Wargaming has launched World of Tanks: Blitz, its free-to-play multiplayer mobile game, today on the Nintendo Switch. The announcement represents a first for collaboration between Nintendo and Wargaming, as well as Blitz’s first console appearance.
World of Tanks: Blitz has seen 137 million downloads over the past six years on iOS, Android, and the PC. And the Switch version will have cross-play…
Highlights of the unwanted Nintendo Direct Mini
August 27, 2020
Well, the rumors were right … kind of. We got a new Nintendo Direct this week. Sadly, while I was hoping for a giant show featuring first-party games like those 3D Mario remakes that the winds (and colleague Jeff Grubb) have been whispering about for months, we instead got…
Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War arrives with cross-generation, cross-platform play on November 13
August 27, 2020
Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will launch November 13 on the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. But this year’s big title from Activision will be “cross-generation,” meaning players will be able to play multiplayer with each other on both the current generation…
Call of Duty fans need not panic. Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will have the popular Zombies mode and content that will kick off Chapter 2 in Call of Duty: Warzone, the franchise’s popular free-to-play battle royale game.
Treyarch co-head Dan Bunting said in a press briefing that they will detail the Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War at a later date. Meanwhile, he said…
Fortnite’s next season arrives tomorrow, but if you’re on iOS or macOS, you won’t be able to play it, Epic announced today. And we’re learning that’s not all: players on iPhone, iPad, and Mac will also lose cross-play Fortnite multiplayer with non-Apple platforms…
Activision’s next Call of Duty installment, confirmed last week to be a revival of developer Treyarch’s fan-favorite Black Ops series, will have its work cut out for it. The title is following last year’s Modern Warfare, the most successful COD game in the…
Nintendo is bringing a whole slate of new and remastered games to the Switch, the company announced today via a surprise Direct Mini. Included in its lineup is a remaster of GameCube title Final Fantasy Chronicles; the first three games of the SaGa series: Final Fantasy Legend, Final Fantasy Legend II, and Final Fantasy Legend III; Puyo Puyo Tetris 2; rhythm game Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory…
Fall Guys crosses 7 million copies sold on Steam as it becomes the most downloaded PS Plus game ever
August 26, 2020
Fall Guys’ total world domination continues as Sony on Wednesday morning announced the game has become the most downloaded PlayStation Plus title of all time.
The goofy and playful battle royale platformer, released earlier this month by UK studio Mediatonic, has had about…
Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue to keep us at home. And in most cases, this is keeping us from playing tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons…
Microsoft has created three Xbox One X consoles inspired by Wonder Woman to celebrate the upcoming release of Wonder Woman 1984. Superfans — who wouldn’t mind getting a new Xbox One X just months ahead of the release of the Xbox Series X — will have the chance to win two of the consoles.
The three consoles each reflect separate aspects of the film and comic series — as though…
