For many years, China has been the butt of many jokes in terms of game development, mainly focused on churning out hordes of free-to-play mobile games that not only lack originality but even in some cases outright steal assets from other, more successful games. However, Chinese game development seems to be coming around recently. Even … Read more
Phil Spencer of Xbox sat down with the guys on the Kinda Funny podcast, and among the various different topics that were spoken about (sent in by curious fans), one topic that came up was the relationship between Microsoft and Nintendo and what Spencer saw in the future for such a partnership. Microsoft’s modus operandi … Read more
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was one of the first launch titles that was specifically developed for the Playstation 5, and earned enormous commercial and critical success when it released back in June. However, Marcus Smith of Insomniac went on the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast to talk all about the struggle of making it that … Read more
Spider-Man reboot game released on PlayStation 4 was a great hit. Sony Interactive Entertainment then released a stand-alone expansion for the game named “Miles Morales”. The expansion was built on using the same assets and engine of the original Spider-Man but it was optimized for all the bells and whistles of PlayStation 5. After that, … Read more
Tournaments are one of the biggest parts of competitive video game playing, and Sony appears to want to capitalize on this with with the Playstation 5. A recently published PS5 online tournament system patent will apparently streamline the tournament-creating system for both developers and normal players, along with third-party organizers. The patent description for the … Read more
The ESRB rating for Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 has been released, and along with all of the usual stuff you’ll see in such a rating is the reveal that Far Cry 6 microtransactions will be a thing. The rating mentions “In-App Purchases”, a euphemism for microtransactions, though to what extent remains to be seen. Far … Read more
If you’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, you might have recently noticed a significant uptick in Red Dead Redemption 2 performance, especially if you have a GeForce RTX graphics card. Apparently, Rockstar and Nvidia worked together to release new DLSS texture rescaling and smoothing technology to the game. This is all apparently … Read more
Among the Nintendo Switch Pro rumors, Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Switch console with a 7-Inch OLED screen being its highlight. However, the performance specs of the system remain pretty much the same and the new Switch owners won’t get any performance boosts with the new console. Since the announcement, many fans have been … Read more
If you are a fighting games fan, you must have heard about Virtua Fighter fighting game series. However, it’s been a long time (2010) since the release of last proper entry in the series. There has been some upgrades and spin-offs but Virtual Fighter 6 game has been missing since. Fans have been wondering if … Read more
The current League of Legends story arc is still ongoing as the heroes of Runeterra attempt to save it from the wicked Ruined King, and along with old faces, at least one more new League of Legends champion is going to be joining the roster, according to a recent video. Multiple different champions have been … Read more