Reviewed by Tristan Ogilvie on PlayStation 5. Also available on PlayStation 4, Xbox, PC, and Stadia. “Roaming the streets of Resident Evil Village is like visiting a disturbing and deadly Disneyland, where every attraction is a house of horrors. I got just as big a thrill out of revelling in its frenzied violence as I
Month: May 2021
Nintendo has perhaps the longest, most illustrious track record in the history of the games industry, so if you’re hoping to learn the best ways to design and create your own video games, you’d be hard pressed to find a better instructor. While the gaming giant has released titles like Super Mario Maker 2 to
Last month, Jade Raymond announced her latest venture. After the collapse of Stadia Games and Entertainment, an internal development studio at Google Stadia, Raymond revealed she had moved on from her role as the studio’s Vice President and founded a new studio called Haven Studios, partnering with Sony to work on a PlayStation exclusive. Six
Despite its overwhelmingly positive critical reception, developer Housemarque has been hard at work on addressing the few issues that players have had since Returnal’s release. It just released a brand new patch earlier today to address crashing issues, Trophy unlocks, and more, but the update inadvertently introduced an even worse save corrupting issue that is
Summertime Madness is a first-person puzzle game that’s coming soon to Xbox One. The player, in the role of a painter who has made a pact with the devil, must find his way back to the real world after being deceived and trapped in one of his paintings. A journey into the surreal world of
By Stephany Nunneley5 May 2021 20:36 GMT In Activision Blizzard’s financial report last night, it was revealed that Blizzard’s revenue grew 7% year-over-year (yoy), but that player numbers were down. According to the report, WoW Classic and World of Warcraft Shadowlands helped drive revenue with Hearthstone providing some help too. Watch on YouTube Going by
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The ongoing Apple-Epic lawsuit brought more interesting facts to light regarding the Epic Game Store and the kind of return on investment Epic saw when it started giving away free games. Data is only available for the first 11 months
Or ‘The Lord of King’, if you prefer by Darren Calvert 54 mins ago Retro fans may be interested to know that HAMSTER is bringing Jaleco’s 1989 side-scrolling action game The Astyanax to the Switch eShop tomorrow as part of its Arcade Archives range. Known as The Lord of King in Japan, this game appears
Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent application for a game help system that connects struggling players with “experts” in real time. As reported by IGN, the application is listed on Patent Scope, and makes the case for the aforementioned system by arguing that video games are becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for some
Egosoft have just released X3: Farnham’s Legacy, a free game in their incredibly long-running space sandbox series (the first was released way back in 2005). The game was crafted by the Egosoft community, and is free to owners of X3: Albion Prelude. Hey, I own X3: AP! Yay for me! And hopefully yay for you,
The Skylia Prophecy is an action-platformer from Totalconsole that manages to rise above the average through its quirks and charm. What it lacks in deep combat and responsive controls, it makes up for with an experience that’s surprising and unexpectedly ambitious – at least more so than the many, many action-platformer games that trundle through
Today is May 4th, and as we said just a few days ago, today is also Star Wars Day. Multiple games from the franchise are currently on sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop. However, Nintendo are not the only ones celebrating the occasion. The NPD Group have also decided to give some interesting sales data
Tuque Games creative art director Stefan Leblanc took to the PlayStation Blog to share some unique Dungeons & Dragons metal-inspired art. The key? Just don’t care about the way the world looks, and that’s a philosophy we can get behind. In the blog post, he shares never before seen Dark Alliance concept art and to him, it’s
Either he’s an insufferable tease or he’s an S-tier troll, but one of the Ed Boon’s latest tweets is adding fuel to the fire that NetherRealm is working on a Marvel fighting game. An insider claimed last week, along with quite a bit of evidence gathered over the past few years, that NetherRealm is developing
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, Xbox is amplifying voices of empathy, honesty, and mental health awareness. Now more than ever, people are experiencing new challenges which impact their mental health. With the ongoing pandemic, physical isolation has elevated the importance of virtual connections to stay in contact with friends and loved ones. Through
By Stephany Nunneley4 May 2021 20:46 GMT The game director for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, has resigned from CD Projekt. News of Tomaszkiewicz’s departure comes from a report on Bloomberg. Watch on YouTube Tomaszkiewicz’s departure was revealed in a company-wide email sent to CD Projekt staff. His departure comes in the wake
Before working on Dark Alliance – the action RPG set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons – I was a game cinematics director at a few major gaming studios. My time before Tuque taught me to not just care about the look of a world. The “vibe” and the characterization of a world is
Arriving as part of the upcoming Blackwood Chapter (releasing June 8 on PS4 and PS5 alongside ESO’s next-gen optimized Console Enhanced upgrade, free for ESO players), the Companions System will allow you to recruit a new combat ally to take on Tamriel. For the development team, the goal of this new system was to provide
April has come and gone, and with it some incredible new releases. The Players’ Choice polls are open now for you to vote on which game made the biggest impression on you last month! We’ll keep the polls open until Sunday night at 11:59pm Pacific, so be sure to cast your vote before then. Then
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Lawsuits occasionally offer fascinating windows into the internal debates within companies. The Apple vs. Epic lawsuit that kicked off this week has already given us a new perspective on Sony’s approach to crossplay between the PS4 and other consoles. While
Update: Now featuring 100% more Star Wars: Republic Commando. Originally posted on 7th April 2021, we’ve republished this list to celebrate Star Wars Day – enjoy! The release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker may have ‘ended’ Star Wars as we’ve known it for the past four-and-a-half decades, but all it really
Buying a new gaming monitor can add quite a bit of extra cost onto a new PC build, but the good news is that there are plenty of great gaming screens out there for less than £300 / $300. In our round-up of the best budget gaming monitors you can buy today, we show you
The move from diesel and petrol to electric automobiles has been picking up speed in recent years. There’s certainly plenty of excitement about the power a battery or two is able to produce and before long it’ll be the electrifying surge of battery powered cars that are found on not just our streets, but also
Iron Galaxy have been ardent supporters of the Nintendo Switch, bringing a number of ports to the popular system. In a recent interview with Segment Next, Iron Galaxy Studios GM Shekhar Dhupelia, said that they have a new game in development which the team are extremely excited about. However, the company is not ready to
The start of the Epic Games and Apple court battle has seen the leak of a number of documents that relate not just to those two companies but to many others as well. The latest document to leak is one from Sony Interactive Entertainment, explaining the PlayStation cross-platform revenue share policy. If a game’s PS4
Epic Games battle against Apple begins today. While this wouldn’t necessarily be of much interest to us until there’s a decision, some of the supporting documents being filed in the case are throwing up interesting tidbits. In a Microsoft Executive Portfolio Update submitted to the court, the platform holder revealed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will only be
Blizzard is currently hard at work on several Diablo-related projects, the biggest, of course, being Diablo IV. Because of this, it apparently wants to make sure its franchise is the only notable Diablo in all of media. Case in point: the publisher has apparently taken exception to a new animated show by Fox that features
Watch Dogs: Legion players can grab a new DLC character and single-player mission starting today on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, as well as a slew of free additions to the campaign and Online mode with Title Update 4.0. Available via the Season Pass or as a separate purchase, the DLC includes a new
You got a taste of competitive play in Open Series Tournaments*, felt the thrill of watching rivals develop, and learned how to get better month after month. It’s been one year since we launched free events to help you close the gap on the competition, so let’s celebrate the most memorable moments from your community.
With PlayStation Now’s May lineup, you can try to survive unrelenting yokai in feudal Japan, rub shoulders with manga icons, and battle your way across an entire city. Starting tomorrow, May 4, Nioh, Jump Force and Streets of Rage 4 will be available to play on your PS5 or PS4 console. Let’s take a closer