Remember The Sinking City? A perfectly serviceable game set in the Cthuluverse, developer Frogwares produced a game that hit the nail on the head for anyone looking to get a fix of HP Lovecraft-inspired insanity and dread prophecies about ancient gods that exist in inconceivable realms. What the game has been more well-known for as of late though is the ongoing drama between Frogwares and French publisher Nacon.
With Battlefield 6 a top priority, EA is shifting studios around to help handle the workload and has tapped Need for Speed’s latest developer, Criterion, to lend DICE a hand in its next war epic.
Developer People Can Fly have gone about cherry-picking what it wants from the last decade of games, resulting in a project that mixes the dirty aesthetics of Gears of War with the power fantasy of Destiny. And hot damn, does it at least feel great.
This is the month of remasters and console games hitting PC, starting with the delightfully charming Maquette, carrying through to Crash Bandicoot 4 no longer being a timed exclusive, and ending Disco Elysium’s final cut of content. Between all that, we’ve got Tony Hawk landing a 4K kickflip, Tales from the Borderlands on Nintendo Switch, and even Google’s Stadia managed to lock a third-party game down. Not bad!
In absolutely unsurprising news news to start the week off with, E3 as a physical show won’t be happening this year for the second time.
There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?
Destiny 2 has always been a game that you could set your clock to, but some big changes are on the way to Bungie’s sandbox. The first notable one? Annual expansions are no longer a thing, as Bungie is changing up the cadence for when those game-changing upgrades are released. This means that Destiny 2’s next expansion, The Witch Queen, will no longer arrive in 2021 and is now scheduled for release in “the early half of 2022.”
Guilty Gear Strive is setting a new gold standard for online play and has reinvigorated my love for fighting games.
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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