Hitman 3, Resident Evil 4 Get Game Awards VR Nominations

It’s nearly time for Keighley – The Game Awards returns on December 9 and nominations have just been revealed, including for Best VR/AR titles. Well, it’s not really the best AR titles because there aren’t any listed, but you get the point. There are five nominees this year, including the PSVR-exclusive support for Hitman 3, […]

Back 4 Blood’s developers think the game is too hard

Back 4 Blood is a hard game — even the developers at Turtle Rock agree. In a recap posted to Reddit of the studio’s November update stream, Turtle Rock said that it will scale some of Back 4 Blood’s more punishing systems back to easy its brutal difficulty curve. The studio said it still wants […]

Back 4 Blood gets solo campaign progression with December free update

Turtle Rock Studios will give Back 4 Blood a solo offline mode that includes campaign progression, according to a post-launch content roadmap the studio revealed on Monday. The mode will come in a free update by the end of 2021. Although we found solo play in the PvE zombie shooter to be not as foreboding […]

4 things VCs get wrong about AI

VCs have a detailed playbook for investing in software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies that has served them well in recent years. Successful SaaS businesses provide predictable, recurring revenue that can be grown by acquiring more subscriptions at little additional cost, making them an attractive investment. But the lessons that VCs have learned from their SaaS investments turn […]

How Back 4 Blood Is Leading The Horde

Founded in 2002, Turtle Rock Studios got its start working on the Counter-Strike and Half-Life series alongside Valve. However, the studio truly made its name through its first all-original game, a cooperative zombie shooter called Left 4 Dead. Valve was so impressed by the project that it acquired Turtle Rock in 2008 and released the […]

Diablo 4 has a new game director

Joe Shely is the new game director of Diablo 4, Blizzard Entertainment revealed Thursday. Shely replaces former Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga, who exited Blizzard in August in the wake of a lawsuit against the company alleging a toxic workplace environment that subjected female employees to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Shely has been […]

Back 4 Blood, Visage coming to Xbox Game Pass in October

Microsoft is focusing on games that bring “fright and delight” to players in October — in advance of Halloween — for Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that eight games will be added to the service throughout the month, including Destiny 2: Beyond Light for Windows PC, the psychological horror game Visage, and co-op shooter […]

Diablo 4 Design Lead, Joe Shely, Promoted To Game Director

The design lead of Diablo 4, Joe Shely, has been promoted to game director.  This news comes by way of the October 2021 Diablo 4 quarterly update posted by Blizzard, which reveals Shely will be taking up the position previously held by Luis Barriga, who left the company in August amidst an ongoing investigation following […]

Skate 4 will launch on PC

Skate fans with a PC, breathe easy. The newest Skate game — which everyone is calling Skate 4, at least until its actual title is revealed — will be launching on your platform, Electronic Arts said Thursday. Again, no extra details beyond that; Full Circle developers dropped this quick PC-themed tweet, then got back to […]