Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Drifter made quite a splash among indie game fans when it came out back in 2016. Naturally, fans of that title have been anxiously waiting to play their next title, Solar Ash, which was announced back in 2019. Today, as part of the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live stream, we got […]
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut coming to PS5
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, an upgrade of the 2019 game for PlayStation 5, is coming soon, Kojima Productions announced on Thursday. The studio announced the new “enhanced and expanded” version with a lengthy teaser showing the game’s hero, Sam Bridges, figuring out how to equip a box, Metal Gear-style, somewhere in a subterranean level with […]
Crossfire: Legion Is The Next RTS From The Homeworld Dev, Coming 2022
The team behind Homeworld and Hardspace: Shipbreaker is working on a new RTS set in the Crossfire universe, called Crossfire: Legion. Blackbird Interactive was founded around ten years ago by former Relic and EA developers, and the first game it shipped was Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak in 2016. The team hopes to evolve that RTS […]
Final Form Is A Fast-Paced FPS Where You Can Turn Into A Metroid Ball, Playable In Co-Op
The Earth is gone and a cargo ship filled with factions at war is making its way to a distant world where humanity can rise again. It’s time to leave our musty-ass world behind and start new wars on a new planet and pollute the shit out of someone else’s river, let’s go! No, this […]
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall Closed Beta Sign Up Extended
As part of a slew of virtual reality (VR) videogame announcements last week Carbon Studio unveiled the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming title Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall. As part of the announcement, the studio opened sign-ups for a closed beta with the final day to apply to be today. However, there was so […]
Vampire: The Masquerade Battle Royale Spin-Off Officially Named Bloodhunt
Vampire: The Masquerade’s battle royale spin-off was named as Bloodhunt at the Summer Game Fest, with the project itself having been revealed a few months ago. The game is coming at some point in 2021, and casts you as a vampire hunting down other vampires on the streets. You’ll be able to jump from rooftops […]
Payday 3 Promises To Deliver A “Fully Fledged Social Heist Universe” When It Releases In 2023
Starbreeze might have almost gone out of business following the ill-fated launch of Overkill’s The Walking Dead on Steam, but the team is back to steal your money with Payday 3, releasing in 2023. “At Starbreeze, we see Payday as the ultimate bank-robbing experience,” global brand director Almir Listo explained during a recent pre-brief ahead […]
Dolmen, A Sci-Fi Soulslike With Guns And Melee, Is Coming To PC And Consoles In 2022
Dolmen is another Soulslike, this time coming from a developer called Big Work Studio, based out of Brazil. Rather than trying to fight it out with the many other games in the genre that have a medieval theme, Dolmen sits alongside The Surge, offering up a sci-fi version of the FromSoftware formula. You know the drill […]
Biden Revokes Trump-Era WeChat, TikTok Executive Orders – The Esports Observer
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday revoked a series of executive orders signed by former President Donald Trump that took aim at short-form video app TikTok and Tencent-owned multi-purpose chat app WeChat and issued a new one that takes a more focused aim at foreign governments, like China, that are adversarial to the U.S. In […]
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is A New Borderlands-Style Fantasy Shooter
The Borderlands universe is no stranger to absurdity, but one of the most beloved characters is ready to take things to the next level. Following the success of Borderlands 3 in 2019, Tiny Tina is taking the world of Borderlands into the fantasy realm in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, an all-new, full standalone game from Gearbox gives players […]