The Behemoth to co-sponsor indie game event BitSummit

March 7-9, in Kyoto Japanese indie dev eventBitSummitis set to kick off in early March in Kyoto. Last year’s event was a huge success, and its organizers are working hard to create an even better follow-up for this year. “We believe that through events like BitSummit MMXIV, independent Japanese developers can build a healthy counterpoint to the industrial strength AAA video game industry in Japan,” said The Behemoth in theirannouncement....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Julia Jacobson

The best and worst games of the week

Review Round-up: Week ending 11/9 November is here and the holidays are just around the corner. And while most of this year’s major blockbusters have already hit, as we gear up for the inevitable onslaught of the next generation, there are still some surprises left. Just look at all the eights we gave out! Taking the poll position for this week’s review’s wasF1 2013, the first of our 8.0s. We followed up with the quirky, tough as hell rougelike,The Guided Fate Paradoxand rounded the week out with another pairing of formal rivals inMario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games....

May 24, 2025 · 5 min · 948 words · Tony Trujillo

The Hearthstone card mount is now in Heroes of the Storm

You need 100 Play mode wins Recently, Blizzard announced that a special flying card mount would be available for Heroes of the Storm players who completed a certain task inHearthstone. What’s do you have to do, you may ask? Only win 100 games in the Play mode. Wait, 100 games?! While it’s not exactly a difficult challenge (just play game after game and you’ll eventually bruteforce it), it’ll take quite a bit of time if you haven’t already been playingHearthstonefor quite some time....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Holly Mcguire

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will ‘go nuts’ graphically on Xbox One and PS4

Aesthetic perfection? If you found CD Projekt’s sprawlingWitcherseries to be your cup of tea, you’re likely foaming at the mouth forThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the third and final entry of a saga that’s spanned ten years in development. It’s shaping up to be agreat-looking game, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise, given CD Projekt RED’s Tomasz Jarzębowski’s recent comments to theSydney Morning Herald, citing the desire to “go nuts” in terms of visuals when it comes to Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 242 words · Scott Carroll

Ultra Instinct Goku coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2

Goku’s such a silver fox Ultra Instinct is one of the better additions to the Dragon Ball canon introduced inDragon Ball Super, as it’s a form that allows Goku to basically dodge any attack and looks cool as heck. And now that form is coming toDragon Ball Xenoverse 2in a way we didn’t expect. Goku’s “perfected” Ultra Instinct (complete with silver hair) has yet to be seen in the series proper, but now we have a good look at Goku’s final form ever (since the series is ending)....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Eric Short

Unreal Tournament footage: ‘We have a game now’

Checking in with the latest build I came in expecting little from this latestUnreal Tournamentfootage considering how not far along the game was in thelast video, but this one is much more worthy of your time. Movement mechanics, levels, weapons, and team deathmatch are in place — it’s rough, but it’s a game! This newUnreal Tournamentis being developed by Epic in collaboration with its community which is why the company is so willing to show the project off at such an early stage of production....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Maxwell Beck

Weekend Deals: Witcher 3, Blizzard & WB Games titles on tap

All digital products must go Got nada in plans for this Memorial Day weekend?For $7, you’re able to enjoy getting stuck in mud while trucking around in Russia viaSpintires. Currently historic lowest price that we’ve spotted. Rare discounts on Blizzard titles are also aloof this weekend via GameStop.StarCraft IIdrops to $9.99 (bothHeart of the SwarmandWings of Liberty). Latest expansionWorld of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenoris also on sale,dropping to $29.99– its lowest price ever by $10....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Joel Lewis

Whiteout Survival codes (August 2025)

Updated: June 23, 2025 We checked for new codes! Being a chief of a tribe inWhiteout Survivalisn’t an easy task. Storms are threatening to wreck your town, resources can run out every second, and Doris is whining about the bookshelves not being aesthetically pleasing again. If you need a backup, why not use some codes? Always keeping a storage full of resources was a key to me surviving the apocalypse. I would have been in huge trouble if I hadn’t grabbed a ton of free wood, coal, and iron withWhiteout Survivalcodes....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · David Green

World of Horror is getting the physical treatment on Switch

There’s a spiral in your ear Fangamer has announced that Junji Ito-inspired indie horror gameWorld of Horrorwill geta physical releasefor Switch. You may rememberWorld of Horroras a game that has been sitting in mydubious backlogfor quite a while now. It launched in early access back in 2020. It bills itself as a love letter to H.P. Lovecraft andUzumakimangaka Junji Ito. It is very “legally distinct” from Junji Ito’s style. Like, this game was developed because no one else was making a Junji Ito game and the developer got tired of waiting, so they made their own....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 260 words · Abigail Carey MD

World of Warcraft’s latest gargantuan patch adds cross-realm PVP and communities

Cross-realm is the best Once upon a time it was a royal pain in the ass to group up with friends inWorld of Warcraft, especially friends who you just met and had already started playing. With so many different servers to choose from many people were separated, and were forced to make the choice as to whether or not they’d abandon their life on their server and pay to swap....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 289 words · Joseph Le

Zero Latency is trying something new with their latest VR project: room scale PVP

It…works? While I’ve been playing games my whole life, in the past several years I’ve basically become an expert in VR. I own every major VR platform to date, including Oculus Rift/Go, Vive and PlayStation VR and have seen nearly everything they have to offer. I know a lot of you are probably like “so what?” but the fact remains there are a lot of great experiences out there waiting to be discovered....

May 24, 2025 · 8 min · 1497 words · Devon Glover

360-exclusive NCAA March Madness 08 content released

If college basketball gets your blood pumping, listen up: EA has put out some tourney-centric DLC forNCAA March Madness 08. The content was developed, and is available, exclusively for the Xbox 360. At a cost of 400 Microsoft Points, it brings the real-life 65-team NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship bracket into your game (yes, that’s the full name of the tournament;a little birdtold me). The official name of the DLC is the “Selection Sunday Bracket Pack”, and it’ll allow you to update your game with the official bracket — complete with accurate seedings and updated team ratings....

May 23, 2025 · 4 min · 707 words · Samuel Warren

All Playable Characters in Payday 3: All Heisters

InPayday 3,your crew is essential to your success. All of the playable characters inPayday 3will help you pull off the heist of a century in the game with their unique abilities. Some of the people you play are returning from prior games, such as Dallas and Chains. Here are all of the characters inPayday 3. Here’s everyone you can play as inPayday 3 Fans might be happy to know that there are six playable characters in the game at launch....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Megan Smith