Author: Rae Michelle Richards
Jeff Kaplan Aware of Overwatch Community’s Concerns About Anniversary Loot Boxes
Overwatch’s 1st-year-anniversary event is well underway with the first week of the three-week celebration almost complete. Now, game director Jeff Kaplan has acknowledged that the development team is aware of players complaints surrounding the drop rate of the coveted event only skins. Unlike previous events where the limited time skins came in a variety of […]
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Ends Next Tuesday
Telltale’s The Walking Dead: A New Frontier will see its conclusion with the release of episode 5 next Tuesday – May 30th and It will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, iOS and Android. What will happen to the residents of Richmond as everything hangs on the edge of oblivion? You’ll have to […]
Vanquish Now Available On Steam
Platinum Games’ hypermobile third person shooter Vanquish is no longer contained to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the release of a Windows PC port on Steam today. Directed by Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil fame, the original version of Vanquish was released in October of 2010 and was received favorably at the time […]
Xbox Game Pass Takes On PlayStation Now To Become The Netflix of Gaming
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Games Pass, its’ monthly subscription based games library service will launch today for Xbox Live Gold Members and will be available to the general Xbox Live population regardless of subscription status on June 1st. Xbox Games Pass is the company’s attempt to compete with Sony’s PlayStation Now Service which offers […]
Overwatch’s Anniversary Event Is Upon Us
The teased Overwatch anniversary event has descended onto Blizzard’s servers as promised. This update brings a whole selection of new skins (although sadly not every hero receives one), brand new emotes for all heroes including some hilarious dance emotes and a whole pile of common items that will remain in loot boxes after the anniversary […]
Here Is How Classes & Combat Are Changing In Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
Square Enix held a nearly four hour livestream for the last FFXIV: Letter From The Producer Live before the Stormblood expansion is released next month. In this special Letter From The Producer Live Yoshi-P & friends gave us an overview of how the battle system will change in 4.0, revealed many of the new class […]
Fractured Space Gets Improved Matchmaking
Edge Case Games’ space faring MOBA hasn’t exactly caught on the way other games within the genre have but that hasn’t deterred a small but dedicated fanbase from enjoying the game. One of the more common complaints about Fractured Space has been the long queue times which can range anywhere from 5 – 10 minutes depending on […]
Nintendo Japan Hosts Indie Focuses ‘Nyandies Special’ Featuring Cat Peach & Mario
Today the adorable Cat Peach & Cat Mario held a indie developer focused “Nyandies Special” over on the Nintendo Japan YouTube channel. Even if you don’t speak Japanese (as I do not) you might still recognize that the announcement of Owlboy for Switch is a world reveal. Other big games featured in this presentation include […]
Guardian, It Is Time To Get Excited About Destiny 2
Destiny 2 had its big reveal at a media event in Los Angeles yesterday with a live streamed keynote presentation that included brand new details for the game, our first look at the game’s single player mission and a few small teases at what to expect from what will surely be one of this Falls’ […]
New Destiny 2 Screenshots Released Ahead of Livestream
Activision has released several HD screenshots promoting the Destiny 2 Livestream which takes place tomorrow at 9AM EST over at http://www.destinythegame.com. This will mark the first time that the public will get a look at gameplay from Bungie’s long awaited MMOFPS sequel. The exact specifics as to what will be revealed is not known but […]
Try Out Nintendo’s ARMS During The ‘Global Test Punch’
Nintendo’s bizarre upcoming brawler ARMS will be playable for free during two different ‘Global Test Punch’ events taking place from May 26th through 28th and June 2nd through 4th. Like the Splatoon 2 Global Testfire before it the ARMS demo will have 10 hour long slots where players can login and duke it out online […]
Sonic Forces Allows Players To Make Their Own Character
SEGA announced today that they will be making every early 2000s Sonic fan’s dream come true by allowing the creation of custom characters who will fight alongside the blue blur in the upcoming Sonic Forces. These new characters will use a “third gameplay style” which combines the behind the camera fast paced motion of Modern […]
Last Week of Nexus Challenge 2.0 Rewards 10 Overwatch & HOTS Lootboxes
Fans of Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch on PC can snag 10 loot boxes for each game if they’re willing to play 5 HOTS 2.0 friends between now and May 22nd. Complete some matches with your pals and cross your fingers that last hero in your collection or epic skin drops from of these […]
Quake Champions Open Beta Impressions
The Quake franchise was once a multiplayer staple during the early 1990s and while the franchise has tried to reinvent itself twice in the mid-2000s it has been almost a decade since we heard from this formally prominent frag fest. Now id Software in collaboration with Sabre Interactive and publisher Bethesda are preparing to bring […]
Square Enix Ends Its Business With Hitman Developer IO Interactive
Square Enix included a statement in its’ recent year-end financial report that the publisher will be seeking to end its’ business relationship with Hitman creators IO Interactive. In their brief statement that accompanied their financial report Square says that they have made this decision to “maximize player satisfaction” and their “market potential”. Interestingly this decision […]