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As it builds to a November 5 global launch, Sledgehammer Games is revealing more about the single-player campaign for Call of Duty: Vanguard and the backstories of the playable characters.
Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign is about how the international special forces came…
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Capcom announced today through Monster Hunter’s official Twitter account that it will not be implementing cross-saves or cross-play to Monster Hunter…
The Switch OLED is better than a Switch Pro (for Nintendo)
October 12, 2021
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The Nintendo Switch OLED Edition is a solid upgrade to one of the most popular and successful consoles of all time. The obvious benefits are the larger…
Playtika’s Wooga launches Switchcraft story-based mobile game
October 11, 2021
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Playtika’s game studio Wooga is launching Switchcraft, a narrative-based match-3 game that has been in the works for a few years.
The title is the first new game launched since Playtika went public at an $11 billion valuation in January. As such, it’s an important game for…
Apple appeals outcome of its legal battle with Epic Games
October 10, 2021
In response to one of the outcomes of the Apple vs. Epic Games ruling from back in September, Apple has filed to appeal the Court’s ruling. While Apple won 9 of the 10 claims made by Epic Games, it did lose on one. That one claim was that Apple was illegally stifling…
Video games are risky, expensive, and a really good business
October 8, 2021
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Making video games is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. It is a hit-driven business where you can never know how consumers will respond. And yet you have…
The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets
October 8, 2021
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Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen to just about everybody in the industry. And one of these days, perhaps we won’t have any secrets left.
This week, hackers disclosed that they had…
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Rockstar Games today announced Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition, a collection of remakes of three previous Grand Theft Auto games for…
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Infinity Ward, the development studio behind several Call of Duty games, today announced that it is opening a new studio in Austin, Texas.
The Austin…
Valve posts disassembly video of its handheld Steam Deck PC
October 7, 2021
Valve has just posted a video to its YouTube channel of its upcoming Steam Deck being partially disassembled. Valve is the company behind Steam, a popular online PC game store. The Steam Deck is a handheld PC designed to mimic the form factor of the Nintendo Switch so that PC games from Steam can be played portably.
The Steam Deck that appears in the video is still a prototype and the host notes…