Just a day after it debuted in Chinese cinemas, Monster Hunter has been review bombed by filmgoers and had all its showing cancelled due to a joke made in the movie considered to be offensive.
While the ban was supposed to take effect at the end of this weekend, TikTok, along with WeChat, went to the courts to fight for its case and won a temporary reprieve.
We’ve seen Pokémon revolutionise the strategy genre over the years. We’ve seen Pokémon strategy games, dungeon crawlers and even Pokémon fighting games. But today? Arceus help us all, the next genre that Pokémon is dipping into, is…a MOBA. Announced today in the latest Pokémon Presents showcase, Nintendo is teaming up with Tencent to develop Pokémon Unite.
There’s been speculation lately that System Shock 3 is about as dead as a mass hugging competition event in 2020, but it turns out that rumours of the demise of that sequel may have been grossly exaggerated.
Chinese mega corporation Tencent is taking over videogames. Tencent already wholly owns League of Legends developer Riot Games, and has big stakes in companies like Epic, Supercell, Ubisoft, Paradox and Frontier. Last year, they acquired a 29% stake in Secret World and Conan Exiles developer Funcom. Now, they’re buying the rest of it. Tencent announced a voluntary cash offer on the remaining Funcom stock.
As can be expected, even this China exclusive service will probably function better than Stadia.
Sumo Group, who own developer Sumo Digitial, are currently developing the sequel to the cult-classic zombie game Dead Island
The group of disgruntled employees held their protest in the centre of Blizzard’s main campus plaza, clearly visible by the company’s executive officers.
CS: GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) is one of the most popular first-person shooter games, …
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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