Shadow, the cloud-based PC gaming service that’s been trickling into the United States since early 2018, is leveling up hard now that Nvidia’s rival GeForce Now has launched. On Thursday, Shadow revealed much cheaper pricing, much more powerful hardware options, an overhauled interface for TVs and mobile devices, and—get this—an initiative to drive latency-sensitive virtual […]
Niantic Makes It Possible To Catch Pokémon GO Regional, For A Price
Genesect is coming to Pokémon GO, and with it comes a brand new way to get region-locked Pokémon. But it comes with a price. So Genesect is on its way to Pokémon GO. The mythical Gen 5 Bug/Steel-type brings a brand new story-based Research Event that lets you pay for first-time access in much the […]
EGX Rezzed latest victim of the coronavirus, postponed until summer
The coronavirus has claimed another gaming event, as EGX Rezzed has now been cancelled, with plans to hold it later in the summer. Over the last few months, pretty much every major gaming event has had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus, be it a large scale one like E3 or smaller community-centric ones. […]
Blizzard Down: Gamers can’t log in with ‘Blizzard Agent went to sleep’ errors
Blizzard Servers appear to be struggling this afternoon with the companies support twitter account telling fans online that they are "currently investigating". It appears the issues impacting players is related to "an issue affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts." This same message was echoed on the Blizzard Support […]
Diablo 3 Season 20 Start Time Countdown and release date news
Diablo 3 Season 20 is coming later today bringing a whole host of new content to the game across PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. Thought players might be itching to get their hands on Diablo 4, the release date is still some months and years away. So for the time being, we'll have […]
Nioh 2 review – dark yokai souls
Team Ninja’s follow-up to the best Dark Souls game never made offers even better combat than before, but is there enough change We feel a bit sorry for Nioh 2. Its predecessor was released in 2017 and was widely praised as the best Dark Souls clone so far. It didn’t seem to do tremendously well […]
Pentagon rethinks parts of $10 billion JEDI cloud contract awarded to Microsoft
(Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking court permission to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, court filings showed on Thursday. A U.S. judge last month granted Amazon’s request to temporarily halt the DoD and Microsoft from moving forward with the deal, […]
A New Report Alleges That Naughty Dog’s Crunch Culture Is Out Of Control
Crunch has become a hot topic within games media as of late and it looks like yet another mega-popular studio has been uncovered as partaking of this despicable practice. A new report from Kotaku’s Jason Schreier posted this morning has alleged that developer Naughty Dog has a serious problem with crunch. It’s so serious that […]
Apex Legends: Leaks Show New Passive Abilities For All Legends
All 12 legends could be getting new passives in Season 4 of Apex Legends. The information comes from data miner, Ilootgames, who found it in the game’s source code. There are currently four different classes in Apex Legends, Defensive, Offensive, Support, and Recon. While each character in each class has their own unique abilities, there are […]
Esports is tough: Super League Gaming lost $30.6 million on $1 million in revenue in 2019
Super League Gaming, an esports company that holds events for amateurs, reported that it lost $30.6 million in 2019, on revenues of $1 million. This illustrates the reality of how it isn’t easy to make money in the fledgling esports market, at least for some companies. But Ann Hand, CEO of Super League in Los […]