Category: Gaming

Razer’s largest store yet opens in Las Vegas on September 7th

[ad_1] This being Razer, you can also expect a 16-display wall that will showcase live competitions and streams to just about anyone within sight of the store. The company’s retail footprint is still tiny. It’ll have just four stores total after this, with the other two located in Hong Kong and Taiwan. You’ll have a […]

DICE cancels ‘Battlefield V’ close combat mode to help its focus

[ad_1] It’s not certain why this mode got the cut where other changes didn’t, but it may be a simple matter of concentrating on what BFV does best. The Battlefield series is defined by large-scale multiplayer bouts, and even the Firestorm battle royale mode lines up with that philosophy. Intimate ten-player matches? Not so much […]

Hands on with Disney+ 4K and HDR streaming

[ad_1] 4 streams at a time, plus 4K and HDR for everyone.A first look at Disney+ Just last week, Disney announced Disney+ will have apps for iOS, Apple TV, Android and Xbox One, along with previously known devices such as the PlayStation 4 and Roku. Edgar Alvarez spent some time with the Apple TV app […]

A first look at Disney+

[ad_1] Disney isn't holding anything back at its D23 Expo. The company kicked off the event on Thursday with a couple of major reveals, including that of its new Avenger Campus theme park and a Disney+ docu-series that will focus on the people behind its mo… [ad_2] Source link

Yakuza’s many remasters are about to pay off big time

[ad_1] At Gamescom 2019, Sega announced that three remastered Yakuza games — originally numbered 3, 4 and 5 — will be released in the West as The Yakuza Remastered Collection. The first instalment, Yakuza 3, is available right now if you buy the $60 bundle. Yakuza 4 will follow in October and Yakuza 5 will […]

‘El Hijo’ is a Spaghetti Western stealth game with heart

[ad_1] El Hijo is an isometric stealth game starring this 6-year-old as he traverses the desert, searching for his mother. She left him at a monastery, for his own protection, after their Wild West village was ransacked by outlaws. El Hijo — Spanish for “The Son” — decides to escape the monks, and the only […]

Sega is becoming its weird and wonderful self again

[ad_1] Even in its darkest years, though, Sega made some good calls. Intelligent mid-2000s acquisitions like Creative Assembly (Total War) and Sports Interactive (Football Manager) were joined in the ’10s by Relic Entertainment (Warhammer 40,000) and Amplitude Studios (Endless Space) to form a strong division in “Sega West.” This policy seems to be continuing: Sega […]

Riot Games settles class action lawsuit over sexist culture

[ad_1] The issues at Riot Games came to the attention of the public last year, after Kotaku published an investigative piece into the alleged sexism; the story included interviews with 28 current and former employees. Because the details of the settlement are not finalized, we don’t know what it entails or how favorable the outcome […]

Tactics’ and the evolution of Netflix’s video game strategy

[ad_1] Netflix has even bigger plans for the future, though its ambition remains largely tied to the Stranger Things franchise. It hired Telltale Games to make a more complex narrative adventure set in the Duffer brothers’ universe, but that project fell through when the studio shut down in 2018. There’s still a location-based, augmented-reality Stranger […]

‘Streets of Rage 4’ is shaping up to be a worthy sequel

[ad_1] The gameplay teaser that followed half a year later showed a 2D game that seemed to play like the originals, but the art style still didn’t seem “right.” Why is the art such a massive departure? Would the game feel as direct and satisfying to play? Those were the kind of questions I was […]