The Steam Summer Sale kicked off yesterday with deals on thousands of PC games. Now it seems like Newegg is trying to steal some of Steam’s thunder with its own PC digital game sale. Hundreds of games are on sale at Newegg–many of which are Steam codes–and a bunch of …
Read More »Yacht Club Games Celebrates Shovel Knight's Birthday By Listing All 49 Of His Cameos
Shovel Knight recently turned seven years old, and his creators at Yacht Club Games celebrated the occasion by looking back not at his own game, but at the numerous cameos he’s made since his debut. We haven’t seen ubiquity like this outside of plumbers and hedgehogs. The blog post at …
Read More »Spider-Man, Ratchet And Clank Developer Insomniac Hiring For New Multiplayer Project
Insomniac Games, maker of recent PlayStation exclusives such as Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, is in the process of hiring for a brand-new project. Perhaps more surprisingly, Insomniac has explicitly stated that this new game will be a multiplayer title, with the studio on the lookout …
Read More »Sega Turned Sonic The Hedgehog Into A VTuber
Update: Sega warned us, and it wasn’t kidding. Sonic is now a VTuber, as you can see in the below clip. Right now, it’s in Japanese, but we’re willing to bet this isn’t the end. Original story follows… You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos. Click To Unmute …
Read More »Tekken X Street Fighter Might Still Happen, It's Just On "Pause"
The embattled Tekken X Street Fighter crossover game might still launch in the future despite recent reports of the project being “officially dead,” according to Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada. Reports began circulating earlier this week that the long-in-development title has been cancelled after Harada said that “development stopped but [the …
Read More »Nier Replicant Passes 1 Million Sales, Double What Nier Sold In A Decade
Nier Replicant, an upgraded remaster of the original 2010 game, released back in April, and it has already managed to sell over 1 million copies. This performance is astronomically better than the original version, and points to the series’ continued strength over the last few years. The official Nier Twitter …
Read More »Minecraft Sonic DLC Is Available Now, And It's Got Some Very Square Rings
Sonic the Hedgehog isn’t done celebrating his 30th anniversary just yet, as now the blue blur has raced his way into Minecraft in a new DLC. Available now via the Minecraft Marketplace, Minecraft’s Sonic the Hedgehog DLC transforms the game into a 3D runner that can be played with friends, …
Read More »EA Boosts Battlefield 4 Server Capacity Following Player Surge
Following the reveal of Battlefield 2042, it seems that a decent number of players have hopped back into 2013’s Battlefield 4. In response, EA is firing up some extra servers just to serve the eight-year-old game’s bolstering population. In a post on the EA Answers page, an EA community manager …
Read More »Xbox June Update Out Now, Includes New Accessibility Options And More
Xbox Series X|S owners can now update their consoles with the latest software from Microsoft. While the update doesn’t include many revolutionary changes for all players, it does add new accessibility options in the form of speech-to-text and text-to-speech. After downloading this update, players will be able to turn on …
Read More »GTA Online Will Shut Down On Xbox 360, PS3 Later This Year
After nearly eight years of support from Rockstar, GTA Online is being taken down, but just on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Starting on December 16, 2021, players will no longer be able to access their GTA Online characters on those platforms. If you’ve been playing GTA Online on an …
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