After almost two decades at Blizzard, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has announced that he’ll be leaving the company. Across 19 years, Kaplan’s career saw him him work on games such as Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, and Titan, the latter getting the axe and instead being transformed into Overwatch. As the director on its continual development, Kaplan became a beloved source of information in the fan community.
Extremely OK Games, the team behind that Celeste game that Alessandro and Matty never shut up about are back! This time the studio is tackling a new project called Earthblade, which is described as a “2D explor-action” game, complete with the developer’s trademark talent for whipping up really fantastic pixel-art.
One Redditor has possibly gone too far man.
Deep in the land of Amazon game studios, in the Fires of Mount Overtime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged a master game, and into this game he poured all of his cruelty, his malice and his will to kill all efforts for his employees to form a union.
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?
It’s a new year, and in terms of several video game franchises, it is definitely business as unusual. The last time that EA slapped its logo on an F1 video game was all the way back in 2003, and almost two decades later (and a hefty $1.2 billion as well) the next game in the series will bear the Electronic Arts label once again.
According to a new report by Bloomberg Japan, Square Enix or Sammy Ericks as its known to its mum, might be up for sale. Before you start shoving industrial-grade pins into a voodoo doll of Xboss Phil Spencer in a vain attempt to avoid hearing that Final Fantasy 17 will be an Xbox exclusive, chill for a second.
More Resident Evil Village demos are on the way, Mercenaries mode is making a comeback, and even more was revealed in last night's dedicated showcase to the upcoming game.
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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