Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 1 February 2020 15:57 GMT Mike Laidlaw, former creative director of the Dragon Age series, has left Ubisoft Quebec. Laidlaw announced his departure from Ubisoft Quebec on Twitter overnight, after spending a little over the year at the studio. He joined Ubisoft back in December 2018 as the creative director on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been trying to make its GeForce Now streaming service a viable product for years, but it has yet to get all the kinks worked out. Google leapfrogged Nvidia when it launched Stadia late last year, offering cloud gaming

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 31 January 2020 13:44 GMT For Honor is the latest Ubisoft live service game to gain a Battle Pass, and cut the number of new characters launching this year. Just like Rainbow Six Siege before it, Ubisoft announced that For Honor is moving in a similar direction with its Year 4

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to research analytics firm SuperData, demand for Half-Life: Alyx drove VR sales sharply skywards in Q4. Valve, in particular, was the beneficiary of this trend: Sales of the company’s $999 Index VR system more than doubled from Q3 to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Blizzard announced and launched Starcraft Remastered, the fan and critical response was excellent. People were pleased with the product and quality of the remaster and Blizzard was commended for the work it did. When the company announced Warcraft 3:

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re no strangers to expensive mechanical keyboards around here, but a popular Twitch streamer just showed all his subscribers how deep the keyboard rabbit hole can go. Turner “Tfue” Tenney just got his hands on his new custom keyboard, which

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:39 GMT Pokemon Sword and Shield are the Nintendo Switch’s best-selling games this fiscal year. This morning, Nintendo published its earnings [PDF] for the nine months ended December 31. This period has been very profitable for the company, supported by the success of exclusive games, and the launch

Pokemon Go players can start going up against one another in the Go Battle League. Niantic Labs has started rolling out a preseason trial of Go Battle League, which brings PvP to Pokemon Go. To make sure things go according to plan, the preseason will be rolled out based on Trainer level at the moment.

By Emily Gera, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:27 GMT Eight Atari-branded gaming hotels will be built across the United States later this year. The veteran gaming company today announced a partnership with strategy group GSD Group to build Atari Hotels – gaming hotels that will include VR and AR experiences, with select locations including gaming

Games industry veteran Hideo Kojima is interested in developing more projects outside of video games. Which probably isn’t a big surprise to anyone who has played his heavily film-inspired, cinematic games. Speaking in the February edition of Famitsu (as translated by DualShockers), Kojima and character artist Yiji Shinkawa described what projects they would like to

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:19 GMT GDC has released its annual State of the Industry Survey, and it finds that 34% of developers are making games for both current and next-gen consoles. According to the survey [PDF], while 34% are developing for both generations, 22% said they’re exclusively targeting current platforms. The

Rockstar is recording scenes for the original Red Dead Redemption and Benjamin Byron Davis, playing the role of Dutch van der Linde, is waiting for a confrontation to kick off in a bar. Him and the other actors are standing inside the performance capture volume – a stage filled with props to simulate a saloon

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s two pieces of Half-Life related news today. First of all, the Half-Life: Alyx dev team has posted an AMA on Reddit, and they actually give some intriguing answers to what sorts of changes and design rules Valve has followed

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft surprised everyone with a teaser announcement of its upcoming Xbox Series X late last year. We didn’t get much aside from the name and a render of the monolithic case, but now a Twitter user has posted what appear

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 23 January 2020 11:24 GMT Nintendo will not be required to offer refunds on eShop pre-orders in Europe. A German court has sided with Nintendo in a case against it filed in 2018 by German and Norwegian consumer advocacy groups. Motivated by a complaint filed by the Norwegian Consumer Commission in

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 19:46 GMT Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution is coming to Netflix next month. Pokemon fans can watch Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution on the streaming service starting February 27. A CGI version of the first Pokemon movie, the film was was released in Japan

AMD is launching its new RTX 5600 XT today ($279) and we’ve decided to examine the GPU in what’s become a rather unusual method for primary hardware reviews: We’re going to examine AMD’s performance on an AMD X570 motherboard and compare against Nvidia cards on that basis. Ryzen has been a solid CPU for gaming

By Emily Gera, Monday, 20 January 2020 21:49 GMT Funko has revealed its official Cyberpunk 2077 Pops. The collectible manufacturer revealed its concept art for Pop figures inspired by the Cyberpunk 2077 at this year’s London Toy Fair, Game Informer reports  – including two cool lil’ Keanu Reeves-inspired Johnny Silverhand Pops. While designs are still

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 19 January 2020 23:24 GMT The developer of Star Citizen is hitting back at Crytek as the lengthy legal battle continues. As spotted by our pals at Eurogamer, Cloud Imperium Games is claiming Crytek’s latest attempt to dismiss its own lawsuit against them was because “Crytek can no longer delay the

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:39 GMT Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website, and multiple people around the globe, which offers a DDoS service to users. The company claims the site was used to interfere with the Rainbow Six Siege servers. According to court documents obtained by Polygon, Ubisoft filed suit

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s Chrome OS started out as little more than a browser, but Google has slowly added more application support with Android and Linux modules. Chrome OS might be getting a lot more fun, too. According to a new report, Google

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:00 GMT 2019 is over and its biggest winners are hardly surprising. The NPD Group has revealed the winners of December 2019 and the full year in its latest industry report for America. In December, the industry generated $3 billion across software, hardware and accessories, a 15% drop

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. GameStop released its holiday earnings report this week, rather than waiting to roll holiday results into its next quarterly report. The company reported that store sales were down 27.5 percent for the Christmas holiday compared with 2018. Of course, GameStop

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 20:08 GMT Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot releases this week, which means it’s time to watch a launch trailer. The launch trailer for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, posted below, gives you a look at some action-packed segments, and Vegeta being rather chatty. In case you’re not up on your Dragon Ball

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. I’ve always been fascinated by the Xbox Kinect. When Microsoft debuted the platform, then known as Project Natal, the company promised it would enable an entirely new type of gaming, one in which your entire body would serve as the

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:48 GMT Red Dead Online players can earn XP bonuses this week along with special boosts in role-specific Free Roman Events. Those on the Bounty Hunting, Trading, and Collecting train in Red Dead Online this week will receive 25% Character XP and Role XP boosts playing role-specific Free

By Emily Gera, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:43 GMT Grand Theft Auto 4 is no longer available to purchase through Steam, it was discovered over the weekend. Now Rockstar has an explanation for the game’s mysterious disappearance. “Grand Theft Auto IV was originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform,” said the company in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Most high-end gaming mice have the same basic features like RGB lighting, high DPI, and lots and lots of buttons. The upcoming Asus ROG Chakram has all that, but it aims to set itself apart with a feature other mice

Howdy folks. Back in November, I asked you to submit hardware issues, questions, and problems to see whether I might be able to help. It took a lot longer than I wanted to come back to this topic. I had multiple members of my family sick in December, including me. One of the challenges of

Game developers Ubisoft Australia and Bungie join the growing list of studios pledging to help fund Australian wildfire relief. Ubisoft Australia has so far donated $30,000 to the Australian Red Cross Disaster and Recovery Relief Fund. Taking to Twitter, Ubisoft Australia notes that while players have asked for a funding drive to be implemented in-game,