Free-to-play games are never really free-to-play. Sure, they are often free to download and try out but they often put up roadblocks that require cash to get through. Its a kind of shady practice, and Nintendo has recently gotten into it.
Read MoreThere's a whole lot of gore, violence, and the usual traumatic experiences associated with a dystopian world, but The Last of Us: Part 2 will be adding in even more mature elements than its predecessor. This time, there's going to be nudity.
Read MoreDeveloper Team 17 has seen fit to gamify what would otherwise be a tedious chore. First the studio turned cooking into a chaotic, charmingly cooperative mad dash in Overcooked. Now it's brought the same kooky antics to its newest title, Moving Out.
Read MoreToday, publisher Deep Silver announced that 2013's Saints Row 4: Re-Elected is coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 27. This bonkers action game casts players as the President of the United States, who takes the responsibility of saving the entire world into his own hands.
Read MoreIt appears there may be a new game streaming sheriff in town. After months of watching Google try its hand at on-demand gaming with Stadia, Nvidia's GeForce Now service has officially come out of beta -- and it already has some key perks that Google's offering can't quite match.
Read MoreFallout 76 has had a bit of a checkered history since its release, to put it mildly. The game launched in a state that was extremely displeasing to fans of the franchise. Perhaps the strangest thing of all was the game's total lack of NPCs. That's where the latest update to Fallout 76 comes in.
Read MoreCapcom has quite a long history in the video game industry. Luckily for fans, it looks like the company is going to sticking around for quite some time.
Read MorePlatinumGames is poised to begin self-publishing this year, starting with a remaster of The Wonderful 101. Could Scalebound eventually make a comeback without Microsoft's help? According to PlatinumGames' Atsushi Inaba, that's up to Microsoft.
Read MoreWe may have to wait longer to finally play CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 for ourselves, but at least we know we'll have plenty of content to keep us busy when we do.
Read MoreHere's a burning question for you: Why on earth hasn't Grand Theft Auto 5 received some kind of official VR release? It's the kind of game -- with its open world and endless possibilities -- that seems tailor-made for such a move. Fortunately, modders exist to give us what Rockstar won't.
Read MoreWarcraft 3: Reforged, the "enhanced" remaster of the classic real-time strategy game, was released last week to a less than enthusiastic response. To put it lightly, fans were not happy with this return to the world of Azeroth.
Read MoreThere may be a ray of hope for any players who are asked to grace the cover of Madden in the future. As of yesterday's Super Bowl, it appears that the curse may have been lifted at last.
Read MoreGlitchy raid bosses are no stranger to MMOs. Destiny players could tell you many tales of pulled ethernet cords and pushing gods off of ledges. To Bungie's credit, however, it's never tried to intervene mid-raid. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard didn't follow that playbook, however.
Read More"Exclusive" doesn't really seem to mean "exclusive" these days. Previously, Daemon X Machina was branded as a Switch exclusive, but this big mech adventure will be coming to Steam on Feb. 13. Cancel your Valentine's Day plans folks; you've got a robot to pilot.
Read MoreThis morning PlatinumGames launched a mysterious new website featuring the number "4." What could it mean? New games? New announcements? Now we know for sure that one of these apparent four games that PlatinumGames is working on is The Wonderful 101: Remastered.
Read MoreAdobe Flash is dying, and with it, hundreds of thousands of old-school Flash games. BlueMaxima is compiling a huge collection of these games so that they won't be lost, effectively preserving gaming history, before Flash blinks out of existence on December 31, 2020.
Read MoreTemtem, the first of what is sure to be an avalanche of Pokemon-inspired games, has some serious issues. Cheaters have made a home in the new title; now the developer behind it is fighting back with bans.
Read MoreHere's what we know about The Sims 5: it's happening. As the franchise nears its 20 year anniversary, the head honchos at EA have more or less officially confirmed that devs are brainstorming about what will follow The Sims 4.
Read MoreThe original Mortal Kombat 11 Joker design was bad. Thankfully, NetherRealm Studios listened to fans and gave the character the makeover that he desperately needed. Now, with there being plenty of speculation regarding future skins for Joker, we have a peek behind the scenes at what could've been.
Read MoreWhat would Stadia have looked like in the 1990s; back when broadband wasn't as broad and streaming wasn't huge? A new video tries to imagine this very thing.
Read MoreBack in August 2019, the Australian-based Krome Studios launched a Kickstarter to bring their cult classic platformer Ty the Tasmanian Tiger to the Nintendo Switch. The Kickstarter was a rousing success, and now we have an official date for Ty's return.
Read MoreCyberpunk 2077 couldn't possibly work on Nintendo Switch, right? It's an action-RPG from CD Projekt Red. It's set in a huge world. That same description could apply to The Witcher 3, though, and that game somehow made it onto Nintendo's little hybrid. Perhaps hope isn't lost yet.
Read MoreA modder who goes by the handle Stayd is aiming to make Dark Souls 2 look better than ever before. Stayd has posted screenshots of the mod in progress to their Twitter account, and the results are intriguing to say the least.
Read MoreKaraoke fans are mourning the loss of one of the best karaoke games out there, as Sony officially shut down support for SingStar on the final day of January.
Read MoreNintendo got everyone excited about Animal Crossing: New Horizons by showing off a custom Switch... then drizzled on everyone's parades by confirming there will only be one island per Switch.
Read MoreWhile pretty odd to begin with, YouTuber Allen Pan decided Death Stranding needed to be even weirder. Pan has a degree in electrical engineering and combined his mechanical know-how with an old treadmill and an off-brand PlayStation 4 controller for intense results.
Read MoreThough created with gaming in mind, Discord, the popular voice and text chat app, appears to be moving in a new direction.
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