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YouTube has announced that in order to keep up with the meteoric rise of TikTok, they’re making it even easier for users to create and watch Shorts. After rolling out basic “remixing” tools to creators last year, YouTube is finally expanding its suite of tools to allow users to easily remix clips of eligible videos, rather than just audio, allowing for similar content borrowing ...read more
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It looks like Among Us VR will release in December just ahead of the holidays. Though not formally confirmed as yet - although we suspect Facebook's Meta Quest Gaming Showcase next week may help formalize everything - an update to SteamDB, a website that tracks changes to Steam's backend, has fans thinking the game will release on December 13, 2022. In SteamDB's defense, the entry clearly ...read more
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Longtime Souls series dataminer Lance McDonald has uncovered the initial phases of a cut NPC questline in the Elden Ring build from the game's console network test in November 2021. The Stormhill Shack (formerly Scavenger's Shack) where you meet Roderika in the finished game is empty in the network test build, but Lance was able to re-implement the NPC who was once intended to live there: Monk ...read more
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Despite 343 Industries claiming that the only BR it’s interested in is the Battle Rifle, a battle royale mode is seemingly coming to Halo Infinite. Codenamed “Tatanka”, the mode is being developed by Certain Affinity and will reportedly be more “newcomer friendly.” In the recent The Xbox Two podcast, Windows Central’s Jez Corden spoke a bit more about the mode, how it’s been in ...read more
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Microsoft is gifting free PC Game Pass trials to non-members who played some of its biggest 2021 game releases. Anyone who played Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5 or Age of Empires IV on PC from release until February 28, 2022, is eligible to receive a 3-month trial of PC Game Pass, it announced this weekend. However, the offer is only valid to those who have never previously been a member of ...read more
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It's been a good few months since various video game developers announced that they will be delving into the blockchain side of things for upcoming projects. However, after severe public backlash, many of them have either quietly withdrawn their plans, or decided never to bring up the topic again. However, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda, is still going on about his "play to earn" ...read more
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It’s been a while since we haven’t heard anything special from the studio, but Naughty Dog’s new game will apparently feature a fantasy setting, something that we haven’t seen from them for years. When it comes to a fantasy setting, the only things we can remember from Naughty Dog are Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter franchises, both not touched by the studios for years. It’s ...read more
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Ubisoft has responded to criticisms that its open-world games are too big. Ubisoft is one of the few publishers that got in on the open-world hype early with franchises like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed. It wasn't long until that expanded to franchises that were previously smaller in scale like Ghost Recon. Over the years, as expectations have grown, Ubisoft has doubled down on open-world gaming, ...read more
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The AEW game release is tentatively expected in September, according to a new report. The wrestling game, rumoured to be called AEW: Fight Forever, has been in development since at least 2020, though we’ve only seen sporadic glimpses of it since that initial reveal. The game is in development at Yuke’s, the studio behind everything from SmackDown vs Raw in the early 2000s to many of the ...read more
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Congratulations, you have unlocked another Thursday! That means it’s time for a new batch of free PC games on the Epic Games Store, as well as a peek on what’ll be on offer next week. This week, you can pick up the excellent XCOM 2 and mountain-climbing roguelike Insurmountable. Next week, they’ll be replaced by the voxel-based co-op game Riverbond. Riverbond is about jumping into a ...read more
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