It might be March, but award season is not over yet. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominees for its 2023 BAFTA Games Awards. Leading the pack are God of War Ragnarok and Stray, each with nine nominations including Best Game, Best Animation, and Best …
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It’s not often you witness a competitive first-person shooter’s developer allow its characters to indulge its audience’s romantic fantasies. But then again, it’s not often you have a roster of characters as charismatic and swoon-worthy as Overwatch 2’s. Since its release in 2016, the Overwatch series has garnered a reputation …
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As part of Overwatch 2’s Valentine’s Day festivities, Blizzard has released a limited-time dating sim that gives players a shot at love with the winged-medic Mercy and everyone’s favorite cyborg ninja, Genji. Though the short browser game– cleverly-titled Loverwatch–is intended to be a brief, humorous, and explicitly non-canon experience, the …
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Stream Next Fest is currently underway and if you haven’t gotten around to playing a few of the hundreds of demos now available, I’m here to help you out. However, while I’m as stoked for System Shock as the next person, I think what we all could use right now …
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Following rumors that the next entry in The Legend of Zelda series would retail for a whopping $70 (and a surprise Nintendo eShop update that all but confirmed it), Nintendo has officially announced that Tears of the Kingdom will be its first $70 game. The company made the announcement in …
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A battle pass isn’t the only live-service staple Blizzard is implementing into Overwatch 2. On March 7, Overwatch is entering the wonderful world of IP collaborations starting with a collection of skins inspired by the popular anime series One Punch Man. According to Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Season 3 blog post, …
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While “spicy” Overwatch content has since the first game’s release back in 2016, Blizzard is finally making things official. Starting on February 13, Overwatch fans can visit www.Loverwatch.gg to play the series’ first dating sim mini-game, Loverwatch. Revealed in the Overwatch 2 Season 3 blog post, Loverwatch is a text-based …
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With Overwatch 2’s third season just around the corner, Blizzard is ready to reveal the game’s newest, and chilliest, map: Antarctic Peninsula. This icy addition is Overwatch 2’s first map solely designed for Control, a game mode first introduced in the original Overwatch that sees two teams of five square …
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YouTube streamer Mutekimaru Channel was forced to take care of some seriously fishy business last week when his streaming partners–a tank full of minnows–decided to use his credit card to make a few purchases while playing Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Yes, you read that correctly. The “fishing scam” was first …
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Proletariat, an Activision Blizzard owned studio working on World of Warcraft, has withdrawn its request to unionize following “confrontational tactics” from both its parent company and current CEO. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the Communication Workers of America came to the decision after realizing Activision Blizzard was making it “impossible” to …
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