After a few weeks of playing Stardew Valley 1.5 on Nintendo Switch, I'm at the point – 60-some hours into the game, and a bit into Year 3 – where I'm prioritizing Ginger Island now that I'm cool with most of the villagers and th...

It seems like forever and a day since I first reported the shocking news that the next Yakuza title would feature tactical, real-time combat. Understandably this huge switch-up in Yakuza's tried-and-tested brawler gameplay was greeted nervo...

Guerrilla Games has launched a major update for the PC edition of Horizon Zero Dawn. Version 1.10, which is live in-game right now, brings a variety of graphical improvements, performance tweaks, and bug fixes to Aloy's mechanized world of ...

Switch-owning Monster Hunter fans are already eager to get their mitts on Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise, which is set to launch on the Nintendo platform March 26. But while playing the recently released demo of the mini magnum opus, some pla...

Ubisoft's pillagin' and plunderin' adventure Assassin's Creed Valhalla will receive a new update today, bringing a huge list of fixes and tweaks to make for smooth sailing for Eivor and their clan of Nordic invaders. Update 1.1.1 – wh...

Already in unprecedented territory, we're moving further and further into the uncharted. Hell, we're moving further and further into The Twilight Zone. Shit is downright bizarre right now. On the heels of Sony and Microsoft both offering fu...

Late last night, Sony made a massive unprecedented business decision. It pulled the trigger on offering full refunds for anyone who bought Cyberpunk 2077 through the PlayStation Store. That might happen with some low-profile indies, bu...

Assassin's Creed Valhalla just got its second major patch this morning, another much-needed Band-Aid as Ubisoft marches toward making this game function as intended. It really highlighted how long this is going to take. As expected, th...

After Thanksgiving, I reported on the first big Assassin's Creed Valhalla update by saying "Lotta stuff is broke so there's a lotta stuff to fix." That's still true and it's going to remain true for the foreseeable future. Past ex...

Assassin's Creed Valhalla got a lot better on Thanksgiving from a quality of life standpoint. Ubisoft released a massive title update patch that addressed issues from all corners of the game.  Some of it was really necessary like ...

Activision has launched its newest entry in the billion-dollar Call of Duty series. Black Ops Cold War is, unsurprisingly, a high-gloss, expensive-looking, and punchy action-adventure but its PS4 edition is causing chagrin for a battalion o...

Publisher Microids and developer PlayMagic have issued an apology for the launch state of first-person adventure XIII. The remake of the classic PS2, Xbox, and GameCube release arrived on PS4, PC and Xbox One last week, only to disappoint f...

DodgeRoll Games has announced that its frenzied shoot 'em up Exit the Gungeon will receive a major update later this week. Hello to Arms launches on November 13, bringing with it a full metal jacket of features and firepower. Among the new ...

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that, somehow, the weeks of the horrorscape that is 2020 are getting faster and faster. Events that once seemed set in the future are upon us, impending, or passed entirely. It feels as if the year has flown...

Almost a full year after release, Infinity Ward has finally added mode-specific install options to the PC edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The new feature will let players pick and choose which elements of the game they wish to have...

inXile Entertainment has released Version 1.1.1 for its post-apocalyptic strategy title Wasteland 3. The update, now live on both PC and console platforms, aims to improve overall performance while increasing stability for the sequel's mult...

Today sees the launch of Mediatonic's chaotic Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the wacky multiplayer game that sees armies of curious characters race through a challenging obstacle course in efforts to be the last... erm... "thing" standing. U...

In true Fallout 76 fashion, things aren't going according to plan at launch of the game's first "season." More frustration than conveniences have popped up, as players are left wondering how much longer it'll be before Season 1 functio...

If your bodily excretory functions are a sin, The Sims 4 opened up a fiery portal to hell. The Sims 4 has a fun new bug where sims piss and the toilet is ablaze. This underworld urinary tract inferno came courtesy of the new updat...

Mortal Kombat - NetherRealm fighters in general - often faces accusations of having some unbalanced characters at the top of their respective food chains, but it's a rarity that someone is straight "broken." Trust wind god Fujin - new arriv...

Hello everyone! It's ya boy Phil, back with another sweet contest for you. On today's docket: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is making its console debut today. The game a lot of folks were comparing to Paper Mario is finally hitting ou...

Indie developer Mecha Studios has dropped a major patch for its pixelated vigilante adventure Neon City Riders. The "Super-Powered Edition" update, which is live now on PC and is headed to console platforms soon, makes several adjustments t...

Back in the budding days of online play, before ranking systems and anti-cheat measures were rampant, sore losers clung to anything they could to game the system. The easiest strategy? Yank out your ethernet cable when you're about to lose....

Nintendo has applied a new patch to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The update, which is live in-game right now, appears to have only one function: the removal of the "item cloning" glitch that has been exploited by BAD villagers since launc...

Here's some unexpected collateral damage from the coronavirus pandemic: NBA 2K20 is endlessly simulating games until it eventually crashes under the strain of its own processing. Let's rewind and explain. Last night, the NBA indefinitely su...