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Age of Empires IV is finally on the way! Microsoft has passed off development duties of the famous real-time strategy game to Relic Entertainment, creators of the Dawn of War franchise. What Relic Entertainment have in mind for the franchise is truly anyone’s guess. The above reveal trailer only serves as a stylish confirmation that the game is

In 2017, former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw broke the internet when he updated his blog with a mysterious letter that appeared to contain the plot summary for his version of Half-Life 3. The post immediately caught the attention of a legion of Half-Life fans who deciphered the false names and hidden messages used in the original post

In one of the more surprising and welcome moments of Xbox’s E3 2019 presentation, Microsoft confirmed that they are working on a new Microsoft Flight Simulator game.  Simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, we’d call this a reboot of the franchise, but it’s not like there were any complex plot threads tying the series to its roots.

Google Stadia, the cloud gaming service that will allow players to access their games seamless between all of their devices, is launching on Nov. 19, but not with the full suite of features it advertised at GDC and E3 2019. During an AMA on Reddit, the Stadia team revealed what features players won’t be able

Hideo Kojima‘s strange Death Stranding and the creepiness of deepfake videos have come together for a double dose of weirdness: a YouTube channel called iFake has edited the Death Stranding trailer so that the game’s director, Kojima himself, appears to be playing every role. It is, in its own way, a beautiful thing to behold. The

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In an interview with TGCom, Hideo Kojima offered an…interesting theory regarding why some American critics may have been harsher on Death Stranding.  “I must say that the game received rave reviews, especially in Europe and Japan,” Kojima says. “Here in the United States, however, we have had stronger criticisms. Perhaps it is a difficult game

Release Date: Nov. 5, 2019Platforms: SwitchDeveloper: SegaPublisher: SegaGenre: Sports Once again, iconic characters from Nintendo and Sega franchises are coming together to provide us with minigames based on real-life sports. Yep, the time has come to review Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The game, as you’d expect, is stuffed to the

God of War director Cory Barlog has seemingly been using his Twitter account to tease some kind of sci-fi project.  This is all a bit strange, but a quick look at Barlog’s Twitter account reveals that he has changed his photo to a picture of the Voyager 1 space satellite, has sent out a strange tweet

French startup Blade has announced major upgrades to its Shadow cloud PC service that will add ray-tracing  and 4K gaming configurations in 2020. Users will be able to choose from three subscription tiers, the latter two of which will offer Nvidia RTX GPUs, a big jump from the Nvidia Quadro P5000 GPU currently included in the

That’s No Moon Although ultimately viewed as a financial low-point for Nintendo, the GameCube era gave us some of the best games ever made: Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. One of its best, a launch title that wasn’t an in-house Nintendo

It looks like Hideo Kojima convinced quite a few former Konami employees to help him work on Death Stranding.  Death Stranding‘s credits confirm that about 67 of roughly 120 members of the main Death Stranding team previously worked on the Metal Gear Solid series. Of those 67, it seems that 62 worked on Metal Gear

While PlayStation Now continues to grow, it seems like Sony doesn’t currently intend to release major new games via the subscription service.  “The nature and scale of some of the first-party games that we are making leads us to think that, right now, it’s better to spend energy on making sure that the launch of those

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games has denied rumors that they are working on a Banjo-Kazooie sequel.  “We hate to be the bearers of news that isn’t what you want to hear, but we thought it best to come out and say we aren’t working on a new Banjo-Kazooie game and we remain an independent studio,” says Playtonic via

By 2016, Pokémon X and Y had already transitioned the franchise into the new visual realm made possible by the 3DS, meaning that Sun and Moon would have to do something drastic to stand out from their predecessors. Thankfully, the combined powers of Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company came up with something pretty special

There was a time when every major movie release was accompanied by a tie-in video game. For fans, it was a chance to extend the original cinema-going experience into the interactive arena of gaming. For studios and developers alike, it was a chance to make a few extra bucks. It didn’t always go to plan,

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai caused a bit of a stir today when he suggested that Fatal Fury star Mai Shiranui may be too sexy to be a DLC character. “You may have noticed that a very important character from the Fatal Fury series was not included,” said Sakurai during a recent livestream. “Yes, Mai Shiranui.

Square Enix is reportedly already working on a next-gen IP.  This information comes from a job recruitment page that seemingly reveals that Square Enix is hiring for the development of an action game intended for next-gen consoles. The project listing is understandably light on details regarding the game itself, but it notes that the title

Valve and Apple are reportedly working together on a new AR headset.  DigiTimes reports that Apple has revived its AR headset project and seems to have enlisted Valve’s help in order to see it through to completion. The two companies have previously collaborated on VR support functionality for macOS, but this project, if it is

Release Date: Nov. 8, 2019Platforms: PS4Developer: Kojima ProductionsPublisher: Sony Interactive EntertainmentGenre: Action-adventure In Death Stranding, you will encounter gigantic, inky whales soaring through stormy skies. You’ll carry a baby in a pod, suspended in mystery fluid, who gives Guillermo del Toro the finger. You’ll giggle at an ad for Norman Reedus’ AMC show, Ride with

Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Death Stranding studio Kojima Productions is interested in expanding into making movies.  “In the future, Kojima Productions will start making films,” says Kojima in an interview with BBC Newsbeat. “If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well.” Kojima goes on to explain that this eventual

BlizzCon 2019, the biggest Blizzard celebration of the year, is finally here! And this is where you can keep up with all of the big announcements, watch new gameplay footage and trailers, and even catch the esports action from your favorite Blizzard games. You can catch everything on Nov. 1-3. Check out the full schedule

Diablo 4 has officially been confirmed at Blizzcon 2019.  The opening trailer for the game shows adventurers wandering into a dark and ominous dungeon. At the end of their journey, they come to a room of sacrifice where we watch the torturously slow calling of Lilith, the daughter of Mephisto, Lord of Hatred. It’s a stunning

The next World of Warcraft expansion is called World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. After the latest update to Battle of Azeroth saw the Horde and Alliance arrive at a temporary peace agreement, everything seemed to be relatively quiet in the world of Azeroth. However, the first trailer for Shadowlands shows Sylvannas Windrunner make her way to

The next Hearthstone expansion is officially titled Descent of Dragons. Considering that Hearthstone‘s current content year is called the Year of the Dragon, it’s appropriate that the final expansion of the year will focus on dragons. Specifically, it sees the League of Explorers and the League of E.V.I.L venture to a World of Warcraft staple

Overwatch 2 is real and it turns out that many of the rumors surrounding the game were true. First off, the biggest draw of Overwatch 2 will indeed be PvE content. Overwatch 2 will feature a series of co-op, story-based missions that will seemingly focus on the Overwatch team getting back together to fight a

Release Date: October 25, 2019Platform: Xbox One (reviewed), PC, PS4Developer: Infinity WardPublisher: ActivisionGenre: First-Person Shooter Call Of Duty hasn’t taken a year off from its annual release schedule since the franchise began all the way back in 2003 – but there had been suggestions that the series had become stale. Thankfully, this year’s title, Modern Warfare,

Release Date: October 31, 2019Platform: SwitchDeveloper: Next Level GamesPublisher: NintendoGenre: Action-adventure “Now this… is art!” Those are the words of a ghoulish character that shows up for one particularly lovable level of Luigi’s Mansion 3, and, for the most part, it’s hard to disagree with the euphoria of that statement when it comes to the game

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The designer of Payday and Payday 2, Ulf Anderson, has started a new studio called 10 Chambers Collective. His first project will retain Payday‘s four-player co-op gameplay but will add an element of horror that only exists in Payday when someone screws up the vault drill.  GTFO is described as a “terrifying 4 player co-op