While we often hear about the highly publicized trials and tribulations surrounding big budget games, we rarely hear stories about the independent game developers that deal with similar problems. In a new interview with Nintendo Power Podcast, Overcooked developer Ghost Town Games opened up about the challenges that arise when a development team consists of
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During Microsoft’s quarterly financial conference call for investors and analysts, Chief Operating Officer Satya Nadella and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood talked about the current situation of the Xbox business. Nadella underlined that this fiscal year Microsoft’s gaming business passed ten billion dollars in revenue for the first time, and mentioned that the company is
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While PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds debuted over a year ago, the ever-popular battle royale game has continued to grow with new and crazy ideas, and this summer might bring one of the craziest yet in a new collaboration between PUBG Corps, Microsoft, and West Coast Customs. Over on Xbox Wire, Microsoft detailed its “Summer of PUBG” event, which will be
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During the Marvel Games panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Insomniac Games revealed the third and final suit that players will receive upon pre-ordering Marvel’s Spider-Man. The Velocity suit will officially be the final suit that will come to those who pre-order Marvel’s Spider-Man. This costume joins the Punk and Iron Spider suit from Avengers Infinity War to round out
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Today, during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Insomnia Games, Marvel, and Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed two limited edition consoles tied-in with the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man. The first unit is a PS4 Pro with 1 TB hard drive, coming on September 7th alongside the game both in North America and Europe. It’ll cost or $399.99 USD,
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While it released over two years ago now, Blizzard’s Overwatch has evolved into one of the biggest multiplayer games on the planet alongside its very-popular eSports scene, and now those looking to jump into the game have a perfect opportunity starting next weekend. Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that a Free Weekend will be available for Overwatch
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As a follow-up to the cult hit fighting game, Nidhogg 2 debuted last summer with an increased level of insanity and complexity to its sword-fighting gameplay, and now Xbox One owners can duel to the death with the game’s release on the platform. Developer Mark Essen revealed that Nidhogg 2 has officially been released on Xbox One.
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Today NIS America released a brand new trailer of the upcoming fighting game SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. The trailer gives a brief look at the story before moving into a nice showcase of the title’s gameplay and features. If you’re unfamiliar with the title, it’s an “all-stars” fighting game featuring most of the beloved heroines
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The long-awaited Advanced Gungeons & Draguns update to the 2016 roguelike Enter the Gungeon is now available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. The free update includes a wide variety of new content, including, new enemies, weapons, and synergies. Additionally, the update makes the game more forgiving while including new difficulty options
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In 2010, Bethesda Softworks published Fallout: New Vegas, a spin-off game in the Fallout series that was developed by Obsidian Entertainment rather than Bethesda Game Studios, the team that had created Fallout 3.  Since this time, the company has never worked with an outside developer in this manner again and Bethesda’s Todd Howard doesn’t see that changing. In a
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Overwatch’s support heroes are next in line for an array of alternations according to Blizzard.  Posting on Blizzard’s official forums, Overwatch developer Geoff Goodman outlined the changes that we can expect to see across five of the game’s characters and the reasoning behind each tweak. The characters in question include Ana, Bridgette, Lúcio, Mercy, and Moira;
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Today THQ Nordic announced its lineup of games that will be presented at Gamescom 2018. The publisher that took THQ’s mantle in semi-recent times will have a rather diverse range of titles, starting with the first publicly playable appearance of Darksiders III. More playable games will include Biomutant, Generation Zero and Fade to Silence. We’re also getting to
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Today Sony Interactive Entertainment started to recruit beta testers for the next major system software update for the PlayStation 4. At the moment of this writing, registrations have started only for the Japanese PlayStation Network, but they’re likely to be extended to North America and Europe soon. Update: North American registration is now open and
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Today .hack developer CyberConnect2 released a new trailer for its upcoming “trilogy of vengeance,” a trio of independently-developed games that the developer is creating for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The three games will be released simultaneously worldwide in 2019, even if there is no firm release date for the moment. As announced
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a new small batch of screenshots of the upcoming anime game Tokyo Ghoul:re CALL to EXIST. This time around, the screenshots focus on battle scenes, showing how protagonist Kaneki can take care of his opponents. Besides Kaneki, the game will include a variety of characters from all the Tokyo Ghoul anime, including
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