Rockstar Games showed off new footage and features from the expanded and enhanced versions of Grand Theft Auto Online and Grand Theft Auto 5 at Thursday’s PlayStation Showcase. We now know that the expanded and enhanced editions will include instant character switching, but we also learned the new release window is March 2022. Rockstar Games […]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake coming to PS5
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is coming back. Aspyr Media is remaking BioWare and LucasArts’ classic Star Wars role-playing game for PlayStation 5, the developer revealed Thursday at Sony’s PlayStation Showcase. Sony Interactive Entertainment will publish the remake. Aspyr is known for its work on creating Mac ports of Windows games and for […]
Watch Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2021
PlayStation Showcase 2021 airs this Thursday, Sept. 9, and it promises a 40-minute look at PlayStation 5 games, from both Sony studios and third-party developers, launching this holiday season and later. The livestream gets started at 1 p.m. PDT/4 p.m. EDT; you can watch all of it via PlayStation’s official YouTube channel right here, or […]
Horizon Forbidden West has no upgrade option from PS4 to PS5
Horizon Forbidden West isn’t exactly an upgradeable game from PlayStation 4 to PS5. In a post outlining all of the pre-purchase options for Guerrilla Games’ action-adventure, Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed that buyers get versions for both consoles with one of three special editions starting at $79.99. The $69.99 standard version for PlayStation 4 can’t be […]
Aaaaaand now! For NBA 2K22! Real-life PA announcers!
NBA 2K22’s audio presentation will feature all 30 of the NBA’s real-life arena public-address announcers — these are the folks who fire up the crowd with spotlight introductions of the starting lineup, ceremonies that have become as memorable as the superstars themselves. Visual Concepts and 2K Sports announced the feature on Wednesday, naming mic men […]
Apex Legends’ tap-strafing will be patched out soon
Apex Legends’ developers will patch out “tap strafing,” a form of player movement used mainly by PC gamers that allows them to make sharp turns to evade or counterattack less mobile opponents. Respawn Entertainment on Tuesday tweeted that the method would be eliminated with the next patch. Tap-strafing is basically a hard, mid-air turn that […]
See NHL 22’s visual leap in its first gameplay trailer
NHL 22 will mark the franchise’s debut on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and you can see this year’s graphical upgrade in action in its first gameplay trailer, released Thursday by publisher Electronic Arts. Many of the visual improvements in NHL 22 will come courtesy of developer EA Vancouver’s switch to EA’s Frostbite engine, […]
Blizzard will rename Overwatch’s Jesse McCree
Blizzard Entertainment says it will rename McCree, Overwatch’s outlaw bounty hunter, after his real-life namesake, former game designer Jesse McCree, was let go from the studio in the wake of a sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit filed against publisher Activision Blizzard. “We believe it’s necessary to change the name of the hero currently known […]
Midnight Fight Express is all about beating the snot outta people
Midnight Fight Express got a new, hyper-violent trailer at Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live stream on Wednesday. First announced at Gamescom last year, Midnight Fight Express has only has a single developer — Jacob Dzwinel. The new Midnight Fight Express trailer is all about close-range fighting. While it mostly features hand-to-hand combat, we also see […]
Saints Row returns with a reboot in February 2022
Saints Row is being rebooted as, well, Saints Row, coming Feb. 25, 2022 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC via the Epic Games Store. Volition and Deep Silver revealed the game with an extended story trailer shown during Gamescom 2021’s Opening Night Live stream. In it, players are […]