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Destiny is a game that promised the moon: a persistent online world with dynamic environments, MMO elements, on-the-fly matchmaking, and next-gen graphics, all wrapped in a sci-fi storyline that would put Halo – Bungie’s former beloved series – to shame. And while you do, in fact, get to travel to the moon, it does not…
A filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office confirms that Google is looking to enter the gaming space. The company filed a patent for a gaming controller in October 2018, according to the application. That Google is interested in entering the gaming space with either a console or streaming service is one of…
Operation: Buried Debts, the latest free community event for Warframe, is out now on PC. According to the developers at Digital Extremes, Operation: Buried Debts “poses a disturbing new wrinkle to the evolving story of Fortuna‘s debt-internment colony.” Following the original expansion and the subsequent update, The Profit-Taker, Tenno are thrust into a new storyline…
The new Homestead update for ARK: Survival Evolved launched today for free. The Homestead update improves existing structures, adds new customizable building pieces with increased placement options, and simplifies the Kibble system for creature taming. The update is live across PC, PS4, and Xbox One. According to the developers at Studio Wildcard, the Homestead update…
Welcome to Neo-Paris in the year 2084. Imagine a time when augmented reality and memory digitization are standard practice. Memories are stored, bought, sold, traded, and even stolen. Privacy is a relic of the past. Citizens have given up their rights in exchange for convenience. Sound familiar? Capcom’s Remember Me sounds like a dystopia that…
Anthem is EA’s just-released online multiplayer action-RPG from developer BioWare, the makers of Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Curious how it’s doing with critics? So are we. Reviews of the game are fresh off the printing press as Anthem just came out for PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February…
You pull up to a modest house on a wet, dreary day. A small crowd gathers as word spreads across the town with news about what happened – or at least what they think happened. Getting out of your vehicle, you pull out a cigarette and light it up, taking in a few puffs before…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I never really played any “mining games” quite like Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig before I decided to download the eShop title, but a few rosy critiques and comparisons to the Metroid series convinced me to take the plunge. I quickly found out that SteamWorld Dig is one of the eShop’s brightest gems and best downloadable platformers on the market.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
