Posts

Struggling fantasy RPG will sally forth Ina new interview with the game’s own publisher, Square Enix, directors Kenji Saito and Takahisa Sugiyama have admitted to feeling dismayed at the reception to their epic fantasy RPGBabylon’s Fall,but remain committed to producing new content and in-game updates for the live service title. Launching in March 2022 following a lengthy development cycle,Babylon’s Fallfound itself swiftly subdued due to poor critical reception and a busy month of top-tier game releases....

Oh Noes!!2 charmed the hell out of us on Saturday Morning Hangover Each week on Saturday Morning Hangover, we perform the public service of playing through the demos of new releases on Xbox Live Indie Games. While it’s probably charitable to call the service “hit or miss” in terms of the content, it is something of a breeding ground for weird and amazing stuff. The absolute best game we played this week wasOh Noes!...

1.0.5 Bethesda is rolling out the fifth major patch forFallout 76, which was released just several months ago on July 02, 2025. Known as patch 1.0.5 (with several variations beyond that for all three different platforms), it’ll run you 3.5GB on consoles and 500MB on PC. As usual there’s a lot of fluff to sift through (on top of the always-beloved extra performance and stability, a Nintendo staple), but the main takeaway involves weight, which is now capped to an “absolute limit” of 1,500 pounds over your maximum carry value....

Dead Spacewas highly regarded for the most part, but it didn’t sell as well as you might think. Add a “2” on the title, though, and suddenly you’ve got a bunch more people on board for your product. According to EA,Dead Space 2is outsellingDead Spaceat a rate of two-to-one. It’s nice to see a step up commercially, since I would definitely sayDS2is quite the step up from a critical standpoint. In its third quarter fiscal 2011financial report, EA also revealed a few other figures....

Daftest spin-off since the Twin Peaks board game? Rising Star Games have announced that the deluxe edition board game of the notorious 2010 release,Deadly Premonition, is available topre-orderon Amazon, ahead of its January 31 release. In the board game, players walk the mean streets of Greenvale, investigating suspects, in an effort to identify and apprehend The Raincoat Killer. The game features a custom “Murder die”, a themed gaming cloth and even the original soundtrack, so you can score your play session with that truly losslessDeadly Premonitionexperience....

Australia has earned itself a reputation as a country where M-rated games go to die. Due to the lack of an adult rating for entertainment, violent/sexual games often get subjected to censorship or outright banned. Strangely, the violent, chauvinistic man-rampage that isDuke Nukem Foreverhas passed! Duke Nuken Foreverhas received an MA 15+ rating, and 2K Games assures customers that it has not been edited in any way. Apparently the toilet humor, brutal violence, and hot titty action was considered tame enough to be viewed by teenagers....

Shots fired Electronic Arts was “a little bit” surprised by GameStop’s comments thatStar Wars Battlefronthad “underperformed.” As reported byEurogamer, talking to investors, GameStop executive Tony Bartel stated that three recent AAA releases –Halo 5,Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, andStar Wars Battlefront– had not performed as the chain had expected. “We’re not going to quantify it in terms of actual numbers,” Bartel said, “but we had high expectations that diminished somewhat as it got closer and it failed to hit those lowered expectations....

Pay for the game, pay per month, pay for ‘services’ The German websiteESOHUBhad a chance to interview Matt Firor, lead developer for the upcoming subscription-based MMOElder Scrolls Onlineand uncovered some interesting and even startling news:Elder Scrolls Onlinewill have a cash shop. When asked if the game had anything “extra” beyond a subscription, Mr. Firor said: “There won’t be anything like ‘bonus points’ but we’ll have a shop to buy kinda fun stuff and services too, like name changes and things like that....

Wasn’t built in a day Firaxis has announced byway of Twitterthat development has started on the next entry in theCivilizationseries. The last entry,Civilization VI, launched back – holy crap – in 2016. Despite this, it’s still receiving DLC, withits Leader Passstill dropping new content. 🚨 Hot off the presses. Next Civ game in development!!!!!!! 🤯 — Sid Meier’s Civilization VII (@CivGame)Jun 07, 2025 That’s all we’ve got so far, so here are some facts....

The demo for One More Level and 505 Games’ first-person slasher,Ghostrunner 2,is now available. However, that’s not the exciting bit about it. Instead, this particular shindig is a big deal because the demo features one of the game’s big new gameplay hooks: a driveable motorcycle. While trailers have shown off this feature, it wasn’t necessarily a given that it’d be available for players to check out in the demo. Especially since the game is due to launch soon, on October 26....

A grandfather accused of shoplifting videogames during aBlack Fridayshopping spree got a smashed face and a throat full of blood after copssent him sprawling to the floor. Stories as to what happened in the Buckeye Walmart are conflicting, but the result is a same — an old man almost drowned in his own juices over a couple of games. The commonly accepted story is that the man’s grandson was being trampled by violently rioting shoppers, so he put some games in his waistband to help the boy....

The upcoming standalone expansion forTotal War: SHOGUN 2,Fall of the Samurai, is looking mighty fine ahead of its March release. While the idea of taking the already excellentSHOGUN 2experience to theBoshin Warperiod is cool enough, the other additions to theTotal Wargameplay don’t look like they’ll disappoint. Besides the typical handful of new units,Fall of the Samuraiadds the island of Ezo to expand the campaign map, lets you create railways for faster transportation (which can be sabotaged), and the foreign powers will give you access to modern ranged units like the Gatling gun and Armstrong gun which can be controlled in a new third-person mode....

Over the last few days, I’ve been sequestered in a hotel room roughly 300 feet from EA’s Redwood City campus. The obvious assumption is that I’m here to “acquire” copies ofRock Bandvia a Hollywood-style heist with a wacky cast of characters including Mos Def and John Lithgow, but unfortunately that’s not true, or even remotely believable. No, ladies and gentlemen, instead I’ve been summoned down here by The House That Trip Built to have a little romantic time withMySims, the upcoming Wii-ification of EA’s long running cash-cowThe Sims, and a title that many have already written off as merely more teat-manipulation on behalf of a company known for rigorously working a teat....