We haven’t heard much about Nioh 2 since its announcement last year, so it was nice to see Team Ninja break the silence today with a new gameplay trailer. Better still, the studio also confirmed that the upcoming sequel will get a closed alpha test on PS4 from this Friday, …
Read More »Playdate, a new handheld console backed by indie royalty, unveiled in new issue of Edge magazine
You didn’t see this coming – but you may have seen it before. Playdate, a new indie handheld unveiled in the new issue of Edge magazine (opens in new tab), is the work of Portland, Oregon company Panic, a software developer turned publisher and, now, platform holder. Panic published Firewatch …
Read More »“Some of the theories are right” – George R. R. Martin confirms that some Game of Thrones fans were right on the money
After years of complicated theories that dug into the deep lore of Game of Thrones (opens in new tab), fans are connecting the dots to something George R.R. Martin said back in 2014. The prolific author confirmed that a few readers had actually figured out who would end up on …
Read More »PS5 footage surfaces of Spider-Man running without loading screens
The PS5 (opens in new tab), Sony’s next-gen successor to its hugely popular PlayStation 4 console, may not be out until May 2020 at the earliest (opens in new tab), but that hasn’t stopped the tech company from revealing more about the hardware at a corporate strategy meeting this week. …
Read More »PlayStation Productions is taking the Marvel Studios approach to game adaptations
What if video game movies and TV shows could be good? That’s the idea behind PlayStation Productions, a new Sony studio that’s working to adapt PlayStation’s many cherished video game franchises for film and television. We’ve heard all kinds of reasons why this video game movie or the other will …
Read More »World of Warcraft Classic players are mistaking features for bugs
World of Warcraft Classic (opens in new tab) recently launched a “small-scale” closed beta for a limited number of players ahead of it’s live release worldwide on August 27. Since the beta started, Blizzard has apparently been receiving reports from players who are mistaking features of the classic version of …
Read More »This Stranger Things Lego set makes the Upside Down more literal than ever before
Back in the actual ’80s, you could only dream about an official Lego set as detailed and clever as “The Upside Down” kit from Stranger Things. This new 2,287-piece set from The Lego Shop went up for pre-orders (opens in new tab) today for a mere $199.99, which is a …
Read More »“We wish we were that smart” – The Avengers: Endgame writers have shut down some of the movie’s best fan theories
If you poke around the edges of Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab), you might just find some interesting fan theories and unusual goings-on hiding in the background of certain scenes. However, the Endgame writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, want to set the record straight on some of the …
Read More »Red Dead Online finally leaves beta testing, in its biggest and most promising update yet
We would forgive you for presuming that Red Dead Online (opens in new tab) was a fully fledged multiplayer experience, and not an early access Beta with its own growing pains and pre-launch schedule, but Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab)’s online accompaniment has technically been in prototype …
Read More »“Felt like a bad fan fiction” – The best reactions to Game of Thrones season 8, episode 5
Bloody hell. Game of Thrones season 8 (opens in new tab) gave us the series’ penultimate episode and, while certain plot points may have split fans, it’s inarguable that it gave us some of the show’s most iconic moments. From major deaths to battles seasons-in-the-making, here’s how the mild-mannered fans …
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