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Romero Games, whose in-development shooter was cancelled last week in the wake of (but not necessarily as a result of, more on that later) the major layoffs at Microsoft, has issued a statement on social media clarifying that it is not closed down, and that "we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that."Romero Games said on July 3 that funding for its...
They say the peak Peak experience is reaching the titular peak, but I'd argue peak Peak is falling from very high up while five to six friends watch helplessly. That feat is usually impossible thanks to Peak's unenlightened four-player limit, but of course, modders found a way.Very quickly, at that. Since the week Peak came out, the most-downloaded Peak mod on Thunderstore (a popular front-end for easily modding Unity games)...
Amenities evidently do not include a functional sink. So far, I’ve been having a blast with Mecha Break. From its wildly detailed character creator to its wide variety of fun-to-play Strikers, everything about Mecha Break makes sense. In the words of Todd Howard, everything about the game “just works.”Well, almost everything works. The sink in my pilot’s personal quarters, however, does not. This might seem like a tiny, insignificant detail,...
For some people, Mario Kart World is a nonstop cow party. For others, it’s a slow stroll that’s periodically interrupted by lightning strikes. But based on the emerging “meta” for Mario Kart World, the open-world kart competition has been diminished into a droll series of clones. If you’re in the know, you’re probably playing with a light character steering the Baby Blooper kart. I get it. People want to win,...
Exactly one year ago, I found myself so bored that I decided to calculate just how much I was using each gaming platform I owned. The results weren’t surprising: Despite thinking of myself as a proper console player, I found that I was using my Steam Deck to run more than 50% of the games I’d played so far that year. The Nintendo Switch was at a distant second, while...
If anyone can lay claim to the most iconic track in Nintendo’s jubilant kart racer, it’s probably Twitch streamer Technical. The 22-year-old holds the distinction of having the fastest possible run time in Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road, both for original version and the Deluxe re-release on Switch. Naturally, the speed demon has been grinding away on the prismatic track since the release of Mario Kart World, and after nearly...
By now, it’s a familiar pattern: A new Jurassic Park franchise movie movie comes out during the summer, garnering middling and sometimes exhausted-sounding reviews. Yes, it has some decent special effects and maybe a fun set piece or two, but it’s not a patch on Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original. Terms like “out of ideas,” “incurious,” and “shell of its former self” have been thrown around to describe the latest iteration,...
In 2018, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gave the 25-year-old Jurassic Park franchise its most ambitious, startling shift since the first movie brought dinosaurs into the modern world. Until that point in the series, the various resurrected dino species had been confined to parks, islands, and experimental facilities, which hapless humans had to enter for various reasons. Fallen Kingdom ends (seven-year-old spoiler!) with dinosaurs escaping captivity en masse and...
Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription is likely the best deal around: For a fraction of the price of a full game, you get access to hundreds of titles every month, some of which are brand new. But when video games cost millions to make, and news of studio layoffs are constant, you don’t need to look at an Xbox balance sheet to know the numbers aren’t adding up for a service...
The second and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which kicked off July 3, is the first project to move forward since the writer was accused of sexual assault, leading to pauses in production on Good Omens season 3, Disney’s adaptation of The Graveyard Book, and many other adaptations of his work. Fans of the series will have to grapple with the classic question of whether...