Category: Archive
Pre-order pages for World of Warcraft Legion and Overwatch are live!
Just a few minutes ago Blizzard revealed the pre-order pages for both World of Warcraft: Legion and Overwatch: Origins Edition. The pages contain more advanced details than what we’ve been previously shown. You can check out the pages here and here
Torment: Tides of Numenera Switches Project Lead, Now set for 2016 release
In an update on kickstarter, developer inXile has announced its spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment will be releasing somewhere in 2016, moving the date back from its original Q4 2015 release window. It has also been announced that project manager Kevin Saunders will be leaving the studio. He will be replaced by Wasteland 2 lead […]
Xbox One’s Forza 6 Gets Custom Concept Controller
It would seem that after a long drought console gamers will again be able to get custom licensed first party peripherals on the Xbox One. First we saw the two Halo controllers and then the Fall Out 4 edition, and now a Forza theme modeled after the colors and pedals of the Ford GT. The elite […]
New Character “Dark Mewtwo” Revealed for Pokken Tournament
During a Japanese livestream of Pokken last night, the new character “Dark Mewtwo” was revealed for the upcoming pokemon fighting spin-off Pokken Tournament, which is being developed by Namco-Bandai.
Just What The Hell Are They Yelling About: An Introduction to Hearthstone
Earlier this week the Hearthstone World Championship officially started. Even though it was only the round of 16, viewer count peaked at over 100K, briefly becoming the most viewed game on Twitch. The Hearthstone competitive scene is big, and it’s a pretty cool place. I’ve enjoyed following competitive Hearthstone ever since its beta, and I […]
Germany & Poland To Compete For Glory In CS:GO Tournament Hosted By eSport Specialist ‘Playday Online’
Playday Online, the League of Legends and Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO) international eSports tournament specialist and platform has announced that registration has begun to their upcoming CS:GO Poland vs. Germany tournament hosted and sponsored in a collaboration with PaySafeCard and Pukawka.pl. The main tournament will occur November 2nd, with semi-finals and finals being broadcast on Twitch.tv Tournament […]
Happy Halloween: Destiny Gets More Microtransactions
An update this morning has added more ways to spend money in Destiny. For 200 silvers players can buy Treasures of the Lost Chests which can contain small randomized items such as legendary masks and Jackolytes. One dollar is equivelant to 100 silver coins. In addition to the chests, emotes can also be bought with prices ranging from […]
The Problem with Life Is Strange’s Ending
*Sighs deeply* You know, this wasn’t the article I wanted to write. It really wasn’t. Let me get this out of the way: I love Life Is Strange. I love the empathy it shows in giving even most of its villains depth and meaning. I love how most of the time it manages to tap […]
Destiny Patch 2.0.2 Detailed
Details have emerged on the next major Destiny update. On the weekly Bungie blog both the date, and content are detailed. Design lead Lars Bakken tells tell players: “Last week, it was clear to us that you were frustrated by the Iron Banner reward drops, and rightly so! It turns out that, when we started digging into […]
Total War: Warhammer Release Date and Preorder Bonuses Announced, will be part of a trilogy.
Sega has confirmed a release date for their newest Total War game. , Total War: Warhammer, will launch on April 28 and is the “first in an epic trilogy.” The announcement of it being a trilogy is totally new information, and no doubt will have fans very excited. Sega also announced that preordering from select participating retailers […]
Rovio The Studio Behind Angry Birds is Cutting Over 200 Jobs
The boom bust cycle of game development is something that anyone who works in the industry can tell you horror stories about, large layoffs are often commonplace after development sprints and often studio sizes swell, and shrink by the hundreds prior too and after a games release. It is however surprising that after over half […]
New Battlefield Hardline DLC is and its free.
EA has announced today that it will add a free expansion to its cops and robbers battlefield, called Blackout. The announcement comes on the EA blog which says “What happens when the lights go out, and criminal and police factions are forced to face off under the slimmest sliver of light? Find out yourself,” The post […]
PS4 To Recieve price Cut In Europe
It often seems that with consoles Europe gets left in the dust, so it usually comes as no surprise when months after a US price decrease the same thing is finally applied to Europe. Such is the case again with the PS4, the MSRP will not be €349.99/£299.99. A spokesperson for Sony said “Since the launch […]
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII PC Release Date Moved To December
Although tentatively set for an Autumn release date, Square Enix has been mostly silent about the PC port of Lightning Returns. This morning however, producer Kitase Yoshinori has announced through twitter that the game port will be delayed and will instead be coming out around December.
Star Citizen Exits Closed Alpha
Cloud Imperium Games announced today that their much hyped space game Star-Citizen has essentially exited its closed alpha access. The news comes in Chris Roberts’ most recent Letter From the Chairman update, in which he also announced that Star Citizen has surpassed one million backers. “Anyone who has pledged for a Star Citizen Package can now play […]