Stranger Things is getting another video game adaption. It's not particularly new news; we learned about it back in December at The Game Awards. This 16-bit Hawkins, Indiana adventure happens concurrent to the events in the upcoming th...
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A pig and a duck walk into a post-apocalyptic wasteland... Oh, you have heard this one? That's right, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden launched late last year. Quietly, it was a hidden gem. Maybe...
Everyone wants to play ball with Epic. Why wouldn't they? As far as third-party PC games storefronts and launchers go, Epic is the most favorable option. Its 12 percent revenue cut is vastly favorable to what Valve currently offers with Ste...
This Nvidia showcase of the combat in Remedy's Control is supposed to serve as an impressive tech demo. It's meant to highlight the difference in visuals when ray tracing is on, functionally an ad for Nvidia's new line of RTX GPUs. It...
Ooh, can you feel it in the air? The Boys of Summer are almost back. The dog days of spring (training) will soon turn into another Opening Day where every team is a contender. That, in turn, will give way to the dog days of summer when...
Last year, Google and Ubisoft teamed up for Project Stream -- an experiment in streaming Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome browsers. Many predicted this was a glimpse into the future for Google gaming. They were right. Today, at...
You're gonna have to plunk down some cash if you want an early hands-on with Mortal Kombat 11. NetherRealm is holding a closed beta soon, and the barrier to entry is a financial one. Mortal Kombat's upcoming closed beta is restricted to peo...
Battle royale has another casualty. Apropos for a genre centered around eliminating all competitors. Developer Xaviant announced today that it's shutting down the servers for The Culling on May 15. The offline portion will remain avail...
Bethesda's making the cross-country trip from Maryland to Los Angeles this summer. Of course! E3 ensures that everyone who's anyone gets to LA for the video games. (Except Sony. Sony is very much a someone who won't be there.) For the fifth...
Through Avalanche Studios' 16-year history, it's best known for two successful franchises. The first, the big and obvious one, is Just Cause. The second will come as a surprise for a lot of folks. It's called theHunter -- a realistic, ...
At launch, No Man's Sky was a very lonely game. This functionally-infinite universe was so big that no one ever saw another player. Everyone was just an insignificant speck trying to barter with stubborn aliens. As Hello Games fixed N...
Some shit is gonna go down at Gearbox's PAX East 2019 panel on March 28 in Boston. It has to. Those resolute Borderlands fans will mutiny if they've been strung along yet again, this time way harder than ever before. It started ea...
For a series about methodically picking out a target and putting a bullet in their head (or nutsack) with pinpoint precision, this Sniper Elite news is awfully scattershot. It's more shotgun than sniper. Rebellion Games has announced ...
A far-fetched bit of business gossip started making the rounds yesterday: That Sony was looking to acquire Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K Games. Ay, this rumor lived fast and died young. Yuji Nakamura, who...
In less than two weeks, Avalanche's cooperative robot-slaying survival shooter Generation Zero will launch. These machines are going to use their sensors and gadgets to find you. And then they will kill you. Get some advance intel by t...
Electronic Arts spared no expense promoting Apex Legends. The gamble seemingly paid off, as Apex Legends immediately ascended to the elite ranks of one of the most popular games in the world. Here's a new influencer statistic that make...
Farming sims are usually all realistic tractor physics and amber waves of grain. This one finds a weird intersection between shoot-em-ups and farming simulator. It's something of a farm-em-up. F 'em up, if you will. Atomicrops is a ne...
Jade Raymond is starting a new chapter of her career, and she's doing it alongside one of the new major players in the gaming space. Raymond has joined Google, serving as a vice president in some capacity.
Amid a flurry of speculation and rumors about Apex Legends, Respawn has asked that you not believe everything you read on the internet. Except for this post. Believe everything in this post. Earlier today, Respawn accidentally set the seaso...
Hollow Knight is a masterpiece. This isn't really a new or interesting opinion. People have been shouting it from the rooftops ever since it released two years ago. Soon, Hollow Knight will have space on shelves at home. Developer...
The swamps are fixin' to get a little more crowded. Soon, Hunt: Showdown banishes its PC exclusivity to hell, like it's one of those terrifying spider monsters. Crytek has announced that Xbox owners will soon get to wade through the L...
Remedy's next game, Control, has been quite the enigma since its E3 2018 reveal. There's a giant supernatural government building, an "otherworldly" alien antagonist, all sorts of reality-breaking physics quandaries. We spent an hour lookin...
I just watched the dragon movies so I'm gonna review the dragon game.
CD Projekt Red has released a new five-minute Cyberpunk 2077 video that touches on a few different topics: The switch to first-person, the freedom of a giant open-world RPG, the stress of finally showing at E3, and the near-univeral p...
Some games (actually, most games now) charge for cosmetic DLC. Larian Studios isn't going that route. It's spinning loot boxes into something more player-friendly. For the next year, Divinity: Original Sin II will be regularly suppleme...
