Let’s face it, 2017 has been something of a mixed bag for quality console games. In fact, we’ve already talked about how 2017 had a lot of disappointments (Mass Effect has broken my heart for the last time.) So with the video game console industry clearly on shaky legs, do we really have anything to look forward to? Will the darkness ever end? As if we didn’t have enough to be mocked about from the master race of PC Gamers....
Control, Remedy Entertainment’s 2019 action-adventure game, is ready to show off its horror inner leanings. Monday morning Remedy released a new story trailer for Control, more an exploration of the game’s atmosphere and unsettling tone than its structured storytelling. The trailer’s reality-bending content also hearkens back to one of Remedy’s past cult hits, Alan Wake, with how it seems to be toying with the player’s perception. Trailers for Control up until now have largely focused on protagonist Jesse Faden being introduced to what’s called the Oldest House....
Tawna Bandicoot is making a triumphant return in Crash Bandicoot 4. Josh Nadelberg, art director at Toys for Bob, talked about the return of Tawna Bandicoot. She was introduced as Crash’s girlfriend in the first Crash Bandicoot, fulfilling the damsel in distress archetype. Nadleberg says, “Early on in Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, Crash and Coco cross paths with a Tawna from what we at Toys For Bob have been calling the “Tawnaverse,” an alternate dimension where she is the hero in her own story....
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X on March 12, 2021. The PC version will launch later this year. Last year, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time delivered what has been described as the true sequel to the original trilogy. Now, Activision has revealed that the follow-up to 1998’s Warped is coming to even more platforms. On March 12, 2021, Crash 4 will hit PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch....
Criterion Games has been a bit quite since the release of Burnout CRASH! last year, and today we found out why. Criterion has been hard at work at a new title which they have been teasing on Twitter. Could this announcement be a new Burnout game? Burnout CRASH! was a fun downloadable release, but gamers were still hungry for a full sequel to Burnout Paradise, which some praise as one of the best racing titles of this generation....
The thing about curses is that when you obsess over them, their omens appear to multiply. Such is the case for Cursed Films, the cult docuseries on the Shudder streaming service in which some of the most famous “curses” associated with popular Hollywood films are re-explored and in some cases recontextualized. The series, which is one of the streaming service’s biggest hits is also coming back for more, with Shudder announcing Cursed Films Season 2 is a go Thursday afternoon....
For better or for worse, Cyberpunk 2077 has dominated the video game conversation at the end of 2020. After countless controversies, discoveries, opinions, and speculations, Night City is still finding ways to surprise players weeks after its launch earlier this month. Despite the now-infamous Cyberpunk 2077 bugs and glitches, it’s hard to deny the sheer amount of content, lore, and discovery that is packed into the game. One such surprise came from a Reddit user who made a discovery that lends itself nicely to more speculation about CD Projekt Red’s futuristic RPG....
Cyberpunk 2077 has its fair share of bugs, some of which are pretty hilarious. This one, however, is the magnum opus - the buggiest bug in Bugtown. Essentially, if you interrupt a live news report and watch the recording back via a public terminal later on, you’ll discover that your V is not only naked in the clip, but also completely lacking a head. The best bit is that the news reporter doesn’t even give a shit - she just tells you to get lost as if you were a regularly clothed, head-bearing individual....
According to SuperData, Cyberpunk 2077, which was released for PS4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on December 10, 2020, helped digital PC sales grow 40% year-over-year. In December, digital games set a new record for highest monthly total revenue with $12 billion in sales. In addition, mobile revenue increased 5% year-over-year and console revenue increased 16%. Cyberpunk 2077, which sold 10.2 million units, had the biggest game launch of all time....
It’s one of the biggest cliffhangers in modern horror movie history. After another disaster in the streets of London, a second outbreak that has extinguished all hope of re-establishing society in the UK, the Rage Virus has finally found its way to mainland Europe. We watch as infected rush through the streets of Paris, a bloodthirsty horde charging toward the Eiffel Tower. It’s clear that this is only the beginning, that infections in France will lead to outbreaks all over the continent and beyond, like a domino effect....
FMV title Dark Nights with Poe & Munro will be live for PS4 and Xbox One owners on May 4, 2021. There will be a Nintendo Switch port later on, as well, but no release date has been given yet. Starring two popular characters from The Shapeshifting Detective, John “Poe” Pope, and Ellis Munro, are thrown into six different supernatural adventures in an anthology-style. As radio hosts of a horror-themed show, they go on suspenseful adventures in the strange town of August, and you, as the player, make some crucial decisions that can affect the direction of the story....
Dark Souls is well-known for its boss battles. Most areas of the game conclude with a deadly and challenging opponent that puts everything the player has learned so far to the test. Defeating a Dark Souls boss requires cunning, quick reflexes, and often enough, burying your head in the boss’s back and swinging your weapon until it stops moving. While Demon’s Souls predated Dark Souls, the latter is where most players became familiar with FromSoftware’s style of dark fantasy RPG....
Developer From Software officially releases the Japanese launch trailer for the third entry in its notoriously difficult action-RPG franchise, Dark Souls 3. With Dark Souls 3 launching in Japan this week, From Software and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment are ramping up marketing for the video game by releasing a fresh trailer for the title that evokes the series’ trademark brooding atmosphere, and showcases lots of combat from the release. Of course, not only is the Eastern nation getting the forthcoming action-RPG about a month before Western audiences, but also, developers have even crafted a PS4 bundle for Japan that includes the game....
The Eternal Blight event is now live in Dead By Daylight, and this year Behavior Interactive is shaking things up with the new items made temporarily available from the Bloodweb. From now until November 4, you will be able to experience the Entity’s Realm under a transformation to celebrate the macabre, with Halloween-themed generators, hooks, and more. Survivors should have no problem recognizing the new add-ons from last year, with orange flashlights and med-kits which can be purchased throughout the event and saved up for later use even when the event ends....
The French developer Arkane Studios has had a long history in the game industry. Originally founded in 1999 by Raphael Colantonio and a number of former Electronic Arts employees. Due to what Colantonio believed to be a greater shift towards sports titles at EA, Colantonio departed EA and co-founded Arkane Studios with eleven others. The studio’s first goal was to create another sequel to Ultima Underworld, though the rights were held by EA, who prevented the studio from moving forward with that idea....
The start of any game is an important filled with important decisions that can warp the game experience, choosing the building blocks of the character players will have to live with throughout the journey. This is especially true with a game like Demon’s Souls, relying on weapons and items to support the highly intense battle system that the game brings to the table. Not the least of these choices comes in the form of a starting item, dictating how hard the first portion of the game will be depending on the character....
The developers of the PS5 remake of Demon’s Souls considered adding an Easy Mode to the game at one point during production, but ultimately decided against it. Demon’s Souls is the game that spawned the Soulslike genre, which consists of some of the most brutally difficult video games of all time. The fans of the series love this level of difficulty and see conquering bosses like Ludwig from Bloodborne and Ornstein/Smough from Dark Souls as a badge of honor....
New details emerge for Iron Banner and how the event is getting reinvented to be more rewarding for players once Destiny: Rise of Iron launches next month. Destiny is nearing its second anniversary, though the game has evolved quite a bit from what it it was when it first launched. Thanks to numerous updates, fixes, and expansions like The Taken King, Bungie has continued to improve the experience in many ways....
With the release of Forsaken, Destiny 2 changed the way that masterworking weapons and armor works. For weapons, however, even though the feature changed, the effects of masterworking still made sense, since players could see the stat bar move up. However, armor masterworks needed a bit more explaining and Bungie has finally offered that. In this week’s Bungie Weekly Update, Destiny 2 Sandbox Tester Ryan Hammond explains how the resistances for masterwork armor work....
[UPDATE: Destiny Update 2.0 is live. See below for all the major weapon changes.] It may have taken a little longer than expected, but big changes have hit Destiny’s weapons. As promised, Bungie is addressing weapon balance across the board in Update 2.0, and the changes they have made should drastically impact the PvP and PvE experiences. In today’s Update 2.0 patch notes, the developer outlined numerous weapon balance changes coming to Destiny with the latest....
