In the lore of The Last of Us, September 26 represents the day the Cordyceps virus reached critical mass. A grim day for the inhabitants of that world, perhaps, but for Naughty Dog and The Last of Us community, it’s Outbreak Day—an annual fan celebration featuring deals on the game, DLC, and merch, as well…
The latest port is the work of high school student ading2210. Just in case you had started to believe that people were entirely out of new and creative ideas for running Doom, a GitHub user and high school student ading2210 has recently taken it upon themselves to port the classic first-person shooter to run inside…
SOMA, our new sci-fi horror game, will be released at the end of September. That’s pretty soon, so I think I’d like to talk a bit about our monsters up front. When creating SOMA we wanted to make our encounters disturbing. To do this our goal has been to trigger the player’s imagination in the…
Hello hunters! We’re on the verge of the worldwide console launch of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, and while I know most of you are already 1000% ready for it, we wanted to give you one more Beta round and some juicy monster info! Iceborne Beta Round 3 – Velkhana of the Frost First up, get…
Due to the UK’s Online Safety Act implemented earlier this year, accessing my Bluesky DM’s now means I need to allow a third-party service to scan my face, ID, or bank card. Understandably, that gives me the willies. So I can either simply never look at my messages again, whip out the likeness of Norman…
Braswell crashes the mini PC party Intel continues to release new NUC models, the latest of which feature 6-watt processors based on the company’s Braswell architecture inside. There are two models, the NUC5CPYH with a Celeron N3050 and the NUC5PPYH with a Pentium N3700. Braswell is the 14nm successor to Intel’s 22nm Bay Trail-D line…
Banking on its “fame” The group that has claimed responsibility for bringing down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which began back in August, are now looking to make a profit. Lizard Squad has launched a DDoS tool called Lizard Stresser for anyone wishing to bring…
Greetings. This is Hyung Tae Kim, director of Stellar Blade. We are pleased to officially announce the upcoming free playable demo for Stellar Blade, coming March 29 to PlayStation 5. The demo takes place from the very beginning of the game when Eve, a member of the 7th Airborne Squad is sent to Earth on…
Listening to the soundtrack of atmospheric soulslike Lies of P when it was released, I realised something—wait a second, I know a lot of these songs. Why do I know a lot of these songs? The game just came out! It’s not like developer Neowiz was licensing chart-topping pop tunes to include in its soundtrack….
Sid Shuman I’ve decided that describing virtual reality to someone who’s never tried it is basically impossible. Like tasting or smelling or seeing, VR is a sensory experience that you have to try for yourself to truly understand. Words can’t do it justice. Nonetheless, Justin and I will do our best. Fresh off our positive…