The strange drama surrounding Elon Musk’s purported videogame skills has now elevated itself into a genuine online beef, as the world’s richest man has leaked DMs from Asmongold that he thinks expose the streamer as a fraud, and perhaps even worse, says Asmongold “is NOT good at videogames.” The whole ridiculous thing began last week,…
This past weekend saw a bizarre, still largely unexplained outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network service, effectively rendering a bunch of folk unable to access digital games and online servers. As someone who moonlights as a console sicko, I’ll admit it was a real spanner in my weekend plans. It was quite frankly terrible timing, too—as…
Out now on PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. Following a few disappointing delays earlier this year, Bitmap Bureau’s and Reef Entertainment’s new arcade-style Terminator game, Terminator 2D: No Fate, has finally been released across multiple platforms. It is available to buy today across PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series…
The end of an era. Now that we’re in the new year, Nintendo has shared an update about the closure of online play and other functionality for the 3DS and Wii U, confirming these services will end on 8th April 2024. As part of this, it’s shared a special message thanking customers for their continued…
You know how in action movie trailers they sync all the gunfire and fisticuff sounds to match up with the music — that’s what it feels like to play Pistol Whip, our first-of-its-kind action-rhythm FPS for PlayStation VR. You’ll become the hero of your own action movie scenes, with hand-crafted enemy engagements and environments synchronized…
Patapon! System Shock 2! Neverwinter Nights 2! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop –…
Concrete Genie launches Tuesday from Pixelopus, the team that brought us Entwined. This new adventure tells the story of Ash, a young boy who sets out to restore color to an abandoned fishing town at the behest of — and with help from — the genies for which the game is named. Brush in hand,…
The handshake deal in FromSoftware games, the obfuscated difficulty option that’s always been there since Demon’s Souls, is co-op: Summoning phantoms controlled by other players or the computer. In OG Elden Ring everybody’s best friend was the Mimic Tear, a powerful summon to make a copy of yourself to fight by your side. This has…
The hows and the whys. It seems only yesterday that Nintendo shut down the eShop functionality for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, doesn’t it? After stating that online functionality would remain for the “foreseeable future”, the firm has confirmed that 3DS and Wii U online services will be discontinued in “early 2024”. Read the…
Hazelight founder Josef Fares, known for his work on games including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and the upcoming Split Fiction (plus that whole Oscars moment at The Game Awards a few years back) doesn’t care what Electronic Arts thinks: He’s not a fan of live service games,…