photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard has been the focus of criticism for several years due to its widely criticized “boys’ club” corporate culture sleazy games. And now, late Friday evening, just before the holiday season really begins, The Wall Street Journal reports that the embattled gaming company will pay $50 million to settle ...
Ubisoft’s The crew, which was released in 2014 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, was delisted without warning. The servers will also be shut down next year. And since the game is an always-online experience, Ubisoft has confirmed that it will no longer be playable in this case. The open-world racing game ...
Renowned video game developer and cinephile Hideo Kojima is expected to collaborate with production company A24 to develop a film adaptation of his 2020 game Death Stranding. In a statement announcing the projectKojima Productions said that the film will not be “just a direct translation of the game.” 6 things you should know before starting ...
Gaming’s biggest night is over and perhaps the biggest surprise of all was how little time the developers were given to thank their family, fans, etc recently deceased colleagues during their acceptance speeches. But before that, we finally took a first detailed look at Rockstar’s GTA 6, the most anticipated game in a decade. Here’s ...
Earlier this year, Arkane Austin’s redfall entered the pantheon of terrible game releases. Takes his place next to it Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, no man’s heavenand more, the long-awaited Xbox exclusive struggled with performance, felt incomplete, and was full of conflicting ideas that just didn’t quite add up. The vampire shooter has lost tons of ...
Overwatch 2 is getting a bad beating online lately, and with good reason. Except his Pride eventit was all bad news for the hero shooter as Blizzard announced it gutted the planned PvE series of skill trees and replayable heroic missions To The company charges $15 for its story missions. It’s sad because the latest ...
Picture: Valve Steam’s online code of conduct has just been updated and mostly contains the expected wording, which explicitly forbids illegal activities, harassment, use of cheat programs and tampering with the Steam client. However, a new addition to the code of conduct is a strict ban on “commercial activities,” which includes gambling, a controversial topic ...
In 2021, Mythic Games, backed by Ubisoft, announced a Kickstarter campaign for an officially licensed board game adaptation of Rainbow Six: Siege. Two years later, Mythic is asking people who have already paid for the game to pay – and in some cases, a much-more. Let’s talk about the predictable end of Gotham Knights The ...
Australia’s federal government announced this week that it will push for “all video games containing simulated gambling to be rated R18+,” a move that appears to be the strictest of its kind we’ve seen. Tiny Tina Wonderlands’ coolest zone is easy to miss While Belgium’s notorious loot box laws have repeatedly made headlines since they ...
gif: Terri Vellman / Doseone / Kotaku If, like me, you feel that life is far too short to spend it on important, complacent games (or people, for that matter), then I recommend 2020 mud life? Once an Epic Games Store exclusive, it made its way to Steam about a year later, where you could ...
