So far, Tekken 8 has been limited to closed beta tests online or a handful of appearances at offline tournaments and gaming events. An easy opportunity for the masses to play hasn’t presented itself, until now that is. Bandai Namco is releasing a demo for the 3D fighter on PC, Xbox and PlayStation 5. It’ll…
Go on and tell us. The weekend is here, which means it’s time to kick back, relax, and play some games. Looking back on this week first, Nintendo released Super Mario Strikers for the GameCube NSO app on Switch 2. It’s a solid title, and you can see exactly where it lands in our GameCube…
There are few videogame pastimes as treasured as trying to stand on a flying object. Sadly, while it’s possible to land on an enemy player’s flying fighter jet—you should see that clip if you haven’t already—Battlefield 6 won’t let you take to the skies on a teammate’s recon drone. Unless you hit it with a…
The Bethesda Game Studios Union says it is filing a legal complaint against Bethesda for “continuing to violate labor laws in Canada” by prematurely terminating Canadian employees on July 17—the same day it dropped a huge announcement about the future of Fallout and other games. The timing of the Bethesda infodump was suspect, to put…
Since its initial creative pitch in 2010 until weeks before its launch, Horizon Zero Dawn has inspired awe in those that see it. We’ve spent more than a decade building the Killzone franchise, and now Horizon Zero Dawn marks an entirely new journey for us. In our multi-part Horizon Zero Dawn behind-the-scenes profile, key members…
Given Remedy’s preoccupation with looping stories in Alan Wake 2, it feels particularly fitting that the game now has a New Game Plus mode. Just as Alan himself is trapped experiencing the same events over and over, now you too can pretend you’re in the Dark Place by turning the year’s best horror game into…
Microsoft has just unveiled what it’s calling the “most powerful Surface devices ever.” Both powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark SOC, the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box are both available to pre-order now. Both Surface devices are slated for an October 16 release, the same day as a suite of other RTX…
Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins has given a new interview to the BBC in order to promote a charity stream, and the surprising thing is how downbeat a lot of it is. Blevins began his career as a pro gamer, and achieved some success, but was a relatively low-level streamer until 2017/18, when his fondness for Fortnite…
I’m Jesse Passoja from Korpi Games, lead designer on Virtual Hunter. Virtual reality is a lightning rod for all the things that make simulation games like ours click with the genre’s audience: Slower-paced, highly immersive experiences with a great range of freedom. However, the hunting genre was almost completely missing from VR when we started…
Nintendo has been trying to keep up with significant demand of their Switch consoles for most this year, due in large part to Animal Crossing: New Horizons being a major sales success and people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve also been having to deal with finding ways to adjust to the…