There’s a reason that, month after month, Vampire Survivors has been the most-played game on Steam Deck: it’s a blast. Your character auto-fires weapons as thousands of enemies invade the screen. All you have control over in the heat of the moment are the character’s movement and their weapon and item loadout (there are persistent…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Resident Evil producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has established a new studio with NetEase. GPTRACK50, as it’s called, aims to create original IP that will “impress the whole world”, not just games, but films and entertainment series. Kobayashi, who will take the role of president, has been involved in the production of Resident Evil’s live-action and CG…
I recently got word there was a Monkey Island-like game in the works. This in itself is not exactly unusual – point and click games have always been around, even if they are not as prevalent as they once were. But this Monkey Island-like game has something else going for it that made my ears…
Return to Monkey Island will launch on Xbox via Game Pass, Microsoft has confirmed. The newly-launched entry in the classic adventure game series will arrive for Xbox consoles, cloud and PC via Game Pass on 8th November, following its previous release on PC and Switch. Our Christian Donlan described the game as “a deft and…
Modern Warfare 2 has given Call of Duty its biggest opening weekend in terms of revenue in the series’ history. In its first three days, the blockbuster game generated $800m worldwide. According to Activision’s numbers makes it the highest grossing piece of entertainment all year, more than 2022’s biggest films Doctor Strange in the Multiverse…
Popular Overwatch 2 character Mei has been temporarily disabled by Blizzard due to a game-breaking exploit – and won’t return for two weeks. Mei, one of the game’s damage characters, has an ability called Ice Wall, which projects a huge wall of ice in front of her. Ice Wall is a useful ability which can…
Despite saying differently on both the front and back of the game’s box, it sounds like owners of Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong’s PS4 version won’t actually get their promised free PS5 upgrade. A post on Reddit detailing a message from Nacon’s customer support claims the publisher made an error advertising the upgrade. “We inform…
Sony has revealed that it has hits 25 million PS5 console sales. During the Japanese tech giant’s Q2 earnings call, it revealed that it has sold 3.3 million PS5 consoles in the preceding quarter, bringing the total to a neat 25 million. Selling 3.3 million PS5 consoles in three months might sound impressive, but it…
Apple Watch Ultra models recently gained new low-power settings that can extend battery life up to 60 hours on a single charge, or what Apple calls “multi-day adventure battery life.” This article explains how it works and how to set it up. When Apple introduced the Apple Watch Ultra in September, one of the touted…
Helping to create a more resilient Europe When Ukraine was invaded in February, a group of 15 Google employees dropped everything to do what they did best — write code. But unlike their day jobs of helping to build Google Maps or improve Google Search, this team of Google.org Fellows assisted the International Rescue Committee…