Ian Walker

2K has postponed the release of Borderlands 3‘s second Takedown “out of respect for what’s going on in the world.” The event was scheduled to launch today but will now be delayed indefinitely. 2K will also be adding an additional $1 million in funding to its 2K Foundations program.

New Video Offers Another Glimpse Of Long-Lost Avengers Game

The gaming historians over at Past to Present Online recently produced new footage from an early build of The Avengers, a canceled THQ game that was meant to coincide with the release of the first Avengers movie in 2012. “This is footage from an early build of THQ’s The Avengers, running on Xbox 360,” Past…

Fortnite Season 3, Event Pushed Back Again

Fortnite’s next season, which was originally scheduled to launch on June 4 and then last week got delayed to June 11, has had its start date pushed back again in the face of ongoing unrest in the United States. The live event “The Device” will now arrive on June 15, followed by the beginning of…

Elite Dangerous Will Let Players Stretch Their Virtual Legs In 2021

Space flight sim Elite Dangerous is set to expand next year with the release of the next significant update. While the game has confined players to their cockpits since it launched in 2014, Odyssey revolves around completing missions on foot rather than from behind the controls of a starship. Details are still scant, but developer…

Sonic 3D Blast Is Better In 2D

Before Sonic Adventure, Sega’s blue mascot made his first foray into the third dimension with 1996’s Sonic 3D Blast for the Sega Genesis and Saturn. It wasn’t great! But now we have a 2D total conversion thanks to independent developer Sotaknuck, which takes the story and aesthetics of Sonic 3D Blast and reimagines them in…

Put Zappa In Guilty Gear Strive, Dammit

Arc System Works recently shared the results of a survey taken by players of the Guilty Gear Strive closed beta. The most interesting findings come from the character request section. Players from around the world left some surprisingly uniform responses, and sadly, my favorite character is nowhere to be seen. Zappa is Guilty Gear at…

Street Fighter Event Benefiting Black Lives Matter Demolishes Fundraising Expectations

Last night, the Street Fighter subreddit organized an online Street Fighter V tournament to raise money for Black Lives Matter charities in response to the recent police murder of George Floyd, a black Minnesotan, and ongoing attempts by activists across the country to hold law enforcement accountable. They ended up collecting just under $15,000 from…

Borderlands Legendary Collection Is The Handheld Port I Always Wanted

I love Borderlands. I bought a PlayStation Vita in 2014 just because it came bundled with Borderlands 2. Unfortunately, that version was terrible. But now that the first three games are available on the Switch via the Borderlands Legendary Collection, I finally have a chance to loot and shoot on the go that won’t leave…

Street Fighter V Costume Design Contest Is Asking For Free Labor

Capcom recently opened a special contest for Street Fighter V, asking fans to submit costume designs for possible inclusion in the fighting game’sfinal season. On the surface this may seem like a cool way to interact with fans, but the lack of any monetary compensation makes it all too easy to view this contest as…

Maneater‘s Orca Tank Is Terrifying, Even As A Godlike Megashark

I’m absolutely in love with Maneater, the new shark game from Tripwire Interactive. Nothing in video games has ever made me feel as powerful as cruising the Louisiana bayou and wantonly chomping passing barracuda. But one setpiece managed to inject my shark-inspired reverie with a terror made only more potent by the rest of the…

Bandai Namco has canceled its 2020 circuits for Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Soulcalibur VI due to the covid-19 pandemic. Online events are being planned to make up for the lack of competition.

Study Shows A Distressing Number Of You Eat While Gaming

A recent study from analytics firm Newzoo claims that at least 80 percent of video game fans eat or drink something while they sell turnips in Animal Crossing and demolish demonic hordes in Doom Eternal. Assuming I didn’t already hate gamers, this is all it would take to push me over the edge. Newzoo’s findings,…

Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor Opening Harkens Back To Skyrim

The next year of The Elder Scrolls Online aims to take players back to “the dark heart of Skyrim” via several expansions set in the icy region. The latest stop on the itinerary, Greymoor, released yesterday for folks on PC and Mac, introducing a new questline, updates to the Vampire skill line, and most importantly, an…

Atomicrops Mixes Farming And Roguelike Elements But Does Neither Very Well

After almost 10 months in early access, the full version of Atomicrops is now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. This post-apocalyptic farming simulator slash roguelike from developer Bird Bath Games tries to do a lot but often falls short of excelling in any one area, making for a balanced but…

How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game

The entirety of the Neo Geo’s Samurai Shodown library—plus one that hasn’t seen the light of day since 2005—will soon be available in one complete package for PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch. Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection, which will release on Epic Games Store (for free, at first) on June 11, Steam on June 18,…

Street Fighter V is getting one final season of downloadable content, according to a recent announcement from Capcom. Players can expect five more characters and three more stages. Additional details are coming this summer.

Silent Hill Returns As Dead By Daylight Expansion

The next major Dead by Daylight expansion will feature content based on the iconic Silent Hill franchise. Starting in June, players of the asymmetric, competitive horror game will be able to control the series’ ostensible mascot Pyramid Head (otherwise referred to as “The Executioner”) and Silent Hill 3 protagonist Cheryl Mason (also known as Heather…

Skullgirls Honors Two High-Level Queer Players In Latest Update

Although Skullgirls patches these days often focus on improvements to online play and tiny graphical bugs, the 2012 fighting game received an update over the long weekend that pays homage to a pair of high-level players. Before they dominated Mortal Kombat and Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dominique “SonicFox” McLean was the world’s greatest Skullgirls player. Now,…

Horrific Tech Demo Lets You Create Fleshy Greeting Cards

Some artists sculpt with clay, others create beautiful landscapes with watercolors. Misshapen, the upcoming body-horror game from Argentine developer BRUTO, gives players the ability to craft terrifying sights using the flesh of their enemies. The full game still lacks a release date, but a new demo provides a sneak peek of the “draw-with-lumps” technology that…

Risk of Rain 2 will officially hit ver.1.0 on PC in August. The game launched in early access last year and has steadily received new stages, characters, items, and bosses since then. Console versions will catch up to PC in the fall.