Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two have had a tumultuous history with modders over the past few months. With the absurdly successful GTA Online mode literally making billions of dollars for the company, they have an incentive to protect player confidence in the service, and it seems that incentive has manifested in a new
The Epic Games Store just launched, and it’s already getting hit with controversy, but not for an obvious reason. The service only has a few games, and it looks like Epic is banking on competing with Steam by poaching games from the much more ubiquitous distribution service. You see the real issue here is that
I’m not even going to waste any time, let’s just dive into the patch notes for Path of Exile 3.5, and its Betrayal Challenge League. If you have no idea what’s going on, head over to the main announcement to familiarize yourself with the new League and then come back over to see what the
The release of the next Elder Scrolls game, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, has been pushed back. The Elder Scrolls: Blades was originally slated for a release by the end of December 2018 for the upcoming mobile game, and some fans may be disappointed to learn that the game has now been delayed by a couple
Fallout 76 is out, and has been for a while, and a lot of people are pretty annoyed with how it turned out. Some people are even smashing up retail stores over not being able to get refunds for this game, it’s that bad. But wait, things just got even worse. Earlier today, another firestorm
The infamous Nintendo Creators Program, the bane of many YouTube content creators, is finally going away. And it all looks like Nintendo is making it easier to monetize Nintendo-related content on various video platforms. The company has published the set of guidelines that will replace the Nintendo Creators Program, and they apply across all of
As anyone who has been following the gaming industry knows, the last few months have been very contentious when it comes to the subject of loot boxes. Loot boxes are essentially a mechanic of putting games of random chance into “loot boxes” to make money. And with multiple countries having either promised or delivered on
The previously announced, and pretty controversial, aesthetic changes to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege are now being reworked. Today, Ubisoft announced that they will be replacing the modified art assets and other changes in the competitive shooter. For those that didn’t know, Ubisoft originally planned to remove many references to sexuality, gambling, violence and bloodshed
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee are the latest entries in the Pokémon franchise, which just came out this past week, and they’ve already angered a certain subset of gamers. The user reviews section on MetaCritic has been bombed with hundreds of low-scoring reviews, many of which repeat the same talking points. Looking
For many years, the US as a whole has struggled with a public image crisis of sorts. International relations with the US are strained by the worsening political and economic outcomes of US foreign policy, this is plain for anyone to see. It’s not just the constant sources of embarrassment that everyone around the globe
The Monster Hunter film is fully in production as of right now. And despite some missteps with promotion that prompted fan annoyance, things may be looking up. Thankfully, fans of Monster Hunter may have a glimmer of hope that the upcoming Paul W.S. Anderson film will actually be good. This is because recent interviews with
So it turns out that LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.com have lost the lawsuit against them, to no one surprise. The total paid damages to Nintendo currently stand at $12.33 million. The two sites were run by two people in Arizona, and hosted large amounts of pirated games, including many older Nintendo titles. The duo agreed to
Once an icon of the gaming industry, purveyor of written video game strategy guides, Prima Games will be no more come Spring 2019. The company got its start in 1990 and ran for 28 years printing guides for literally thousands of games. I personally used these for many a JRPG back in the day. The
According to a new article from Kotaku, Activision isn’t happy with the performance of Destiny 2 since launch. During the same earnings call, Activision Publishing boss Coddy Johnson revealed that the company wants to “improve the pace of innovation and cadence of in-game content.” This interpretation is further cemented by the fact that the game
Rainbow Six Siege, the massively-popular competitive FPS, is getting ready ahead of the game’s launch in Asian markets. To accommodate According to Ubisoft, the game needs to make some adjustments to the in-game art and environments to conform to sensibilities that are different from those present in western markets. None of the changes will affect
Following the firestorm of gamer outrage surrounding the ill-received announcement of Diablo Immortal, Activision-Blizzard is trying to put out the flames of negative feedback by assuring gamers that things aren’t as bad as they seem. For those who’ve been unplugged for the last few days, BlizzCon 2018 got underway this past week. And during the
As if EA taking a big steamy dump all over the Command & Conquer franchise wasn’t enough with their greed-mongering mobile drek Command & Conquer Rivals, Blizzard seemed content with getting in on that action for that sweet mobile game money. And while we don’t know for sure if the game will include micro-transactions, there’s
During this week’s episode of the PlayStation Blogcast, Sony’s Shawn Layden showed up to talk about the work on the remake of 1998’s Medievil that’s been creeping along towards release since last year. Other Ocean Interactive is working hard to deliver a faithful remake for the sake of fans, let’s just hope they manage to
After a recent photo sparked some concerns online over the course the Monster Hunter movie was taking, fans apparently needed to be assuaged. That photo showed actor Diego Boneta, who plays Sgt. Marshall, a member of the UN military team investigating the monster incursions into our world, wearing modern military garb. This picture kicked off
Path of Exile has been a long-running fixture in the space of Action-RPGs. Ever since it’s inception as a basic alpha version in 2013, the game has grown to insane heights of quality and popularity in the last five years. There have been whopping 16 expansions to the game in that time, with the most
At this point, a day can’t go by without something causing backlash online, especially in gaming. With more and more social causes and identities being distilled and truncated into easily digestible hashtags and buzzwords, the landscape that has grown up around marginalized identities, even online, has shifted. In a landscape where an athletic brand can
Fans of Monster Hunter, myself included, were really excited when back in May it was officially confirmed that a movie based on the popular Capcom franchise was getting a film adaptation. Since then, the hype has been hemmed back a bit due to other announcements about the film. Mainly those stemming from suspicions about the
Mike Morhaime announced this week that he would be stepping down as CEO of Blizzard, the company he helped found. Mike Morhaime has been a fixture in the gaming industry since 1991, when Blizzard was founded as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. Mike Morhaime will be succeeded by J Allen Brack, former executive producer and senior vice
The Walking Dead: The Final Season has been pulled from digital storefronts, and it turns out that Telltale wants it that way. The Final Season is no longer available for purchase on Steam, or GOG. The game has also been pulled from console stores such as the Microsoft and Playstation storefronts for the time being.
Monster Hunter World announces Iceborne and new event quests
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Daybreak Games downsizing with massive layoffs
GTA Online cheat maker sued by Take-Two
The Walking Dead: The Final Season – Episode 3 releases in January
Project JUDGE becomes Judgment, releases in the west in Summer 2019
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Monster Hunter World announces Iceborne and new event questsMonster Hunter World is getting a major update, here’s where to watch the revealThe Walking Dead: The Final Season – Episode 3 releases in JanuaryProject JUDGE becomes Judgment, releases in the west in Summer 2019
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