As we’re only now starting to see in video games, with The Last Of Us 2 being the most high profile casualty (so far), global Covid-19 lockdowns are wreaking absolute havoc on the ability of companies to make and sell games. But if you think it’s bad for video games,…
After years of fans waiting, being teased, seeing trailers and more waiting, Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming out later this week.
Whether you think of him as the world’s greatest anime director, one of the greatest animators of all time, or perhaps one of the best directors period, the works of Hayao Miyazaki are beyond compare… except perhaps to each other. Here’s the best of his best.
This week on Snapshots, cute bunnies, big leaps, tall cliffs, some fast motorcycles in Driveclub, bloody clothes and one big monster in Animal Crossing.
88-year old Audrey at long last embarks on her deserted island getaway in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons patch addresses a bug that prevented balloons from spawning in the skies above players’ islands under “certain circumstances.”
The weekend is for needing to do laundry, because I’ve hit the “all I have left are sweaters” point of staying home a bit earlier than expected. I’ve read you can do your laundry in the bathtub, so I guess I’m going to try that? That leaves lots of time…
Wizards of the Coast and Toho Studios joined forces for an upcoming special kaiju expansion set Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. The first run printing features a “Spacegodzilla, Death Corona” card, which couldn’t have a worst name at a worst time.
Earlier this year, Magic: The Gathering visited the underworld. For their latest set, Wizards of the Coast are heading to the world of Ikoria, a land of massive towers, the deepest caverns, and – for the first time in the game’s almost 30-year long history – creatures that can mutate….
Video games have changed so dramatically with another console generation passing by and an endless number of game releases. But while it’s important to celebrate the fanatastic achievements of games over the last decade, it’s also important to explore the failures: the games that broke our hearts, kicked us while…
Under normal circumstances, Jessica Kobeissi is a professional photographer who spends her time shooting agency models in glamorous settings. But these are not normal circumstances, and so for the next little while Jessica is taking photos in Animal Crossing instead.
Spend two mana, tap Godzilla: Player may stand up and yell one “SKREE-ONK” into the air.
Instead of providing stores with adequate sanitation supplies (or simply closing them outright) in response to the covid-19 pandemic, Game X Change corporate felt it best to send employees what amounted to a chain email full of bogus prevention tactics. Their advice includes gargling vinegar, drinking lots of water (to…
Starting next week, Apex Legends is getting a permanent Duos mode, alongside a temporary event featuring Bloodhound.
Gwent now has a 100-level battle pass players in need of a goal can work on grinding through. Unlike just any battle pass though, CD Projekt Red says it wants Gwent’s to tell a story each season.
Yesterday, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe announced the government’s plan to provide face masks to 50 million households in Japan, targeting those in areas where the novel coronavirus is spreading. Each household will get two washable masks. Online, people are reacting this as the way do: with memes.
Ducking in under the wire, April’s PlayStation Plus games are here. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership.
Bunny Day is a a new seasonal event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons running from April 1-12 where players can collect various eggs and egg-themed recipes to decorate their islands. While the event culminates in a big celebration on April 12, the days leading up to it feature an Egg…
In 2017, Activision was sued by General Motors over Call of Duty’s accurate depiction of Humvees. In its defence, the publisher said the vehicle’s inclusion was a “first amendment” issue, a point a federal judge agreed with today while dismissing GM’s case.
With the release of Warlords of New York last month, The Division 2 added a big new playable area to the game. But this large update also added seasons, complete with special events and battle passes. We are now a few weeks into the first season and so far, so…
Square Enix shipped Final Fantasy 7 Remake early to Australia as a result of the coronavirus. And as sure as the sun rises in the morning, the game has broken street date in Australia, 9 days before its official release.
Earlier this week a Rick & Morty samurai-themed short was unleashed on the world. Apparently that was just to whet out appetites, because now the release date for the second half of season 4 has been announced, along with a trailer.
Sorry, Astrobot Rescue Mission, but you’ve been dethroned. I, a tough customer when it comes to PSVR, have found a new PSVR game to incessantly rave about. It’s called Paper Beast, and it’s a virtual safari of some very strange animals.
Last week Atari released a new Missile Command game. This week Atari announces a new Pong. Pong Quest, developed by UK design duo Chequered Ink, players explore fantasy dungeons inspired by other Atari classics while smacking balls back and forth. As silly as it sounds, it is a completely real…
Today is April Fool’s Day. Pranks probably aren’t a good idea this year! Pretending you have the novel coronavirus is definitely not.
This week was already pretty busy, and it just got a whole lot busier. Activision announced this morning that the campaign mode for the Modern Warfare 2 remaster is available now on PlayStation.
This won’t come as a surprise to any of you, but id Software officially cancelled QuakeCon 2020 today, saying “gathering is the last thing any of us should be doing right now”.
More and more comic book stores across the world are having to close their doors because of the ongoing covid-19 outbreak—whether that’s due to state restrictions or an actual lack of new product. One of the biggest questions looming has been what, if any, steps publishers and distributors like Diamond…
If NBA players can’t get onto an actual court for the next few months, for the televised enjoyment of millions, they may as well do the next best thing.
In an effort to provide relief to developers left in the lurch after the Game Developers Conference was postponed late last month, gamedev.world has partnered with several studios to release a massive video game bundle via itch.io, the proceeds of which will go towards a fund established to support affected…
Yesterday, after a couple weeks playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, K.K. Slider finally made an appearance on my island. But the travelling canine guitarist has apparently become hot shit over the last two decades, so much so that he wouldn’t deign to visit until I took painstaking steps to bring…
While time travel carries a great deal of reward, it’ll also cause major issues in the game. Here’s what you need to know about Animal Crossing’s time travel function.
The coronavirus has cancelled or postponed almost every single major and minor social event across the world. Just this week, we learned that the 2020 Olympics will need to rebrand to the 2021 Olympics with the announcement that the games have been postponed until July of next year. Other sporting…
