Ahead of their appearance at Gamescom, Runescape developer Jagex has made several notable announcements. In addition to bringing on some talented new staff and establishing a third-party publishing arm called Jagex Partners, the developer also revealed that their popular MMO RuneScape has surpassed $1 billion in revenue since its launch in January of 2001. Clearly,
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Square Enix finally released the long-teased and recently-revealed Final Fantasy XIV companion for Android and iOS. At the moment of this writing, the app is available on Google Play, and on Apple’s App Store. The app is rather light, requiring only 21 megabytes of space on your android smartphone, and it requires Android version 5.0 or up.
If you want to get your hands on Rainbow Six Siege but you don’t have the money, then Ubisoft has you covered. The publishing and developing giant has announced that the first-person shooter will be available to everyone thanks to a free trial this weekend. Starting on August 16th, 2018, and lasting until August 20th, 2018, all
Back in March we found out that My Memory of Us would be hitting sometime in Q3 2018, however, we didn’t have a specific date. Now, that’s all changed, as after months and months of waiting, we finally know that the side-scrolling puzzle game will be available starting October 9, 2018, on all previously announced platforms. In
Today Sega made a new theme and avatar pack dedicated to the recently-released JRPG Shining Resonance Refrain available on the North American PlayStation Network. The good news is that the package, which can be found here, is completely free. The bad news is that a North American PlayStation Plus subscription is required to grab it.
Square Enix revealed three brief videos of its upcoming action-adventure game The Quiet Man. The first shows the controls on PS4, while the second and third videos are perhaps more interesting, as they deal with Focus Mode. The second video shows the “Focus Meter” which is a gauge measuring how focused protagonist Dane is. The
Following its release last week, Ghost Town Games and Team17 today revealed the first major piece of content that will be making its way into Overcooked 2 soon. That’s right, a New Game+ mode is coming to Overcooked 2 and will allow you to replay all of the story’s 45 levels in the pursuit of getting four-stars. That’s right,
After around a year of anticipation from fans, we are only two weeks away from Strange Brigade’s release to the world. Now, developer and publisher Rebellion Entertainment has revealed a brand new trailer for the game, which shows off some never-before-seen footage from the third-person shooter. The trailer, which clocks in a little over six minutes long,
Today, 2K Games announced WWE 2K19 will see the return of the 2K Showcase mode and will feature the fan-favorite WWE Superstar, Daniel Bryan. The story-driven mode, titled The Return of Daniel Bryan, will go through some of the most historic moments from Bryan’s career. The showcase will feature a total of 12 matches, one
With soccer/football season about to be in full swing, FIFA 19 is preparing for a big launch next month, and to go alongside the game’s debut in late September numerous PS4 hardware bundles will be coming to Europe, as revealed by Sony. Over on the European PlayStation Blog, Sony detailed that six different PS4 and PS4
Bethesda and Sparkypants Studios announced that their collectible-card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends would be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch later this year at E3. During QuakeCon 2018, Eurogamer probed Bethesda’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication Pete Hines about cross-play for the title. He called it an “absolutely critical” feature for the
Today Treyarch and Activision announced the date for the beginning of the beta of Blackout, the battle royale mode that will be attached to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The beta will begin on September 10th, and it will be available first on PlayStation 4. At the moment we only know that other platforms
Summer. We all know the despair we feel when the weather warms up and bugs of all shapes and sizes seem to come out of the woodwork to terrorize humankind. Wouldnt it be great if you could wield a zapping device, Ghostbusters-style, and wipe out those crawling critters? Well, now you can in The Bug
Now you can slither in the grass and disguise yourself in the bushes with style as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds let Twitch prime members pick up their third crate, appropriately called The Jungle Crate, which includes some fancy gear. The crate comprises of two full outfits, all jungle-themed obviously, and also includes two weapon skins: the Croc
Today Sony released four brief videos talking about some of the most anticipated first-party games coming to PS4 in the semi-near future, Ghost of Tsushima, Dreams, Days Gone, and Concrete Genie. The first features Ghost of Tsushima with Sucker Punch Creative Director Nate Fox. The second is about Dreams and stars Media Molecule Technical Director Alex Evans.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has held strong in the 32nd week of the year and once again has claimed the top spot on the weekly UK sales chart for the seventh straight time. This streak has now officially tied the same span of dominance that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy had last year in the UK
Today, Treyarch officially ended Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer beta around 15 minutes after the scheduled end time, at around 1:15 p.m. EDT (10:00 a.m. PDT). Even though we are fresh off the ending, Treyarch and others already seem to be teasing something new for the game on multiple Twitter accounts. As you can see
A few weeks back two new weapons were datamined in Fortnite. One of them was a double barrel shotgun, while the other was a new sniper rifle. Last week the shotgun was added to the game, however, there was no news about the new sniper rifle. That all changed this weekend as developer Epic Games has officially
Today NIS America released a new trailer of Kadokawa Games’ JRPG Metal Max Xeno. The video showcases the encounter with one of the playable party members that join the game’s protagonist through his adventures, Maria. She is a beautiful and stern soldier who had her companion annihilated by the SoNs. She is also a perfect example of
Not even a year after the release of A Hat in Time, developer Gears for Breakfast appears to have more to say about the 3D platformer. A “special announcement” about the game will come during Gamescom, according to a fun tweet from the game’s official account. The tweet offered no specific details, only sharing a
Following the reports about extensive layoffs happened at Sekai Project’s Los Angeles offices, the publisher’s CEO Christopher Ling provided a comment on the Kickstarter page of the virtual reality visual novel Tokyo Chronos. According to Ling, the layoffs were executed as a “difficult and unfortunate” decision due to the necessity of restructuring the company to adapt to the
Today word about mass layoffs at the visual novel publisher Sekai Project started surfacing on social media via Project Manager Josh Kaplan and Brand Manager Frances Delgado. According to the tweets, the whole Los Angeles office was suddenly let go today. There is currently no information on whether the same happened to remote employees. Further comments
We heard a while ago that Devil May Cry 5 will be playable at Gamescom, and apparently, the development team has been working on the demo until today. Director Hideaki Itsuno mentioned on Twitter that the demo that will be available at the show in Cologne has been completed, and we even get to see the
The battle royale genre has become all the rage in the gaming community in the past year. For anyone that has been living under a rock for this time, the battle royale genre is focused around a multiplayer mode that drops a large number of players on a diminishing map, and the last player standing
Whether Japanese games are “cool” or not depends a lot on who you’re talking to. Some consider them absolutely cool, others don’t. Lately, there has certainly been an increase in the former camp. So what makes Japanese games “cool” for those who enjoy them? There are many factors in play, which have to do with
Crystal Dynamics has grown to be one of Square Enix’s premier development studios in recent years, and have just expanded even further. In addition to their long-running Redwood Shores studio, a new satellite studio in Bellevue, Washington called Crystal Northwest has been established. This studio is officially operational as of today and is led by Chad
Indie developers Digerati and RuneHeads arent biased when it comes to releasing its content, and to prove this they will be releasing their game on all consoles. Fall of Light: Darkest Edition will release on the PS4 on August 21 or August 22 (respectively in North America and Europe), on Xbox One on August 14 and last
Normally “Launch” trailers are released at launch (that’s why they’re called “launch,” duh!). Yet, lately, we have seen plenty of times in which they’ve been released earlier. Almost a whole month before release is pretty rare, but this seems to be the case with Insomniac Games and Sony’s Marvel’s Spider-Man. Funnily, for a “gameplay” trailer, it
Story-driven games are my absolute favorite to play; add in some serious moral dilemmas that test the boundaries of humanity, and I’m hooked. However, that is not all it takes for me to like a game; the story’s plot has to actually make sense, the characters have to be believable, and it has to be enjoyable
Today the Japanese arm of Square Enix presented a nice chunk of gameplay of the upcoming action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Since the gameplay was streamed from Japan, we actually get to see the Japanese version in action. The livestream was actually presented by Square Enix President and CEO Yosuke Matsuda, who appears to