Diablo IV may have gone gold, but Blizzard wants to ensure the servers are durable one more time before launch. Thus, it’s opening the gates of Sanctuary to players one more time in a third open beta next month. This next test weekend, dubbed Server Slam weekend, begins May 12 at 12 p.m. Pacific and ends May 14 at the same…
It’s been in the works for a looooong time, but Dead Island 2 is finally, actually coming out. It’s set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on April 21. It will come in several editions, and they’re all up for preorder now at all the usual retailers (see it…
Today’s Street Fighter 6 Showcase revealed a lot about the game’s single-player World Tour mode, DLC characters, and other features. Instead of waiting until June to dig into everything, a free demo is on the way. Unless you’re on PlayStation, in which you can play it right now. The demo goes live today for PlayStation…
Much like its predecessor, Street Fighter 6 will have an ambitious post-release content plan. While we knew there would be downloadable content, we now have a much better idea about the cadence with which the new characters will arrive. “A big part of Street Fighter’s charm is the cast of characters from around the world…
One of the most exciting and mysterious elements of Street Fighter 6 has been a World Tour, a single-player open-world exploration mode Capcom had previously only shown glimpses of. Thankfully, today’s Street Fighter 6 Showcase finally pulled the curtain back on what World Tour entails and it looks delightfully bonkers. World Tour begins with players creation…
It seems like every video game franchise is getting a film adaptation these days, but one popular game you probably won’t see on the big screen anytime soon is Fortnite, according to Epic Games’ chief creative officer Donald Mustard. In an interview with Collider, Mustard said the company was not “actively working on” a Fortnite…
Tomb Raider has a chartered history, with Lara Croft delving into ruins and tombs all over the world. Overcoming any and all obstacles set in her path, Lara has elevated herself into an exclusive and lauded pantheon of iconic video game protagonists. With a new Tomb Raider currently in development at Crystal Dynamics and therefore…
Thank your own personal deity—possibly the Animal King Turret—it’s Friday. Today marks the 12-year anniversary of Portal 2, top ten hall of famer for funniest game ever made. It stands the test of time better than a cryogenically frozen Test Subject. Stephen Merchant was perfectly cast as an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, as was J. K….
PlayStation has acquired Firewalk Studios. The company announced this on a new PlayStation Blog, noting that it’s been in a publishing partnership with Firewalk Studios and ProbablyMonsters since 2021 and that it’s now happy to expand that relationship by bringing the studio under the PlayStation umbrella. The studio has been working on its “first original…
You may have heard Disney Speedstorm was going to launch as a free-to-play kart racer from the crew behind Gameloft’s long-running Asphalt series. In fact, you may have heard this because that’s what we told you about it back when it was unveiled in June last year. Well, that’s changed. It’s still a kart racer…
