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Void Bastards Coming to Switch

One of my favorite games from 2019 is coming to a new console. Inspired by Bioshock and space exploration games, Void Bastards is on its way to the Nintendo Switch for portable space-station crawling. Void Bastards turns first-person shooters on its head and sort…

Initial PS5 Availability Expected to Be Limited

There’s no denying the long-reaching impact of COVID-19. Internationally, lives have been changed forever, including death, loss, and community-wide destruction. The way we view these disasters is often in a duality; we understand the human loss, but we can’t truly comprehend how…

Gamescom 2020 Canceled, Going Digital Instead

Game industry expos and conferences making the call to go online-only in the wake of this dastardly COVID-19 pandemic seem to be an increasingly frequent move. So far, this year has seen the cancellation of E3, and the postponement of GDC. It…

Just Cause 4 & Wheels of Aurelia Are Free On Epic

This week has been a mixed bag for news. Monday, I covered Hellpoint‘s delayed release while Abdul covered the Fallout 76: Wastelanders DLC trailer release. Tuesday, I spoke about the ESRB and PEGI including Loot Box warnings in new ratings, and Taylor spoke about something happening with Crysis. Wednesday…

F1 2020 Announced For This Summer

The “current” season of Formula 1 in a state of disarray, so much that Formula 1’s Managing Director, motorsports, and technical director, Ross Brawn recently stated that the current season, as it stands, could officially start as late as October. It’s hard…

Art for Canceled Superman & Suicide Squad Games

It was well-known that WB Montreal was busy on some DC games a few years back. We heard rumors of a Superman game around 2018. Before that, a Suicide Squad game intended to hit shelves around the time that fans would be checking…

Steam Games Festival “Summer Edition” Announced

It seems Geoff Keighley, the longtime host of The Game Awards, has joined forces with Valve to fill the hole in the games industry left by the cancellation of E3 2020 that was announced last month. You might recall that a “Spring…

Meeple Station Leaves Early Access

Though the years of playing games in Early Access, I’ve come across some with no promise that will almost indefinitely stay there until the end of time. Then there are the few I’ve found, like Claybook and Meeple Station, before large YouTube attention is…

Assassin’s Creed 2 Free On Uplay

Some of us are only just acclimatizing to this whole staying indoors thing. For others, it seems to be a matter of persuasion. Either way, several companies are being hindered by this, such as small businesses that require you to go out…

Something is Happening with the Crysis Series

It’s not very often a game series that seems on hold indefinitely gives an indication that new content might be coming soon. While it might be too soon to throw your Nanosuit on, it seems likely that something is coming from the Crysis…