Pioneers has had a bad couple of days. Contested off drop and playing below their best, the team looks a far cry from the squad that was the best European side at the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Championship last summer. Casper ‘Gnaske’ Præstensgaard is not a man for excuses – he calls their performance “abysmal” – but not a lot has gone right for the Dane and his teammates....
PlayStationhas confirmed that it is holding a showcase at the end of the month on May 24. During this hour-long presentation, it will take the lid off some of its upcoming titles starting at 1 PM PDT. PlayStation didn’t provide an itinerary, but there are plenty of rumors of what we can expect from the upcoming showcase. Most recently, games journalist Jeff Grubb suggested we’d see PlayStation show itself on the “week of May 25,” while Andy Robinson of VGC suggestedKonami will be front and center....
Pokemon Scarlet & Violetis getting a two-part expansion, The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero. Part one will launch this Autumn, with part two following in Winter. The expansion will stick with the theme of past and present, with the first part of the trailer being incredibly reminiscent ofPokemon Legends: Arceus. From the artstyle to the environment, Game Freak seems to have drawn inspiration from Legends: Arceus for the past segments of the game, with the future giving us something new entirely....
Red Dead Redemption 2players, particularly those who playRed Dead Online, have been hopingRockstarwould go back on its word and give the highly successful game new content. While that certainly isn’t the case for now, the sequel just got a significant update onSteamand none of its players have been able to confirm exactly what it was for. The update was spotted byKindainappropriatewho shared their discovery on Reddit. In the screenshot of Red Dead Redemption 2’s Steam page, which you can check out below, evidence that the storefront’s version of the Rockstar game received an update has been circled in green....
Dead Cells’DLC pack, Return to Castlevania, is a loving tribute to the series which, in many ways, inspired the creation of Dead Cells itself. Featuring a plethora of enemies, weapons, and locations borrowed from Konami’s iconic vampire-slaying saga, it’s a pack that will undoubtedly light a warm nostalgic flame inside anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the Castlevania series. RELATED:Games Dead Cells Should Crossover With Beyond the surface-level references, the DLC also features some real deep cuts: some highly specific nods and winks that hint at small but significant moments in some of the biggest games in the series....
After Leon finds Ashley and the two of them make it through the Gonado-infested village, the big bad ofResident Evil 4shows up to introduce himself. Osmund Saddler has a sick new haircut in the remake and also prefers to keep the expository dialog to a minimum, instead opting to have Ashley just shoot Leon without going over his master plan first. Only, things don’t exactly go as planned. Although both are infected with the Plagas parasites, Ashley is able to resist Saddler’s control, shooting both his priestesses before finally aiming at Leon....
A newly-released render of Krauser inResident Evil 4remake contains a nice little nod to the character’s appearance in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Despite some fear from fans that Krauser had been cut from the game altogether,a new trailer for Resident Evil 4 remake shown at Sony’s first State of Play shows that the villain is back in full force, knife fight and all. The new trailer showed quite a bit of Krauser footage, but a new render released by Capcom shows a small detail that diehard fans are sure to love....
PlayStation and Capcom has announced during the latest State of Play showcase thatResident Evil 4 Remakewill be getting a special demo before launch alongside a new gameplay trailer which showed off more locations, encounters, and a couple of boss fights. We didn’t get a specific release date for the demo, but considering the game launches next month, it’s expected it will drop at some point in the next few weeks....
We’re only a handful of days away from the release ofResident Evil 4 Remakeand you can feel the excitement in the air. Many of us are spending our time counting down the hours to release, but oneResident Evil 4fan has been a little bit more productive, using their time to completely recreate the original game’s intro entirely out ofLego. First shared to the Resident Evil subreddit by creator u/CarAleatorio, the video imagines what Resident Evil 4’s intro would look like were it to be remade like the Lego movie....
Oh look, it’s another season of Gaming Discourse! The topic this time? Asset reuse. According to people who have never given actual game development a more fully-formed thought than ‘if I won the lottery, I’d make the game of my dreams’, a developer reusing assets that they already have access to is pure laziness. The current victims of this discourse are the big open world titles du jour,Tears of the KingdomandSpider-Man 2....
Robloxis set to receive around $150 million in compensation after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. This comes after the US Federal Reserve pledges to bail out all SVB customers, even multibillion-dollar controversy-courting companies like the Roblox Corporation. Roblox held five percent of its worth in SVB - now making headlines for being the second-largest bank failure in US history. The company was just one of the many customers that made up SVB’s almost $210 billion in assets, $175....
InMagic: The Gathering’sMarch of the Machine, Elesh Norn’s invasion of the Multiverse has finally begun. Armed with the Realmbreaker tree and an unimaginably large Phyrexian army, nobody on any plane is safe from compleation. RELATED:Magic: The Gathering – March Of The Machine Previews Not even, shockingly, the Angels of New Capenna. Even when you’re made of Halo, one of the few things in the multiverse that can stop a Phyrexian attack, there’s still a risk of falling to Norn’s corruption....
Segahas confirmed itsintention to acquire Angry Birds developer Rovio, andSonicfans aren’t happy. Whether it’s feared that the Sonic series could be deprioritised, or perhaps even worse, pivoted to mobile games, the community is worried that a follow-up toSonic Frontierswon’t be at the top of Sega’s agenda. Some fans are even worried that, with the amount Sega is spending on Rovio, it will want to bring theAngry Birdscharacters into the fold, crossing them over with the Sonic gang....
