Outriders seemed poised to be one of those games. You know the sort – the kind that’s good fun to play but not exciting enough to get much attention. I expected to make a glib remark about Outriders in 2022 and be fully roasted for it by no more than six people. Outriders, it seemed,
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Turtle Rock Studios has just dropped a brand new Back 4 Blood trailer, this time letting interested fans learn a little more about the playable slaying crew in the Left 4 Dead spiritual successor. Meet The Cleaners, eight different personalities that are more than just their zombie-slaying abilities. But we’ll also be learning about those
By Stephany Nunneley19 May 2021 20:35 GMT Outriders has done the numbers. According to an announcement from Square Enix today, Outriders saw over 3.5 million players worldwide during its first month of release Watch on YouTube “With over 3.5 million unique players, average playtimes of over 30 hours and extremely high engagement for co-operative play,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A recently translated document from Nintendo’s quarterly conference call indicates the gaming company has hit a milestone Sony or Microsoft might well envy: 20 percent of its Switch sales are to households that already own at least one Switch. “In
© Devolver Digital Devolver Digital is one of the biggest ‘Indie’ video game publishers in the world, though in reality the company has been rubbing shoulders with traditional industry giants for a good while. It’s much loved and admired for good reason, however, as it’s become a huge success from download Indie-style releases. When you
Every once in a while, Nintendo releases a new first-party game that also receives some amiibo. The most recent Nintendo game to get amiibo was Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. Well, if you’ve been wanting Nintendo to release even more amiibo this year, and the Smash Ultimate amiibo releases haven’t been enough to
It’s been just over a year since we first heard that The Ascent was coming to Xbox and PC. Finally though the highly anticipated cyberpunking action shooting RPG has been detailed and dated, with a July launch set. And yep, we’ll be playing this through Xbox Game Pass! Coming from the publishing team at Curve
Prepare for a battle between titans as the “Godzilla vs. Kong” collaboration begins at the start of the May update for World of Warships: Legends. The collaboration comes alongside new events, like revamped Ranked Battles and a campaign to earn a new French Battleship. First and foremost is the legendary battle of monsters between Godzilla
The story of Robin Hood is often told as a lighthearted tale of a cheerful knave who steals from the rich to provide to the poor. It’s been adapted as a cartoon featuring anthropomorphic animals, a comedy, and more recently a relatively family-friendly action epic. But Hood: Outlaws and Legends takes Robin and friends down
Greetings, everyone! Matt “Bayohne” Hilton from the Final Fantasy XIV community team here as we kick off Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival 2021 today! We will be live today and tomorrow on our official Twitch and YouTube channels with a ton of great content on all things FFXIV: developer panels, special guests, musical performances,
Mod communities tend to follow predictable arcs, so it’s often possible to predict what work users will create long before it exists. For that reason I thought to myself today: Microsoft Flight Simulator has been out for a while, I wonder if anyone has made a mod that lets you drive a car around its
This year’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival may not have been the joyous gathering of fans that it has been in years past, but the move from an in-person event to a digital livestream still delivered plenty of surprises and excitement. The focus was intently on the forthcoming Endwalker expansion pack, which was announced to
By Elizabeth Henges14 May 2021 21:03 GMT The Xbox Wireless Headset has been hard to pick up since its release, but Walmart has gotten a meaty restock of the elusive accessory. Xbox is celebrating its 20th anniversary in a number of ways, but maybe the unexpected one is a restock of the Xbox Wireless Headset.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question gamers have been asking more or less since the invention of graphics is, “How long until GPUs can make a game look “real?” This has always been a difficult lift. While it’s possible to create photo-realistic renders, doing
Nintendo Life If your mum asked you if you wanted to watch a romantic period drama with her for Mother’s Day, you’d know what to expect. Two hours of unrelenting pining between two extremely good-looking people in silly outfits, kept apart by some ridiculous social convention, at least one ludicrously sexy scene where one of
Video game leaker Zippo is confident that SEGA is looking to release a Sonic the Hedgehog collection as part of the spiky blue hedgehog’s 30th anniversary, which is taking place this year. The leaker shared that Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles will be making a comeback in a new Sonic collection. There were previously legal
Can you believe that it’s already been six months since the Xbox Series X was released into the wild? Well, that’s just one of the subjects on the agenda for TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 80, with our team sharing their thoughts so far. There’s also chatter about Resident Evil Village, Hood: Outlaws & Legends, Pokemon
As the person responsible for the creative direction of Subnautica: Below Zero, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what makes the highly esteemed original, Subnautica, tick. Below Zero has been built on top of a game that many know and love, but we’re not looking to play the same exact song each
Sony’s Play at Home initiative for 2021 began with nearly a dozen free games starting in March, as well as an extended Funimation/Wakanim free trial. They promised more content to come and they’re following through with free in-game content or virtual currency for ten different games beginning on Monday, May 17. Content for nine of
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout’s Season 4 beamed players into a neon-drenched Blunderdome of the future, full of fluorescent treats and techno beats. Today’s major mid-season update brings heaps of new content including two new Rounds, the roll out of Custom Lobbies, plus plenty of fixes, features and improvements for stumbling enthusiasts worldwide! Here’s what you
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. What with Stronghold: Warlords coming out the other week, I’ve been revisiting a few of the Stronghold games in my collection, and… crikey. Over the two decades and nine-ish games of the series, Stronghold has been
When I reminisce about the ‘90s, I think about the rise of boy bands, the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run, and being such a rebellious scamp that regularly conned people into giving me everything I wanted. Okay, only those first two memories are real, but The Big Con will at least give me an idea of what it’s like to relieve hapless folks
Destiny 2 finally has its own transmog system, fulfilling a long-awaited playerbase request. Play the newly-released Season of the Splicer for the first time and you’ll be prompted to complete the Armor Synthesis introductory mission. At the end of this, the new season vendor Ada-1 will move into the Tower, bringing the Loom along with
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Buying a new desktop video card can be murder right now. Thanks to the chip shortage and crypto price spike, you’d be lucky to find an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000-series GPU for less than a thousand dollars. You can get
Last month, Nintendo released it’s big 12.0.0 update for the Nintendo Switch. This was followed by a stability update, but there was believed to be a lot more going on behind the scenes. Now, it’s rolled out its very first update for the month of May, and it’s yet another stability update. Yes, who needs
Video game publisher 505 Games has announced today that it will be publishing a brand new title from the developer’s behind the action adventure titles, Metroid: Samus Returns for Nintendo 3DS and the multiplatform Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, MercurySteam. MercurySteam’s new game, which hasn’t been unveiled yet, will be coming to both consoles and PC.
In Rays of the Light is a remake and reimagining of the original 2012 indie game The Light. The initial project was a “test of the pen,” which marked the beginning of my journey in the world of game development. The game contained a general moral concept associated with the danger and harmful consequences of
Capcom has announced its consolidated business results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, reporting record-high profits for the fourth year in a row. The publisher attributes this success to its Digital Contents business, where Resident Evil 3 and Nintendo Switch’s Monster Hunter Rise reign supreme. Net sales totaled 95,308 million yen during the year, up 16.8
Last week, we asked you to revisit the beginning of Aloy’s journey in Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition. While tuning Aloy’s Focus and fighting off feral machines, you shared your best moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: AscensionDawn shares a warm portrait of Aloy. SP_Al3xis01 found a well shaped place to take
I’ll be honest, friends: I’m thick with cold and I’d like this day to end. Maybe you can help me make that happen. Once I’m done here, I’m going to crawl under a blanket and play something comforting that will distract me until bedtime. So I’m here to ask: what’s your comfort gaming for when