Month: July 2020

With every installment of the history-hopping Assassin’s Creed series, there’s a moment that I long for. Meeting some famed historical figure; perfectly timing an assassination from the shadows; crawling to the top of an architectural wonder to make an iconic leap of faith. The moment always inspires awe, and centers my experience in whatever time
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Ubisoft today announced a November 17th release date for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the next in their open-world murder simulator series. The date leaked yesterday but shh. And pretending that we haven’t been watching great reams of leaked Valhalla gameplay all week, they very proudly released a video showing and explaining more of the game. I
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Every big video game conference needs a “and you can play it right now” moment. Today’s Ubisoft Forward event announced that Ubisoft’s battle royale, Hyper Scape, is moving into open beta today – meaning anyone on PC can play. During the technical alpha, players had to hope for a Twitch drop to get access, but
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Dead by Daylight takes the mantle that Evolve started, before making it its own. Billed as an “asymmetric survival horror game”, the basic idea is that a single killer has to take on a team of four survivors, with the objective of either sacrificing the victims or escaping from the level respectively. Is this a
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If you like the idea of playing as the shape-shifting creature from John Carpenter’s The Thing, you’ll want to keep your eyes on Carrion, a Metroidvania-like adventure from Phobia Game Studio. Today, during the Devolver Direct livestream, Carrion was shown and given a July 23 release date for Switch, Xbox One, and PC. In Carrion,
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We’re all hungry for some next-gen developments and while this is neither the much-anticipated price of the PlayStation 5 nor the console’s reveal date, it’s your first look at Godfall‘s box art. Have a great weekend everyone! pic.twitter.com/xVn1q9Ncul — Godfall (@PlayGodfall) July 10, 2020 No, we don’t know how much Godfall will cost yet either.
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Ever since Sony first revealed the black and white PS5 console design, and even as far back as the DualSense controller reveal—creative fans have been eagerly photoshopping what alternate color schemes and special editions could look like. While most designers acknowledge that these are creative fakes, one ResetEra user posted a supposed “leaked promo ad”
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Reviewed by Tristan Ogilvie on Nintendo Switch. “Deadly Premonition 2 isn’t good, nor is it so bad that it’s good (like it’s predecessor). It’s something much, much worse: it’s mediocre. And that’s too bad. I’m certainly grateful for the chance to spend some more time with the eccentric and ever enthusiastic Francis York Morgan, because
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Last week, we asked you to roam the world of The Last of Us Part II and share overgrown and hardened scenery shots using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  Greenery takes over this broken urban landscape in Drag0nScary. Looking up in this shot from em_the_gem2. GAMEVNOM shares a Seraphite shrine. Ellie’s horse
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