Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of the game itself. Despite those struggles, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick promises, unequivocally, that it's not...
1994’s Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders and its 1995 sequel, Hexen: Beyond Heretic forged new frontiers in first-person shooter games. Experience these pivotal games today with Heretic + Hexen, a collaboration between id Software and Nightdive Studios bringing an enhanced re-release of Raven Software’s legendary games to a new generation of players. Play Video From demonic sci-fi to dark fantasy “As one of the original developers back in the...
15 years after being shuttered by Activision, original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane is back, with the slightly changed name of RedOctane Games and now a part of catastrophe conglomerate Embracer Group. The revived studio is being headed up by Simon Ebejer, the production director on numerous Guitar Hero games developed by Neversoft, and also has original RedOctane founder Charles and Kai Huang on board as advisors.The "small but passionate studio"...
Marathon's grand unveiling earlier this year did not, I suspect, go as Sony hoped. Gameplay reveals were met with overwhelmingly negative reaction. Then, a scandal over stolen art and a subsequent report of morale at the studio in "free fall". Finally, an indefinite delay, with a new release date to be announced in the autumn.All that would be troubling enough on its own, but crucially it came only a few...
Acer's not exactly a name that comes up often in the SSD sphere, is it? If I sat you down right now, brand-new shiny GM9000 PCIe 5.0 SSD in your hands, and asked you exactly who it was that held the lion's share of the storage market today, I suspect Acer probably wouldn't make the top 10 list now, would it? Nope. It's understandably more associated with mass-manufactured gaming laptops...
Anyone hoping for a Tekken Tag Tournament 3 as the genre's popularity ramps up once more is going to be disappointed, since Bandai Namco has unfortunately shredded any hope of it happening.I never got around to playing Tekken Tag Tournament until I picked up the second one a couple of years ago and had a fab time with it. It's an unbalanced mess full of silly quirks and questionable choices,...
I'm going to admit, I've been tempted by the allure of a foldable phone. A phone in your pocket, but a tablet in the right environment, there's an appeal there that makes sense to me. Ultimately, it's the price and hinge that have always put me off. If you plan on spending days opening up and closing yours, like a bibliophile breaking in a good book spine, I have some...
Hey everyone, this is Mike Tucker, Design Director and Programmer at Bitmap Bureau. We hope you’re all excited for Terminator 2D: No Fate, coming October 31, 2025. On behalf of everyone at the Bitmap team, we’re thrilled to reveal the new Gameplay Overview Trailer! The trailer gives an in-depth summary of T2D’s various gameplay systems, including info about game modes, pickups, the scoring system and more. Play Video Difficulty levels...
Ding ding! Time is up and we’re ready to pull our final party game creation out of the oven for a piping hot reveal. Cookie Haus is the fifth and final party game coming this fall in The Jackbox Party Pack 11. Play Video Welcome to Cookie Haus Cookie Haus is a brand new drawing game that puts an emphasis on silliness and simplicity. In this game, you are a...
Somebody's marketing team didn't stop to ask whether they should, only whether they could, and as a result Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting an expansion that lets you do a velociraptor fly-by. The Jurassic World: Archipelago add-on will bolt onto your globe the islands of Isla Nublar, Isla Sorna, and the rest of the Muertes Archipelago added in The Lost World because one dinosaur island wasn't enough.To get there...