In what could possibly be simultaneously the most and least shocking news story you’ll read this week, we have been told that all of Team Ninja’s staff, approximately 200 strong, are qualified as true ninja. We spoke with Nioh franchise director Fumihiko Yasuda and couldn’t help but ask about whether or not the staff’s qualifications […]
Fortnite Teams Up With 23 Football Clubs For Its New Kickoff Set And The Pele Cup
Epic has teamed up with more than 20 clubs from all over the world and will add their official kits to the in-game store this weekend. Fortnite is the undisputed king of the crossover event in gaming. Marvel, Star Wars, Stranger Things, elements from all of them will live on in the game forever. It has even […]
CD Projekt Red Now Has A Second Lawsuit Filed Against It Thanks To Cyberpunk 2077 Launch
The biggest news of 2020 was how the biggest game of 2020 turned out to be the biggest catastrophe of 2020. Although Cyberpunk 2077 had good sales numbers, the game released in such a broken state that it was virtually unplayable on last-gen consoles and filled with bugs and glitches on current-gen consoles. On top […]
StackPulse exits stealth with $28 million to automate incident response and remediation
StackPulse, an automated incident response platform aimed at developers and site reliability engineers (SREs), has emerged from stealth today with $28 million in funding. The raise comes hot on the heels of a slew of high-profile system outages, including from Slack and messaging app Signal, which suffered downtime this month, and the mighty Microsoft and […]
Nioh 2 Nearly Featured Sexy Yokai Enemies
When looking at Nioh’s selection of enemies, “sexy” is not the first word that comes to mind, however, that certainly doesn’t mean that seductive creatures were always off the table when Team Ninja was designing all of the various monsters and Yokai for players to do battle against. And some of them may have been… […]
Hitman 3 review – mission mostly accomplished
Hitman 3 offers closure for IO Interactive’s World of Assassination trilogy, but does it manage to end the reboot era on a high? Agent 47 was in a bad place before the World of Assassination trilogy came along. After 2012’s Hitman: Absolution was rejected by fans, the franchise felt like it had lost a handle […]
Lara Croft Could Be Fortnite Season 5’s Next Hunter
A cryptic tweet from the official Tomb Raider account suggests Lara Croft might be the next character to join Fortnite Season 5’s formidable group of hunters. Epic needed to come up with something pretty special to top what it did with Fortnite last season. In fact, Fortnite’s Marvel season probably can’t be topped. Not until […]
Scalpers Acquire 2,000 More PS5s, Boast That It "Keeps Getting Easier Every Time"
A scalper group based in the UK has managed to acquire yet another 2,000 PS5s during today’s GAME restock, all of which will be sold on at highly inflated prices. Supply for next-gen consoles has been notoriously low as a result of the pandemic affecting several different parts of the sales process, including both manufacturing and […]
The 3.5 Million Bowser World Count Challenge Is Live In Super Mario Bros. 35
The ax is about to fall on countless King Koopas, as the World Count Challenge in Super Mario Bros. 35 is live, which means that players have one week to kill 3.5 million Bowsers, and net themselves 350 Platinum Points on the My Nintendo Store. Super Mario Bros. 35 is a battle royale game that is only […]
What I’d Like To See In The New Mortal Kombat Movie
I’m surprised it took so long for someone to decide on making a new Mortal Kombat movie. The legendary franchise has everything a filmmaker could possibly hope for. A legacy spanning decades, iconic characters, tons of reference material, and an undeniable opportunity for a truckload of fan service. So when I heard that a guy […]