Imran Khan Nov 4, 2021. 1 minute read
Avengers Will Finally Bring Spider-Man to the Game Over a Year After Announcement
Over a year ago, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix announced that they will be supplying extra content for the PlayStation versions of Marvel’s Avengers in the form of an entirely additional and unique superhero, Spider-Man. The decision was controversial, but became even more quixotic as the game failed to garner…
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Imran Khan Nov 4, 2021. 1 minute read
Surprising No One, Elden Ring Looks Great
This news article is just to alert you that Elden Ring, the upcoming Souls-successor from FROM Software, still looks rad. We knew that back when the last trailer hit for Summer Games Fest, and we know that it looks cool now after a scheduled drop of 15 minutes of gameplay. If you…
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Imran Khan Nov 4, 2021. 1 minute read
The Animal Crossing Update Came Out Two Days Early Because Nintendo Hates Guides Writers
A few weeks ago, Nintendo aired an Animal Crossing: New Horizons-focused Direct where they detailed the new content for the game’s final update and the DLC expansion titled Happy Island Designer. Alongside a fairly disliked announcement of Switch Online Pricing (which is currently not worth it), the publisher dated the DLC as November…
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Imran Khan Nov 3, 2021. 1 minute read
Marvel’s Midnight Suns Delayed to Second Half of 2022
Announced at today’s Take-Two earnings, the upcoming Marvel tactical RPG that debuted earlier in the year has been hit with a delay. While originally intended to release in March 2022, it has been confirmed today by developer Firaxis that the title has been pushed back until the second half of…
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Imran Khan Nov 3, 2021. 1 minute read
Elden Ring Footage Streams Tomorrow for the First Time Since Its Debut
It’s been an oddly-paced journey for Elden Ring‘s pre-release marketing cycle in the last few years. The game had a short E3 teaser, followed by two years of silence until Summer Games Fest where it got a release date, then it got a delay from said release date which wasn’t accompanied…
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Imran Khan Nov 2, 2021. 1 minute read
Blizzard: Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 Delayed, Jen Oneal Steps Down From Leadership
It’s obviously not been a great year at Activision-Blizzard. Between the numerous state lawsuits about violations of labor law and just, well, general awfulness, there hasn’t been a lot for the company to hang their hat on in the games space to distract most people from all that either. That…
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Imran Khan Nov 2, 2021. 2 minute read
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Closing Down in January
A few years ago, I was invited to Niantic’s offices to preview the reveal of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a new game from the developers of Pokemon Go. Considering that, for a brief and bright moment, Pokemon Go essentially took over the world, there was a lot of anticipation for a Harry Potter-themed…
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Imran Khan Nov 2, 2021. 2 minute read
Super Smash Bros. Director Undecided About Future Entries
At the beginning of nearly every character reveal for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, director Masahiro Sakurai breathes a sigh that’s a mixture of relief and disbelief that a decade of working on the series is coming to a close. Sakurai considers the previous game, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, to be…
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Imran Khan Nov 1, 2021. 1 minute read
Large Man Pressures Indie Developer Young Horses to Add Trophies to DLC
Bugsnax, the PlayStation 5 launch game that also appeared on PlayStation 4 and PC, is getting new DLC soon as seen on the latest State of Play. Titled Isle of Bigsnax, the free update adds new bugsnax, giant versions of new and existing bugsnax, a new area, a hut in the…
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Imran Khan Nov 1, 2021. 1 minute read
Bloodborne Demake Beats Any Kind of Bloodborne Port to Release in January
Why the hell isn’t Bloodborne on PC yet? More and more people are asking this! FROM Software’s PS4 exclusive action game has been locked to its original hardware while every genre-contemporary from the studio has made it to PC. It’s not like PS4 exclusives never come over, Sony has even established a…
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Imran Khan Oct 29, 2021. 1 minute read
Remember Halo Infinite’s Craig? You Won’t BELIEVE What He Looks Like Now!
When Halo Infinite debuted as part of the Xbox Series X reveal event last year, there were various complaints of both valid and grumbling types about the game’s presentation. As so often happens, a core complaint eventually became a meme, this time in the form of a screenshot of a brute…
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Imran Khan Oct 27, 2021. 3 minute read
The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack is Not Currently Worth Your Hard-Earned Money
Back in September, Nintendo announced a new tier to the existing Nintendo Switch Online plan by adding two new consoles, Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis, to the plan. While at the time the tier, titled the Expansion Pack in reference to the Nintendo 64’s RAM expansion, went unpriced, a later Animal…
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Imran Khan Oct 27, 2021. 2 minute read
Everything From Today’s PlayStation Third-Party State of Play
In the years since PlayStation largely stopped doing in-person presentations — both as a consequence of the global pandemic and simply a seeming desire to back away from the show floor — the company has increased the number of its digital presentations to slowly compensate. As such, just a little…
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Imran Khan Oct 25, 2021. 3 minute read
Guardians of the Galaxy Teaches the Virtues of Emulation
When Square Enix first revealed Guardians of the Galaxy earlier this year at their E3 show, it was a little disappointing that they actively chose to mimic the style of the popular Marvel Cinematic Universe movies rather than take it in their own direction. The sci-fi/comedic mix seemed to aim to…
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Imran Khan Oct 22, 2021. 1 minute read
NetEase Acquires Suda 51 Development Studio Grasshopper Manufacture
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind games like No More Heroes III, Let It Die, and Killer is Dead, announced on Twitter last night that the Suda 51-lead developer has been acquired by Chinese tech company NetEase. The announcement came in the form of several tweets of varying levels of PR, but Goichi…
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Imran Khan Oct 21, 2021. 1 minute read
Stardew Valley Developer Reveals New Title, Haunted Chocolatier
ConcernedApe, also known outside game development as Eric Barone, is also best known as the developer of seminal farming/life sim game Stardew Valley. On Twitter today, ConcernedApe abruptly announced that he had something to reveal today, linking to an undetailed YouTube video that premiered in the afternoon. Barone revealed a brand…
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Imran Khan Oct 20, 2021. 1 minute read
Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 Won’t Get Next-Gen Versions Until Next Year
When Cyberpunk 2077 was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the ensuing car crash left a lot of people annoyed that the game’s PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions — both platforms that were out when the game released — were nowhere to be seen. This was exasperated by…
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Imran Khan Oct 19, 2021. 1 minute read
People in Pokemon Legends’ Ancient Hisui Had VHS Camcorders
The thing with period pieces as video games is that they’re difficult to wrap gameplay contrivances into the narrative in any way. You can’t just put a cellphone in Jin Sakai’s hands and say “Here’s your map of Tsushima, Jin, go nuts.” Pokemon, though, Pokemon does not care. The upcoming Pokemon…
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Imran Khan Oct 19, 2021. 1 minute read
Ubisoft Rumored to Give Sam Fischer from Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad His Own Game
Sam Fischer, Ubisoft’s oftentimes side-character seen in games like Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad (which was sunset after co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement to use as the game’s villains) and Rainbow Six Siege, seems to be getting his own game, according to reporting from VGC. Per VGC’s development sources, Ubisoft has…
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Imran Khan Oct 18, 2021. 1 minute read
Abandoned Developers Beg People to Please Stop Sending Death Threats
It feels like a long time ago that Blue Box Game studios, the developers of upcoming PlayStation 5 horror game Abandoned, became embroiled in an entirely made up conspiracy about being a secret Silent Hill game lead by local crazyman Hideo Kojima. After repeated denials, and then hints toward the conspiracy, and…
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