So in a rather strange announcement, Nintendo has revealed that their hyped new Switch title, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will have no cloud save functionality. So as it stands, if you lose your device or your save file for this game, you have to start all over. The justification for this simple, Nintendo doesn’t want
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By now, many in the games industry and beyond are becoming increasingly more aware of issues within their various scenes involving crunch, low pay, discrimination and other forms of worker abuse. It’s no small matter when one of these problems get brought into the limelight, and this past week has seen a major player in
A recent leak of a new survey sent out to World of Warcraft players suggests that the developer behind the wildly popular MMO might be about to do something drastic. According to a rumor posted in various places online, gamers in this particular MMORPG are about to find their characters maximum level permanently reduced in
Elden Ring is the newest collaborative project from Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki and A Song of Ice & Fire author George R.R. Martin. It has lots of fans of these creators excited for one simple reason, it’s not Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice or Bloodborne. Don’t worry, those two are both great games, but they
GameStop has been trying to deal with a lot of issues lately. Due to declining sales in a wide number of segments, GameStop even had to seek out a buyer for the company, although that didn’t pan out. Part of the strategy for staving off closure in the face of declining software and hardware sales
There’s already a console war brewing over the next generation of consoles, and the big names in the industry haven’t even shown off said new consoles. Sony skipped E3 2019 entirely, opting to run their own direct stream event instead, which included very little PS5 news. And Microsoft didn’t have much to say about their
Marvel’s Avengers has a lot of fans of comics, the MCU, and the general Marvel brand being a little suspicious of the newest game tied to the iconic property. The newly revealed game from Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics is a co-op brawler with some really pretty 3D graphics and some set-piece heroic moments, but
So you read that headline right, The GTA Online suite of gameplay elements, missions, heists and insane nonsense is about to get even more complex. The online functions built into GTA V are set to expand their offerings with a form of in-game casinos. It isn’t yet clear exactly how these casinos will work in-game,
The upcoming launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the reboot of the iconic entry into the long-running shooter franchise, has gamers wondering just what might be different from what they remember. Campaign gameplay director Jacob Minkoff and art director Joel Emslie recently spoke to Kotaku about the prospect of how the story or its
The new FromSoftware game, Elden Ring, has generated a ton of hype. Elden Ring was revealed at E3 2019, and fans were super excited to learn that Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin had collaborated on the ambitious open-world game. The trailer hid deep hints about both the world and the story. And with GRRM providing
The recently revealed Xbox Project Scarlett has stirred up a lot of hype. This year’s E3 has been a storm of positive feedback and excitement for console and PC gamers, but Microsoft has come out of the gate swinging by announcing their newest console. A console that not only features a custom AMD processor suite,
Kotaku’s ‘Jason Schreier’ has reported that Blizzard has cancelled a first-person shooter that was in the works, based on the long-running StarCraft RTS franchise. On the cancellation, Blizzard issued the following statement: “We always make decisions about these things, regardless of the ultimate outcome or how things might be interpreted, based on our values, what we
New developments for games retailer GameStop mean some pretty bad news for those rooting for the company. The stock price for the chain has dropped like a rock over the last few days. This drop is reportedly the biggest one-day loss in GameStop’s history. The previous extreme low for the stock was in February 2003
You might be reading that headline and rolling your eyes, or it might make you angry. Well strap in buddy boy because we’re going on a roller coaster with another game industry punching bag. And this time we’re not talking about Randy Pitchford for once. No, we’re going to talk about the man being blamed
If you’re just a huge sucker for nonsensical marketing stunts, Microsoft has the perfect Xbox schwag for you. Microsoft and Unilever are teaming up to offer a line of hygiene products targeted at GAMERS! That’s right, an Xbox-branded line of bathroom products, which is actually just a rebadge of the Lynx/Axe line of products, will
So YouTube appears to be cracking down pretty heavily on underaged users of their services with a new set of restrictions and policies which take effect immediately. Children will effectively be locked out of streaming on YouTube with this new policy. The announcement comes just months after multiple controversies involving the potential exploitation of underage
Call of Duty Modern Warfare is generating plenty of hype. And a lot of that hype is based around the fact the developers are making an attempt to return to a more realistic take on warfare, but concerns are surfacing over how they intend to tell this story. One thing that the game might well
The 8 week event planned to revitalize Anthem may already be on shaky ground. General reactions online to the previews the developer has shown so far, are less than excited. Players are not so enthused by the idea of what one Redditor described as, “And their cataclysm graphical effect is basically tinting the screen blue,
So fans playing the popular ARG Pokemon Go on Apple Watches are in for some bad news. They’re about to have to go through the same hurdles that those on unsupported platforms go through, asNiantic is dropping Apple Watch support for Pokemon Go. This means that users on these devices will have to use some
Fans of CD Projekt and the cyberpunk aesthetic have long been waiting for more news about the upcoming sci-fi release, Cyberpunk 2077. And despite some whispers that the game was aiming for a release window later this year, a lot of people were suspicious about the state of the game’s development. So Jason Schreier over
Because there isn’t enough weirdness on the mobile game market, The Pokemon Company has now announced a new Pokemon Sleep app, which will launch in 2020. The game is being developed with some involvement from Pokemon GO teams at Niantic, as well as Pokemon: Magikarp Jump developer SelectButton. Pokemon Sleep will be available for iOS and Android devices.
According to a bit of a rumor that broke earlier today, gamers and Twitch viewers were concerned over a new feature that Twitch is apparently testing. According to some sources, the streaming company has been doing small-scale tests of a feature that would allow streamers and content creators to lock their entire live content offerings
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