Month: August 2020

AT&T appear to have decided against selling off Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment. There were numerous parties interested in acquiring the company including Activision, EA, and Take Two. AT&T CEO, Jason Kilar, has recently emailed staff about his plans for restructuring the company and mentioned that the gaming side of the company is staying put, for
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A speed runner’s dream Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. If I wasn’t writing about games, I likely would never have heard of Futurlab’s Velocity. It was a top down shooter that had a unique hook: what if your space ship could
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Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox, read on below and click on each of the
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Unless you count my holiday at Butlins in Clacton-on-Sea in the early ‘90s, you don’t seem to get many horror experiences set in the dazzling daylight. Keeping things dark and moody with the eternal threat looming in the shadows is a trademark of every terror-based game I’ve ever played. And that’s the same with Allison’s
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U.S. president Donald Trump recently signed executive orders targeting TikTok’s parent company ByteDance and gaming giant Tencent, the latter of which not only took many by surprise but also alarmed the games industry. The executive order against Tencent takes issue with its WeChat service, and prohibits U.S. citizens from engaging in any transactions. However, given Tencent’s involvement
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Are you ready to stop a vampire invasion? How about take on some really big, really rowdy werewolves? The Dark Heart of Skyrim marches on with the upcoming Stonethorn. The DLC dungeon pack includes a wealth of content as you bring the heat to the ancient bastion of Castle Thorn and take on a vampire
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Feeling the need for speed on this toasty Saturday afternoon? It might not be the newest car in the garage, but Codemasters are giving away F1 2018 over on the Humble Store all weekend. It’s yours to keep “while stocks last”, so feel free to treat yourself to a few high-speed laps. More seasonal update
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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
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When we first saw Grounded less than a year ago, the pitch was to adapt Obsidian’s signature RPG style into the survival genre. Having recently launched into Early Access on Steam and Xbox Game Preview (plus Game Pass), it’s currently much more of what you’d traditionally expect from the latter than it is influenced by
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Tango Gameworks founder and CEO Shinji Mikami recently made an incredibly important announcement: You can pet the dog in Ghostwire: Tokyo. The news comes from the brand new Ghostwire: Tokyo PS5 trailer shown at QuakeCon earlier today. Check out the video below. [embedded content] “I’m Shinji Mikami from Tango Gameworks,” says Mikami at the beginning of the
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Guerrilla’s Horizon Zero Dawn arrives on both the Epic Games Store and Steam today, giving PC players a shot to experience Aloy’s open-world adventure in the lands of robo-dinosaurs. PlayStation’s last exclusive to head to the PC scene, Death Stranding, came with a smattering of upgrades and enhancements. We’ll have to see how Horizon plays on
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Virtual reality really lends itself towards the shooter and rhythm genres. It immerses you in the game in a way you can’t achieve with just a controller. These genres are normally very different from one another, but Cloudhead Games decided they would combine them for their latest game, whilst also drawing inspiration from “God-mode” films
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QuakeCon At Home is live this weekend on Twitch, though it really should be called BethFest when you look at the schedule. The event has moved wholly online thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rescheduled celebration of id’s and Bethesda’s games has an intriguing schedule. Here are a few of the highlights. A warning:
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