Joseph “Phozzo” Eisenmann was nervous on the drive from his team house to the strip in Las Vegas. He was headed for the first in-person Rainbow Six Pro League match since lockdown orders began last year. “There were a few nerves before the game,” he told me. “But I was more excited than anything else.” […]
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Kojima’s Next Game Is Almost Certainly Going To Be An FMV
How do you describe a Kojima game? Beyond genre classification like “Tactical Espionage Action” or “Social Strand System,” what makes a Kojima game a Kojima game? For one thing, Kojima is nothing if not an innovator. His obsession with breaking conventions and experimental ways of storytelling is perhaps only rivaled by his love of film. […]
Nintendo Uploads Almost Two Hours Of Fire Emblem Heroes Music To YouTube
Nintendo has always been averse to sharing its game music on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, but in this instance, the Japanese company has shared almost two hours of Fire Emblem Heroes’ soundtrack on YouTube. The video includes 45 tracks that derive mostly from the history of Fire Emblem, but there are a few original […]
OpenDrives raises almost $20 million to advance its data storage solutions
OpenDrives, which provides network-attached storage solutions for enterprise clients, has raised a series B funding round. The company did not disclose the exact amount but reports that the round approaches $20 million and was led by IAG Capital Partners. OpenDrives plans to use the capital for product development, including introducing high-performance computing hybrid cloud storage […]
Nintendo Switch Has Almost Sold 70 Million Units, Is Close To Outselling GBA/3DS
Nintendo‘s latest financial report has been released and the Switch’s new sale figures have almost put it ahead of the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo 3DS. The Switch has been incredibly successful for Nintendo, following the lackluster years of the Wii U. The 2020 COVID lockdown saw a huge spike in sales for the […]
Almost All PS4 Games Are Compatible With PS5, And Some Get Frame Rate Boosts
Sony recently announced that the vast majority of the PS4’s 4,000+ games will be backwards compatible with PS5, meaning that most current-gen titles will be available to play on its next-gen console. The news comes from an official blog post that was recently published by the PlayStation support website. According to said post, “The PS5 […]
Almost 20 Years Later, You Still Can’t Buy No One Lives Forever
An inherent problem with the gaming industry is the intersection between corporate aspirations and artistic ambition. Nobody will deny that games are art – that’s a moot talking point these days. Yet, much like Hollywood, popular music, or practically any other big-budget entertainment industry, big money investors often muck up the creative process. Sometimes, that […]
You Can Violate Almost Every Geneva Convention In Rimworld (Here’s How)
April 23rd, 2020. The Twitter account @ViolateGeneva stated the following: “You can violate every Geneva Convention in Rimworld.” It’s certainly common to run afoul of any sort of code of conduct in your efforts to survive the wasteland Rimworld drops players into, especially as the community seems to find a special joy in playing like sadists. […]