Blizzard this week announced that they are making a “brand new survival game for PC and console.” Well, announced may be too strong a word, as we don’t even know what the thing is called nevermind actual gameplay details. The project was revealed in a job listing advertising for a number of key vacancies, t...
2022-01-26 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostNow here’s one that’s already causing quite an uproar across the internet and social media. We covered earlier this week that a group of quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard’s previously-striking Raven studio had voted to unionise, and had asked their parent company to official...
2022-01-25 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a popular theory: The Shadowlands is a fever dream induced at the end of Ny’alotha, and we’re still laying there, on the ground, drooling Azerite out of our mouths. This is a kind of tongue-in-cheek way players feel Blizzard could walk the story back, but is there evidence for it?
2022-01-25 13:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Activision Blizzard news really does just keep coming these days, doesn’t it? This time around, a group of quality assurance testers at Call of Duty Warzone developer Raven Software are officially looking to unionise with the Communication Workers of America. The Game Workers Allianc...
2022-01-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWell here’s a surprise, a group of AAA game development veterans breaking off to form their own indie studio with a focus on innovation, creative thinking, and employee care that doesn’t have anything to do with Activision Blizzard. Veterans of XCOM and Civilisation developer Firaxis ga...
2022-01-21 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The most interesting story hidden in Warcraft is this ancient myth: One of Azeroth, An'she's suffering, and Elune's misdeeds. The Tauren seem to know more than we could imagine.
2022-01-20 18:04:30 +0000 UTC View PostThat’s straight from the mouth of Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick who, speaking in a new interview with CNBC, claimed that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition (what an unwieldy name) has performed “great” since it released back in November. This, of course, vas...
2022-01-20 14:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this is a big one out of nowhere. Microsoft this week announced a deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for a truly insane $68.7bn. Not only is this the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history, but it is also the largest acquisition in the history of the wider games industry, eclipsing th...
2022-01-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Blizzard have given Velen a new character bio on the official site, and it all but confirms our next arc.
2022-01-17 19:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostDevelopers 343 Industries made the announcement over the weekend that they will be changing the price of several items in the Halo Infinite in-game shop following feedback from the playerbase. In a series of tweets, 343 Industries’ design head Jerry Hook said that the team have “b...
2022-01-17 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn the very definition of suffering from success, Final Fantasy XIV was removed from sale in mod-December 2021 in the midst of server issues brought on by the launch of its phenomenally popular Endwalker expansion. In a blog post published on the game’s official website at ...
2022-01-14 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
New year, new look! We've changed things up with a fresh style & new ideas! As the year rolls on, we'll have neat specials, and two awesome sets: class cards, and beast sets. I'll have pictures of everything IRL to show soon. Versus our past pins, this new series is larger, and it's got a new art direction that's going to look awesome in per...
2022-01-13 19:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostKenichi Sato took up the position back in April 2016, but revealed in a new statement posted on PlatinumGames’ official website that he left the role last month. Atsushi Inaba, who was previously the vice president and head producer of development at the studio, has stepped into...
2022-01-13 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to a significant, and extremely overdue, increase in Xbox Series X stock in retailers across the UK, December 2021 saw the Xbox platform’s biggest sales month since it launched way back in November 2020. Despite widespread stock and component shortages across the in...
2022-01-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSega announced this week that they have opened a new office in Sapporo, as part of their ongoing initiative to establish new “development bases” across Japan. Sega already have a number of internal development studios in Japan, like Sonic Team and Ryu Ga Gotoko Studio, but these teams all wo...
2022-01-11 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt looks like Capcom officially kicked off the 35th Anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise with a new logo and series of mysterious tweets over the weekend. The logo in question is nothing overly interesting - a 35th Anniversary artwork where the “35th” is stylised after Street Fighter...
2022-01-10 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis one has been a pretty long time in the making, as Bethesda first announced their partnership with Amazon and Kilter Films way back in July 2020. The project has since essentially floated around in public attention stasis ever since, but we got a bit of news this week ...
2022-01-07 15:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post![[EARLY ACCESS] The Future Of Sylvanas.](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/7/ci/fy/4e9b88-019e8425-e164-74b9-9cd8-1de630683270.jpg)
What's going to happen with Sylvanas after 9.2? Here's everything laid out... and how we think it's going to go.
2022-01-07 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The 2022 videos have begun! Apologies for not posting more, I'm going to detail why soon, but a TLDR is that I've been struggling quite a lot with a chronic pain issue, and the second half of 2021 got real rough. I think I'm on the right track now though. Much more soon!
Oh, and YouTube auto generated that as the thumbnail. Good job YouTub...
2022-01-06 23:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems that Ubisoft and Square Enix’s previous (highly confusing and ill-advised) pivots into NFT trading has started a big of domino effect of stupid decisions. This week, the ever money-hungry Konami announced that they will also be launching an NFT scheme as a way to “celebrate” the 35th Anniversary of...
2022-01-06 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSony Interactive Entertainment finally revealed some details on the new piece of hardware during their CES 2022 keynote earlier this week. The company's next generation of VR headset has admittedly been knocking about for quite a while in rumour form, but it is now confirmed to be cal...
2022-01-05 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSquare Enix's unexpected (and distinctly unwanted) pivot into NFT and blockchain technologies has already proven to be one of the biggest stories of the admittedly young year, but it's worth talking about again because it already seems to be doing the trick. As poorly recei...
2022-01-04 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSamsung made the...interesting announcement as part of CES 2022, outlining that their new 2022 range of Neo QLED televisions will ship with a new native Gaming Hub with support for cloud-based streaming and NFTs. The idea is to unite all gaming content in on...
2022-01-03 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThat's according to new calculations from outlet The Loadout which, suggest that the new games introduced to the Xbox Game Pass console and PC library were collectively worth $6,317.35. This final total was reached using the price of each game as listed on the Mi...
2021-12-22 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThat's according to a new report from Axios which, citing interviews with numerous current and former employees, suggests that Ubisoft are currently in the grips of severe staff falloff. A wave of departures in the last 18 months is referred to as "the great exodus: or "the cut artery" by people within the com...
2021-12-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt actually feels like a while since we've had a truly god awful PC port to get good and steamed up about. Not that that's a bad thing of course, the general trend of the AAA games industry finally endeavouring to pay attention to the PC audience is something to be celebrated. This is perhap...
2021-12-20 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Epic Games Store's annual holiday sale kicked off this week and the surge in traffic is kind of wreaking havoc with a marketplace platform that is honestly pretty unstable at the best of times. The various promotions and sales went together to create essentially the perfect stor...
2021-12-17 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe've already covered Ubisoft's bizarre attempt to expand into the NFT space a couple of times between our news channel and this very daily newsletter, but the fallout is showing no signs of stopping now that some of Ubisoft's own employees have admitted to b...
2021-12-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, this is a bit of a weird one but it'll still be fun to bring up because actor Keanu Reeves may have just exposed a bit of a fib on CD Projekt Red's part. Reeves is currently on the press circuit for the upcoming Matrix: Resurrections but interviews have spanned a...
2021-12-15 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe apology comes following a new report from IGN in which over two dozen current and former employees banded together to discuss and criticise the studio's toxic culture. Collectively, the employee testimonies paint a picture of a studio that is now moving forward after tolerating an openly toxic envi...
2021-12-13 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post