Shuhei Yoshida to Helm New PlayStation Indie Cultivation Initiative

Shuhei Yoshida has stepped down from his position as the Head of Worldwide Studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment, in order to lead a “new initiative” at Sony “focused on celebrating external developers that are creating new and unexpected experiences for the gaming community,” according to a press release issued this…

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Fanbyte’s Game of the Year 2019 Awards

Another difficult year in the world was met with another year’s worth of great games. Fanbyte’s Game of the Year 2019 awards are here to celebrate the ones that challenged us to think about that world, made us laugh, made us cry, or simply filled a void when we needed…

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PlayStation 5 Announced For Holiday 2020

The next generation of PlayStation is on its way, and it’s on a fairly standard track. While details of the PS5 have trickled out over time, we have one of the biggest reveals yet: a release date. Now, we know the newest Sony console, which is still in the works,…

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All Twelve Call of Duty League Cities And Organizations Have Been Unveiled

The Call of Duty League is the newest franchise league by Activision-Blizzard, and it’s slowly starting to come together. Now, we know all twelve “franchise cities” that will be represented in the CDL. Much like in its Overwatch equivalent, the Overwatch League, Activision-Blizzard requires the organizations involved to choose a city to…

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If You Own a Console and Slept on Telling Lies, it’s Time to Wake Up

Telling Lies, the FMV, found footage, mystery, difficult to quantify with a genre game from Sam Barlow, the director and developer behind 2015’s Her Story, is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch next week on April 28. The game originally launched last year on PC and iOS…

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Against All Odds, the Mistover Doomsday Clock Is Actually Fun

There are about 57 new, high-profile games I need to beat right this minute — so, naturally, I’m playing Mistover. The blatant Darkest Dungeon clone came out of early access in the middle of October. It’s a lot like its predecessor, too, only a bit less grim and a lot…

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Junji Ito Contacted by Hideo Kojima about Working Together on a Horror Game

Prolific horror mangaka Junji Ito has confirmed that Hideo Kojima has reached out to him about working on a horror game together. He revealed this at the “VIZ: A Haunting Conversation with Junji Ito” panel at the Comic-Con@Home digital event on July 24. In response to a question about whether…

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Warframe Faces Criticisms, Review Bomb Over Chinese Translator Controversy

Free-to-play co-op game Warframe has come under a “review bomb” recently due to a dispute involving its volunteer localization staff. It appears developer Digital Extremes let go of a volunteer Chinese translator after some infractions, according to posts by the translator himself, who was well-known within the greater Chinese Warframe…

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Pokemon Sword & Shield Remind Me That I Am a Hateful, Wicked Person

I blew through the story of Pokemon Sword and Shield in about a week. It was enjoyable enough, but mostly it was work. As the only member of the content team who’s kept up with the series, I was helping out with our coverage and just wanted to get through it as…

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Rumor: Silent Hill Fans Might Not Be Mourning the Series Forever

Long-running and reliable horror games site Rely on Horror has been consistently reporting on rumors that the Silent Hills series is being rebooted for some time now. This week, the site reported the rumor that PlayStation might have already backed the revival of not just the series, but also Silent…

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FF14 Patch 5.1 Details — Epic of Alexander, Ishgardian Restoration, And The Best Emote Ever

The 5.1 patch for Final Fantasy XIV had a ton packed in already. In fact, it was so much, that they opted, as usual, to bring it in through several smaller patches. But these patches aren’t exactly small; FFXIV patch 5.1, especially, introduces plenty of new nifty things that fans looked…

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I Think You Should Make Hot Wassail

I gave up coffee (and caffeine) two days after my 36th birthday. I mostly did it to stabilize my sleep and lower the number of migraines I have per month (many) to something I can manage (many fewer). And, to my surprise and relief, it worked! Editor’s note: I’m not…

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