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Grand Theft Auto is one of the seminal franchises for open-world video games and the most successful entertainment product ever released. So it should be no surprise that Grand Theft Auto V immediately became a cultural phenomenon, managing nearly $1 billion dollars in revenue on its first day alone. To date, it has sold an … Read more
Psyonix announced today that Rocket League will have an update released on February 19 that adds the ability to have cross-play friends lists. Cross-platform play between PC, Switch, and Xbox One has been a feature since April 2018. Cross-play support was added for PS4 last month, but the support only extended to matchmaking. Now, you … Read more
EA announced today that the just-released Apex Legends has already topped 25 million players. The free-to-play shooter from Respawn is barely a week old and already outpacing Fortnite, which took 40 days to reach 20 million players. This is leading analysts like Baird’s Colin Sebastian to raise their price target of EA, which has been … Read more
Armature Studios was more than willing to admit that it wanted to go with the Metroidvania theme when developing Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld tie-in to the console game Batman: Arkham Origins. Unfortunately, it might have been better off thinking about ways to make the Batman: Arkham series’ hand-to-hand combat system and gadget-based exploration … Read more
After twelve years in business, the Wii Shop Channel closed its digital doors for good today. Last year, Nintendo stopped allowing users to purchase Wii Points for digital products. Yesterday was the last day to redeem any remaining Wii Points toward purchases. While users can still re-download WiiWare and Virtual Console titles, as well as … Read more
Few game developers pull off good satire. Sure, there are plenty of examples of tongue-in-cheek humor in video games but not very many dedicate their product to ridiculing an entire cultural era, either intentionally or unintentionally. This is exactly what Ubisoft has done with their ’80s action movie knock-off in the form of Far Cry … Read more
Zombie-themed games have become so frequent that they are almost passé. Deep Silver’s Dead Island: Riptide is just the latest in a string of flesh-eating undead titles in the past few years. Thankfully, its open-world multi-player take is still fairly fresh. Riptide is a sequel to 2011’s Dead Island, an action-RPG survival-horror game that took … Read more
Nier: Automata is technically a sequel, although only in the loosest sense of the word. The lack of connection to its predecessor was actually not even one of its most unusual qualities. And, for the record, I mean all of the following things with love – but, damn, Nier: Automata really went out of its … Read more
Wind instruments play softly as the camera pans over a wind-swept sand dune before peering into the distant sun. String instruments crescendo as a sand storm covers what appear to be long-forgotten tombstones. The environment is harsh and remote with no signs of life. Suddenly a shooting star sweeps across the sky. A robed figure … Read more
Doom (2016) is the first full-fledged Doom game since Doom 3 came out on PC and Xbox way back in 2004. That’s a twelve-year gap with only an expansion pack, a visually-upgraded re-release of Doom 3, and a mobile game. And as it turns out, Doom (2016) – hereafter referred to as “Doom” – is … Read more
How does one go about committing the perfect crime, especially without getting caught or even raising suspicion? This question is all I can consider as I walk calmly toward the scene of my first assassination mission in Hitman – a massive fashion show, hosted at an exquisite Parisian mansion filled with socialites and the “one … Read more
Developer Frostkeep Studios announced today that Rend, a team-based survival game set in the fabled universe of Nordic myth, officially launches on Steam Early Access on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. It will retail for $29.99. Rend introduces RPG mechanics, factional combat, sandbox elements, win/loss conditions, and massive culminating battles to the survival genre to deliver … Read more
Capcom announced today that Monster Hunter: World is coming to PC via Steam on August 9. It has already been released on PS4 and Xbox One to critical acclaim. Future updates will add new content and gameplay features. Updates and fixes made in other platform versions will be gradually applied to the PC version. The … Read more
While fighting games are nothing new to me, I am not a veteran of the BlazBlue series. I’ve dipped my toe in a couple of times and always had fun, but they seem geared more toward hardcore fighting game players and less toward the casual player like me. BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is a crossover … Read more
To be honest, I had not heard of Overkill’s The Walking Dead until watching a just-released cinematic trailer. Now 505 Games has my attention. The trailer introduces you to the game’s fourth playable character, Heather, “a hardened scout who rounds out your squad as the fourth playable hero. A kindergarten teacher in her old life, … Read more
There are not a whole lot of games that can credibly claim to be novel ideas. Of course, novelty alone does not guarantee that the concept is a good one. That is why I was pleasantly surprised when I first booted up Team 17’s newest game, Yoku’s Island Express. Team 17 is most closely associated … Read more
NIS America has confirmed that the cult classic PS2 and GameCube title Killer 7 will be released on PC with “optimized” graphics. According to the game’s Steam page, it will be released this fall. This is the first time that the game will be re-released since its original launch in 2005. The game’s designer, Goichi … Read more
