CategoriesNews GamingImage: Xbox / Kotaku As we get deeper into November, more and more companies are announcing Black Friday deals. Xbox has joined the holiday tradition and revealed a ton of deals on games, consoles, and controllers. The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023 On November 15, Xbox announced its slate of Black Friday deals […]
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CategoriesNews GamingLicensed games can be a great way to build interest with a familiar property, but they can also be fraught as various stakeholders weigh in on its creative direction. Xbox CEO Phil Spencer is aware of these challenges, and they’re one reason he’s “not the biggest fan” of committing resources to licensed games. Speaking with […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: MachineGames / Bethesda Hey, everything sucks right now. There’s no getting around it, and we’re going to have to live with the consequences of this shit for the rest of our lives. So, if you’re feeling angry about things, like say, the rise of fascism in America, why not grab the Wolfenstein games and […]
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CategoriesNews GamingNintendo has confirmed that the yet-to-be-announced Switch 2 will be backward-compatible with original Switch games and will feature Nintendo Switch Online. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa shared the news during the company’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, revealing a bit more about the successor to 2017’s Nintendo Switch. “This is Furukawa,” Nintendo wrote on X/Twitter. “At today’s […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony The Last of Us is prestige survival horror at its most cinematic and playable. Terrible things happen, and not just at the hands of fungus-infested zombies. If you’ve watched the HBO adaptation but never played the game, or played the game but only years ago and not the PlayStation 5 upgrade, it’s worth […]
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CategoriesNews GamingSony has announced the PlayStation Plus Essential Tier games for November 2024 are GhostWire: Tokyo (PS5), Death Note: Killer Within (PS4 and PS5), and Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged (PS4 and PS5). Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, all three games will be made available at no extra cost to PlayStation Plus subscribers on November 5. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Bethesda When you first think of Prey, it might not immediately strike you as a horror game. That clean, empty space station, the tidy offices and their coffee mugs and whiteboards. But then at a certain point, those exact coffee mugs and whiteboards are suddenly sproinging to life as the twisted Mimics, and you’re […]
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CategoriesNews GamingMicrosoft announced on Monday that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) for Game Pass Ultimate members at launch, along with two other Call of Duty titles later this month. Per Microsoft’s blog post, Black Ops 6 will begin rolling out on Xbox Cloud Gaming at 10am PT […]
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CategoriesNews GamingThere’s a purely primal pleasure in stacking things up and then watching them fall down: witness how it’s one of the earliest activities children learn to play by themselves. And however much we might grow up and think of ourselves as mature, sober citizens, you can still get a frisson of that pleasure by organizing […]
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CategoriesNews GamingYou are listener number 200,081 in the queue for this week’s IGN UK Podcast, where Jen, Jesse, and Mat discuss the biggest news out of this year’s Tokyo Games Show, chat a little bit of Deadlock, and there’s an update to the tale of the microwaved chicken in the latest round of listener feedback. Remember […]
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