By Crom, that was quick! Back in December, Petroglyph Studios announced that they’d be going back to the Hyborean age for their next strategy title. A few months later, and Conan Unconquered is ready for release, on May 30.
Late last week Valve announced a raft of improvements to Steam’s backend services for game developers, promising new networking features and protection against hackers and script kiddies looking to ruin everyone’s day. There’s also some performance bonuses in there as well, although it’ll take some time before these materialise in the games you play on Steam that use Valve’s network. …
Conan Unconquered has you setting up a fortress in the barbarian’s merciless landscape, fending off attacks from bandits, scavengers and other mythological beasts. Developer Petroglyph games recently took to reddit for an Ask Me Anything session, detailing plenty of features in the upcoming RTS. Here’s a quick breakdown of the more important information that was shared.
Developer 343 Industries’ new take on the Halo series wants to be both a narrative-heavy adventure and the next step forward in the multiplayer arena that is currently dominated by the likes of Apex Legends and Fortnite.
I love Nintendo’s Switch. It’s brilliantly designed little console that’s perfect for playing proper games on the go. It really is clever, but that doesn’t mean that Nintendo doesn’t do some completely ass-backwards thinking and implementation. One of the worst instances of this is in the system’s voice communication. For some unknown reason, Nintendo games on the Switch that use …
If you thought that Fallout 76 was not offering you enough of a challenge in its multiplayer, then I have news for you. Bethesda Studios has unveiled a new game mode for the more serious of vault dwellers, called Survival. In a blog post uploaded yesterday, Bethesda announced that the new game mode, now entering the beta stages of development, …
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.
Everyone is fair game, bullets are whizzing around you and chances are that there’ll be plenty of griefers roaming the harsh frontier. So how do you enable Passive Mode in Red Dead Online? Here's how.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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