Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida has revealed the game has reached a new milestone of 22 million registered players. During a Letter from the Producer LIVE presentation, he also revealed new details about Patch 5.5, which will be released alongside the PlayStation 5 beta on April 13. The new player milestone comes
Month: April 2021
The Bloxy Awards have returned to Roblox! For those who are unfamiliar, the Bloxys are all about bringing our entire global community together to celebrate some of the greatest Roblox experiences, videos, and creators of the year. It’s a veritable showcase recognizing the incredible talent and creativity found on our platform, which supports millions of
It’s been a bumpy launch for Balan Wonderworld – a boss section in the game was identified as being able to potentially trigger epileptic seizures and there’s a suspicious amount of positive user reviews on Metacritic, raising plenty of eyebrows. If all of this wasn’t already enough, Yuji Naka’s latest release is now being accused
The Wild West lends itself nicely to video games, as one of the most popular genres in the early days of the medium involved some cowboy gunslinging action. The Atari and NES had several of these classics, most of them being action platformers. Luckslinger on Xbox is a playful homage to that era, but it
Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace reviewed by Jarrett Green on PC. This digital adaptation of the Arkham horror board game series from Asmodee Digital is a passable translation of the Lovecraftian Cthulhu mythos, but its simple combat and uninspired detective work won’t sate your otherworldly tabletop hunger for more games like The Sinking City or Call
It’s rare that I’m impressed by graphics anymore, but The Ascent’s recent trailer had me stepping through it frame-by-frame just so I could squint at the details. It’s a co-op, topdown shooter set in a cyberpunk world, and it bangs, fizzes, smokes, and glistens in pleasing ways.
Breathedge is an ironic outer space survival-adventure that is due to be released on PlayStation 4 next week. While players investigate the cause of their sudden spaceship crash, they’ll have an immortal and rather evil-looking chicken for company, but will they be able to survive a deadly conspiracy? Of course, this isn’t just any old
Final Fantasy XIV‘s next expansion is Endwalker, which will conclude the story that’s been running through the massively multiplayer game since A Realm Reborn launched in 2013. Before that will come update 5.5, which will bridge the gap between Endwalker and the previous expansion, Shadowbringers, and there’s a new trailer for it below.
NEO: The World Ends With You producer Tetsuya Nomura haas teased on Twitter that fans can expect more information about the sequel to the excellent 2007 Nintendo DS game The World Ends With You next week. The information will be shared on Friday, 9th April which is just prior to the first episode of The World
People Can Fly’s Outriders is a complete game at launch, with no current plans for DLC. However, in an interview with Forbes, Creative Director Bartek Kmita said that any future DLC the team created for the game would be “significant expansions with self-contained stories”. Despite shying away from the live-service model, Kmita assures players they’re
Action RPG Wolcen felt like it burned bright and fast, attracting a peak of over 100k concurrent players at launch last February, and retaining only a little over a thousand a few months later. Bugs and a lack of endgame content seemed to be the issue. The game’s latest patch addresses both. Update 1.1.1.1 adds
After numerous delays, it looks like we’ll finally have the chance to watch Marvel Studios’ Black Widow on July 9, either in theaters or on Disney+. This new chapter in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff (a.k.a. Black Widow), who becomes the central player in a conspiracy that has ties
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
We know, you’re still recovering from the fact Sol Cresta is actually real, but we’ve got a little bit more Platinum news to share. The company’s fifth game announcement has now been revealed as the brand-new action title, World of Demons. Unfortunately, it’s an Apple Arcade exclusive. It also happens to be PlatinumGames’ first mobile
If managing your bills and outgoings under lockdown isn’t quite romantic and adventurous enough, then welcome to Mittelborg: City of Mages, where you’re in charge of an entire fantasy city. Who knows what the electricity bills are like with a horde of thunder mages. Mittelborg: City of Mages is out now on Xbox One, Xbox
Summer Game Fest is returning for 2021, and it will once again include the Double Fine and iam8bit Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition, featuring “new video game content, including world exclusive news and gameplay, plus video game musical performances.” Last year, industry hype man Geoff Keighley took it upon himself to create
GameTrailers takes you on a visually stunning guide through the mythology of The Legend of Zelda. See how one of the most confusing timelines evolved over two decades as we make sense of the official order divulged in Hyrule Historia. Watch more episodes of Timeline on GT! http://www.gametrailers.com/shows/timeline 25TH ANNIVERSARY ARTWORK: MUSIC: ZREO: Zelda Re-Orchestrated,
Evil Genius 2: World Domination reviewed on PC by Leana Hafer. #IGN #Gaming
Outriders launched yesterday on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, as well as on Xbox Game Pass as a day one addition. While the issues seemed to even out yesterday regarding being able to get into the game, the Outriders servers are down currently. Luckily, People Can Fly is looking into a fix. Outriders Servers Are Down
TT Games, the developers behind the LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, have announced on Twitter today that they have decided to push back the release of the long-awaited LEGO game. The team were planning to release the game in the spring, but have now decided that the ambitious game needs more time in the
Genshin Impact already looks and performs well on the PS5 when playing the PS4 version via backwards compatibility, but the epic free-to-play action-RPG is getting a proper PlayStation 5 version with further next-gen enhancements and updates. Genshin Impact PS5 will bring faster loading times, 4K resolution, and enhanced in-game textures to bring the world to
Last week, we asked you to focus in on the detailed expressions of various heroes in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. From furiously furrowed brows to smiling faces, here are this week’s expressive highlights: Kratos flashes a ferocious face in combat in God of War, shared by GameonFocus. Ellie makes funny faces
Warzone Audio Bang is RPS’ fortnightly Call Of Duty: Warzone podcast that looks at everything happening in Verdansk. Ed and I have continued to pop into Verdansk for post-work shenanigans despite the wish for more wild events in our favourite danger zone. The zombies have moved to the bank vault, because as we all know,
Summary Embr, the frenetic firefighting game from developer Muse Games and Curve Digital, is coming to Xbox this Summer. Available Summer 2021 for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. All Early Access updates coming to Xbox in one package. Having brought its signature style of frantic, frenetic, and, yes, fantastically fun online multiplayer to Early
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to a recent report, Nvidia is increasing the supply of GTX 1650 cards to the desktop consumer market after having prioritized the GPU for notebooks. This is good news. The GPU market is so overheated, we’re currently recommending readers
Smash-style indie fighter Rivals of Aether is getting four new characters who have been designed by Steam Workshop creators. The line-up includes Mollo, Hodan, Pomme, and Olympia and they’ll be added to the roster in “late” 2021. As noted, the Steam Workshop community has managed to churn out more than 1700 stages and more than
Monster Train has launched their new DLC, The Last Divinity, introducing the sixth clan and a seriously huge final end boss. And there’s more, like a whole new resource system called Pac Shards, letting you merge two of your favorite units into one super strong unit. Let’s focus first on the new clan, The Wurmkin.
With just three days to go before the release of Oddworld: Soulstorm, the trophy list has been revealed. As listed on TrueTrophies, the list shows players will need mutiple playthroughs if they’re to get the Platinum trophy, and one of those will have to make sure Abe doesn’t die in any of the game’s levels.
Reviewed by Luke Reilly on Xbox Series X. Also available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4/5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. “Part racer and part frenetic puzzle game, Can’t Drive This is a highly imaginative and fresh driving game that thrives as a catchy co-op experience. At its best with four players it’s a genuine riot and
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey launched the first step of its alpha only a few days ago, and developers Frontier have shared a response to some common complaints from its earliest adopters. Firstly: no, space taxis aren’t going to get any faster.