What are you waiting for? Go grab the LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Demo and enjoy a tantalizing taste of the action that launches June 28th! It’s available exclusively for PS4 players today, so head over to PlayStation Store and check it out. The Niima Outpost Demo lets players relive the escape from Jakku…
It’s been quite an E3 for Kingdom Hearts III. It all began on Saturday, where at a sold out Kingdom Hearts Orchestra event in Los Angeles, series creator Tetsuya Nomura revealed that the long awaited release date for Kingdom Hearts III is January 29, 2019. Since there, there have been trailers that have revealed that…
It’s safe to say Path of Exile 2 has been a victim of its own success in its first day of early access, with throngs of gamers and PCG editors all trying to fit through the same digital door like the Three Stooges as the game’s servers begged for mercy. But as pointed out by…
If you’ve seen a funny Elder Scrolls clip on YouTube or elsewhere on the internet in the past few years, it was probably from Bacon_, whose wry editing and lack of commentary allow his videos of the notoriously janky games to just speak for themselves. His own favorite video in his catalogue, the eight-second “I…
Yesterday, despite posting $26 billion in profits and outperforming Wall Street forecasts in the last quarter, Microsoft began its latest round of restructuring with a targeted goal of laying off 9,000 employees. Many of those cuts have affected the Xbox gaming division, leading to cancellations of projects like Rare’s Everwild and an unannounced Zenimax MMO,…
Released in 1981, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first grid-based first-person RPG—what we nowadays call blobbers—and it proved enormously influential. Its art was rudimentary: the monochrome dungeon halls were a series of white lines carefully placed to simulate the feeling of moving through a three-dimensional environment. Leaving the ruggedness of its…
It is March 2024. Plunderstorm releases, and Blizzard eases up on its grind shortly after player complaints. It is May 2024. Blizzard releases Mists of Pandaria: Remix, and adjusts its Bronze rewards after players complain about an unnecessary grind. It is August 2024. World of Warcraft players aren’t pleased with the pre-patch event for The…
Should go into testing soon. The multi-console emulator Provenance is still coming to the iOS App Store, despite a DMCA takedown request from Nintendo. Developer Joseph Mattiello had been contacted by Nintendo following the announcement that Provenance would include Yuzu, the Switch emulator that was recently shut down by the Japanese giant. Read the full…
After years of rumours, speculations, and even a honking great leak, Rockstar finally announced Grand Theft Auto 6 in late 2023. The trailer was instantly broken-down and pored over, with one theme in particular being how closely Rockstar had hewed to the real-life viral craziness that can be found in Miami, Florida (such as the…