There are decent Halo Infinite players, really great players, ranked Onyx players, and then there’s Remy “Mint Blitz,” an Australian streamer who won more than 100 free-for-all matches in a row. First reported by Kotaku, Mint Blitz originally set out to win 50 consecutive free-for-all matches in the recently-released (and free-to-play) multiplayer portion of Halo Infinite.
Month: December 2021
We enter the final three months of the year and things are starting to get quieter. October would usually be incredibly busy with game releases, but with many games being delayed because of development issues related to the Covid pandemic, a lot of attention went elsewhere. One of the biggest announcements was the confirmation that
SaGa series creator Akitoshi Kawazu has revealed that a remake, remaster, and a new game might be on the way. First reported by Kotaku, Kawazu tweeted yesterday to thank SaGa fans for their support in 2021, teasing what 2022 might hold. According to Google’s translation service, Kawazu’s tweet also reveals some exciting game developments in
Joe Ziegler, game director of Riot Games’ Valorant, is moving on from the game to work on something new. In a post on the Riot Games website, Ziegler announced his move after eight years of working on the popular competitive shooter, a year of which was worked on after the official launch. In the post,
Sony avoided E3 in June and had very little presence at Gamescom in August. Instead, Sony hosted their own PlayStation Showcase in September to show all of the games they’d been working on and they were the games PlayStation players were waiting for. We also saw the ripple effects of hacking and data mining. PlayStation
Update, 12/31/21: PlayStation announced earlier this week that Deep Rock Galactic, as well as Persona 5 Strikers and Dirt 5, will be the January 2022 PlayStation Plus titles, and now, new details about one of the games have been released. As first reported by VG247, Deep Rock Galactic will contain some PlayStation 5-exclusive features thanks
As the end of the year rolls around, it’s a time to reflect — in this case, on some of the games we played throughout the year. Most of us at ExtremeTech are gamers of one sort or another, and we’ve rounded up both what folks have played and what they liked. Note that games
Master Chief is not the only one born to wear an epic helmet. To celebrate the iconic helmet and launch of Halo Infinite, Riddell and Xbox have teamed up to create a limited production, commemorative Master Chief-inspired helmet to celebrate the recent launch of the game. Produced by Riddell Sports, the leading football head protection
FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has reassured players that they won’t be forced into situations where they must ride a horse or engage in mounted combat in the upcoming Elden Ring. Fighting on horseback or traveling on a horse are merely options that can prove to be effective, but there’s no compulsion. Miyazaki made his comments
Prestigious and long-running UK gaming magazine EDGE has revealed the staffs favourite games of 2021. The winner this year is Bethesda’s PlayStation 5 exclusive Deathloop. Some of the other games in the magazine’s top ten include Capcom’s latest Monster Hunter game for the Nintendo Switch, Monster Hunter Rise, Microsoft and Playground Games, Forza Horizon 5,
Twitter user Miller, who has accurately leaked Marvel’s Avengers content in the past, has revealed that Jennifer Walters a.k.a She-Hulk is headed to the game and will be voiced by veteran voice actress Krizia Bajos. Interestingly, the tweet below was briefly quote tweeted by Bajos, who added a green heart to it. However, she later
2021 is about due to be visited by three thematic ghosts. While it’s being taught the error of its ways, we’ve got a few games we let slip under the radar this year. Check the Best Game You Missed tag to see a new game each day over the break. Ghost Time Games’ Tux And
Blow us down! Fantasy Dash might just be the first of the 79p games that is worth considering. It gets over that line by a whisker, but it’s an achievement regardless. Well, an achievement without any Gamerscore. Fantasy Dash has no real claim to the ‘fantasy’ prefix. There isn’t a sniff of a goblin or
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you’ve dreamed of a Mortal Kombat Trilogy Remake on Nintendo Switch, you might want to check out Eyeballistic’s petition. This same team approached series co-creator Ed Boon back in 2016 with Mortal Kombat HD. While he was all for it, Warner Bros. (the Mortal Kombat IP owner)
The Halo Twitter account announced the release of a cosmetic pack featuring the Mister Chief meme for Halo Infinite, which includes a gun charm, a new AI skin, and other ways to kit out your character with the power of memes. Truly, we’re living in a charmed future where corporations are charging us real money
E3 may be the first game conference of the year, but its European equivalent is arguably bigger. Gamescom took place towards the end of August and while there was only one opening show that covered all developers and publisher (including Sony), there were plenty of new games to get excited about. The month wasn’t all
Cobra Kai returns to Netflix for a fourth season tomorrow. The runaway hit show is based on The Karate Kid films of yesteryear, and even rekindles the feud between Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka). We recently had the chance to play a mildly amusing Cobra Kai video game from developer
Remember when the Xbox Series X released and didn’t have any launch titles to go with it? This was a far cry away from the humble Atari 7800, a console that came with a game built in: Asteroids; my first exposure to this absolute classic. Load the console up without a cartridge slotted in and
Hello everyone, how was your 2021? For me, 2021 has given me opportunities to play more games than in previous years, as having access to PlayStation 5 has not only removed most of the wait time to get into the games I want to play, but also their loading times thanks to the console’s blazingly
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content: Activities: Earn DOUBLE My Nintendo Gold Points – For a limited time, you can earn double My Nintendo Gold Points when you purchase select digital games. That means you can earn up to 10% in Gold Points – which you can then use toward your next eligible digital game
Days after a release date entry for God of War Ragnarok was found in the PlayStation Network database, one country’s rating board seems to have awarded the game an age rating of 18 and above (or mature) already. As spotted by MP1st, Saudi Arabia’s General Commission for Audiovisual Media rated God of War Ragnarok, and
Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve
For a game that effectively gives you two choices – choose left or choose right – we are astonishingly bad at Ring of Pain. It’s part of its cruelty: even when there are only a few things in your control, you can still mess things up royally and die within the opening moments. Ring of
Image: Nintendo Last week, Metacritic revealed the worst-rated Switch game of 2021 was Square Enix’s Balan Wonderworld. Now, on a more positive note, we’ve got a list of the highest-scoring games on Nintendo’s hybrid platform. The Switch game of the year, which you’re likely probably already well aware of is The House in Fata Morgana:
June is when the first big gaming conference of the year, E3, takes place. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there was no in-person meetup. Instead there were plenty of publishers and developers doing their own digital shows, while Geoff Keighley decided to run Summer Game Fest at the same time for those who didn’t
Update: 7:40 p.m. Eastern: Fortnite is back online after being taken offline for several hours due to server issues. The official Fortnite Status Twitter account confirmed the fix and also promised a make-good of sorts to compensate players for the time spent offline. More details on what that reward is should arrive next week. Fortnite
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Inside one of Riot Games’ offices. (Photo: Hughes Marino) Current and former Riot Games employees have found victory in a $100 million payout soon to be made by the video game publisher. In settling a three-year discrimination class action lawsuit,
It seems scarcely credible, but Bungie have been making games for the last 30 years. A lot of people playing their games today wouldn’t have even been born when they started to produce video games, but now the time has come for them to celebrate the past by introducing a new bunch of gear and
Japanese gaming site Famitsu recently interviewed a number of prominent video game designers from various companies to find out what their plans are for 2022. One of those questioned was Ryozo Tsujimoto, who is the head of Capcom’s consumer games development division 2 and the current producer of the Monster Hunter series. He said that next year
In his end-of-year message for fans, creator Hideo Kojima teased two new video game projects, one of which is a “big” title and the other has been described as “a new challenge.” Kojima made his comments in Famitsu’s annual year-end feature that interviews Japanese developers and quizzes them about their plans for the upcoming year.
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