Unofficially, of course. We have some great news to share with Jak & Daxter fans. Earlier this week, the team behind the OpenGoal (the open-source decompilation and porting project focused on the Jak & Daxter trilogy) released a beta of its native PC port of Jak 3, meaning that all three games are now at…
When asked to explain why Valve never made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 for the recent 20th anniversary documentary, Gabe Newell said that he “couldn’t figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward.” For the Valve founder, the Half-Life games can’t just push Gordon Freeman’s story forward. They have to push videogames forward in…
EA doesn’t have the best reputation. Whether it’s being awarded with the title “worst company in America” multiple times, its role in the downfall of previously beloved developers like BioWare, its love of microtransactions, or continually heralding the demise of singleplayer games, it hasn’t earned much goodwill. Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares, whose team just…
At today’s DICE Summit, a gathering of industry veterans paid tribute to Call of Duty and Titanfall co-creator Vince Zampella, who died in December. Joining the likes of Todd Howard, Randy Pitchford and Ted Price was Hideo Kojima, who, according to Gamefile, sought advice from Zampella when founding his own studio Kojima Productions. “He gave…
Some of you were noticeably baffled when Persona 5 Scramble was announced for Nintendo Switch given that we haven’t received Persona 5 and it’s also a new musou game. However those of you who have played Persona 5 will find that Persona 5 Scramble is basically a direct sequel to the critically acclaimed PlayStation JRPG,…
Even as a rejuvenated Battlefield series dominates the shooter limelight, sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is poised to be a hit. Public playtests have been popular enough to propel it to the third spot on Steam’s most-wishlisted games list, and a playtest back in April was so well-received that many hoped Arc’s developers would drop…
Fatality! In 1992, there were few games bigger than Midway’s fatality-fueled arcade fighting game Mortal Kombat, so it only made sense that someone would eventually take on the challenge of bringing the popular experience to consoles, in the pursuit of profits. The New York-based publisher Acclaim Entertainment would eventually accept this responsibility, teaming up with…
Good news for fans of lightning-fast action combat: During today’s State of Play, we got our very first look at gameplay for the mysterious new collaboration between Square Enix and PlatinumGames: Babylon’s Fall. Watch the debut trailer above, then read on for a note from Square Enix to PlayStation fans: Babylon’s Fall is a brand…
I’m not exactly jazzed about our current AI moment, where machine learning major players seem to want to inject LLMs into everything. Well, during this year’s Computex, MSI unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺, a gaming desktop that features “a first-of-its-kind AI Holostage” built in. Excuse me while I attempt to contain my excitement. In…
Well, we all knew Q1 2025 was going to be spicy. I’m not sure we knew that would mean quite the number of delays and out-of-stock signs that we’ve seen so far, but we knew there was going to be a slew of new GPU shenanigans to watch out for. AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT…