Riot Games committed to change after their “bro culture” accusations

Riot Games committed to change after their "bro culture" accusations 1

Riot Games is the company behind one of the world’s most popular (if not, the most popular) MOBA games, League of Legends (LoL). And they’ve been under fire in today’s modern culture and social landscape regarding “bro culture” mentality at the studio after many accusations reported. Riot was founded back in 2006 and has quickly become … Read more

Steam’s player numbers for 2018 are crazy; 47M daily active users

Steam removes movies and videos.

Steam posted its stats today and the numbers are just crazy. Even with the launch of new platforms like Discord and Epic Games Store, Steam’s numbers are anything but dwindling- even with the 70/30 developer cut, the platform still continues to pull in some insane numbers. Of course, Steam has long been the dominant DRM … Read more

Fortnite brings back glider redeploy as an ability charge

Fortnite brings back glider redeploy as an ability charge 6

The ability to redeploy your glider in the world’s most popular battle royale game is back. Epic Games removed a feature that was somewhat controversial with a compromise, which is to redeploy your glider after the drop from the Battle Bus. But now, Fortnite will bring it back as an exhaustible item in V7.20 based … Read more

SSBU mod Project NX makes the game play like Melee

SSBU mod Project NX makes the game play like Melee 7

With Super Smash Bros. Ultimate being the best-selling game on the Switch (and the most pre-order sales in Nintendo history), fans have already created a mod to bring back some Super Smash Bros. Melee movement mechanics. For anyone who’s ever played any Smash game, the definitive and competitive edition of the game is none other than … Read more

SouljaGame Handheld is a $100 PS Vita knock-off

SouljaGame Handheld is a $100 PS Vita knock-off 9

Soulja Boy has released a new console after following a suspected Nintendo lawsuit. This time around, it’s the SouljaGame Handheld, which is clearly just a rip-off of the PlayStation Vita. He’s been making headlines through the release of many branded Soulja products. Some of them were previously released consoles that seem to be a knock-off of … Read more

Anthem’s free world is pretty cool; Microtransactions for vanity gear only

Anthem's free world is pretty cool; Microtransactions for vanity gear only 11

Anthem released a new trailer yesterday that shows off some more gameplay footage of a new mission and free roaming the game’s world. Recent footage of the game demoing the first mission and a few of the Javelin suits only results in fan disappointment. Common remarks included “repetitive” and ” clone.” That’s still ongoing even until … Read more

Mad Box gets a completely new redesign; Project CARS Revolution teased

Mad Box gets a completely new redesign; Project CARS Revolution teased 12

Slightly Mad Studios has changed the design of their console, the Mad Box. When you’re a small studio looking to compete with giants like the Xbox 2 and the PS5, you’ve gotta do whatever it takes. The Mad Box’s design has now been changed, radically, compared to the previous model. With about 3 years remaining … Read more

Trailer for new expansion, Isle of Madness, for TES: Legends released

Trailer for new expansion, Isle of Madness, for TES: Legends released 14

Bethesda will be releasing its new expansion Isle of Madness for The Elder Scrolls: Legends on January 24, 2019. They’ve been making headlines this week with the announcement of their expansion for ESO, Season of the Dragon. And now they’re releasing another important expansion for The Elder Scrolls: Legends (their card game) titled Isle of Madness which … Read more

Bethesda hosting live stream for next ESO expansion – The Season of the Dragon

Bethesda hosting live stream for next ESO expansion - The Season of the Dragon 15

Bethesda has annouced a live stream that they’ll be hosting to show off details about the next Elder Scrolls Online expansion. Data miners had already unearthed an upcoming expansion for Elder Scrolls Online game last week with some juicy details such as a new Necromancer class combined in the expansion. Zenimax then posted a tweet on … Read more

Nintendo adds Zelda II and Blaster Master to NES classic library

Nintendo adds Zelda II and Blaster Master to NES classic library 17

Nintendo released a new video yesterday that features this month’s NES titles for the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service. This month’s two games will be: Zelda II: Adventure of Link Blaster Master They’ll both be available starting on January 16, 2019. Players will get access to virtual ports of NES classics every month, but that’s … Read more

The Walking Dead: The Final Season Ep. 3 trailer released

The Walking Dead: The Final Season Ep. 3 trailer released 21

The Walking Dead: The Final Season has released a new trailer for the third and final episode for the series. Back in September 2018, Telltale Games fired 250 staff members and started the process of shutting down the company. They held onto a skeletal staff, which was then fired soon afterward. The studio was best known … Read more

Twitch’s most popular streamer Ninja hits 400M view milestone

Twitch's most popular streamer Ninja hits 400M view milestone 23

Twitch’s most popular streamer Ninja has surpassed over 400M views today. He annouced on Twitter that he’s hit 400M total views on Twitch and thanks his fans. An aggregate total of 400,071,708 views was attached to the tweet with 12,881,442 followers. Other competitors of Ninja are Shroud at around half the total views and DrDisRespect at … Read more

New Marvel game in the works; Developed by Second Dinner

New Marvel game in the works; Developed by Second Dinner 24

Second Dinner is a new game studio that’s undertaking a pretty prestigious name in the entertainment industry. We’re talking Marvel. Second Dinner is a game studio that was forged in early 2018 and consists of a small team of five people. They’re all veterans with Ben Brode, who was the former Game Director of Hearthstone; … Read more

New Anthem gameplay footage released; Destiny 2 comparisons unsettle

New Anthem gameplay footage released; Destiny 2 comparisons unsettle 26

BioWare’s newest world shooter Anthem will be launching next month and the promotion has now officially begun. Some new footage clocking in at 15 minutes has been released this morning. This is the longest in-game footage we’ve seen so far that’s been released. The footage is titled “Anthem: 15 Minutes of Lost Arcanist Gameplay” with … Read more

Dreams public beta sign-up now available

Dreams public beta sign-up now available 28

The Dreams beta is finally available to the public. After many years of waiting, fans can now get their chance at Media Molecule’s Dreams beta. Some players were given access to the creator’s beta last month, but now the public beta is available for sign-ups. Anyone can sign up, whether they’re subscribed to Media Molecule’s newsletter or not … Read more

First official pics of the Mad Box released; To compete with Xbox and PlayStation

First official pics of the Mad Box released; To compete with Xbox and PlayStation 29

The newest console on the block has released some new images that really show off how “abstract” this piece of work can be. Slightly Mad Studios is the company behind the Mad Box. They’re the people behind Project Cars 2. The Mad Box is their console that’s currently being developed and aims to compete with … Read more