Launching sometime in the near future, Steam China will restrict what kind of games will be offered in China as well as who can develop them. Name a more iconic duo than Internet Censorship and China. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Established over the course of a decade, given the boom of Internet culture, China’s government hasn’t shied away from the …
Due to differences in regional currencies outside of the United States, older EA games have become incredibly overpriced.
Honestly, the fact that this hasn’t been run into the ground with a bevy of lawsuits is enough to impress me.
Fans who don’t own a PS4 looking to play one of the most hyped games of the year will have to wait until April of next year to get their paws on it. Considering the iconic status of the original Final Fantasy 7 on the first PlayStation, that the highly anticipated remake would be exclusive to PS4, at least for …
Fallout 76, the much-maligned, post-apocalyptic online RPG from Bethesda is finally getting human NPCs in the new Wastelander update. The game was heavily criticised for not featuring any human non players when it was released, with Bethesda hoping that real players would pick up that slack. Instead, the world, populated as it is with robots, felt empty, despite being a multiplayer shindig.
Stadia’s just been dealt another kick in the teeth. Nvidia’s officially launched its GeForce Now streaming platform. It’s a similar service in that it allows players to stream games they buy through GeForce now from just about any PC, removing the need for expensive hardware. As with Stadia it’s a tiered service. There’s a free tier that lets you access your games from anywhere, but limits game sessions to just an hour. There’s a $5 per month service that gives you priority access and extended session length, but also uses top tier hardware in the cloud, even enabling advanced features like RTX.
Sunday may have been the busiest day ever for the digital gaming platform, as the SteamDB reported that a peak of 18,801,944 players occurred at 6:20am PST on the holiest of days.
For as long as human beings have been able to mould piles of clay and dirt into cubic rectangles and stack them upon one another to create the most marvelous of engineering feats, there has existed that small reptilian part of our brains that has longed for nothing more than wreaking absolute devastation upon those structures. The act of breaking …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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