Returning to your hometown is always going to be a jarring experience, especially if it’s been a decade since you ran off. And it’s stories like these that draw me in instantly. Being forced to reconcile your past, while accepting the person you now are, is an interesting concept that can be tough to execute
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It seems like a lifetime ago now, but there was a time when I woke up before dawn, geared up in blaze-orange attire, and took to the woods of Maine in pursuit of the elusive whitetail deer. I was a freshman in high school and desperately wanted to fit in at our new school where
PlayStation Plus launched 10 years ago in June of 2010. It’s changed a lot over the last decade, including offering consistent free games every month and being required for online play on the PS4. To celebrate 10 years of Plus, Sony is giving away a free PS Plus 10th anniversary PS4 theme to all players.
When I was 18 years old I started making my first indie game, Coma. During computer lab, I would rush through my assignments just to spend the remainder of the period illustrating and coding a bizarre and beautiful world. I continued its creation into the evening in my bedroom, recording cringe-worthy voice acting lines and
Bit on the nose, eh? Swords sharpened, muscles glistening, Conan Exiles was ready to make the jump to the Epic Games Store today, arriving with the fanfare of a spot in Epic’s free game rotation. Pity, for the old warrior has been knocked back by a mighty blow. Funcom’s sword-swinging survival sandbox has been pushed
Kilter Films, Bethesda Game Studios, and Amazon Studios are bringing the popular apocalyptic RPG Fallout to light in a new way as a TV series. Few details are known about this upcoming Amazon Original show, but according to Deadline, it is the first project put together by Westworld creators and producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa
The UK is once again calling for loot box regulation. The Gambling Committee of the UK’s House of Lords has concluded in a report issued this week that loot boxes in video games should be classified as “games of chance”, which would put them within the purview of the Gambling Act of 2005. As such,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The advent of games-as-a-service has driven a great deal of change throughout the industry. New content delivery models have proliferated. The industry, as a whole, has pivoted away from single-player. Cosmetic purchases and loot crates have been major points of
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Modern European royalty has things easy. Without any form of meaningful power to wield, all they have to deal with is intra-family bickering and the odd scandal. The regal protagonist of Yes, Your Grace has to deal with all this, plus a kingdom on the brink of bankruptcy, starvation, and
New themed characters have made their debut in Mario Kart Tour today. They are Swimwear Rosalina and Swimwear Mario who look rather fetching in their summer gear. Mario Kart Tour is available now on iOS and Android and is free to play with micro transactions. Share this! Like this: Like Loading…
Remember when Anima Project rocked up on Xbox One with Anima Gate of Memories in 2016, and then The Nameless Chronicles a few years back? Remember how they delivered a tale based on the Anima Beyond Fantasy RPG book series? Well, that exact same team are back to announce they are working on a brand
With Fortnite Chapter 2 – Season 3 in full swing, we’re bringing LTM game modes back to the Island’s summer season and Battle Royale rotation. We’re calling it Summer Splash! Starting with this week’s 13.20 game update, we’re starting the party with the return of popular LTMs from past seasons. Sneaky Silencers is coming back
After the last few good-but-not-great expansions for Borderlands 3, it brings me great joy to tell you that Bounty of Blood: A Fistful of Redemption is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, my favorite Borderlands 3 DLC so far. In fact, I’d go so far as to say this might be my favorite Borderlands-anything since
After working for close to four years with Sony on the PS5 and Unreal Engine 5, Epic’s VP of Engineering says that the upcoming console is a “masterpiece of systems design.” This is the latest in the debate over power versus custom engineering. While Microsoft’s Xbox Series X has more raw “by-the-numbers” power on paper,
Captain Price needs you to join the fight in Season Four Reloaded! With the Armistice alliance all but broken and infighting between Allegiance and Coalition forces threatening to cause chaos across Verdansk, here is your emergency briefing: 200 Player Warzone With this update, Verdansk will now be able to hold up to 200 players in
Every pixel is simulated in Noita. That means it can be dull or deadly, and react like its real-world counterpart (or, you know, its unreal-world counterpart). Throw in the OTT spells of your wizard, and the burning, electrified, or weird counter-spells of the enemies, and you have a perfect platform for mods. There are no
When The Outer Worlds released last year on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, it won acclaim from critics and consumers alike for its choice-driven gameplay and clever writing. However, when the RPG came to Switch, players on Nintendo’s console didn’t get to see the game at its best; the performance can be pretty rough. To address concerns
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima appears to be teasing Death Stranding 2, or possibly an entirely new game set in the same universe. The hint comes from Twitter, where Kojima shared a photo captioned with his work-from-home process. You can check it out below. Here’s my way of designing new title w/Yoji. 1st we
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft announced today that it would kill its Mixer streaming service and transition users to Facebook Gaming. The announcement both is and isn’t a surprise. On the one hand, it’s been rumored that Microsoft might make a move with Mixer
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Nihon Falcom’s long-running The Legend of Heroes series finally hits Nintendo Switch in this third entry in the epic Trails of Cold Steel story arc, a direct sequel to Trails of Cold Steel II that takes place less than two years after the Erebonian Civil War portrayed in both that
Those of you who own the addictive Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch may want to participate in the new event which is taking place right now. It’s the Bug-Off where the goal is to catch as many creepy crawlys as possible. The event will be happening on the fourth Saturday of each
Long before they became Bandai Namco and famous for the Tekken franchise, Namco were among the original legends and pioneers of the video game arcade; it was an era where they single-handedly placed video games into pop culture when they unleashed Pac-Man fever onto the world. With such immense and continued success in a fast-moving
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Assetto Corsa Competizione is the exclusively GT3-focused offshoot of the fan-favourite, mod-friendly Assetto Corsa. That darling of the PC racing simulator community was ported to console back in 2016 to mixed results.Competizione, though, is in most ways a vastly better racer than its broader progenitor: there’s night racing, there’s dynamic weather, and the AI is
Whatever your feelings about the story in The Last of Us Part II, don’t expect it to be expanded on in any DLC. Game Director Neil Druckmann says there are no plans for The Last of Us Part II DLC, leaving the story as it is. The news comes from Kinda Funny’s The Last of
My time in Cyberpunk 2077 begins with a broken nose. Staring back at me in the grimy mirror of a seedy neon-lit bar is my customized mercenary V, and her nose is gonna need resetting. I have the choice to take an offered shot to ease the pain, or just get it over with, quick but
CD Projekt Red today announced an anime series spun off from Cyberpunk 2077, named Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Coming to Netflix in 2022, it’s being made by Trigger, the Japanese animation studio known for Kill La Kill and Little Witch Academia. Given the success of Netflix’s The Witcher, yeah, I’m not surprised. [embedded content]To experience this #content,
While Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby Daisy, and even Baby Rosalina have appeared recently in games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart World Tour, Baby Wario has been left in the dust since his sole appearance in 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS. Now, the developers behind Dr. Mario World have announced that
By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:17 GMT Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail has announced he is stepping down from his position. Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of Assassins Creed Valhalla, announced his departure today on Twitter. According to Ismail, he is stepping away from his role in order to focus on