Tag: games

Today’s Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies

Today’s Steam outage may…

Steam went offline earlier today in an odd but thankfully brief hitch that may have been a small part…
Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: ‘The only magic trick is that we’re not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more’

Battlefield 6 dev says…

Battlefield 6 launches this Friday, the first entry in four years for a once-bombastic series that never got bad,…
You can now watch the first 13 minutes of 007: First Light, and the intro is giving serious Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes vibes

You can now watch…

007 First Light releases in just two days’ time, but developer IO Interactive had decided to give players desperate…
Star Citizen blasts through $1 billion in player funding, as its developer lists a new $5,000 spaceship for sale that is ‘not yet ready to play’

Star Citizen blasts through…

It finally happened. Star Citizen has officially surpassed $1 billion in player funding. Well, I say ‘finally’, it actually…
Game Pass subscribers ‘in certain countries’ will not be affected by the price increase, at least ‘for now,’ because sometimes government regulation is actually a good thing

Game Pass subscribers ‘in…

The big Game Pass price hike announced last week took an unexpected twist today as Microsoft has confirmed that…
I’m glad they didn’t release Subnautica 2 all at once—the episodic early access structure has me even more excited to explore its alien ocean

I’m glad they didn’t…

I’ve always thought the expression “Too much of a good thing” was a bit dumb. If a thing is…
The first gameplay footage from Astroneer studio’s next space game looks like co-op chaos on colorful planets, but I’m not crazy about the idea of timed missions in a hangout game

The first gameplay footage…

Today we got our first look at gameplay from Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, the next game from Astroneer developer System…
Enginefall asks ‘What if Snowpiercer was Rust and DayZ’ in a game with great vision and so-so execution

Enginefall asks ‘What if…

I’ll be honest, if you asked me to run down a list of good settings for a survival/crafting extraction…
As Destiny 2 hits its lowest ever daily peak for Steam concurrent players, Bungie U-turns on controversial plan to reset player power next season

As Destiny 2 hits…

All is not well in Destiny 2. Last month I detailed my many issues with the Edge of Fate…
Vampire Survivors devs say online co-op mode is ‘coming soon’—along with the answer to ‘a burning question that has been asked thousands of times’

Vampire Survivors devs say…

Vampire Survivors is aptly named—because of all the vampire stuff, sure, but more because it stubbornly refuses to die.…