If you ask me, Portal’s signature moment involves putting a portal in the ceiling and another portal in the floor just below it. Thump, thump. These portals, for the uninitiated, are basically two sides of the same magical hole; walk through the orange portal and you emerge through the blue portal. In the game’s deliriously…
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Concept art of the upcoming 2024 Call of Duty game and Modern Warfare 2 have allegedly leaked online. As spotted by ResetEra, Twitter user RealiityUK – although they’ve had other accounts taken offline by DMCA strikes – shared the images over the weekend, posting a full thread of what seem to be loading screens from…
Numskull’s next Destiny statue is of a character whose voice most Guardians know well; Lord Shaxx, he of “they can’t kill you if they’re dead, Guardian!” fame and master of the Crucible. An official Destiny product, this Shaxx statue has been designed in conjunction with Bungie and features “hand-painted features for extra detail”. He stands…
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) is over for another year, netting a staggering $3,018,320.49 with donations still coming in – that’s almost £2.5 million. In all, the event showcased 134 different speedruns with games such as Left 4 Dead 2, Super Mario World, Portal 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, to name…
505 Games’ parent company, Digital Bros., has acquired mobile publisher D3 Go! from D3 Publisher and Bandai Namco. D3 Go! – which publishes the Puzzle Quest games, including Marvel Puzzle Quest and Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns – will now join the 505 Games US office in Calabasas, California. The acquisition now gives 505 Games…
Surprise, Sony fans! Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to PS4 in the West… a full decade after it first release in Japan on PC. The ARPG will debut on PS4 on 31st August, six years after it arrived on PS4 in Japan and over a year later than it arrived in the West…
Bandai Namco has dropped a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming tactical battler, Digimon Survive, which finally releases on 29th July, 2022. Digimon Survive – which “blends visual novel storytelling with tactical battle elements” – has been a long time coming, having been formally delayed three times to “allocate more time to development” and “enhance…
Netflix has shared the opening credit sequence for its upcoming anime series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. First debuted at the Anime Expo 2022 in Los Angeles, these opening credits are accompanied by Franz Ferdinand’s ‘This Fffire’ from 2004. (A small spot of trivia for your next pub quiz, this is not the only piece of game-inspired media…
It took what felt like several eternities for Yu Suzuki to release his last dream project, the teases and trials that led up to the eventual release of Shenmue 3 spanning over a decade. It’s wild, then, that his next dream project – a return to his 80s arcades roots, and an explicitly styled spiritual…
Political parties in the Netherlands have broadly backed a new attempt to block the sale of video game loot boxes in the country. Six parties say they will support the motion, which would bring Dutch law largely in line with Belgium – where loot boxes were outlawed back in 2018 (thanks, Neowin). The motion describes…