Crysis Remastered is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on September 18, and Crysis will, once again, push limits. If you’re playing on PS4 Pro or Xbox One X, you’ll be able to play the game with ray tracing enabled, making this the first game to feature ray tracing–a rendering technique that is generally […]
How I Cheesed It To The #1 Spot On The Quake 4 Leader Board
The Xbox 360 launch title, Quake 4 featured an achievement titled “Number One”, for reaching the #1 position on the worldwide ranked leaderboards. Yes, this game required players to literally become the top player in the world in order to get the full 1000 Gamerscore, or at least that’s what the developers intended. Many would expect that the […]
Arium Gives Players The Power To Create Their Own Game World
Adept Icarus’ latest Kickstarter, Arium, is closing in on 20X funded with less than a week to go. Arium is a roleplaying game with a unique twist that sees players create the world in which they adventure. It takes its name from the meaning of the suffix -arium, an enclosed place where things reside, as […]
The Division 2 Chugs Along With Update 11, Which Adds A New Mode
Open-world MMO shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is gearing up for the start of season three, and recently announced it will go live on September 22 with Title Update 11. The third season’s main feature is a new PvE game mode called The Summit, involving a 100-story skyscraper that will challenge our Agents on […]
Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Champion Amiibo Are Getting A Reprint
Although the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is still a ways off, Nintendo is releasing a prequel to the Switch launch game this November in the form of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a new Dynasty Warriors-style adventure developed jointly with Koei Tecmo. Alongside the new spin-off, a handful of […]
Replay – Alone In The Dark: Illumination & Jack In The Dark
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Today’s Replay takes us back to a game you probably don’t remember with Alone in the Dark: Illumination, which took the horror franchise into some kind of pseudo Left 4 Dead space. Spoiler: It’s a lot worse than Left 4 Dead. After we take a look at that gem, we […]
Cross-play is the best thing to happen to video game multiplayer
A reader asks gamers not to overly criticise cross-play for encouraging cheaters, but to embrace it for bringing friends together. ‘Get rid of cross-play with PC’ ‘It’s them PC cheaters again, let’s get rid of PC players’ ‘We wouldn’t have this problem if it wasn’t for all those PC players’ ‘Those PC players don’t belong […]
The Latest Smash Bros Update Required Permission From All IP Holders Involved With The Game
The most recent patch for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate added a welcome feature to the game, but it required some legwork on the part of the developers, as they needed to receive permission from all of the rights holders to make it happen. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate contains a mixture of first-party and third-party characters, which also […]
The DeanBeat: Apple v. Epic — a briefing on the antitrust arguments and interesting facts
We’re at a huge moment in tech and antitrust history with the litigation initiated by Fortnite maker Epic Games against Apple and Google. While the Google dispute has taken a backseat in the news, the conflict with Apple has gone hot because of that company’s retaliatory strike and a request for a temporary restraining order […]
Here’s The Opening Sequence From The Dragon’s Dogma Anime
Dragon’s Dogma is getting turned into a cartoon. Just like Castlevania before it, Dragon’s Dogma will be a gritty, dark, anime-style show that adapts the game into a seven-episode series telling the tale of a noble hero who goes on a journey to retrieve his heart from an evil dragon. The show’s development was announced way […]