Sony has named existing company veterans Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new heads of PlayStation. Hulst will take over and run a new Studio Business Group while Nishino is in charge of the Platform Business Group. The division of roles replaces former CEO of Sony
Main Quests Want Me (to finish them), Fish Fear Me.
The bold new business plan revealed today has some nasty fine print.
Four Lakes and a second-gen X Elite in just three years means it's all going to get very confusing, very quickly.
Sony's PSN blunder will be immortalized on a cape.
Tomas Sala wants to clear up the confusion.
Fallout is still just so impressive all these years later.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and its follow-up expanded release, Substance, released on the PS2 all the way back in the early 2000s, dramatically expanding the gameplay systems of Metal Gear Solid and opening the narrative up to wild and unexpected twists and turns.
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Square Enix's "unforgettable experiences" will be made without some unforgettable people.
There’s a scene late in Hi-Fi Rush, the rhythm action game by the now-defunct Tango Gameworks , in which protagonist Chai explores a museum dedicated to the antagonistic, oppressive megacorp Vandelay Technologies. In it, the corporation tells a sanitized version of its own
The release date may have leaked, too.
Everything you need to know about Diablo 4's new Helltide open world events.
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The team at FromSoftware is really good at making the most fucked-up creatures imaginable. Some of the stuff that team has fit into its games are utter nightmares ripped out of the deep dark recesses of the human mind. Parts of its catalog, like Bloodborne , have explicitly
Last month, Bethesda released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 across all platforms intended to improve the aging RPG. Instead, it broke tons of popular mods and made the game buggier for some players, too . To fix that, Bethesda has released another update. The reaction from
Mods are great, except when they're not.
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"...We could not find a commercial agreement that worked for both parties moving forward and mutually agreed to part ways."
Rockstar has updated its PC launcher files and included text that appears to reference a still-unconfirmed PC port of 2010's Red Dead Redemption . It’s just the latest bit of evidence that the open-world cowboy sim might soon be arriving on personal computers after a decade of
'Once we'd settled on using words for everything, the ideas for mechanics just kept coming.'
Imagine: Dragons. Specifically, three of them.
The second season of Max’s The Last of Us show is currently filming in British Columbia. While Joel actor Pedro Pascal is reportedly done with his part of the season, somehow , Ellie actor Bella Ramsey is still shooting their scenes alongside series newcomer Isabela Merced, who
Helldivers 2 may be a video game analog for the satire of the 1997 sci-fi film Starship Troopers , but there’s an entirely different space-faring movie franchise fans have been clamoring to see in the game. That franchise is, quite predictably, Star Wars , and folks have
Apart from the traditional screenplay and 3d production hurdles, multiverse narratives and games produce even more complex structures of going about the production of ideas and concepts.
As I think about the strategy genre, and the complexity of them, I wonder if it’s time for a structural change to how strategy and tactics games are made.
New plan will also include a shift from "quantity to quality".
Mesa mega merge means a magnificent moment may manifest…err…soon.
Last week, WB Games announced that The Joker —voiced by Mark Hamill—is going to appear in its franchise-mash-up platform fighter, MultiVersus, when it re-launches later this month. And now, via a new gameplay trailer for The Joker, it seems the Powerpuff Girls could also be a
"The voice actors that signed up and built the models receive royalties for every line we create."
2024 sees the release of the MMO's 10th expansion.
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Project Kestrel, originally known as Vanguard, has been canned so Remedy can focus on its other games.
Amid turmoil and disillusionment over recent studio closures , Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has continued grinding through Fallout 76 and has just finished the “Officer on Deck” questline, granting him the ability to launch the survival MMO’s infamous nukes. The new
You'd be surprised how many of your favourite games have pen-and-paper adaptations.
Marvel Rivals , the Overwatch-like starring Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch, and other Marvel superheroes, came under fire over the weekend during its ongoing closed alpha playtest. After reading through developer NetEase’s contract for access to the playtest, streamers noticed a
It’s been three years since GameStop’s stock originally exploded during the pandemic as big-time investors capitalized on an internet feud between deep-pocketed hedge funds and very online Redditors. Now the meme stock is back for round two after Roaring Kitty, AKA Deep Fucking
"It was built from the beginning to have the players involved."
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Looks like RTX super-chonk coolers are chonk for life. Or one more generation, at least.
"If I can’t afford to buy model kits, why not just make them."
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Square Enix has announced that it will be moving away from releasing games exclusively to select platforms, opting instead to pursue multiplatform launches in the near-future to amplify the sales of its flagging games. It’s all part of “aggressively pursuing” a new business
