Epic Games showed off new animation technology during its State of Unreal presentation at this week’s Game Developers Conference, illustrating how developer Ninja Theory is using Unreal Engine 5 to bring Senua to life for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. While the talk was primarily game developer-focused, the takeaway for most...
EA pulling Battlefield: Bad Company games, Mirror’s Edge from stores
Publisher Electronic Arts is pulling Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and the original Mirror’s Edge from online stores in April, developer DICE announced Tuesday. DICE said that the four games are being removed from digital storefronts like the PlayStation Store, Steam, and Xbox Games Store ahead...
Xbox hoping to launch mobile game store as early as next year
Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of gaming, has told the Financial Times Microsoft would like to launch Xbox-branded mobile gaming app stores on both Android and iOS — ideally as soon as next year. Until now, such stores have been disallowed by Google and Apple, but incoming European Union legislation is...
The Resident Evil 4 remake pulls off the same great trick
In 2001, four years before the original Resident Evil 4 was released, Capcom knew it had a problem. The Resident Evil series was stuck in a cookie-cutter mold, producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said at the time. “The whole concept of RE4 was to reinvent the game,” he said. “We wanted to...
Destiny fans mourn the loss of Lance Reddick
Fans are mourning the untimely death of Lance Reddick, the actor with roles in the John Wick franchise, The Wire, Bosch, and Fringe. There’s been an outpouring of tributes and remembrances on social media, both from admirers of Reddick’s work, and the actors who worked with him. But Destiny players...
Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 character locations
Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 currently has 12 characters around the map to buy items from, interact with, and potentially hire to join your crew. If you’re a completionist, you’ll want to grab all 12 for your collection. The characters are all found in different points of interest, which we...
The Redfall story trailer shows us what’s at stake
Arkane Austin and Bethesda have just released a trailer detailing the narrative surrounding their co-op, vampire-slaying immersive sim slated to release on May 2 for PC and Xbox Series X/S. We’ve already seen some generous slices of Redfall’s gameplay at this point, showing us an open world plagued by vampires...
Elden Ring streamer vanquishes Malenia using only her voice
Elden Ring streamers have found so many novel ways to beat the game — but the ultimate prize continues to be vanquishing one of the game’s most challenging foes: Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And now, Twitch streamer Larxa has defeated Malenia using a voice command modded version of Elden Ring....
The Microsoft Activision circus needs to be over and done with
Activision Blizzard’s outspoken chief communications officer, Lulu Cheng Meservey, decided last week that it was time for the gloves to come off in the battle of words with Sony over Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of her employer (as if the gloves had ever been on in the first place). On Twitter,...
STALKER 2 team says it was hacked by pro-Russian group, is being blackmailed
GSC Game World, the Ukraine-based developer of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, has been hacked, according to a statement from the studio on Sunday. An anonymous user on the Russian social media network VK has taken responsibility for the breach, and is threatening to release art and story details for...