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Maria Creveling, better known as the competitive gamer "Remilia," died on Friday at the age of 24. As of this writing, Creveling's cause of death is unknown, though she did pass in her sleep. Creveling was the first woman to make it into the League of Legends Championship Series, as a member of the now-defunct Renegades. The news was announced on Twitter by Richard Lewis, a longtime friend of ...read more
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With Netflix's version of The Witcher, the video game has seen an increase in popularity with over 70,000 concurrent players on Steam. The last year of the decade has been riddled with The Witcher news due to not only The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launching as a complete edition on the Nintendo Switch, but Netflix’s live-action take on the show launched on the streaming platform too. We’ve also ...read more
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Blizzard has already confirmed Overwatch 2 will have plenty of new heroes when it hits PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. However, for now, it's not saying how many new heroes it will have and it's being especially tight-lipped on who's joining the game's large roster. That said, during a special new stream, Blizzard seemingly teased at least one new hero we may see in the sequel. More ...read more
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When it comes to streaming, by and large, the big companies have been mostly glowing about its role in the future. And it is exciting, no doubt, the idea that you’ll be able to stream any game from any place. But there’s a lot of challenges to game-based streaming that many don’t seem to have a good answer for. Google’s Stadia service, for instance, has stumbled quite a bit out of the ...read more
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Grand Theft Auto V has become another avenue for the growing conflict between Hong Kong and China. Some new clothing additions have meant players are replicating the chaos of the Hong Kong protests in Los Santos. Thanks to some new items recently added in GTA V’s Diamond Casino Heist update, players have adopted the typical protest garb and begun causing disruption within the game. Organized ...read more
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An unfortunate reality of the video game industry is that projects get cancelled fairly often. Sometimes, it's very early in the development process, and other times, it's when a project is nearly finished. Take, for example, Star Fox 2, a finished Super Nintendo game that finally saw the light of day in 2017. The reality is, publishers often have to make difficult decisions about what games to ...read more
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Sega has announced that it will absorb Sega Interactive into Sega Corporation, effectively closing the studio in its current state in order to strengthen the company’s “competitiveness in global markets.” The developer’s arcade division, which was founded in 2015, is set to be absorbed into Sega Games Co., Ltd, which will then be renamed Sega Corporation. This reverses the company’s ...read more
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The current rumors attached to Grand Theft Auto 6 is that Rockstar Games is taking the next installment in the GTA series back to Vice City. In addition to returning to the setting of the sixth entry in the franchise, the rumors claim the game will take place across multiple regions, and will also have players heading to South America and possibly the Caribbean in between. For now, these are ...read more
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According to Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners, the PS5 and Xbox Series X may be a bit more pricey than some PlayStation and Xbox gamers think. The prominent industry analyst recently took to to Twitter, noting that he's currently struggling to see how either the PS5 or next Xbox will launch at $400 or below given what we know about each console and their respective innards. As Ahmad ...read more
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Earlier this week, Bethesda’s Fallout 76 faced a new issue. Yes, it’s way past beating a dead horse at this point but this particular exploit is nasty. According to reports from players, it allowed some players to take items directly from others’ inventories. Even if the player was hundreds of meters away, you could click to trade on them and take all their stuff. Bethesda has offered an ...read more
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