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Amazon’s multiplayer shooter Crucible launching May 20th

5 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Amazon Game Studios today announced a May 20th release date for Crucible, their free-to-play multiplayer shooter where two teams compete while battling big monsters. Players get to pick from characters with different abilities, hunt monsters, level up… it’s got a lot of familiar-sounding bits from other multiplayer PvE and PvP and PvEvP games, and I’m […]

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Looks like Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PC

5 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Going by a little Steam database leak, it seems that Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PC – and presumably soon-ish. Sega’s wonderful beefy-dads-with-hearts-of-gold RPG series only started coming to PC in 2018, 13 years after it started on PlayStations, and now it looks like we’re skipping a few games ahead. Set after Yakuza […]

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EA’s would-be E3 showcase is confirmed for June 11th

4 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

E3 20202 may be cancelled but many of its big announcements will still be made. Electronic Arts today EA Play, their annual E3-adjacent showcase of upcoming games, will return on June 11th. That would have been the final day of E3. They’ll once again host a live show with games and that, just without an […]

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Evo 2020 is going online-only

4 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Like everything else, Evo is not going ahead as usual this year. The fighting game championships will not invade a Las Vegas resort for a weekend at the end of July, with that event now cancelled and tickets getting refunded. But Evo 2020 is evolving, and will go online this summer. It surely won’t be […]

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League Of Legends client speed improvements have hit some snags

4 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Several months into a project to improve the League Of Legends client, Riot Games say they’ve made measurable improvements but also hit a few snags. After making progress enzoomening client startup times, Riot say it actually backslid a bit. But they’re not done, they think some slowdown might be caused by the state of *frantic […]

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Here’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s female lead

1 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

While the Assaassin’s Creed Valhalla debut cinematic trailer yesterday focused on the male option for our Viking lead, Eivor, Ubisoft did give several peeks at the female Eivor. Like with Odyssey before it, Valhalla will give us a choice to play a male or female character and both look quite willing and able to split […]

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This Bannerlord mod makes weapons actually hit people

1 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

While Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord‘s combat will never be mega-realistic, a new mod brings a few animation tweaks to make it look less cartoony. Where blades currently pass clean through a target’s body, looking like they should be cleft in twain, the Realistic Weapon Collision mod will make strikes get stuck a bit into […]

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Reminder: XCOM Chimera Squad’s 50% launch discount ends today

1 5 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

If you’re curious about XCOM: Chimera Squad, the new spin-off about a swat team of human and alien cops, take note: its half-price launch offer ends today. It’s clearly an experiment the publishers weren’t quite sure people would easily take to, so launched with a 50% discount last Friday. £8 is a good “Ah yeah […]