Last year, EA released Rocket Arena, an online multiplayer competitive shooter from developer Final Strike Games. If you don’t remember it, I don't blame you. It dropped off the gaming radar faster than its price dropped in stores. Wh...

While Sega offered a variety of details pertaining to its upcoming release Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown yesterday, one aspect of the game went mysteriously unspoken: the all-important netcode. The silence has been deafening, as Ultim...

Blizzard has confirmed today that there won't be plans to try and return to an in-person BlizzCon this year. The company announced today that it will not be hosting a BlizzCon this year. Today's statement notes the amount of preparation lar...

Publisher AkSys Games is feeling the 1990s with the announcement of its brand new fighting title, Blazing Strike. Taking the genre back to its roots, Blazing Strike promises heavy-hitting, 2D, pixel-based throwdowns when it launches on PC a...

The German Games Industry Association has officially confirmed that Gamescom 2021 will follow a fully digital streaming format this summer, abandoning previous plans to showcase this year's iteration as a hybrid online/physical event. Previ...

In its newest efforts to combat the seemingly insurmountable problem of video game toxicity, developer Riot Games has announced plans to record and/or listen in on voice chatter during games of its online hero shooter Valorant. Revealed thi...

Following on from a recent listing by the Game Ratings Board of Korea, an unannounced Virtua Fighter title for PS4 has appeared on the database on the Japanese PSN store. The title was spotted by database hunters and store spoilers PSN Rele...

Discord, the voice chat and messaging service marketed towards gamers, can be an unkind place to women. But so can many online gaming spaces — according to a 2018 study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addic...

According to a new report by StreamElements' analytical website Rainmaker.gg, March 2021 was a record-breaking month for Twitch, as the premier streaming website recorded an incredible 2.06 billion watched hours. This number represents a y...

Publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced that the next-gen console edition of The Elder Scrolls Online will launch on June 8, offering an enhanced edition of the fantasy MMO for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S players. This new edition will be of...

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is an excellent release. Toys for Bob have done a fantastic job in creating a sequel that lives up to the mad marsupial's roots while implementing smart design ideas for a modern generation of platform gam...

Sony Interactive Entertainment is planning on pulling down the shutters on its PlayStation Store for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP this summer, according to a recent report by TheGamer. Speaking with "sources familiar with the situation", TheGamer ...

Microsoft has announced that it is officially rebranding its Xbox Live service "Xbox Network". The change is not expected to alter too much in the bigger picture, and has seemingly been made purely for aesthetic, descriptive, and marketing ...

[Update: Rockstar has applied a new update to the PC edition of GTA Online which - according to reports from PC Gamer - has seriously reduced load times across the board by minutes. Fine work, t0st, the GTA community owes you a debt of grat...

Katsuhiro Harada, the affable and charismatic Tekken producer, has debuted a brand new web series, which sees the sunglasses-sporting icon operating a classy drinking establishment whilst interviewing famous names from both the FGC and the ...

Sony has announced that it is pulling down the shutters on the PS4's PlayStation Communities service. As of April the long-running dashboard feature - which allows players of particular games to build forum-style discourse, share screenshot...

Xbox has announced that it will be retiring its Xbox OneGuide app. The TV listings service, which has stuck around since the Xbox One's initial release in 2013, will be removed from the Xbox dashboard in May, bringing an end to many years o...

Ubisoft has launched the online component for its blah open-world sequel Watch Dogs: Legion. The new multiplayer modes are now live on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Stadia platforms. The PC update has been halted for the time being...

An as-yet-unannounced compilation of recent Tomb Raider releases appeared on Microsoft's Xbox Store this past weekend, only to vanish just as quickly. According to the long-gone listing, spotted by ResetEra users, The Tomb Raider: Definitiv...

Square Enix has announced that it has taken steps to ban the accounts of over 5000 Final Fantasy XIV players, after the publisher discovered evidence that the owners of said accounts were engaged in real-money trading (RMT) and other "illic...

Those of you still reeling from the inclusion of Ellen Ripley and a Xenomorph in Epic Games' Fortnite might take a little comfort in the news that a new, more "on-brand" game is also in the works. Aliens: Fireteam is currently in developmen...

The organizer of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) has officially announced that its 2021 iteration will be an online-only affair. The annual event had originally planned to make GDC 2021 a hybrid in-person/online showcase, but concerns ...

It was one of the shorter trailers in the Direct, but Star Wars: Hunters is a new free-to-play third-person shooter coming to Switch this year. The game will take place between Episode 6 and Episode 7. It's nice to have Star Wars back ...

In today's giveaway you can claim an Alliance Reborn MatHa Bundle for Star Trek Online: House Reborn! With a new season of Star Trek Online content comes great responsibility! I mean, comes new stuff to give away! Today we're flat-out givin...

Digital storefront Epic Games Store has released some pretty hefty figures pertaining to last year's service growth. The store now serves over 160 million registered users, who between them spent a huge $700 million USD in purchases over th...