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Call of Duty: Vanguard reviews have started to land and we have rounded a few up for you. There aren’t too many reviews live at present, but that will surely change over the weekend, so expect more to drop Monday once more outlets have had enough time with the shooter. Released yesterday, November 5, the

Square Enix and Ateam Entertainment have announced a November 17 release date for Final Fantasy 7: The First Solider. If you are unfamiliar with the upcoming title set 30 years before the events of FF7, in it, you will fight to join the ranks of Shinra’s elite Soldier unit. Here, a total of 75 candidates

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Activision Blizzard) Activision Blizzard is pushing out production of Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV to afford its creative teams more time to develop both games. In what looks like a presentation slide shared by Axios reporter Stephen Totilo on

Nintendo’s recent financial report (via Gematsu) touted the fast-selling Nintendo Switch’s success, having sold over 92 million systems to date. That’s including 3.83 million Switch hardware units it sold in Q2. Software sales are also thriving, with over 681 million games sold, 48.6 million of which were in the last sales quarter. Specific game lifetime

The 3D platformer is dead, or so I’ve heard at least once a year since around the time of the GameCube’s less than stellar sales performance. Nintendo, thanks to Mario, is so closely linked to the genre that any blip in its fortunes results in panic that the classic genre is close to extinction. In

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Fortnite is the most popular game in the world, but Epic has decided to give up on a huge potential market. After experimenting with a Chinese beta of Fortnite called “Fortress Night,” the company has decided to shut the game

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few years ago, a group called Team Xecuter began releasing mod kits for the Nintendo Switch. That’s nothing new — cracking game consoles to run homebrew software has been common for ages. However, most people modding their consoles do

British news site The Sun reported that Sony commissioned a number of 747 flights to transport thousands of PS5 systems to the UK to keep up with Christmas demand for the popular machine. This is just the latest move in Sony’s struggles to get the PS5 into the hands of eager gamers. [embedded content] To

November 2021 is a big month for video games, with CoD Vanguard, Battlefield 2042, Forza Horizon 5, and Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Pokemon Shining Pearl all releasing. November is usually quite a busy month for games but this month isn’t nearly as packed as you’d expect due to delays into 2022. Still, there are a good handful

Resident Evil Village players will get some free DLC at some point in the future. News of free DLC coming to the game was mentioned in Capcom’s latest integrated corporate report included with its Q2 FY2021 financial results. [embedded content] To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The DLC was mentioned

It’s steel for humans, silver for monsters, and gold for all of us as we get to celebrate with a brand new trailer (watchable below) for The Witcher season 2! The trailer picks up right where the first season left off, with miserable Witcher Geralt united with his very own Child of Surprise, fighting off

The Diablo Immortal closed beta has gone live alongside multiple significant changes and gameplay additions made to the game that drastically alter the experience those invited to the beta will have. These changes include a new Necromancer class, some new PvE game modes, an PvP mode that pits groups of players against immortals, and controller

The Sony quarterly earnings report for Q2 2021 has been made public, revealing, among other information, that the PS5 has now sold 13.4 million units since its release last November. In Q2 alone, the PS5 sold 3.3 million units, beating out the previous quarter and matching the number of sales made during the final quarter

According to a post on Dealabs, a community forum where information is posted and verified by dedicated moderators, has posted leaked details of November’s PlayStation Plus line-up. According to this leak, the four of the six games included are as follows: The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners (PlayStation VR) Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (PS4) First

If you’ve been online at all over the past few years, you know that Steam Sales leak. They leak all the time. Almost every year, there’s a leak. Look how easy it is for us to find links to stories about Steam Sale dates leaking. Well, no more: apparently fed up with the constant, predictable

Age of Empires 4 is releasing later this week, and with its embargo having been lifted today, there are numerous reviews of the highly anticipated RTS title popping up across the internet. Ahead of its release, we thought it best to compile a list of review scores to help you judge whether the game should

Microsoft has released the Xbox October update and it features a 4K dashboard for Xbox Series X, Night Mode for Xbox consoles, and new Quick settings. The update adds a natively rendered 4K dashboard on Xbox Series X consoles which increases sharpness and text readability. Prior to this week’s update, the Xbox Series X dashboard,

Doom Eternal’s Update 6.66 is coming soon and it will feature the long-awaited Horse Mode. Originally revealed during this year’s QuakeCon panel, this update promises to be one of the game’s biggest yet. Along with Horde Mode, you can also expect enhancements to competitive 2v1 Battlemode which will feature a new arena and streak-based rewards

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google unveiled Stadia in 2019 with the promise of a platform that would rival the traditional gaming consoles. Barely a year later, it is begun backing away from that promise. Google has already closed its game studio, and has previously

Nintendo put smiles on a lot of faces when it revealed that Kingdom Hearts’ Sora was to be Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s final fighter to join the roster. Now Sora is out, I’ve put him through his paces to see how he stacks up. In the video above you can see what I think about

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Heads up, Stargate fans: Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, David Hewlett, and Jewel Staite are getting together in a drive-by reunion. The actors will reprise their roles of Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Dr. Rodney McKay, and Jennifer Keller, respectively. But

Gameplay from two of the opening missions of the new Saints Row has been released by Volition, in partnership with Game Informer, giving us a better look than ever before at the tone and setup of the rebooted game. If you’ve already seen the previous videos focusing on vehicles and car combat and the world

Sony rolled out a new firmware update for PS5 consoles earlier today. The new update is incremental, and comes roughly two weeks after the most recent one. [embedded content] To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Today’s release, version number 21.02-04.03.00, is the usual 913MB download. According to Sony’s official support

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you were worried about learning the hard way which games do and don’t suit the Steam Deck, Valve is one step ahead of you. “Deck Verified,” Valve’s new program, will show gamers “at a glance” whether games make for

The ESRB has rated the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Though we’ve known for a while that both new consoles are getting an upgraded version of the action RPG, developer CD Projekt Red has yet to detail what kind of enhancements players should look forward to. To see

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League wasn’t the only big game at the DC FanDome, we also got a fresh look at WB Montreal’s Gotham Knights, thanks to a new story trailer. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings This is our first proper look at the game since last year’s

During Minecon Live today, Mojang introduced the next big update to Minecraft: The Wild Update. The free update will introduce new gameplay mechanics, depth, and new blocks and mobs, including mud, mangrove trees and swamps, updated swamps, frogs, and frog eggs. Players will also be able to place chests on boats. [embedded content] To see

Indie developer Starward Industries has a really neat-looking sci-fi thriller in the works called The Invincible, which is set in a retro-future timeline. Today, we get a new look at it. Announced last year, in this first-person game, you play as a scientist who wakes up on the hostile planet Regis III and takes off

What are the most important aspects of a role-playing game? Is it the characters, the story? The artistic vision of a believable yet fantastical world? Or is it the mechanics? Hiroyuki Ito definitely thinks it’s the latter. And maybe we should be listening to him. Ito’s resume speaks for itself – he worked on all

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has launched its RDNA2-powered Radeon 6600 and taken the crown as the least-attractive GPU since Ampere kicked off the most recent product update cycle just over a year ago. That’s the overall opinion of the various publications that have