Ethan Gach

PS3 Game Shutting Down Servers Earlier Than Promised [Update]

Warhawk is a third-person military shooter that came out on PS3 in 2007. Over a decade before Call of Duty thought to do it, Warhawk ditched the standard single-player campaign to focus instead on multiplayer only. Last month, Sony announced the game’s servers would finally be abruptly shutting down on October 25. Thirty days’ notice…

Bethesda Tries To Set Player Expectations Ahead Of Fallout 76‘s Beta

Late yesterday, Bethesda published a letter to its fans that appeared to be an attempt to set their expectations for today’s launch of the Fallout 76 beta test on Xbox One. The letter covered a variety of topics, but the most notable was when Bethesda touched on how buggy its games have been in the…

Spider-Man’s Heist DLC Is Fun But Familiar

My favorite part of the new downloadable addition to the new Spider-Man on PS4 involves a hungry and exhausted Peter Parker eating a pizza on the roof of an apartment building with the city skyline behind him. Warring mob families, stolen art, a love triangle between the Black Cat Mary Jane can all wait. Everybody’s…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Fall 2018

Fall can feel like the worst season for a lot of reasons—school starts, the days grow short, people become obsessed with putting pumpkin in everything—but new video game releases is definitely not one of them. If you enjoy big, expensive, blockbuster video games, especially sequels, this time of year has you covered. Assassins, cowboys, soldiers…

16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique

Over the weekend, seven-time winner Jonas Neubauer showed up at the Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Oregon like he has every year since it moved there in 2011. Instead of adding another championship to his name, he finished in second place this time, bested by 16-year-old Joseph Saelee who went on an amazing three-game…

Finally, Players Can Add As Many Puddles To Spider-Man As They Want

A week before Spider-Man released, some people on the internet started freaking out about the game’s apparent lack of puddles. There were a lot of puddles in an early trailer for the game, and later, not as many puddles in what appeared to be the same location, which some saw as a downgrade. Fortunately, they…

Soulcalibur VI’s Story Mode Does Geralt Dirty

Bandai Namco’s fighting game does an excellent job of portraying the personality and likeness of The Witcher 3 protagonist, but fails to make good on the full crossover potential CD Projekt Red blessed it with. Soulcalibur VI’s Geralt moves like a witcher and talks like a witcher but spends most of the game’s story mode…

Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending

UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news from across the pond hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag. “Despite the company’s strong performance…

Spider-Man’s New Game+ mode has finally been added to the game. Version 1.07 also adds an Ultimate difficulty setting, new frames and stickers for photo mode, and the ability to access photo mode directly with one button press. New Game+ was originally expected at the game’s launch but got delayed

League of Legends Coach Urges Underdog Teams To Play Their Own Style

The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left. One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to…

PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Delayed Again, Now To April

Days Gone is the first to flinch in the game release death race currently slated for February 22, 2018. Today, Sony announced the open world zombie game will be delayed again by two months so the studio can finish polishing it. “We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February…

Valve Discloses The Odds For Its New Dota 2 Loot Boxes

Valve’s latest update for Dota 2 changes how the free-to-play MOBA’s loot boxes work. It now discloses the odds for the rare items that have a chance of dropping in each box, following in the footsteps of other companies amid growing public concerns over loot boxes’ similarity to gambling. Yesterday, Valve added the “Treasure of…

In an interview with USGamer, Monolith Soft executive director Tetsuya Takahashi said a Switch port of Xenoblade Chronicles X would cost a lot of money. As a result, it seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all. “It’s a massive game. Re-creating it would be really difficult,” he said.

Skybound Games ‘In Discussions’ With Former Telltale Staffers About Completing The Walking Dead

Skybound Games, which is currently finalizing an agreement with Telltale Games to finish the final season of The Walking Dead, hopes to release episode 3 by the end of the year and have episodes 1 and 2 back up for sale later this month, according to comments by its CEO during an AMA on Reddit…

Rocket League’s New Cross-Play Feature Won’t Arrive Until 2019, Developers Say

Rocket League, everyone’s favorite car soccer game, has been at the forefront of discussions around online cross-play for several years now. Long before Sony agreed to play nice with the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One when it came to Fortnite, Rocket League studio Psyonix has been working to create unified player accounts across the different…

For Honor‘s New Update Is Full Of Surprisingly Cool Ideas

For Honor’s Marching Fire update went live this week. While some of the changes it brings can be quite granular, when taken as whole it offers a substantial refresh of Ubisoft’s 20-month-old medieval brawler. For those willing to pay, there are four new fighters. For everyone else, there’s an overhaul of the game’s graphics, as…

Chinese Phone Company Boasts Their New Phone Is Better Than The Switch

The Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei debuted three new products at a launch event yesterday. The Mate 20 is a slick flagship phone that checks all the existing boxes and then some. Then there’s the Mate 20 Pro, a slightly bigger and even more powerful version of the base phone. And finally, the Mate 20 X,…

Insomniac Says Spider-Man’s New Game Plus Isn’t Coming Tomorrow After All

Spider-Man’s new game plus and ultimate difficulty mode were originally expected at launch but were delayed. Today, a post went up on the European PlayStation Blog that at first said both features would arrive tomorrow, October 17, in the game’s 1.07 update. Insomniac Games now says that information was a mistake. Spider-Man came out over…

The Top PlayStation Trophy Hunter Is Now Bagging 300 Platinums A Year

Hakam Karim likes to collect PlayStation trophies. Like, a lot. Sony first introduced its achievement system with the PS3’s 2.40 firmware update 2.in 2008. Last week, Guinness World Records finally recognized Karim, who goes by Hakoom on PSN, for his prowess with a certificate certifying him as the world’s top platinum trophy holder. He currently…

Sega Fans Will Get A High End Retro Console Of Their Own

Analogue, the Seattle-based retro console maker, has announced its latest project: the Mega Sg. Using a technological setup similar to its Super Nt released earlier this year, Analogue says the Mega Sg will be able to play every game from the Sega Genesis, Mega Drive, and Master Drive systems, and capable of outputting video from…