Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag came out way back in 2013, and while the game was demanding for its time, PC gaming has come a long way in the last thirteen years or so. If Ubisoft simply released a remaster for the game, it’d likely be extremely easy to run, even on weaker hardware. But, … Read more
Microsoft has announced the July lineup of games for Game Pass in its first announcement following the layoffs that ripped through the Xbox business yesterday. CEO Asha Sharma cut 1,600 staff from Xbox yesterday, with another 1,600 staff to go over the course of the next 12 months. Four studios have left Microsoft as part … Read more
San Diego Comic-Con is only weeks away, which means companies are starting to unveil the exclusive collectibles, figures, and other merch they’ll be offering at this year’s show. Jazwares has an especially strong lineup this time around, covering everything from the MCU to KPop Demon Hunters to Five Nights at Freddy’s. IGN can exclusively reveal … Read more
Hitman and 007: First Light developer IO Interactive will close one of its studios and lay off an unknown number of staff, after Xbox pulled funding for an upcoming project. Codenamed Project Dragon, IO’s under-wraps online fantasy RPG has been in development for years, partly funded by cash from Xbox. But now — with Microsoft … Read more
EVE Vanguard, Fenris Creations’ most recent attempt to bring on-the-ground FPS gameplay to the massive, shared, persistent universe of EVE Online, has changed quite a bit since I first laid hands on it last year. From the presentation to the basic movement and gunplay, it’s becoming a lot clearer what exactly our disposable warclones will … Read more
Minecraft’s new update is getting a lot of praise for adding a simple, long-awaited feature: Players can now sit. This game has been around for 20 years and players can create beautiful homes, deep mines, and thriving civilizations, but they couldn’t sit down until now. They can sleep in cozy beds, but there was no … Read more
Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 might be missing a few modes and pieces of content when they’re re-released for PS4 and PS5 later this month. The trophy lists for both games have appeared online and, while they’re largely identical to the original PS3 versions, there are a few differences. As pointed out … Read more
Launch sales projections for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake look like a huge improvement on Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the franchise’s most recent release. Steam pre-orders for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced are 5.39 times higher than those for Shadows, according to industry analyst Rhys Elliot of Alinea Analytics. Remarkably, this means Resynced has already … Read more
Polish developer Rebel Wolves has worn a confident face since it first revealed The Blood of Dawnwalker early last year. The blood-soaked reveal trailer featured a gorgeously grisly cutscene, an unmistakably Slavic score, and a snapshot of a sprawling medieval open world. Crafted by many of the minds behind The Witcher 3, including its director … Read more
My first MMO was Ultima Online, and despite the fact that my computer could barely run it, UO kicked off a long love affair with the genre that included time with games like EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, The Matrix Online, City of Heroes, FFXI and FFXIV, World of WarCraft, and a lot more. But I … Read more