Retro Studios has added another video game talent to its studio. The latest hire by the Texas studio is Jhony Ljungstedt who was the Art Director over at DICE known for the Battlefield series and Mirror’s Edge. Mr. Ljungstedt will presumably keeping his prestigious role at Retro Studios who are currently hard at work on…
Call me a bit of a softie, you’ll probably be right, but I can’t help feel bad for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Sure, it was an ill-advised stab at live service that came at the cost of a dent to Rocksteady’s rep, one that lost Warner Bros. $200 million, fell short of every…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In May, Mr. Bond did it again as 007 First Light topped the US and EU charts, while newcomer I Am Cat dominated the PS VR2 charts. Check out the full listings below. What titles are you playing…
“The response to the software at the pre-order event was dismal”. Yosuke Okunari is one of Sega’s most notable employees in recent times, having tirelessly promoted the company’s history across a wide range of systems and products. In his recent column for Beep Shop (thanks, Kurt Kalata), Okunari discusses one of his early forays in…
For Embark Studios, it was a classic ‘good news, bad news’ weekend. Arc Raiders hit a new high in concurrent Steam players on Sunday, falling just shy of 355,000 people playing all at the same time. That’s very good indeed—what’s less good is that 355,000 people playing all at the same time put a little…
All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…
Make sure you’ve redeemed those points. Tomorrow (27th February) is Pokémon Day, and this year, that means a lot of different things are happening. We’ve got the annual Pokémon Presents to look forward to. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen will go live on the Switch eShop. And it’s launch day for LEGO’s first wave of Pokémon…
Bill Petras, a veteran of Blizzard Entertainment with a career spanning over 30 years in the games industry, has died. The news was shared to LinkedIn by Petras’ friend and colleague, former Blizzard cinematics director, Harley D. Huggins II. Petras is survived by his family, who are planning a celebration of life for Petras in…
When you begin your career in Sniper Elite: Resistance, you can hop into almost any mode, whether it be the level-based campaign or the competitive multiplayer. The new Propaganda mode, however, is locked off, and you’re going to have to do some work to unlock it. This mode challenges you to try to kill as…
What’s good for the Geese? It was recently announced that SNK’s Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting video game series are being adapted into movies, webtoons and animation by a company called The Arena (previously known as Arena SNK). First up, the live-action movies Geese and Fatal Fury are on the horizon. The former will…