Ethan Gach

Guild Wars 2 Developers Criticized For Technique Used To Suspend More Than 1,500 Accounts

Late last week, ArenaNet, makers of the MMO Guild Wars 2, suspended over 1,500 player accounts it suspected of cheating. According to one of the players caught in the sweep, the studio accomplished this using what some users and experts are calling spyware to monitor people’s computers for known cheat programs. “Today, ArenaNet suspended 1583…

Dark Souls: Remastered for the Switch has been delayed. It was originally due out May 25, which is when the game comes to PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but will now be coming sometime “later this summer” according to Bandai Namco.

The Handful Of People Still Playing LawBreakers On PC Aren’t Giving Up On It

If you ask Boss Key Productions, LawBreakers isn’t dead yet. Talk to the game’s most dedicated players, and some will tell you the online shooter is ready for the big dirt nap. And, unlikely as it may be, some are clinging to hope that it will one day rise from its ashes. Boss Key, the…

At BioWare’s blog, studio head Casey Hudson writes that the lack of story DLC for Mass Effect: Andromeda is a problem the company will have to fix for future games like Anthem. Players expected Andromeda to address questions teased about the Quarians in story DLC, but the studio never released any

Halo 5 Players Can Now Shoot Each Other On Board The Titanic

There’s a somewhat lesser known corollary to the “If you build it, they will come” line from the baseball movie Field of Dreams. It goes: “If you build it, someone will also build it in Halo 5.” Thanks to the game’s Forge map editor, players have been pumping out all sorts of creations inspired by…

The strike at strategy game makers Eugen Systems based in Paris ended earlier this month. With negotiations going nowhere, the striking workers—close to half of the studio—decided to pursue the matter in court. “We will continue to fight for our rights with the legal means at our disposal,” they said in a statement.

The People Behind Gwent Are Fixing All The Things Players Hate

Today, CD Projekt Red co-CEO Marcin Iwiński and the directors of Gwent laid out the studio’s six month plan to rehab the Witcher-based card game for its official release and the launch of its single-player story campaign later this year. In an “open letter” on the Gwent website, the team wrote, “We need 6 months…

Some Far Cry 5 Players Are Stuck In A Never-Ending Credits Loop

Far Cry 5‘s latest patch released this week on consoles. Although it addressed a number of minor issues with online multiplayer, mission progression, and overall stability, it doesn’t appear to have addressed one unique and particularly pernicious bug where some players who complete the game get stuck in a never-ending loop of the end credits.…

Thousands Of Modders Are Re-Inventing The Game Boy

The Game Boy is so iconic it’s transcended the limitations of its hardware to become something more than just an old handheld for playing old video games. Chiptune artists make music with Game Boys. Clothing manufacturers plaster them onto t-shirts and hoodies. More eccentric designers have inserted them into the soles of platform shoes. And…

Shovel Knight Sold Fewer Copies In 2017 Than Its Best Year But Made More Money 

A new blog post from the makers of the excellent 2D platformer Shovel Knight breaks down the game’s sales in surprising detail. Shovel Knight was released in 2014 on PC, Wii U and 3DS, the year after it was Kickstarted. It was eventually ported to every other console. Of its two million sales to date,…

Creepy Radio Static Has Far Cry 5 Players Chasing A New Mystery

Drive around long enough in Far Cry 5 and you might stumble into an area where strange static comes out of your radio. Stop and listen for a bit and you might even be able to make out voices on the other end. It’s weird and creepy, and has a few players wondering if it…

Someone Turned An 80s Boombox Into An SNES Classic You Can Play On The Go

Behold: A 1982 Montgomery Ward boombox that reels cassette tape and translates invisible signals broadcast over the air into rad tunes. Okay, that’s not exactly bleeding-edge tech. But, it has one thing other boomboxes haven’t got: a working SNES Classic inside. This DIY mashup was put together by a modder named Colin, who runs a…

Newly Discovered Trick Transforms A Metroid Speedrunning Scene

Gamers experimenting with the 2002 Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion have discovered such a profound and bizarre shortcut that speedrunners have had to create a new category to account for the latest new way to break the game: memory corruption . The trick requires using Samus’ power bombs in an out-of-bounds area to corrupt…

Fan-Made Prequel To Fallout: New Vegas Goes Into Beta After Nine Years In Development

Fallout: New California is a prequel mod to Fallout: New Vegas that fans of the early Fallout games began working on back in 20o9. Now, in the project’s most recent update, the makers say the game is finally playable from start to finish. Originally planned as a mod for Fallout 3 called Fallout: Project Brazil,…

The People Behind Lawbreakers Are Looking To Rebound With A Battle Royale Game

Just days after publishing a blog post announcing a shift away from its struggling first-person shooter, LawBreakers, Cliff Bleszinski’s studio Boss Key Productions has announced a new Battle Royale-style game called Radical Heights. In Early Access starting tomorrow, April 10, the free-to-play online shooter looks like a mashup of The Running Man and an 80s…

The Story Of Two Games That Took Forever To Make

Earlier this week, Chasm, the years-in-development action-adventure platformer inspired by games like Super Castlevania IV, finally got a release window of summer 2018. Below got similar news last month when its developers announced that the long-awaited roguelike would be out before the end of the year. It’s been a long road for both games, but…

Rainbow Six Siege Pro Pulls Off Unlikely 1 vs 4 Win 

Twitch reflexes and impeccable aim are important in Rainbow Six Siege, but so is being incredibly patient and choosing the right moment to strike. Yesterday, pro player Martin “Spark” Eberhard came out on top of a one vs. four situation with an impressive display of patience. In the highlight, posted on the game’s subreddit, his…

Farmer Uses Stardew Valley As An Escape

Tim is a farmer in Northern California who spends a lot of time on tractors. Thanks to auto-steering, that means he also has plenty of time to check in on his other farm, the one on his Switch port of Stardew Valley Tim posted the picture of his setup to the Stardew Valley subreddit yesterday…

Women Earn Significantly Less Money Than Men At Rockstar North, Among Other Gaming Companies 

A number of gaming companies in the UK employ women in roles which, on average, pay less than the ones their male colleagues are in according to a new UK government database. At Grand Theft Auto makers Rockstar North, the gap is particularly large. At the studio based in Edinburgh, Scotland, the average hourly rate…

Firewatch is coming to Switch later this spring. Campo Santo announced the news in a blog post this morning, adding that while it still doesn’t have an exact date for the port’s release, the Switch version will be more optimized and have better load times.