Conversational AI startup Cognigy nabs $44M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Conversational AI startup Cognigy today announced that it closed a $44 million series B funding round led by Insight Partners, which brings the company’s total raised to over $50 million to date. Cofounder and CEO Philipp Heltewig says that the proceeds will be put toward […]

EA delists Need for Speed games from digital stores with little warning

Publisher Electronic Arts delisted five older Need for Speed games on Monday, citing the games’ impending retirement of online services. EA offered little warning about the Need for Speed games’ delisting, angering fans of the venerable racing series. The five delisted titles are Need for Speed: Carbon (2006), Need for Speed: Undercover (2008), Need for […]

Stonefly Review: Big Bad Beetlebots

It takes a lot of effort to come up with a unique idea for a video game these days since just about everything has been done to death. Yet, Flight School Studio’s newest game, Stonefly, may be one of the most unique titles that I’ve played in recent memory. While it borrows a lot of […]

CRT TVs Are Making A Comeback, And It’s Thanks To Retro Gaming

CRT sets fell out of fashion in the mid-2000s, supplanted by shiny new HD-capable flat-screen TVs. Yet, while our favorite shows and movies looked appreciably better, these changes made gaming on retro consoles much more difficult. We can’t be the only ones to have gone through the pains of hooking up an old PlayStation 2 […]

Surprise, Watch Dogs Legion now has … a zombies mode?

Out of the blue, Watch Dogs: Legion added a zombies PvE mode with its version 4.5 title update on PC, coming soon to the game’s console versions. Plans for the new multiplayer mode were never mentioned prior to Tuesday’s announcement. Called Watch Dogs: Legion of the Dead, the mode swaps out the game’s NPCs with […]

Crysis Remastered Trilogy Arrives This Fall

Crysis Remastered Trilogy is launching sometime this fall. The package includes last year’s modernized version of Crysis as well as remasters of Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 to run on modern consoles and PC. The bundle is the result of a development partnership between Crytek and Saber Interactive.   While Crysis Remastered launched as a standalone […]

Razer Announces First E3 2021 Showcase

E3 2021 is just around the corner and promises fun game reveals, more than a few surprises, and closer looks at some of the adventures we are most excited about. While we already know the major gaming studios that will be at this year’s showcase, Razer has just announced that it is hosting its first-ever […]

E3 2021 will end with an all-new awards show

E3 is less than two weeks away and this year, everything on display during the show will be up for some newly created awards. E3 2021 will have an awards show with honors chosen by editors from IGN, GameSpot, PC Gamer, and GamesRadar. The pool of nominees covers every game showcased throughout E3’s four-day, online-only […]