Though we’d known for some time that Disney Dreamlight Valley had plans to incorporate multiplayer in its cozy social sim, Gameloft has been quite tight-lipped on the details—until now. In its digital showcase today, Dreamlight Valley unveiled all sorts of updates coming to the game over the next year: a first game expansion, lots more…
Hi everyone! I’m Paul Balon, Technical Director for H1Z1, the popular fast-paced, free-to-play Battle Royale shooter exclusive to PS4. Welcome to Outland! We’re incredibly grateful (and humbled!) by the more than 16 million players who have jumped into the fraught, chaotic spectacle that is H1Z1, and while we’ve regularly updated the game with new content…
Part of me would love a VR headset, but the rest of me lives in a flat, which means I’m usually thankful that most VR game trailers don’t do much for me. Besides Half-Life: Alyx and Superhot, there aren’t many games that have me wishing I had an Index or Quest. Except now they’re apparently…
The pre-show for The Game Awards 2019 included a big announcement from Suda51. A brand new trailer for No More Heroes 3 has released, and it was reconfirmed that the game will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2020. Soon, you will be able to see Travis Touchdown “return to the Garden of Insanity…
“By the end of the process, I’m almost hallucinating with jet lag”. Sony had a record-breaking year in 1998, raking in over $51 billion in sales and operating revenue. Profits from television sales had spiked in 1997 and continued climbing. Having recently released such notable flops as The Cable Guy and Striptease, Sony’s movie studios…
One of the most obnoxious traits of the AI slop era is the way any phrase you type into Google is now likely to prompt an AI overview speculating about what a sequence of words means, making up a bunch of stuff whole cloth, and being completely wrong. Last week while trying to find traces…
Ten years ago, on November 22, 2013, the team at Xbox Game Studios Publishing released an all-new Killer Instinct for Xbox One and Windows PC. Since then, Killer Instinct has boasted a passionate, global community that has regularly featured at tournaments. Earlier this year, at Evo 2023, we announced a special update to mark Killer…
Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan was the public face of Overwatch before he left Activision-Blizzard in 2021. If you were interested in videogames between 2014 and 2021, it’s likely you’ll recognise his face. In a new interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, Kaplan details for the first time how and why he left Activision-Blizzard, and it’s…
All these years later, the Warcraft 3 modding scene is still producing fully fledged games. The mod Battleships is sort of like a take on DOTA, but instead of RPG-style heroes, players pilot upgradable warships afloat in watery labyrinths. The big shakeup is that your weapons fire themselves, so any harassment and creep farming will…
Much of the current videogame landscape can be traced back to systems and design decisions either first conceived or formalized in World of Warcraft. From the universal RPGification of game mechanics to live service gameplay loops to incremental gearscore advancement, videogames as we know them look like they do in large part because of WoW….