With a month to go until it releases, you might want to check your friends list as it looks like EA and Bioware’s Anthem is going in the opposite direction and will feature matchmaking for all of its activities according to lead producer Ben Irving. All of them.
Square Enix have been very busy in recent times, working on their latest entry in the Tomb Raider franchise and offering new content for everyone’s favourite adventurer, Lara Croft. Yesterday, Square Enix announced the upcoming release of the next expansion pack for Shadow of the Tomb Raider on their Twitter page, ominously called “The Nightmare”: The Nightmare serves as the …
2019 has begun and the mantra often paraded is “new year, new me”. However, it seems the local esports scene was not sent the memo and already the same, tiring scandals are appearing. The local scene is a young and fragile one that continues to grow from competition to competition, but it cannot shake its infantile mistakes. In July last …
This year’s Call of Duty really is very good indeed. Though the game’s nixed its single player campaign, it has replaced it with a Battle Royale mode that is also quite spiffing. And you can play it for free.
Is Warner Bros. Montreal developing a new Batman game that features the caped crusader going up against the Talons of his infamous New 52 comic book run? Or am I owl by myself in this belief? Recent concept art has me belieiving in the former.
Back in 2016, in Ubisoft’s lovely Watch Dogs 2, a mission had players hack into a fictionalised version of Ubisoft’s San Francisco offices. The gaol of that mission was to steal a trailer for an unannounced game and sell it off to gaming website. It turned out that the trailer – which showed a colourful space exploration reminiscent of No Man’s Sky – was a real game in development. It was a clever, meta way to announce a new game. Unfortunately, that game has now been canned
Guess who’s about to say hi to Star Wars 1313 in video game purgatory? According to sources familiar with the development on an ambitious Star Wars sandbox, EA’s stab at the franchise and a galaxy far, far away is pretty much dead.
Players and fans were not impressed when Valve debuted it’s new card-trading game Artifact back in November. While reactions to the overall gameplay were mixed, the developer and its title received a great deal of heat for the high costs to be found within the game. And it seems that frustration is taking a toll on active player numbers. Back …
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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