellent video games for attendees to get their hands on. Gematsu had a chance to test out SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated which is coming to all platforms sometime this year. The publisher for the game is THQ Nordic and it’s developed…
“Open world game that doesn’t need or particularly want to be an open world game” feels like a niche subgenre, but I guess it’s a niche big enough to contain L.A. Noire and several Mafia games—and now MindsEye as well. The GTA-like shooter from the studio headed by a former GTA producer had a launch…
More money for the money god. OpenAI has announced a new $110 billion investment in its business, which breaks down to include $30 billion from Nvidia, $30 billion from Japanese investment titan SoftBank, and $50 billion from everything-else-giant, Amazon. “We’ve also signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference compute with Nvidia”, says…