Windrose — the new pirate adventure formerly known as Crosswind — is out now in early access, debuting to ‘Very Positive’ reviews on Steam. The PvE survival game sees you build, craft, and fight your way across a vast open world “filled with dark secrets,” offering challenging bosses and “soulslite” combat. It’s already clocked an … Read more
There’s a lot of chatter today about Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 possibly being in the works at Insomniac, after the face model for Peter Parker posted a picture to social media then swiftly deleted it. Peter Parker face model Ben Jordan posted an image to Instagram showing the actor in motion capture gear, alongside the message: … Read more
Rockstar Games hackers ShinyHunters released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online. But, crucially, no GTA 6 information appears to have leaked online. The stolen data was viewed by GTA Forums user Lexiture and reported on by Kotaku. It shows GTA Online allegedly generates much more money than Red … Read more
Grand Theft Auto 5 actor Jay Klaitz has shared that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if the satire in Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn’t hit as hard because of “what we see happening in the real world.” The performer behind heist mastermind Lester Crest gave his thoughts on the next Rockstar Games title in an interview … Read more
Sony Pictures announced at CinemaCon on Monday that they are making an R-rated animated feature film based on the video game Bloodborne. While no details on the movie’s plot were revealed, it is expected that it will follow a hunter battling beasts in the city of Yharnam. There were no announcements on the film’s director, … Read more
More than 20 classic Warhammer PC video games have hit Steam as part of a new Warhammer Classics initiative. Publisher SNEG partnered with Games Workshop and various developers and publishers to create the new Warhammer Classics label, which has restored more than 20 cult-favorite Warhammer video games for release on PC. “Warhammer has been a … Read more
Publishing platform indie.io on Monday launched Indie Pass, a subscription service that’s exclusively for indie games. There are more than 70 titles included in the launch catalog in a wide range of genres and from developers all over the world. The service is intended to help with the discoverability of indie games, which can get … Read more
You ever had one of those days when Blackbeard boards your ship, shoots you and leaves you for dead, and you wash up penniless and alone on some uninhabited island having only survived due to mysterious, dark magic? Who hasn’t, right? Windrose, a piratical survival crafter that just launched into Early Access, uses that universal … Read more
Despite being over 70 years since its publication, Tolkien’s masterwork The Lord of the Rings remains the standard by which fantasy epics are judged. It continues to exercise a powerful hold on the collective imagination, influencing films, collectible figures and, of course, games of every stripe, from video to role-playing to board and card games. … Read more
Former Naughty Dog designer Benson Russell has explained how the developer eventually began to believe workplace crunch was necessary to make games like The Last of Us at its “level.” Russell left the Sony studio in 2015 after eight years of working on games like The Last of Us and Uncharted, and now, he’s opened … Read more