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PAX East, West, and Unplugged dates have been announced for 2021. Of course, given the ongoing pandemic, these could easily change. One of the many things that were canceled due to COVID-19 this year were big gaming conventions like E3 and PAX West. After all, getting that many people in one place is only a recipe for disaster due to the ongoing pandemic. However, with a vaccine seemingly on ...read more
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The PS5 is finally here after a considerable amount of hype and marketing. In many ways it’s probably the best launch lineup we’ve ever had for a PlayStation console launch, but it was different in the sense that very little of what was released was exclusive to the upcoming gen. Really Demon’s Souls was the only major next gen-exclusive title (unless you count the pack-in Astro’s ...read more
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With PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ current season winding down now, the first teaser has officially come in for Season 10 content. PUBG Corp. shared a brief teaser trailer this week that hinted at the arrival of a new map which is presumably called “Haven.” The same teaser trailer gave some dates at the end to indicate that Season 10 will start as soon as Season 9 ends on December 16th ...read more
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In 2009, there was a small game called Demon’s Souls released on the PS3 as a collaboration between Sony and FromSoftware. The title ultimately was a flop in Japan, so much so that Sony decided to pass publishing duties in other regions to Atlus. However, it managed to garner a following, which lead to a spiritual successor, and over a decade later at the launch of the PS5, Demon’s Souls ...read more
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Rare has that its pirate-action adventure, Sea of Thieves, will be getting a Battle Pass and other new features in 2021, with the launch of Sea of Thieves: Season One in January. Rare has announced a pretty big overhaul is coming to flagship Xbox and PC title, Sea of Thieves. A huge new update set to drop early in the new year will introduce a new progression system, Seasons, and more besides ...read more
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The new Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite update has raised some privacy concerns among Nintendo fans. More specifically, with the new 11.0 update, Nintendo has once again switched on data sharing via Google Analytics. If this sounds familiar, it's because it did this about a month ago as well, and unless you manually turned it off then, you've been sharing your data through Google ...read more
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Fatshark has revealed that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has been optimized for Xbox Series X/S. According to the developer, Vermintide 2 now runs smoother than ever before, allowing for some truly “silky smooth and visually satisfying rat killing.” The game is the sequel to Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide. In it you will fight together with your friends against the forces of Chaos and ...read more
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Minecraft got another Snapshot update this week to let players on the Java version of the game test out some new features. One of those new features is another Biome added to the game called the “Dripstone Caves Biome.” It’s part of the larger upcoming Caves & Cliffs update, and if you’ve got the Java version of the game and the inclination to download Snapshots to see what’s new, you ...read more
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State of Decay 2 was one of many games teased long ago to get next-gen updates on the Xbox Series X and Series S, and as of this week, the game has a new update available to take advantage of those consoles’ powers. It does some of the expected things like reaching for new framerate and resolution heights at the same time while also adding new content specific to State of Decay 2 like a more ...read more
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Ubisoft has a new title update for Watch Dogs: Legion which fixes a number of bugs and crashes. Among the key issues it resolves include one that let players change the difficulty and options for permadeath from the main menu. It also fixes an issue referred to as a “Super Game Over” where after getting a Game Over in permadeath, there would be no player characters spawned when beginning a ...read more
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