Spread the love Tweet Originally released in 2014, Alien: Isolation proved that an Alien survival horror game could work after the failure of its predecessor, the much-maligned Aliens: Colonial Marines. However, while the horror game proved to be a success for Creative Assembly and SEGA, a new documentary explores the trials and difficulties that the developers had to go
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Spread the love Tweet Xbox is currently undergoing one of its biggest game sales this year. This week is the Ultimate Game Sale where titles are up to 65% off giving some incredible deals right now if you’re an Xbox owner. For those with Xbox Live Gold, you can save an additional 10% on select titles
Spread the love Tweet It’s been 13 years since the last true Def Jam game. 13 years too long. It seems like Def Jam Recordings — or at least the person behind their Twitter account — agrees. Monday night, the official Def Jam Records Twitter account posted a screenshot of the Def Jam: Fight For NY character
Spread the love Tweet After a short break due to a wild summer of video games so far, we’re back with our next iteration of our ongoing “Making a Video Game Hero” series. Thus far, we’ve tackled the Action-Adventure, Platformer, and Sports genres. Today, we dip our toes into the shooter side of things. Now, usually
Spread the love Tweet For me, Rare is one of my favourite developers of all time, who have created some of my favourite games. The British studio has just turned 35, after forming back in 1985, and has decided to celebrate the milestone with a gift to their fans. Revealed via a Tweet and subsequent blog
Spread the love Tweet Take-Two Interactive recently reported its financial performance during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021, sharing new data on the sales of the Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and all the other titles from its different branches in the world. According to the report, the company has experienced
Spread the love Tweet No More Heroes 3 is now deep in development. The game was announced at E3 last year and has since been shown off by creator Suda51 in the sneakiest of manners. Aside from the brief glimpse of the game though, No More Heroes 3 news has been slightly hard to come by
Spread the love Tweet This afternoon, Microsoft announced the suite of games available to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers for the month of August. This comes following widespread rumors that Microsoft might be pulling the plug on Xbox Live or that it might be absorbed into Game Pass after Microsoft pulled 1-year Xbox
Spread the love Tweet Even though games have come a long way since running on 512MB of RAM and using cartridges as a preferred format, hardware still defines what a game can be. For games on PC, that’s a quite literal definition — you can find the PC requirements of most titles sold on Steam right
Spread the love Tweet NBA 2K21 current-gen cover boy Damian Lillard is pulling double-duty this year. Not only is he a major player in the on-court action, but he’s also joining the game’s soundtrack with two unreleased tracks. One of the game’s marquee guards, Lillard is also a successful recording artist. So, it makes sense for
Spread the love Tweet While Marvel might be the king of superheroes at the box office, DC and Batman are clearly giving their video game sales a run for their money. Twitter user Timur222 discovered through the LinkedIn profile of a Warner Bros’ employee that the sales of Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham City reached a whopping 12.5 million
Spread the love Tweet The Xbox Series X is around the corner, and we still don’t know a ton about it — what is the price going to be? What colors will the console come in? When can I buy it? And while those questions remain unanswered, content creators and fans are busy mocking up their
Spread the love Tweet Even though it hasn’t been formally announced by EA or BioWare just yet, multiple reports have made the rounds this year indicated that a remastered collection of the Mass Effect Trilogy is finally set to come about at some point in the future. And while we have yet to hear anything more than
Spread the love Tweet It’s undisputed that Halo 3 was a pretty big game-changer when it released in 2007. It capped off a now-legendary trilogy of games, bringing with it technology that would influence some of the best first-person shooters for years to come. Even now, almost 13 years after the launch of Halo 3, I
Spread the love Tweet What is Phil Spencer up to? Recent eagle-eyed fans have noticed that Microsoft Store has quietly removed the option to purchase 12-month subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold. With a few months away from the launch of Xbox Series X, it seems like a strikingly anti-consumer move — making Xbox gamers purchase more
Spread the love Tweet The time has finally come — after sustained criticism from developers, publishers, and dedicated fans, Metacritic has changed their user review system to prevent review bombing. Following blowback following the release of Naughty Dog’s flagship PS4 title, The Last of Us Part 2, Metacritic implemented a new system prohibiting fans from reviewing titles
Spread the love Tweet The Scott Pilgrim franchise has been beloved for years across several different mediums, from the original series of graphic novels to the acclaimed 2010 film starring Michael Cera. Alongside the film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game brought the series’ trademark humor to a classic beat ’em up experience on last-gen systems. The
Spread the love Tweet As the leaks and rumors have suggested for quite some time, Microsoft has been developing a second Xbox that will be cheaper and less powerful then the Xbox Series X codenamed Lockhart. The console will take the next-gen improvements of the Series X and offer them at a lower price point. Now,
Spread the love Tweet Earlier today, Xbox announced the new Games with Gold for the month of July 2020. Games with Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will be able to grab WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship through the month of July, Dunk Lords from July 16 to Aug 15, Saint Row 2 from
Spread the love Tweet Ah, the sequel. It is inevitable nowadays that any successful product will eventually get a sequel. Video games, movies; hell, even the Big Mac got a sequel. Technically a prequel too with the Junior Mac. It is just something that is unavoidable. Studios want the dream of something like a Star Wars
Spread the love Tweet I started playing the Fallout games about a decade ago. My first experience with the series was playing Fallout 3 when I was 14. I got the game through Gamefly, and admittedly, I sent it back pretty quick – the feral ghouls got me spooked. But eventually, I revisited the game, realized
Spread the love Tweet Thus far, these lists have been relatively easy to put together. After all, whether you’re platforming in 2D or 3D, you’re still jumping around. Action-adventure is a little murkier, but even there, you basically know what you’re getting yourself into. However, when trying to build the ultimate sports game star, we ran
Spread the love Tweet It’s no secret whatsoever that The Witcher franchise has been a massive success for CD Projekt Red over the past 10-plus years. Originally debuting in 2007, The Witcher has since gone on to spawn two sequels, with the third installment, Wild Hunt, proving to be the most successful of the bunch. Now, CD Projekt
Spread the love Tweet When you hear the term “immersive sim,” Arkane Studios is usually the first studio to come to mind. For over two decades, the studio has come to define a genre of games that are all about immersion and player choice, from Dishonored to Prey and many more. With the studio reaching its 20th anniversary
Spread the love Tweet Square Enix and V-Jump revealed new information on the Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai new anime and games projects on May 27 via a live stream. May 27 is Dragon Quest day, celebrating the release anniversary of the first Dragon Quest in 1986. The stream first focused on the new anime,
Spread the love Tweet It’s 2020, video games are being released left, right, and center and consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One continue to wage console wars. However, how many consoles have been sold globally? Apparently, from the end of March 2020, 1.56 billion consoles have been sold globally. This latest statistic comes from
Spread the love Tweet For over 40 years, gamers have been trying to escape a ghostly death in Pac-Man. From the game’s arcade roots to its modern day iterations, the Pac-Man franchise has continued to be one of the most iconic in video games for 40 years. With Pac-Man reaching this significant new milestone, Minecraft is getting in on the
Spread the love Tweet The Assassin’s Creed franchise has had a rollercoaster history of development and direction. When the first game released in 2007, it gave me a fresh perspective of creativity that I haven’t really experienced in another AAA franchise since. From the beginning, the stealth action-adventure series has delved into different important eras of
Spread the love Tweet As it approaches its fifteenth anniversary, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been just about all over the place. From Renaissance Italy, to Ancient Greece, and even the American Revolution, the Assassin’s Creed saga has taken us on many different adventures all of varying quality. Now, with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla set to come out later this
Spread the love Tweet Thankfully, social distancing in video games is not a thing. We can all happily run around our chosen gaming world without care and this is why gaming rules, quite honestly. While most of us have been doing this for many years, it’s only lately due to COVID-19 and being forced to stay