For me, Rare is one of my favourite developers of all time, who have created some of my favourite games. The British studio has just turned 35, after forming back in 1985, and has decided to celebrate the milestone with a gift to their fans. Revealed via a Tweet and subsequent blog post, Rare has
Month: August 2020
During PlayStation’s State of Play showcase, Annapurna Interactive and developer Giant Squid debuted a new trailer for The Pathless. The six-minute trailer gives players an overview of what to expect from the game. One of the key points in the trailer is how fluid the main character moves around. If you shoot talismans, which are
Skookum Arts dropped their puzzle game The Pedestrian on PC earlier this year to solid reviews. The game is a great-looking 2.5D puzzle platformer that has you rearranging signs in a city to get through each level. And, around a year after the original release, the game is coming to PS4 in January 2021. Give
Between launching the massively successful battle royale, Call of Duty: Warzone and not following their standard roadmap for revealing the year’s Call of Duty release, the Call of Duty franchise has had an interesting year. Not only has this year’s release not been revealed, but the three-year development cycle that alternates between Treyarch, Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward has
During PlayStation’s State of Play showcase, we got a new look at Temtem, an MMO adventure game inspired by the Pokemon series. The new trailer shows off several environments players can explore in the game, both alone and with other players. We also get a look at how you can customize your character and make
With its release in 2008, Braid from developer Jonathan Blow became one of the titles to define indie games from that point forward. From its challenging, time-bending gameplay to an emotional story of loss and consequences, Braid became an all-time indie classic, with a new generation getting to experience the game on modern systems. During Sony’s latest
After hosting a Christopher Nolan watch party this summer, the Fortnite team appears to have another collaboration on the cards with the famed director. Twitter user FilmUpdates recently shared a video showing off a Fortnite easter egg for Nolan’s film Tenet. Adding fuel to the speculative fire, Geoff Keighley, the Ludens Fan himself, retweeted the
As it does every year, the latest installment in the NBA 2K series is set to arrive in a little under a month. To start building up anticipation towards launch day 2K Games today unveiled the first gameplay of this year’s edition on current-gen platforms. Shown off in a 90-second new trailer, the gameplay for NBA 2K21 looks
I’m sure you already heard about the huge interview with Mages boss Chiyomaru Shikura published in this week’s Famitsu magazine. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at the biggest part of the interview, Chiyomaru Shikura explaining why he decided to partner with Colopl. As you already know, Chiyomaru Shikura over a year ago
After years of silence, Shin Megami Tensei V re-emerged just a few weeks back with a new trailer and the surprising revelation that a simultaneous worldwide release was in the cards. While a specific date outside of the broad window of 2021 wasn’t provided, Sega seems to have now given us a better idea of when
Benji-Sales has reported that Sucker Punch Productions’ latest title, Ghost of Tsushima is now Sony PlayStation’s 2nd best-selling game for a PlayStation first-party studio in Japan on the PS4. Ghost of Tsushima launched on July 17 and in that short time it has ramped up the sales in Japan. Benji-Sales confirms that Marvel’s Spider-Man still sits at number
The second episode of CD Projekt Red’s Night City Wire stream will be going live on August 10, revealing new details about the gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 including lifepaths and different weapons available in the game. In a most recent tweet from Cyberpunk 2077 official account, it was announced that we are just four days
News around Microsoft’s Project xCloud has started hotting up around the launch of the service next month. We initially found out that it would be launching in September and that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers would gain access to it free of charge. It was then confirmed that the nebulous September release date was September
There has been a lot of gaming-related conversations this year, lots of highly anticipated games, the next-generation is on the way, Unreal Engine 5 was teased. It’s been busy for sure. Twitter has been keeping tabs on the conversations taking place this year, and in a new blog post, it’s been revealed what conversations have
Warframe players don’t have to wait much longer for the new Heart of Deimos update, which adds a third open world to the ninja-themed online action RPG, among other new features. Check out 33 minutes of gameplay footage right here: The new open-world zone, called Deimos, is infested with buglike enemies called the ‘Entrati’, which
This week’s Famitsu magazine (officially titled Weekly Famitsu Magazine August 20-27 020 Issue) included a huuuge interview with Mages President Chiyomaru Shikura, who I don’t really need to introduce if you know about Steins;Gate and clicked on this article in the first place. As you already know, a special page for the tenth anniversary projects
A huge interview with Mages’ Chiyomaru Shikura is included in this week’s Famitsu magazine, where he most notably talks about Anonymous;Code, the latest game in the Science Adventure Series. Anonymous;Code was first announced alongside Steins;Gate Zero and Occultic;Nine in March 2015. The other two have released for a while now, but Anonymous;Code never saw the
Steins;Gate is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary, and multiple plans are moving around for the Science Adventure Series overall. In fact, this week’s Famitsu magazine (officially titled Weekly Famitsu Magazine August 20-27 2020 Issue) included an interview with Mages President Chiyomaru Shikura, who touched on multiple subjects linked to the series. In particular, he mentioned
In a report from IGN, Marvel’s Avengers developer Crystal Dynamics says Spider-Man will be the only platform exclusive character for the game. “That is the only character that we are doing that way,” said Scott Amos, Crystal Dynamics studio head. He also confirms the deal was made because of the relationship PlayStation and Marvel have.
It’s been a relatively busy day for Nintendo news. The company’s holiday lineup just got a little substance with the announcement that a port of Pikmin 3 from the Wii U is heading to the Switch in October. Alongside that, they announced that in the latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update (version 8.1.0) players would gain
Today, Capcom provided fans with an in-depth look at the new content coming to Street Fighter V. In what the team called the Summer Update, we were treated to reveals for four of the five characters coming in Season 5. As expected, it’s a star-studded cast full of fun fighters. Check out the full update
While our long wait for the Western release of Yakuza: Like a Dragon continues, fans of the series continue to provide exceptional content to tide us over. Today, two fans who go by KaroruGans0 and hayaken_kmzw on Twitter posted a live-action recreation of the Kamurocho streets. It’s not completely flawless and also takes some inspiration
Originally released all the way back in 2003 on the Nintendo GameCube, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a soft spot in the hearts of many longtime FF fans. Over the year, the game has gone on to become one of the most popular spin-offs in the long-running franchise. So much so, in fact, that Square Enix decided
Microsoft and Xbox have been pushing hard to bring in new players to their ecosystem recently. From bringing Game Pass to the cloud with xCloud in September to supporting their competitors’ controllers on xCloud, it would be an understatement to say that Microsoft’s gaming division is making moves. And now, in their latest push, Microsoft
With Madden NFL 21 launching its mobile version today, fans are getting their first look at the game’s new mode The Yard. It takes players back to the days of playing football in the neighborhood and is coming to all platforms. Of course, with the console and PC release still a few weeks away, Madden
Based on what we know so far, Sony’s next-gen console will be shipping in white, but a recent leak from a black DualSense controller probably teases the black edition of PS5. PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 all were launched in black as their default color and never received a white edition during their
After months of going without any new content–which players have been quite vocal about–Red Dead Online, the multiplayer component of Red Dead Redemption 2, finally got an update. For me, this update marked an opportunity to hop back in my cowboy boots and ride off to the west once more. After maxing out my rank in
Nintendo has continued with its strange 2020 trend of randomly announcing new first-party games for the Switch without any warning whatsoever. At the top of this most recent hour, Nintendo took to social media and announced that a new iteration of the Wii U game Pikmin 3 will soon be coming to the Switch on October
Since its launch in 2018, Quantic Dreams’ Detroit: Become Human has sold five million copies. This news comes over a month after it launched on Steam. In addition to the news on reaching five million units sold, Quantic Dream announced Detroit: Community Play, a Twitch extension that lets streamers and their viewers make in-game decisions
From the creators of cyberpunk tactical strategy game Satellite Reign, comes Windbound – a brand new indie IP created by the team at 5 Lives Studios. Windbound lets you take control of the main character called Kara, a lost warrior who has found herself abandoned on an island in the middle of nowhere following a strange