This article contains spoilers for DON’T LOOK UP. In the new Netflix hit movie, Don’t Look Up, written and directed by satirical filmmaker Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman), two rather low-level astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) discover a comet is headed directly toward Earth, with the object set to smash into our little planet in six months. When it does, it will completely obliterate all life. The pair of scientists, Dr....
It seems that another Wii U game has found incredible success on the Nintendo Switch, as the Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has already outsold the Wii U’s version lifetime sales within the space of two weeks in Japan. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first released on the Nintendo Wii U in 2014 to mass critical acclaim. This love from the video game review websites turned out to be unrequited, as the game sold poorly throughout its run....
Since launching on Android devices in late September of this year, there hasn’t been much by way of additional news in terms of Microsoft’s xCloud streaming service. With reports and rumors going back and forth in terms of iPad and iOS compatibility, Microsoft’s cloud gaming service has remained exclusive to Android devices. Although, one user has managed to not only integrate xCloud onto a strange, alternate device, but also managed to play Doom Eternal as well....
Nintendo is issuing a challenge to any players that feel they’ve mastered Dr. Kawashima’s Braing Training For Nintendo Switch. This weekend, a live tournament will be held in the game where players will have a chance to face off against the famous doctor himself. If that’s not the ultimate test of your brain age, then nothing ever will be. Running on July 4 and 5, players will be able to hop into Brain Training’s “World Championship” mode and compete against Kawashima for glory and bragging rights....
We love Dracula. Every year at Halloween we go down on The Count in rapturously horrific odes. The most romantic horror icon is based on a historical one, the real Dracula, Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the son of the dragon who fought the Islamic Turks as they tried to conquer Transylvania and Wallachia. The military genius and source of nationalistic pride for modern-day Romania died in 1476, 200 years before the Declaration of Independence....
The Dragon Age franchise is filled with a wide variety of classic fantasy characters, from mages, to rogues, and warriors. Some are companions while others serve as villains or non-inner-circle allies. Among the classes, warriors typically two-hand their weapons or carry a sword & shield as their trademark look. Warriors have specializations too – like champions, reavers, and templars. Outside of the players’ character, there are plenty of warriors in Dragon Age....
Even though there have been no official announcements since The Game Awards 2018, there’s something happening behind the scenes at BioWare with Dragon Age 4. To that end, there are certainly a couple of things that BioWare will hopefully address and improve upon for the next game in its Dragon Age saga. Dragon Age: Inquisition was an amazing game; it got great reviews and deservedly so. But no game is perfect, and if Inquisition could only get its absolute biggest flaw addressed, there’s one that comes to mind: the maps that never ended, namely, the Hinterlands....
While Dragon Age 4 is still likely quite a way out, die-hard Dragon Age fans like myself are completely feral. Throw us a crumb and we will not eat it. We will smell it, lick it until it’s devoid of flavour, and then put it on a biologist’s slide to examine its structural integrity under a high-powered microscope - only to realise we should have done that before contaminating the sample with our tongues....
The newest fighter coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ could be opening up new opportunities for more games involving a non-canon corner of the franchise that some fans still love, even if it’s often ironically. With two new characters coming from Dragon Ball GT, specifically Super Baby 2 and Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, this could reintroduce a lot of fans to a section of the series’ history that Dragon Ball Super was seemingly built to squash....
Bandai Namco releases a new trailer for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, confirming Dragon Ball Super character Goku Black for the new game as a pre-order bonus. The Dragon Ball Super anime series has yet to release outside of Japan, but a new character from the show is being introduced to franchise fans in other regions in the upcoming fighting game Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. As revealed in the game’s latest trailer, the antagonistic and powerful character Goku Black will be a pre-order bonus playable fighter in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 when it launches later this month....
The highly anticipated Hellraid DLC for Dying Light now has a release date. Techland announced on Friday that Hellraid will be available for Dying Light players to download and play starting on July 23 across all supported platforms, and will reportedly cost players $9.99 in total. Hellraid, for those unfamiliar, was originally planned to be a standalone game. In 2015, Hellraid’s development was put on indefinite hold so that Techland could focus on Dying Light....
Matt Korba loves King’s Quest. It’s evident from the moment that Sierra and The Odd Gentlemen’s E3 presentation starts. Korba is the creative director and lead writer for the upcoming King’s Quest reboot (when asked what he does on the game, Korba deadpans, “Everything.”), and his enthusiasm for the series is dangerously infectious. It’s not just the new game that he loves, either. Throughout the presentation, Korba drops obscure references to past King’s Quest titles....
The man in question is Chan San-yuan, affectionately referred to as “Uncle Pokemon” by members of the community close to him. With his rig, Chan is able to play Pokemon GO for more than 20 hours straight, using a healthy amount of battery packs stored in his bike’s front basket to keep each device running. While 11 devices may seem to be a crazy amount, Chan still plans to add an additional 4 devices to his setup in the future....
Chatrooms and audio communication have been a part of online gaming for decades, with the forward-thinking Sega Dreamcast launching with built-in audio chat support back in the late 1990s. Unfortunately, online toxicity has plagued virtual communication for just as long, but it appears Electronic Arts might be planning to introduce a new means of communication in future games that could help solve this problem. EA has filed several patents in recent months that aim to change the way some of the seemingly set-in-stone elements of modern gaming function....
Sounds like Epic Games wants to drop into the Tilted Towers of the legal world. After a sudden announcement that Epic would support microtransactions that circumvent Apple’s App Store, the monolithic tech giant responded in kind… by yanking Fortnite from their marketplace. Within hours, Epic announced that they’d filed legal papers against the corporation on their official social media channels. The lawsuit takes issue with Apple’s monopolistic App Store being the only channel through which companies can publish apps....
Runaway simulator Militsioner from developer Tallboys has a bizarre premise with a terrifying, huge antagonist. The game has no planned release date yet, but that gives us enough time to comprehend its surreal nature. Militsioner - a Russian name for an officer of the law - is set in a sandbox town run by an unlikely, titan-sized policeman, and now the developer’s name suddenly appears very meta. The provincial setting is governed by an enormous policeman who sits on the edge of town, visible from everywhere you look with a booming voice that lets you know who’s boss....
Eve Online is facing player backlash after announcing a huge change to the local in-game chat. For most games, you’d think a change to the in-game chat would be a minor footnote at the end of an update, but everything is different in a game like Eve Online. In Eve, the in-game chat is perhaps the most important intelligence tool available. For years, Eve’s in-game chat would display the player’s name as soon as they arrived in a star system....
Daybreak Games, responsible for titles such as EverQuest, The Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, DC Universe Online, and H1Z1, is hiring a Combat Designer. The job posting states that the ideal candidate “will have previous experience developing massively multiplayer roleplaying games.” Other than the game’s MMO nature, nothing is known concerning what game the new Combat Designer could be working on. However, considering the previous MMO Everquest Next was canceled, it is almost certainly not that....
Many Batman fans are hoping that news of the new Batman Arkham game might be announced on the first day of DC FanDome this Saturday, August 22. WB Games Montreal has left some hints about the potential plot of the next Batman Arkham game. With the studio taking over from the Arkham creators at Rocksteady, many fans will be as anxious as they are excited about what they’re able to glean from the hints the studio has released so far....
Developer Larian Studios has been hard at work on Baldur’s Gate III, a game which is under an immense amount of pressure to live up to the expectations of longtime fans of the series. Since the sequel was first teased a week before the start of E3 last year, bits of information have slowly revealed what lies in store in this long-awaited title. Here is everything we know so far and what to expect when the game finally launches....
