With Star Wars, EA has one of the most sought-after licenses in all of entertainment–and the company plans to take full advantage of it. In a “fireside chat,” EA executives spoke about how the company plans to “double down” on Star Wars after the huge success of Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2, Galaxy of […]
Microsoft Shuts Down Mixer; Ninja And Others Free To Return To Twitch
Microsoft has announced that it is shutting down Mixer, its streaming competitor to the likes of Twitch. The Xbox owners will be transitioning over to Facebook Gaming instead, partnered streamers having the option to be included with the move or return to Twitch. As of July 22, Mixer sites and apps will redirect users to […]
Fortnite Season 3 Splash Down Is Here With Jason Momoa, New Battle Pass, Marauders, And More
Fortnite Season 3 is finally here. Right when they said they would, Epic Games has launched the much-anticipated third season–and it looks like a swashbuckling delight. The rollout is beginning with some server downtime, but keep checking back with the game and it should boot up Season 3 soon. Epic originally planned to start Season […]
PlayStation Network is down for many PlayStation 4 owners
PlayStation Network is down for a significant number of PlayStation 4 players around the world. Fans are complaining across social media about the outage. But so far, Sony’s status site is not confirming the PSN-down status. These connection errors are preventing players from getting online to play multiplayer games like FIFA and Call of Duty: […]
Pokemon Go Is Going Down For Maintenance Today
Update: As previously announced, Pokemon Go will be down for much of today, June 1. Developer Niantic is taking the hit mobile game offline to perform server maintenance from 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET to 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET. The title will be completely inaccessible during this period of time, […]
Fortnite Is Counting Down To Doomsday, And Here's What That Means
Epic Games recently announced that Fortnite’s Chapter 2, Season 2 will end on June 4, and if previous seasons are any indication, a blockbuster event is likely to mark its conclusion. Recently, a countdown timer appeared in the game’s main menu and in Midas’s office, counting down to a date that would seem to be […]
Xbox Live Is Down, No Timetable For Return [Update]
[Update: Xbox Live services appear to have resumed and issues have been resolved.] Original story follows: Xbox Live is currently experiencing issues that are affecting signing in and playing multiplayer titles across Windows 10 and Xbox One. It doesn’t appear there is a fix yet, but Microsoft is working on getting things running smoothly again. […]
Destiny 2 Servers Are Down To Roll Out A New Patch
Destiny 2’s servers are offline until noon PT today as Bungie rolls out a new update to squash some bugs that have plagued the Season of the Worthy. Unfortunately, that patch won’t fix the bug that has broken Destiny 2’s latest story quest, The Lie–Bungie is still working on that one. Hotfix 2.8.1.2 was planned […]
Disney Has Shut Down A Club Penguin Clone For Being Wildly Inappropriate
Disney has ordered all unauthorized clones of Club Penguin to be shut down after a fan-run clone was found by the BBC to be exposing children to explicit messages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a fan-made Club Penguin Online server was flooded with over a million new players. Usually this would be enough for Disney to […]
Epic Games Store Down; GTA 5 Confirmed As This Week's Free Game
Update: The Epic Games Store is having loading issues right now, perhaps due to a large number of people heading to the site to claim today’s free game. Epic confirmed in a tweet that it’s experiencing high traffic and slow loading times and that the team is “actively working to scale.” The store also just […]