Final Fantasy 14 has recently surpassed the concurrent player record on Steam.
According to SteamDB, Final Fantasy 14 has 47,542 concurrent players in the past 24 hours. That surpasses the previous high of 41,200 achieved in June 2020 when gamers returned for the Shadowbringers expansion (numbers courtesy of SteamDB). The truth is, those gamers aren’t here this time because of any fresh Final Fantasy 14 enhancements. Endwalker […]
Guilty Gear Strive discreetly deleted Uyghur, Tibet, and Taiwan allusions.
Guilty Gear Strive has a detailed in-game vocabulary to help you comprehend its complicated, global plot. However, gamers noticed late last month that one article had been changed to eliminate allusions to less fanciful aspects of Chinese history. Patch 1.03, which arrived shortly after launch, was mostly uneventful. However, fans on ResetEra (via Eurogamer) have […]
Ubisoft would sooner remove Might and Magic 10 from the market than solve its DRM concerns.
Ubisoft stated in April that Might and Magic X: Legacy servers will be shut down. However, because the shutdown disabled the game’s stringent DRM protection, the 2014 RPG became entirely unplayable, and Ubisoft has now decided to remove it from Steam rather than fix its issues. Following the closure on June 1st, Might and Magic […]
Metal Gear Solid is reimagined as a darkly humorous work sim in Time Bandit.
What is the most effective approach to convey an anti-capitalist message through a videogame? I’m not sure, but forcing you to work a grueling, monotonous industrial job in real-time has to be at the top of the list. Developer Joel Jordan’s Time Bandit, which will be available on Steam and Itch.io later this year, is […]
Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its tenth birthday with a massive expansion.
Star Wars: The Old Republic will soon be 10 years old, a time in which this superb MMO has grown from strength to strength. Bioware Austin has revealed that the game’s next major addition, Legacy of the Sith, will be released to commemorate the event. It will be available for free to subscribers and will […]
Battle Cry of Freedom is now available on Steam, over a decade after it was first announced.
Flying Squirrel Entertainment, the creator of Mount & Blade: Warband – Napoleonic Wars, revealed in 2012 that it was working on a new project focused on the American Civil War called Battle Cry of Freedom. With enormous 5×5 kilometer landscapes, historically realistic weaponry and uniforms, completely destructible terrain, and support for 500-player (!) online combat, […]
The Build Engine replica of Matt Hancock’s office rapidly gets out of hand.
It is believed that you can’t walk more than 5 minutes in London without coming across a Pret a Manger. That goes for Dan Douglas’ Build Engine reconstruction of London, which includes some of the most painstakingly banal recreations of naff British chain businesses I’ve seen since someone placed a Greggs in Far Cry 5. […]
Space Punks is a co-op loot-shooter that resembles an isometric Borderlands.
Flying Wild Hog is best known for first-person shooters like Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior, but with its latest project, a top-down sci-fi looter shooter called Space Punks, it’s attempting something a bit different. At the moment, there isn’t much information available, but Space Punks will follow the exploits of four eccentric characters who seek […]
RPG sandbox creation Hytale isn’t expected to arrive until 2023 ‘at the earliest.’
Hytale, an exploration, crafting, and adventure RPG has been pushed back from its original 2021 release date to 2023. Hytale creators Hypixel Studios revealed the delay in their summer 2021 development update, the first in six months. “What has become increasingly clear is that we have several more years of development ahead of us before […]
Quake Champions is commemorating its 25th anniversary by including one of the original Quake levels.
Quake Champions is honoring the 25th anniversary of the game with “a rocket blast from the past” with their Summer 2021 release. The upgrade includes one of the original 1996 Quake multiplayer maps, The Dark Zone, as well as a variety of heritage weapon customizations. As someone who grew up playing the original Quake multiplayer, […]
