You have until March 6th to try and nab a working Nintendo PlayStation prototype — one of the rarest relics of lost gaming history — and it’ll only cost you a few hundred thousand dollars. The current high bid for this retro prototype at auction is $300,000 (plus a buyer’s premium of $60,000), which, yeah, doesn’t exactly sound like a steal. At one point, though…
Baldur’s Gate III is coming to Steam Early Access in 2020 as it quests for the high ground
February 27, 2020
Baldur’s Gate III is following the lead of the Divinity: Original Sin series, debuting on Steam Early Access sometime this year, and it’s also showing off its first chunk of gameplay.
Larian Studios revealed this info (it said in a few months, but nothing’s confirming…
Borderlands 3 comes to Steam on March 13
February 27, 2020
Gearbox announced today during a presentation at PAX East in Boston that Borderlands 3 will be coming to Steam on March 13.
The multiplayer looter shooter has been on PC since it launched on September 13, but only through the Epic Games Store. Some PC players prefer…
Minecraft Festival is coming to Orlando in September
February 27, 2020
Minecraft‘s annual event started out as a convention, but flipped to a streaming-only format in 2017 in a bid to maintain the tight-knit atmosphere for an increasingly large audience. It’s moving back to that in-person experience, however, and it now has details to share. The renamed Minecraft Festival is now slated to take place at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center…
IKEA’s new vegetarian meatballs will taste more like meat
February 27, 2020
A trip to IKEA isn’t complete without a plate of Swedish meatballs. While the company offers a vegetarian version of its iconic meal, the veggie meatballs don’t taste much like meat. Joining the trend set by fast food chains like Burger King and KFC, the…
Google Stadia is getting a boost today as indie publisher Modus Games announced it will bring several titles to Google’s cloud gaming service this year, beginning with role-playing game Lost Words: Beyond the Page.
Modus describes as the touching tale of a young girl’s…
Xbox Series X's game resume feature even works after a reboot
February 27, 2020
Microsoft has been gradually dropping nuggets of information about its next generation Xbox. The first Xbox Series X games will be cross-gen, the console with have a 12 teraflop GPU and — possibly — it will rely on one HDMI port instead of two. Now, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has revealed a feature: quick game resume following a reboot.
In a new podcast, Hryb notes that while the…
Roblox raises $150 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz
February 27, 2020
Online gaming platform Roblox has raised $150 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s late stage venture fund.
It seems the folks at Andreessen Horowitz have been playing a lot of user-generated games on Roblox, like Work at a Pizza Place or Meep City…
The creator of the Konami Code has died
February 26, 2020
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a and start. It’s the most famous cheat code in all of gaming, and now its creator, former Konami employee Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has died. He was 61-years-old.
Konami confirmed the death on Wednesday, saying on Twitter…
Xbox One gets another simplified dashboard redesign
February 26, 2020
Microsoft revealed last month it’s been working on a whole host of changes for the February 2020 Xbox One Update, and now they’re finally rolling out. The biggest change is yet another new Home interface — so if you’ve got downloads set to install automatically you’ll notice things are different as soon as it hits. Twists have been removed to make room for…
