The Splitgate crossplay test has been so popular that the creators have had to take it down.
Splitgate, a free-to-play “Portal meets Halo” FPS, has been available on PC for a few years but has failed to sustain a player base. According to Steam Charts, after a relatively robust debut in May 2019, the game soon dropped to an average monthly concurrent player count of a little over 100. Things began to […]
This September, the dark fairytale adventure Lost in Random will be released.
At EA Play we got a nice long look at Lost in Random, the upcoming combat adventure from Zoink Games, makers of Fe. In this coming-of-age fairytale with a Tim Burton-esque style, you play as Even, a little girl searching for her sister, Odd, who has been abducted by an evil queen. Along for the adventure […]
Horizon Zero Dawn will have a crossover with Genshin Impact.
The first crossover event for Genshin Impact will feature Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. MiHoYo revealed the partnership on Twitter, saying that she will be a cryo, bow-wielding heroine who is also entirely free. That makes her the first five-star character to be given away in Genshin Impact without requiring a banner roll, which is […]
Portal is the most intriguing aspect of Battlefield 2042 right away.
The possibilities for ‘fun with pals’ in Battlefield 2042 have just skyrocketed. EA today unveiled Battlefield Portal, a platform for creating, sharing, and playing unique Battlefield game types. It’s not a map editor, and it doesn’t provide modders access to Frostbite’s internals—mostly it’s a web tool—but it appears strong enough to create some fairly weird […]
The Dead Space remake has been announced, and here’s our first glimpse.
It’s true: Dead Space is returning. EA announced a remake of the 2008 sci-fi horror shooter under development at EA Motive during its EA Play webcast on Thursday. Motive also created last year’s excellent Star Wars Squadrons and Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s single-player campaign. The Dead Space series was created by Visceral Games, which was […]
PES is dead, replaced by the F2P ‘football platform’ eFootball.
Konami has stated that Pro Evolution Soccer is no longer in production and that its long-running football franchise will be renamed and refocused. The renowned Japanese developer’s football games began as Winning 11 (International Superstar Soccer outside of Japan) and then, beginning in 2001, like Pro Evolution Soccer, which was just a far superior game […]
Prepare for marbles to become the next major esport.
I don’t think there’s a finer YouTube channel right now than Jelle’s Marble Runs, which hosts Marbula One, the world’s premier marble racing event. Marble racing is, in fact, a legitimate sport. Yes, it includes athletes—are you going to tell me Minty Maniacs team leader Minty Flav isn’t a racetrack star? Jelle’s Marble Runs, like […]
On Steam, the New World beta has 190,000 concurrent users.
It felt like an eternity since we’d seen a major MMO launch—until this summer. Crowfall, Swords of Legends Online, and Amazon’s forthcoming New World have all added to the oversupply. But, of the three, New World appears to be the most popular, based on the 190,000 gamers that entered its closed beta at the same […]
Zombies Ate My Neighbors, LucasArts’ greatest game, performs incredibly well as an FPS.
People talk about LucasArts’ golden period as if all it created was text adventures (which, indeed, are wonderful). But one of the things about that particular incarnation of the studio in the ’80s and ’90s was that it didn’t feel like an addendum to LucasFilm’s’real’ business, but rather an independent entity free to create its […]
Back 4 Blood now has a trailer that looks fantastic.
Turtle Rock Studios has published a new Back 4 Blood trailer emphasizing the PC version of the game, and all I can say is: finally, this game gets a trailer that makes it seem fantastic. This showcases different settings and bosses, all of which had me panting in zombie-killing eagerness, as well as a banger […]
