Following a tease dating back to November 2019, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time has leaked thanks to listings filed by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The listings state that the game is being developed for PS4 and Xbox One (with Xbox Series X compatibility, according to the box art). No official announcement has […]
It's Really Hard To Find Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons Right Now
The Nintendo Switch has been difficult to find in stock as of late, but it’s not the only key Nintendo product you might have trouble buying right now. Joy-Cons, the system’s standard controllers, are seemingly sold out everywhere, at least in the US–and that’s a real problem if you’re one of the many Switch owners […]
It's "A Deliberate Decision" To Change Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Hidden Blade, Says Ubisoft
As seen in the cinematic reveal trailer for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, protagonist Eivor uses a conspicuous version of the hidden blade where the actual blade can be seen on top of the forearm as opposed to being hidden on the bottom. Ubisoft decided to remove the “hidden” aspect of the hidden blade in order to […]
Unity Launches Its MARS Augmented Reality Tools June 1
Unity is launching its new augmented reality creation tools collectively known as MARS on June 1. The tools have been under construction for a few years now and are meant to make cross-platform development of robust augmented reality projects easier with Unity. According to Unity, the tools include: WYSIWYG authoring experience Author complex, data-oriented apps […]
Panasonic Targets 2021 For Its Slim VR Glasses
Qualcomm today revealed its expectations for wired and eventually wireless VR and AR viewers in the coming decade. As part of the update Panasonic also released a statement indicating the company is targeting 2021 for its lightweight VR glasses. I tried out the VR glasses at CES in January and left the demo fairly impressed. […]
GDC goes all-digital for its rescheduled August event
The Game Developers Conference has decided that GDC Summer will now be an all-digital event, getting rid of the physical side of the rescheduled gathering. The GDC was originally scheduled for March, but the organizers pushed it back to August after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. They were planning to do the August event […]
Is Warzone Showing Its Zone Boundaries Too Early?
Battle royale games have reached crazy heights over the past few years, and it was only a matter of time one of the big daddies of FPS games, Call of Duty, hopped on the party wagon. And recently, it indeed did, by way of Call of Duty: Warzone, the first ever free-to-play battle royale game […]
Forget Castle Cats, It’s All About Dungeon Dogs
From the developers of Castle Cats — the idle clicker that saw you piecing together a guild of furry feline friends — comes Dungeon Dogs, another bizarre idle clicker made for the other half of the population. Created by PocApp Studios, Castle Cats pulled in a staggering 5 million downloads, and it’s confident it can do […]
Google claims its AI can design computer chips in under 6 hours
In a preprint paper coauthored by Google AI lead Jeff Dean, scientists at Google Research and the Google chip implementation and infrastructure team describe a learning-based approach to chip design that can learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claim it completes designs in under […]
Update: It's Probably Okay To Play Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 Right Now
Update: 4/22/2020 Valve has issued a statement regarding the leak, saying they are investigating things but that they currently have no reason for players to be alarmed or to discontinue play of the titles in question. Valve commented: We have reviewed the leaked code and believe it to be a reposting of a limited CS:GO engine […]