[ad_1] The Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire livestream will now occur June 25th in light of recent anti-racism protests. Scheduled as part of Summer Game Fest, the event was originally set for June 11th and would have given fans a new look at CD Projekt Red’s forthcoming RPG. We decided to move Night City Wire […]
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‘Total War Saga: Troy’ will initially be free on the Epic Games Store
[ad_1] The developer went on to say it doesn’t plan to make any of its future games Epic Games Store exclusives but noted it couldn’t have made Troy free without Epic’s help. “Making it available for free, for everyone to keep, during the first 24 hours – wouldn’t have been possible without this deal,” it said. Total […]
Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games
[ad_1] Present May 4th marked the 20th anniversary of GodGames’ acquisition by Take-Two. Wilson, Miller and Sweeney have all trod their own paths in the video game industry, and they’re all still active today. They started out in the undefined, pre-internet, post-shareware fog of the early 1990s, where they learned plenty about large-scale business and […]
Long-lost ‘Days of Thunder’ NES game recreated from 30-year-old floppies
[ad_1] Unreleased video games tend to show up in ready-to-play forms, but a recent discovery required decidedly more effort. The Video Game History Foundation has reconstructed a lost NES adaptation of the Tom Cruise stock car movie Days of Thunder (one of the blockbuster hits of 1990) using 30-year-old source code floppy disks from the […]
‘Valorant’ 1.0 launch adds a new character, game mode and map
[ad_1] Riot Games A new Spike Rush game mode is available in beta, with the intention of offering a more hectic, faster match. A brand new map is available, Ascent, that features a central area teams can control to open up different routes for attackers. REYNA /// Mexico“What hope do these criaturas have?”#VALORANT pic.twitter.com/inO8bR5cto — […]
Bungie will reveal the ominous future of ‘Destiny 2’ on June 9th
[ad_1] It’s about that time of the year when Bungie reveals the next major Destiny 2 update, and it’s clear that there are big updates in store. The studio has posted a private Instagram video that teases a reveal for the “next chapter” of Destiny 2 on June 9th at 12PM Eastern. There’s only a […]
Sony delays PlayStation 5 stream due to ongoing protests
[ad_1] Sony has delayed its upcoming PlayStation 5 livestream, which would have seen the company show off gameplay from its upcoming next-generation console. The stream was originally scheduled to start at 4PM ET on June 4th. The company did not say when it plans to air the rescheduled event. pic.twitter.com/ZAY8StN0EU — PlayStation (@PlayStation) June 1, […]
The first Atari VCS units should be ready by mid-June
[ad_1] Atari’s repeatedly delayed VCS console is nearly ready two years after its announcement. The team has revealed that the first 500 (or so) Atari VCS production models should leave the factory by mid-June. That will still leave the majority of Atari’s 11,597 crowdfunding backers waiting, but the team “cautiously” expects that production for those […]
‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ adds Duos mode in Battle Royale
[ad_1] Call of Duty: Warzone has a new mode for Battle Royale that could make or break friendships. In Duos mode, you play as a two-person team to battle enemies in Verdansk, complete contracts and beat other squads to be the last pair standing at the end. You can either play with a friend or, […]
Sony exec touts PS5 exclusive games while Xbox pushes ‘choice, value’
[ad_1] The Xbox team heard the suggestion that games on their platform might not take advantage of new-gen features to provide a new experience, and Xbox Games Marketing exec Aaron Greenberg tweeted “Generations of games that play on latest HW taking advantage of next-gen innovation offering more choice, value & variety than any console launch […]