Posts

Mass Effect: Andromeda represents some big departures from previous gameplay elements in the series, but perhaps none of them have been as large as the one that was discovered earlier this week - the beloved power wheel will be bowing out from the newest instalment in the Mass Effect franchise. Luckily, Eurogamer reached out to Mass Effect: Andromeda producer Fabrice Condominas to explain why BioWare felt the removal of the power wheel was the right call for the newest game:...

The very first Marvel movie (no, the assorted TV movies of the 1970s and 1980s don’t count, nor does the 1944 Captain America movie serial), 1986’s Howard the Duck turns 35 on August 1. That’s 35 years since the notorious, George Lucas produced movie featuring Steve Gerber’s iconoclastic and subversive Marvel Comics character flopped hard at the box office, marking the first of several difficult films to bear the Marvel brand....

Game Rant spoke to Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Creative Director Jens Matthies during E3 2017, who confirmed MachineGames’ plan is to complete a Wolfenstein trilogy. With MachineGames showing off the latest entry in the franchise with a cinematic trailer for its official announcement during Bethesda’s E3 media conference, many fans have been curious about the series’ future. E3 has become MachineGames’ opportunity to make promises about what to look forward to in both the short term and the long term....

Microsoft has been experimenting with Project xCloud for some time now, which is essentially a video game streaming service similar to Google Stadia. So far, it has been unclear exactly how Microsoft would be implementing Project xCloud, but now it’s been confirmed that Project xCloud will be added to the benefits that players get with their Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership starting in September, and at no additional cost. What this means it that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to play Xbox games wherever they want and even using devices like phones and tablets....

March isn’t quite over yet and with another week remaining, Microsoft wouldn’t typically announce new games in its Xbox Games with Gold program until the next month is just a few days away. Thanks to a recent leak from Xbox Austria, fans got an early peak at some of the bigger names coming next month including Xbox One launch title Ryse: Son of Rome and The Walking Dead: Season 2....

For Xbox, it’s been a long road to redemption since the launch of the Xbox One. With tons of positive efforts made to win back fans, Xbox has slowly but surely shifted into a very different gaming company. Every change made to the Xbox One’s marketing and ecosystem was to emphasize Xbox ushering in a “games first” mantra. Since then, aspects like backwards compatibility from first and third-party games, Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere, along with several big ticket studio acquisitions have been a reflection of this new mantra....

In a little over a month’s time, the Xbox Series X will hit store shelves as the most-powerful video game console on the market. And apparently, that kind of power is going to make the Xbox Series X generate significant heat. New reports from journalists who have been able to go hands-on with the Xbox Series X indicate that the console gives off a lot of heat, though it may not necessarily be as big of a problem as it may seem on the surface....

It’s been a big week for next-gen consoles. On Monday, the Xbox Series X provided its fans with a plethora of new features and confirmed its specs. Today, the PS5 specs were revealed, and now, it seems the Xbox Series X seems to be raising the ante by narrowing down its release window. Prior to this, it’s been a stated fact that the PS5 and Xbox Series X would release in the fall 2020....

When Sega first brought the Yakuza series to PC back in 2018, pre-orders on Steam would grant users some bonus wallpapers, avatar icons, and a digital manga. This applied to both Yakuza 0 and Kiwami, with the editions being called “Deluxe Edition.” If you didn’t grab either game during this short window, you missed out on the little bonus goodies. Thankfully, Sega has come around and changed that. Instead of selling the extra stuff as DLC, Sega has gone ahead and upgraded all copies of both 0 and Kiwami to Deluxe....

This Yellowstone review contains spoilers. Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 1 and 2 Yellowstone creator, showrunner, and deity to the cowboy-at-heart, Taylor Sheridan, is often praised for his intense, gritty, and typically crime-driven dramas, yet the prolific writer isn’t recognized enough for his sense of balance. It’s one of the major reasons Yellowstone’s audience continues to grow, even while the show is now entering its fifth and rumored penultimate season, and how it has kept viewers hooked the entire time....

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 18 When we asked Greg Weisman, Executive Producer of Young Justice: Phantoms, if we could expect arcs focusing on Rocket and Nightwing (the last two original cast members of the show yet to have their own arcs), he was coy. “I think we’ll refer you to the main title,” he told us. I didn’t expect the response to both to come immediately....

Youtooz is now offering pre-order on a figure based on the ChilledCow Lofi Girl. The collectible will be shipping out in June and will be limited edition. Youtooz is a collectibles brand that creates pint-sized vinyl figures of YouTube sensations, memes, and gaming gurus - think Funko, but more niche. This particular figure will feature the one and only Lofi Girl, the animated student from ChilledCow’s music streams. The ChilledCow channel runs the 24/7 music steam, “lofi hip hop radio- beats to relax/study to....

Pokémon Go, huh? Pokémon-freaking-Go. Where do you start with this one? Niantic’s app was the biggest thing to hit iOS and Android last year; a pop culture phenomenon that left even the likes of Angry Birds and Flappy Bird feeling unappreciated and unloved in its wake. The hype for Go was almost indescribable. Like Grand Theft Auto Online, the game had garnered such support and excitement in the run-up to release that… well, the disaster that was the early days of Pokémon Go is well documented....

Let’s be honest, at this point we know what to expect from a Grand Theft Auto game. The formula has only been slightly tweaked over the years, with the series claiming the title of being the single-most-cited franchise for its dedication to violence, drug use, criminal activity, and every single other negative influence that a game could have on the youth of the world. But then Rockstar Games took a break....

High-level VALORANT players (and regular players alike) are getting more than a little frustrated by the game’s somewhat problematic ranked system. One such player - NRG Esports’ Brandon “Aceu” Winn - raised his main issue which many other pro players have mentioned too, on a Twitch stream yesterday That issue concerns the ease with which players can five-stack into VALORANT ranked games with the help of other solo queue players....

Originally conceived as a simple story driven expansion to a hit PlayStation 4 game, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy evolved into something much bigger than Naughty Dog realized. This new title features a number of firsts for the series, including a brand new storyline and a playspace located in the Western Ghats that is significantly larger than the biggest zone in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. For the first time in franchise history, players will no longer be putting on Nathan Drake’s half-tucked shirt and instead be playing as the treasure hunter, Chloe Frazer....

The old saying goes that Valve can’t count to three, and so far, the company has proven that to be true. While Valve has released critically-acclaimed sequels to many of its games, it always seems to stop short before releasing the third main series game, instead opting to release spin-offs or ignore the franchise entirely. This holds true for Valve’s Left 4 Dead franchise, publishing the original Left 4 Dead in 2008, the sequel in 2009, and having made no announcements for Left 4 Dead 3 in the decade since....

Windows 11 is real – and it’ll be a free upgrade for anyone who currently owns Windows 10. Microsoft made the big announcement during a surprise event, giving us our first official look at the OS in action. This isn’t anything new for Microsoft, as it has a history of offering OS upgrades free to current users. Still, it’s great to know that the majority of PC owners won’t have to shell out additional cash for Windows 11....

Way back in the heady days of the early 2000s, there was a completely free multiplayer game based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein called Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Originally intended as an expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, including both a multiplayer and single-player component, but problems with the single-player campaign’s development led developer Splash Damage to just release the multiplayer mode as a standalone, completely free game. Because back in 2003, people didn’t think a solely multiplayer game was enough to charge money for....

In the wake of a number of rumors and datamine leaks of Shadowlands that seem to point towards a console port of World of Warcraft, Blizzard has come forward to explain the current situation happenning behind the scenes. With an reply on the World of Warcraft forum to a fan’s question, Blizzard has confirmed that the company has been working on controller support for the game, reducing the need for mods....