Having completed its acquisition of racing game studio Codemasters, Electronic Arts has said that it plans to treat the developer as an “independent group for the foreseeable future.” Originally in talks to be acquired by Take-Two Interactive, Codemasters ended up accepting a more lucrative offer of $1.2 billion from EA. The publisher already owns a
Month: February 2021
Instead of falling prey to scalpers, those in the market for a PlayStation 5 in India are actively working with a major online marketplace to have ads taken down. As reported by IGN India, PS5 scalpers took to popular marketplace OLX to sell the consoles. However, users reported the ads en masse, forcing the website
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 21 February 2021 13:42 GMT If you were watching 2021’s BlizzConline show on Twitch, you may have been taken aback to see heavy metal monsters Metallica sound a little different from what you were expecting. Twitch replaced Metallica’s live performance of For Whom The Bell Tolls at the end of BlizzConline’s
By Dom Peppiatt,Sunday, 21 February 2021 12:42 GMT The open beta test for Guilty Gear Strive will now carry on until February 23, giving you more time to test out the upcoming fighting game. The online test for ArcSystemWorks’ latest project was supposed to go offline on February 21, but thanks to
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 21 February 2021 11:37 GMT During the latest Japanese Fighting Game Roundtable, Bandai Namco has teased another newcomer for the Tekken 7 roster. Get ready for the next battle, because Tekken 7 appears to be getting yet another new character in its upcoming DLC. In the brief teaser trailer that you
Against its will, Valve is being dragged into the Epic vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit, with new documents revealing Apple has asked Valve to hand over financial data. Various court documents have revealed that Valve has been subpoenaed by Apple for Steam commercial data, with Tim Cook’s tech giant requesting years of in-depth sales information from the
Hey Everyone! Blizzcon 2021 is here! And I’m super excited!! In today’s video, I’m going to react to the World of Warcraft Shadowlands – Chain of Domination Full Panel at Blizzcon 2021 If you want me to react to any video game cinematics, please leave a comment down below! Donate: https://www.patreon.com/kylestencell Social: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kylestencell_ Instagram:
The world of Fortnite is rumoured to be expanding again soon, this time through the popular show ‘Family Guy’. Throughout the 15th Season of the game, we have seen many characters arrive from outside the world of Fortnite. Following this theme, it appears a crossover with Family Guy will be happening soon. A texture for
Hey Everyone! Kyle here! Its been awhile since I’ve reacted to a World of Warcraft video and I know that Shadowlands has been out for a couple of months now so I figured I would react to all the cinematic in World of Warcraft Shadowlands. World of Warcraft Shadowlands All Cinematics in Chronological Order Up
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox. OpenAI GPT-3 is a tool that generates human-like text. Replica is a tool that generates human-like voice acting. Combine these three things, as Modbox developer Lee Vermeulen did, and you get: given the brush off by shouty NPCs you can have conversations with, in VR, with your real
I hadn’t heard of Voyage until just a few hours ago, which seems like a waste. I could have spent months or years looking forward to this game, and instead it’s here already, available to buy and looking beautiful. Voyage is an about two people wordlessly exploring a series of hand-painted landscapes, solving puzzles and
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:21 GMT Hideo Kojima’s book, The Gifted Gene and My Lovable Memes, is getting an English translation. Originally published in Japan back in 2019, Kojima’s book features essays written by Kojima where he discusses his inspirations. In English, the book will be titled The Creative Gene: How books,
RPS is hiring for a new guides editor. All of the details are available in this job posting, but here it is in brief: if you love writing about games, breaking them apart, and explaining them to others, you should consider applying. The RPS guides section has gone from strength to strength over the past
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:38 GMT The next Steam Game Festival will occur in June. The next Steam Game Festival returns June 16-22, so you will have a bit of a wait (thanks, resetera). Like previous festivals, you can expect plenty of demos, chats with developers, and live streams. Earlier this month,
Apple would like Valve to hand over lots of information about how much money they make. Valve would prefer not. This is my two sentence summary of a joint discovery letter filed yesterday, as part of Apple’s ongoing legal skirmish with Epic Games over Fortnite and Apple app store fees. What do Valve have to
One More Level, Slipgate Ironworks, and 505 Games have announced that their cyberpunk slasher Ghostrunner has sold 500,000 units. Accompanying the news was the game’s console demo, which is now available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The Ghostrunner demo has just hit consoles! Run it on your #NintendoSwitch, #Xbox One, and
id Software co-founder, John Carmack, thinks that given global component and hardware shortages, companies should directly auction their products in the interest of transparency, and cut the middlemen (in this case, bots and scalpers). In a series of tweets spotted by Video Games Chronicle, Carmack wrote: Given shortages and speculators on things like 3090 GPUs
At BlizzConline 2021, the Diablo 4 team discussed enemy camps, the open-world, mounts, and PvP. In a What’s Next segment for Diablo 4, the development team showed off the Rogue class a bit more, and also discussed open-world aspects of the game as well as PvP. According to Blizzard, there will be plenty of exploration
Demonic shooter Devil Daggers is five years old, and to celebrate its developers have put out a quality of life update. It’s got some neat new features for replays, some performance improvements, and a new dagger that I will never, ever unlock. The details are laid out in a post on Steam. Chief among the
Blizzard Entertainment has been largely mum about Overwatch 2 since its official release, but the developer did hedge fans’ expectations by explicitly stating that the game will not release anytime soon and development updates will be scant. However, it looks like that’s set to change starting this year. In an interview with IGN, director Jeff
During BlizzCon 2021 yesterday, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it’s bringing back the Rogue class in Diablo IV. In an interview with Eurogamer, game director Luis Barriga said that Diablo IV‘s Rogue has been expanded and offers a lot of customization. Players who opt for fast-paced combat will enjoy its “finesse type gameplay” that allows them to
Blizzard has provided more information on Overwatch 2 as promised. Plenty of Overwatch 2 information was dropped yesterday after the BlizzConline 2021 opening ceremony in a separate segment. In it, the Overwatch 2 team provides a first look at some new locations players will travel to in the upcoming sequel, including Rome, which is the
Back in 2016, Night Dive Studios suggested that it was interested in releasing the Turok games for PlayStation platforms. It looks like that’s finally happening on Thursday next week. According to PlayStation Store listings spotted by Gematsu, both Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil will release on February 25th. At the time
In case you missed it, Blizzard Entertainment announced the surprise release of Blizzard Arcade Collection for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC yesterday during BlizzCon 2021. The $30 Celebration Collection includes The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing, and Blackthorne. You can also purchase standalone titles for $19.99 each. “The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll
While Diablo II: Resurrected isn’t trying to precisely duplicate the original’s look, the newly-announced remaster is making an impressive effort to match some parts. Watching a panel at BlizzCon today, I was delighted to hear about how they dug up ancient Blizzard assets to recreate and even reuse in the remaster. My favourite titbit: the
While Blizzard did not announce a release date for Overwatch 2 at BlizzConline today, they did show some of what they’ve working on since the FPS’s big showing at BlizzCon 2019. New maps! New sounds! New skills! New singleplayer! And most importantly, new fashion. One point the 38-minute ‘behind the scenes’ blast repeated often was:
The next Hearthstone expansion is off to the land of trolls – no, not Darkspear Isle, it’s The Barrens. Due to launch this spring, Forged In The Barrens will send Hearthstone players to World Of Warcraft’s infamous haven of inane chat spam. But rather than badger opponents into submission with trade scams and questions about
In the early 90s, times were simpler. The internet was a baby. Phones were only used for phone calls. “Cutting-edge graphics” meant “256 colors.” And back then, a little company that called itself Silicon & Synapse came together around the simple idea of making the types of games that the people at the company liked
Diablo II is getting resurrected more than 20 years after its original 2000 release. The remastered classic Blizzard title is coming to PC and consoles later this year as Diablo II: Resurrected, a definitive remastering that collects Diablo II with its expansion, Lord of Destruction. Rumors of the remaster have persisted for some time
We’ve partnered up with players to showcase their creative Guild Wars 2-inspired content on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel. Read on for this week’s scheduled programming, and don’t forget to check out the Guild Wars 2 category on Twitch for more great streams! Streams for the week of February 22 Wednesday, February 24 The Guild Wars 2 Art Show (by FiaOradd)(English)Noon Pacific