CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably one of the most anticipated games for the next year or so. Leveraging its success, and the unfathomable goodwill it built with The Witcher 3, CDPR is taking its brand of roleplaying to a dystopian future. Now, a bit of a staffing change has some wondering about Cyberpunk 2077’s own future.
That genre of darkly gothic action-RPGs where death is a constant and the world around you is almost as dangerous as Australia? None of that would have been possible were it not for one single game that paved the way forward for the Dark Souls trilogy, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and a whole host of inspired competition: Demon’s Souls.
Farming Simulator is one of those games that everybody likes to poke fun at, but it’s one of the largest gaming brands on the planet, and sells by the truckload in some regions, notably places like Germany, Switzerland, and here in South Africa where it regularly makes the top-selling games list. It’s a big game with a larger audience than you might imagine. And that audience is ripe for the picking, because Farming Simulator is now an esport.
Shit just got real. Face off against the ruthless highwaymen and their leaders the Twins as you fight to survive in a dangerous post-apocalyptic frontier. Form unexpected alliances, build a deadly arsenal of makeshift weapons and gear using the remnants of the old world to survive against all new threats.
Clocking in a couple of weeks ahead of schedule, EA’s upcoming loot ‘n shoot experience is just about finished over at Bioware studios. A long road has come to an end, albeit one that will now see the studio focusing on polish, squashing out bugs and checking its inconveniently oversized roadmap for the next route to take when Anthem goes live on February 22
The Far Cry series is a bit of an oddity in the gaming industry where the regularly released "numbered" titles pop up every few years and then the developers are set free to create weird and exciting new game between core series entries. Normally these games have nothing in common with the actual main game, but with Far Cry: New Dawn Ubisoft has decided to link the two... kind of.
While my approach to playing Super Smash Bros. remains the ever-reliable button mash, the more talented players now have a chance to each other’s characters senseless in Nintendo’s new tournament series for 2019. In a video posted to their website, Nintendo announced that the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open will commence next month. Qualifier events will take place …
Fun buns. Angel cakes. Bra buddies. Since the dawn of time, man has been obsessed with boobs and nobody knows why. Like magnets that work on your eyeballs, Fairy pillows and flopdoodles have been the very reason why humanity has gone to war for millennia, starting with Helen of Troy launching a thousand ships in the general vicinity of her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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