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Game Awards Announce 2020 Noms

The year is coming to a close, the world is looking a bit darker in the northern hemisphere (blame The Sun), and the yearly advertisements by Geoff Keighley are almost here. My how tired of it I am already. I’ve still not…

Goodbye Disintegration Multiplayer: We Hardly Knew Ye!

Multiplayer is one of the most fickle pieces of gaming in recent years. It is near impossible to predict what the zeitgeist will cling to this week and abandon the next. Over the last fifteen or so years, the term multiplayer has…

AC: Valhalla is Strongest Launch of The Series

The illustrious Assassin’s Creed series has had many memorable moments. From the first game’s ability to reinvent the stealth action title to the more recent open-world adventures, the series is always pushing boundaries. In its latest release, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, players are clearly…

Epic Also Going To Court Down Under

Can we make this a three-way battle? Epic Games vs. Apple Inc. vs. the people’s interest in the trivial nonsense of businesses trying to beget the other for preferred practices. The former two are playing out like a really crap episode of…

Call Of The Sea Set To Sail In December

Announcements never go well in the games industry; it is like a wrestling wedding, there is going to be some kind of shenanigans. From those that include fake pregnancies, a lover showing up late to stop the wedding, or even the date…

Ubisoft Montreal Hostage Situation Was A Hoax

Warning: This article contains mentions of swatting, shooting deaths, hostage situations, and police violence. On Friday November 13, 2020, Canadian news outlet Journal de Montreal reported that a call had been placed from within Ubisoft’s Montreal offices to local police. The offices,…

XIII Publisher & Dev Apologize For Issues

The disappointment that met the release of XIII soon after it launched has been no secret. Our own Mike wrote about the fact we don’t need to remaster everything following its disastrous release and Mass Effect‘s newly announced remastered collection. It was also matched…

Genesis Alpha One Added To Prime Gaming

It’s a great day for America, everybody! Well, I thought this whole energy thing might have helped last week, it didn’t. I thought it might help this week too, possibly to get me excited to talk about this week’s game. Sadly, it…

WoW: Shadowlands’ Pre-Expansion Event is Live Now

Dark times have fallen upon Azeroth, fellow champions. Well, times that are at least as dark as the events of World of Warcraft’s previous seven expansions, that is. The pre-launch event for the upcoming expansion pack known as Shadowlands began on November…

The Textorcist Free On Epic

You know what would be strange? Me writing about football this week. Monday, I spoke about my lack of a medieval engineering degree for Prime Gaming, while Zoë went on about the strange horror game about skin canvased walls being delayed. Tuesday, Zoë would speak of a…