When you’re spending dozens upon dozens of hours playing a video game, you can’t help but grow attached to certain characters. No, not in a weird way…just in the kind of way that makes us love them from the start of a journey to reaching the very end, and seeing how they’ve grown and changed
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Behaviour Interactive’s creepy multiplayer horror title, Dead by Daylight will be heading to Nintendo Switch as confirmed during the Nintendo Direct that took place yesterday. Now players will be able to experience hunting other players, or being hunted from the comfort of…wherever they are with an internet connection. Originally launching in 2016, Dead by Daylight allows one
I can imagine the development process behind Far Cry New Dawn. Ubisoft developers, project designers, and executives crowded around a conference room, pouring over the reviews of Far Cry 5, looking at the shortfalls and critiques and meticulously planning on how to improve the sequel–where to experiment on in the franchise. While the gambles they made with Far
After years of anticipation, the forthcoming “Igavania” Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has finally received a new release window during today’s Nintendo Direct. For starters, a new gameplay trailer for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was released and it showed off the throwback style of gameplay that we’ve come to expect from this title. We see the
Apex Legends surpassed 25 million players earlier this week after a stealth launch last Tuesday. Despite having just released, a new weapon has already been teased in-game after the latest patch. It’s called the Havoc. Respawn Entertainment released patch notes for today, February 13, that involved the addition of some new Valentine’s Day cosmetic items,
Over the past year, Swedish publisher THQ Nordic has been on an acquisition frenzy when it comes to both studios and IPs. From big publishers like Deep Silver to notable developers like Coffee Stain and Warhorse Studios, THQ Nordic has certainly been beefing up its workforce. When it comes to IP, the Swedish publisher has
THQ Nordic today revealed its fourth quarter financial information for the 2018 calendar year and in the process has reported on the status of the publisher’s biggest release in that window, Darksiders 3. According to THQ Nordic, the fourth quarter of 2018 saw net sales increase by 38% with Darksiders 3 being the biggest contributor to these sales
On the first anniversary of the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, it was announced this morning that publisher THQ Nordic has now purchased the developer behind the game, Warhorse Studios. This announcement was made today via a press release that revealed the Warhorse Studios was purchased by THQ Nordic’s subsidiary Koch Media for the price of
The weird physics focused puzzler Human: Fall Flat which features sticky-handed drunken characters is heading to mobile devices after Curve Digital and 505 Games join forces. The mobile version of the title is currently in development with no release date set as of yet. Human: Fall Flat has done fairly well since launch and is now not
The charming young man who appeared in the Xbox One Adaptive Controller commercial made an emotional video yesterday thanking everyone for helping him reach 5,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, but as of this writing, Owen has reached over 15,000 subs – which has totally blown the 10,000 subscriber goal he wanted to reach out of the water. Owen
If anything has been clear from the beginning of 2019–even only two months in–it’s that post-apocalyptic games are thriving and here to stay. This year alone we have the playful rivalry between Far Cry: New Dawn and RAGE 2, as the two games are competing for the title of “Most Colorful Apocalypse of 2019.” Meanwhile, Days Gone is
More news from the Activision Blizzard financial results came forth yesterday, detailing how our lovely boy, Crash Bandicoot has shifted over 10 million units since Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy launched. It turns out that it isn’t just our Reviews Editor Logan Moore that loves the wonderful creature. Crash Bandicoot, the best of the bandicoots had his 3
Even though next week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 update is set to bring a ton of free content to the first-person shooter, it seems like season pass owners, or in this case, Black Ops Pass owners, will be getting some new content as well. In fact, earlier today, Treyarch began teasing this new content in
Last year, Treyarch and Activision shocked fans by not including a single-player campaign in their Call of Duty game for the first time since the series’ inception, causing fans to, rightfully, complain. This year, however, fans can breathe more easily, as Infinity Ward and Activision confirmed during their earnings call a few important details about 2019’s edition
World War Z finally has a release date: April 16, 2019. This release date has been long awaited, as World War Z has had a long period from announcement to release. Even before the official announcement, Paramount Pictures, distributor for the World War Z film from 2013, registered a trademark for the title which included,
Ubisoft has released a teasers for the new map in the Operation Burnt Horizon expansion coming to Rainbow Six: Siege. This expansion will pay homage to the land of Australia with an Outback Map of a cluster of buildings amidst a red sand sea. A kangaroo statue is featured, as well as the ins and
After the disastrous release of 2017’s Mass Effect Andromeda, many began to worry about what the future would be for BioWare’s space-faring RPG saga. With the prospect of Anthem being the studio’s next venture followed by a fourth Dragon Age game, it seemed like it might be quite a long time until BioWare ever got back around to creating a Mass
In the past few years, Capcom has had a bit of a resurgence with many of its franchises seeing some of their best installments yet. Monster Hunter: World brought together series veterans and newcomers, while Resident Evil 2 delivered a fresh take on a revered classic, but if you’re looking to have a bit of a nostalgia
Following this past weekend’s private beta for The Division 2, Ubisoft has today announced another open beta period for the game which will be taking place closer to launch. The open beta for The Division 2 will kick off early next month on March 1 and will last until March 4. This trial period will be available
Over the past year, Sony has dealt with a lot of controversy surrounding cross-play. At first they were criticized for not allowing it at all while Microsoft and Nintendo were getting friendly with each other. Now, even after that policy has shifted to allow cross-play, the feature has been rolled out across PS4 games quite
Pysonix is trailblazing the cross-platform play scene again with the addition of a cross-platform friends list in Rocket League. Take friends from all platforms of Rocket League and put them in one place with the new Friends List. You will also be able to create cross-platform parties to chat with your friends, no matter where
Coming from Square Enix, it’s easy for fans of both Kingdom Hearts 3 and Nier: Automata to hope for a chance that Yoko Taro’s beloved action-RPG might one day make it into the Kingdom Hearts series. While it might still be a longshot chance from happening, we can at least imagine what might happen if the two series
It’s getting to be that point in the year where we usually start to hear the first murmurs of what could be in the cards for the annual release of Call of Duty. Last year’s installment of Black Ops 4 released last October and, unsurprisingly, did well at the market as always. Now, as we look
Yesterday I covered the news regarding Neill Blomkamp teasing what looked like an upcoming CGI trailer, or a live-action trailer. Well, it turns out that there’s an unlisted teaser available on the Anthem YouTube channel. You can watch it below. The teaser for Conviction: An Anthem Story is only 18 seconds long and the opening shot shows off a
Even though we are only a week away from getting one of the biggest Black Ops 4 and, by obvious extension, Blackout updates, there’s still content to be pushed out before the new season starts. More specifically, Treyarch is closing out Operation: Absolute Zero with a bang by bringing us a new game mode, a double XP
We’re almost there folks. After waiting months and months for a new map update in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode, we’re only one week away from the game’s next season, which is set to bring just what fans have been clamoring for. Now, developer Treyarch has started teasing the update in a brand new
Game developer and publisher Starbreeze has been going through some hard times over the past fiscal quarter. Overkill’s The Walking Dead did not perform well, their longtime CEO stepped down, and the company even got raided for insider trading. This meant they went from having a highly optimistic view of their future to struggling to
Apex Legends just keeps on trucking along. After one full week of availability, Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts have today announced the latest player milestone for the game and it’s a pretty big one. As revealed by Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella in a new blog post, Apex Legends has now surpassed 25 million players in total
After years of waiting, Crackdown 3 is finally slated to release later this week. While its a release that many have surely been anticipating for quite some time, oddly enough, its multiplayer element seemingly won’t boast a rather basic feature at launch. According to Joseph Staten, Senior Creative Director at Microsoft Studios, Crackdown 3’s Wrecking Zone multiplayer game
It’s 2019 and Team Cherry is still hard at work adding more content to the critically-acclaimed Metroidvania Hollow Knight. The game’s next update, which will see Hornet become a playable character, is scheduled to arrive at some point down the road and now, Team Cherry has revealed when we’ll finally get our first look at the