Enlarge / How “X-treme” is this game’s “Early Access” period? Quite. reader comments 79 Share this story For all the flak and attention Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski has garnered over the years, the developer has always at least put his name behind solid video games. His most recent self-admitted financial failure, Lawbreakers, at least did a ..
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Enlarge / The towering Ravenii are impressive to look at, less so to fight. reader comments 4 Share this story Game details Developer: Maximum GamesPublisher: Iron GalaxyPlatform: Windows (reviewed), Xbox One, PS4Release Date: April 10, 2018ESRB Rating: M for MaturePrice: $60Links: Steam | Official Web site At my most reductive, I’d call Extinction one long string ..
reader comments 68 Share this story Update, 11:30pm ET: As some Westworld fans predicted, Monday’s tease of a full second-season spoiler bonanza, weeks before the April 22 premiere on HBO, didn’t quite add up. Series co-creator and executive producer Jonathan Nolan hopped onto Reddit just shy of midnight on Monday to follow through on his earlier ..
reader comments 10 Share this story Hearthstone game director Ben Brode acknowledges that Rush (which lets minions attack other minions the turn they come out) might just seem like a “bad version of Charge.” But despite the “downgrade,” he thinks Rush will avoid some of the problems that made Charge cards hard to balance. In ..
Enlarge / Four of the bundle’s 18 books from MIT Press. reader comments 21 Share this story You’d be forgiven for letting a Humble Bundle pay-what-you-want sale whiz by without thinking about it. The shop has been bundling software and ebooks for eight years at this point, so while the discounts are still quite solid, ..
reader comments 12 Share this story The best and possibly only-est shyguy cosplay I’ve ever seen at PAX. I asked for a fist bump after this photo and got one. You don’t see too many opportunities for selfies with inflatable dinosaurs outside of shows like this. I didn’t see a coat anywhere near this guy ..
Enlarge / The controller charging cable shown here is one of the best ways to charge the Switch itself from a USB-A output. reader comments 79 Share this story We were overjoyed when we first found out that Nintendo was ditching its usual proprietary charging ports on portable systems in favor of USB-C power for ..
Enlarge / You can still buy into and blast through Lawbreakers, but Boss Key confirmed on Thursday that the game’s original update “road map” has been effectively canceled. reader comments 46 Share this story Lawbreakers, the 2017 video game that saw Cliff “cliffyb” Bleszinski (Unreal, Gears of War) come out of game-design retirement, has admitted ..
Enlarge / How often do you see a frying pan meme in a lawsuit? reader comments 117 Share this story As expected, the massively popular online shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has been followed by a wave of imitators, particularly on smartphones. But it has been unclear if or when the game’s creators would ever consider legal action ..
Enlarge / Xbox One X Console Controller. reader comments 92 Share this story A video game industry lobby group is joining the lawsuit that seeks to reinstate net neutrality rules in the US, saying that the net neutrality repeal could harm multiplayer online games that require robust Internet connections. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) yesterday ..
