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CultureOh No, Townscaper Is Coming To Switch And Mobile
Townscaper, where you do nothing but paint yourself an idyllic little village, was one of my absolute favourite games of 2020. And that was when it was on the PC. Now that it’s coming to phones, meaning I can play it anywhere, I am in serious trouble. If you’ve never played it, it’s a city-builder…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionIt’s Nice Being Able To Play Console Exclusives On A PC
I was playing Forza Horizon 4 on my PC earlier this week and at one point after a race I put the controller down and just…smiled. Everything about what I was doing in that moment was lovely. Partly because of the game, which is great, but also just because of the fact I was able…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureUh, GamesCom Thinks People Will Be Attending In 2021?
Like every other major event, GamesCom took 2020 off, swapping its enormous in-person show for a series of online presentations. Unlike other major events which are taking 2021 off as well, however, GamesCom organisersthink they’ll be able to get people in the door sometime in “late summer” That seems like…a bad idea? Organisers aren’t proposing…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsMagic: Legends Makes Diablo-Style Combat Feel Like, Well, Magic
In the past, every month or so my partner and I would follow the instructions on the box and “gather” with our friends to play Magic: The Gathering. We’d have a casual sealed draft of whatever the latest set was, and at the end of the (at times very long) night, the winner walked home…
By Ash Parrish Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionI Feel You, Life Is Strange Teen
I haven’t played any of the Life is Strange games, because I have no nostalgia for my teenage years. Today’s trailer for the next installment in the series, True Colors, with its moody acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” has only reaffirmed my desire to leave my past in the past. How were any of us…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureSony Buys Evo
The world’s largest fighting game competition, Evolution Championship Series, (colloquially known as Evo) has been purchased by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Japanese corporation announced today. Evo co-founders Tom and Tony Cannon plan to stay on as key advisors. Joining Sony in the acquisition is RTS, a new esports organization recently formed by sports marketing company…
By Ian Walker Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureSpider-Man Still Isn’t Coming To Avengers Anytime Soon
Spider-Man is still coming to Marvel’s Avengers and will remain exclusively available on the PS4 and PS5. However, the developers on the game confirmed that the original release window for Spidey, early 2021, is no longer accurate. Talking to IGN, Crystal Dynamics head of studio Scot Amos explained that a playable Spider-Man is being worked…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 18, 2021 -
Tips & GuidesDon’t Delete PS4 Avengers Before Importing Your Saves To PS5
Following a delay last fall, Marvel’s Avengers is officially out today for next-gen consoles. But if you’re trying to boot up your PlayStation 4 save files on PlayStation 5, you might notice that your hard-grinded save data doesn’t automatically transfer over. Personally, I was aghast. My Iron-Man didn’t deserve to be stuck at level one!…
By Ari Notis Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionAmid Covid And Unemployment, Gaming Was My Happy Place
I remember feeling so optimistic on New Year’s 2020. It’s hard to say when, exactly, that optimism was shattered due to the pandemic. Like many with the privilege to do so, I started working from home as much as possible weeks before it became mandatory. Maybe unlike others (or more like other journalists), I consumed…
By Lisa Marie Segarra Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureMeanwhile In Warhammer 40K: Squeeze This Rat To Send Commands To Your Cyborg Dog
Despite our pleas not to, the folks at Games Workshop keep licensing Warhammer 40,000 games. At least the next one looks pretty damn good. Necromunda: Hired Gun, revealed today by publisher Focus Home Interactive, follows a bounty hunter as he runs and guns his way across the eponymous planet. Accompanying him is an intimidating cyber-mastiff,…
By Ian Walker Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionSo, It’s Been A Year, Huh
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the growing outbreak of covid-19 a pandemic. In the year since, over 120 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide, and 2.5 million people have died because of covid-19. Life has forever been changed. We wear masks. Avoid crowds. Businesses have shut down, and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 18, 2021 -
Culture24-Year-Old Neo Geo 64 Prototype Latest Game To Be Found In A Field
Someone has found a never-before-seen prototype of a Hyper Neo Geo 64 game, giving us our first look at development hardware used to create games for SNK’s failed mid-’90s arcade platform. This cool discovery was found sitting undisturbed in a field, under a collapsed tree. The prototype game was Samurai Shodown 64, the first 3D…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureEverything We Saw In Today’s Square Enix Presents
Square Enix held its first Nintendo Direct-style “Square Enix Presents” showcase today, and while most of what was shown was stuff we’ve seen before, there were a few surprises. For one, Life is Strange: True Colors, the latest game in the visual narrative series, is coming later this year. Square Enix’s upcoming PS5 console-exclusive Project…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureSquare Enix’s Project Athia Is Now Called Forspoken, Coming In 2022
As part of today’s Square Enix showcase, the publisher showed another snippet of its “narrative-driven adventure set in a beautiful yet cruel world,” Project Athia. Only it’s not called Project Athia anymore. Now it’s, uh, Forspoken, a name that, if nothing else, was not previously spoken for. Forspoken will be out in 2022. Last year,…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureLife Is Strange, Before The Storm Getting Remastered Collection
In addition to new Life is Strange installment True Colors, the folks at Square Enix and Deck Nine are working on a remastered bundle that collects every episode of the original Life is Strange and its prequel spin-off Before the Storm for release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Steam, and Stadia this fall. This bundle,…
By Ian Walker Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureMeet The Star Of The New Life Is Strange
During today’s Square Enix Presents broadcast, the publisher revealed Life is Strange: True Colors, the next entry in the choice-driven adventure series. The full game—no episodic releases this time—is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Stadia on September 10. Life is Strange: True Colors is being developed by…
By Ian Walker Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureBlack Panther Finally Announced For Marvel’s Avengers
Black Panther should have been in Marvel’s Avengers from day one. Instead, he’s a DLC character whose announcement was delayed last year due to the unfortunate passing of actor Chadwick Boseman. During today’s Square Enix Presents stream Black Panther was finally revealed, coming to the game later this year in the “War for Wakanda” expansion.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureAssassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s First Expansion Out Next Month [Update: Delayed]
Update 4/14/2021: 1:05 p.m. ET: Wrath of the Druids will now come out on May 13, Ubisoft announced in a tweet. Original story follows. As if Assassin’s Creed Valhalla wasn’t already big enough, the game’s first major expansion, Wrath of the Druids, will be out on April 29, Ubisoft announced today in a blog post.…
By Ari Notis Published March 18, 2021 -
CultureScarlet Nexus Out June 25, Anime To Follow
Scarlet Nexus, the “brain punk” action role-playing game from Bandai Namco, will come out on June 25. It’ll be available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. First revealed during an Inside Xbox event last May, Scarlet Nexus features psionic powers, mutants, and graphics straight out of the Tales series,…
By Ari Notis Published March 18, 2021 -
OpinionGaming Didn’t Get Me Through It
Before lockdown started, I had another job with a company that made what became the world’s most sought-after product: hand sanitizer. Working there before everything shut down was like watching a car crash in slow motion. Every day, my coworkers would whisper about the spread of the virus, retelling news stories about so many new…
By Ash Parrish Published March 18, 2021