Sony Interactive took to Twitter on Monday afternoon, announcing that it had acquired Insomniac Games, the studio behind last year’s PS4 smash-hit Spider-Man.
Insomniac has been in business for more than two decades and has collaborated with Sony from its start, releasing Spyro in 1998 and following up with the likes of Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive. “Our studio vision is…
Just before Gamescom’s opening ceremony got underway, Google revealed a bunch more games that are coming to its Stadia streaming platform. One of the bigger titles is CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. Google didn’t say exactly when the game would be…
PUBG is getting cross-play for Xbox One and PS4 in October
August 19, 2019
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) will get cross-play support in early October. PUBG players on Xbox One and PS4 will be able to match and play against each other. Test servers will be the first to offer cross-play in late September, with regular PUBG servers expected…
'PUBG' will support crossplay on PS4 and Xbox One in October
August 19, 2019
PUBG Corp has announced console crossplay is coming to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Bringing PS4 and Xbox One players together “will make the matchmaking pool bigger,” said PUBG console producer Koosung Jeong during the Inside Xbox stream at Gamescom.
The team plans to update the public test server with cross-platform play in late September. After a week of beta testing, it…
'Superhot' and 'Hotline Miami' hit Nintendo Switch today
August 19, 2019
Time-bending first-person shooter/puzzler Superhot is on its way to Switch. In fact, you’ll be able to play it on the go as of today after it goes on sale in Nintendo’s eShop. News of the port leaked a few days back, but now it’s official.
It doesn’t…
At Gamescom today, Nintendo revealed that another slate of indie games is coming to the Nintendo Switch. The biggest games are actually out today, including both Superhot, the time-bending shooter first released in 2016, and the classic Hotline Miami, which will be available…
The debut of Disney’s highly anticipated streaming service, Disney+, is almost here. But, leading up to the November 12th launch date, the company is starting to share more details about it. Today we’re learning about how you’ll be able to watch content on Disney+, which includes new original series like The Mandalorian, every season of The Simpsons and Disney’s entire…
The Morning After: The beauty of a ray-traced 'Minecraft'
August 19, 2019
Welcome back! Over the weekend, you might have missed a pretty intense graphical overhaul of Minecraft, Twitter ads as political weapons in Hong Kong and if you’ve been looking for a Sonos speaker, but portable, we’ve got more news for you and your rather…
Minecraft will get ray tracing for Nvidia RTX graphics cards
August 19, 2019
Minecraft is about to get a major graphics overhaul, thanks to real-time ray tracing support for any player using a Nvidia RTX card. Microsoft and Nvidia made the joint announcement today at industry trade show Gamescom in Cologne, Germany early Monday morning, and ray…
NVIDIA ray-tracing on 'Minecraft' looks surprisingly cool
August 19, 2019
Minecraft‘s blocky world might be the last place you’d think would need more realism. However, NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced that they’ve done exactly that, bringing RTX ray-tracing powers to the world-building game. “In normal Minecraft, a block of gold just appears yellow,” said Minecraft’s Saxs Persson, “but with ray tracing turned on, you really…
