Co-op shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood coming July 2019

Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a co-op focused shooter, is coming to PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One this summer. According to Bethesda: Wolfenstein: Youngblood will throw you (and a friend!) back in time to 1980s Paris, fighting the Reich’s war machine as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters, Jess or Soph. Terrorize the goose-stepping fascists with a … Read more

PlayStation VR tops 4 million units sold

Sony’s PlayStation VR headset has sold through 4.2 million units worldwide as of March 2019. First launched in fall 2016, the PSVR headset initially cost consumers $399. The price has since come down considerably, with a brief period over the holidays where the Astro Bot Rescue Mission + Moss Bundle was on sale for just … Read more

The Elder Scrolls turns 25 years old today

Today marks the 25th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls franchise. That’s a quarter century of giant rats, dungeons, spells, and open-world game design. Bethesda first invited players to the world of Tamriel on March 25, 1994. The Elder Scrolls: Arena combined randomly-generated small towns and places of interest, along with hundreds of dungeons, in a … Read more

Apex Legends Review

Welcome to King’s Canyon. Get ready to drop into a chaotic battlefield where you fight tooth and nail for the title of champion. Apex Legends has a bit of an odd title, but it lets you know what you’re getting into. Dropping from a ship onto an island battlefield, you fight other self-made legends in … Read more

Borderlands 3 teased as Gearbox hints at March 28 announcement

Developer Gearbox is likely announcing Borderlands 3 on March 27. The company teased gamers via Twitter with a screenshot of a cel-shaded game in Borderlands style with the date “March 28” and “Exit 3” posted on a road sign. Borderlands first appeared on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2009. The original game, along with … Read more

Destiny Review

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 … Read more

Sony adds PS4 Remote Play to iPhone and iPad

PS4 owners can now play their library of console games remotely on the iPhone and iPad. Sony rolled out a new PS4 system update and iOS app today adding the feature. Previously, iOS users had to buy pricey third-party apps to remote play on an iPhone or iPad, but that’s not the case anymore. The … Read more

Free ARK: Survival Evolved Homestead update out now

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 … Read more

Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience launches in US tomorrow for free

Sony just confirmed on Twitter that the Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience is launching tomorrow, February 28, in the US for free. The PlayStation VR freebie is also confirmed to launch in Europe tomorrow. It was previously released in Japan. Confirmed! Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience launches tomorrow for #PSVR… for free! pic.twitter.com/ZabQdC5OTc — PlayStation (@PlayStation) February … Read more

Anthem Review Roundup

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 … Read more

Grand Theft Auto V Review

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

Rocket League adds cross-play friends lists February 19

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’s stock target raised as Apex Legends tops 25 million players

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

SteamWorld Dig Review

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.

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Gravity Rush Remastered Review

You wake up lying on the ground. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are. You stand up and look around. A weird-looking black cat is sitting near your feet meowing. You tell it to go beg from someone else. Right away you can tell that you are in some sort … Read more

Wii Shop Channel’s closure shows why we still need physical games

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

Nier: Automata Review

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