If you play COD multiplayer with any regularity, or even keep up with community chatter around each yearly release, this sentiment should be familiar. A part of it is to do with people getting older and reflexes slowing, which has forever been the way, but as much of it is to do with changes to […]
If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline and call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is aiming to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused tech company announced Tuesday the launch of Pinwheel Home, a modern take on the classic household phone designed to
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This revelation comes via the D23 website, which is dedicated to the official Disney fan club. In a recent post, the line-up for August’s D23 fan event was revealed, including something Kingdom Hearts related. Kingdom Heart’s presence at the D23 fan event will not be a peek into the future, but rather a journey into
"Capcom has always structured ourselves so that we aren't absolutely reliant on a single person or a single creator." So when Capcom announced Dragon’s Dogma 2 was getting a new update – a huge expansion called Dark Arisen, the exact same name as the first game’s expansion – I was a little curious: did Itsuno’s
Halo reporter Rebs Gaming originated the story on YouTube, saying they’d heard from multiple employees at Halo Studios that Project Ekur was no longer in development. The claim was backed up this afternoon by well-Microsoft-connected Windows Central reporter Jez Corden, who said the information was “100 percent true”. A week earlier, however, Rebs Gaming had
"I don't want to sound like a Sony fanboy but after 32 years, forgive me." It’s why, when he took an apparent potshot at Microsoft’s running of Xbox on Linkedin recently, people noticed. Layden wrote (in a comment since deleted): “At the risk of sounding like a ‘hater’ (which I’m really not), the moves evince
Microsoft must "think twice before ever attempting something like this again." Earlier this week, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced 3,200 job cuts impacting some of the most recognisable studios in the games industry. 1,600 of those cuts were effective immediately, with the remaining layoffs due to occur before the end of Microsoft’s current financial
A few of the things that have us hooked this week. Here’s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don’t have to! The What We’ve Been Playing archive has you covered. Aside from some time spent exploring the Caribbean in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced for work this week, it’s
"Valve loves it when Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 throw customisable genitals at you in the first five minutes, but of course I can't, because I actually have something to say about genitals!" If you’re wondering about that “ongoing” part, Yang also refers to his release model of choice as GaaS (Gay as a
"Zoom out over the last decade and things get really crazy." That’s according to estimates by number cruncher Alinea Analytics, and Rhys Elliott, the head of market analysis there, reckons there are myriad reasons why Steam’s doing so well. The prevalence of the Chinese market, higher prices on new releases, and third-party publishers returning to
