During the great big Smash Bros Ultimate direct, some people noticed that one of the characters – the dude from Nintendo’s old Game & Watch games – exhibited a potentially offensive stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans. Nintendo's removing it.
The Humble Store is running a special for the next two weeks with the Humble Warhammer Bundle, as well as a few properties from Games Workshop that are thrown into the mix. For a single space-dollar, you’ll get the original Dawn of War in its comprehensive Game of the Year edition, Talisman: Digital Edition and the expansions Blood Moon, Harbinger and Sacred Pool.
The company is a juggernaut in the gaming industry & its long list of accolades would inspire envy from any company. Nonetheless, this behemoth was not able to evade serious outrage from its community after its recent BlizzCon event.
Today is November 7, which as many of you know is also called N7 Day, which is a lovely day to celebrate one of gaming’s best space opera series, Mass Effect. There’s very little to actually celebrate though. After the dismal performance of the last game in the series, Mass Effect Andromeda, the whole thing is on hiatus.
Ashe may be playable right now on the Overwatch PTR server, but she wasn’t the only character revealed. After being hinted at for months, Echo finally appeared and stole the show.
They may not have been the best games, but Dirge of Cerberus and the episodic Before Crisis were just what fans wanted in an age where they were hungry for a return to Final Fantasy VII’s unique themes and locales. Content that might make its way into Final Fantasy VII Remake.
When I do finally return to ancient Greece, it seems that there’ll be quite a bit waiting for me. Ubisoft has detailed the changes coming to the game this month. There are some big changes coming, including a level cap that’ll be increasing by at least 20 levels.
In August this year, Kotaku did a deep dive into the pervasive culture of misogyny at League of Legends developer Riot Games. The report detailed the internal company structure that alienated people who weren’t straight white men. Riot Games has since not only acknowledged the issues, but promised to fix them. Now, they’re being sued by one former employee and one current one for workplace gender discrimination.
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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