Mortal Shell 2 finally has a release date, and it’s arriving sooner than you might think. Like so many other games releasing this year, Cold Symmetry is getting ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6’s attention tidal wave blocking out November’s horizon, and will launch at the tail end of August. That makes the August-October release … Read more
I gotta hand this one to the suits: I thought gamers might find a $60 price tag on a rehash of a 13-year-old Assassin’s Creed game to be a bit much, and apparently I was wrong. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sold more than two million copies in just one day, and has handily surpassed … Read more
For the first time ever, seasonal content is here for The Elder Scrolls Online. Return of the Thieves Guild, its inaugural season, has launched for the long-running MMO, something you’d expect fans would be all abuzz for—if not for the fact that ZeniMax Online Studios has been gutted as part of the mass layoffs at … Read more
Amongst all the news of brutal layoffs, studio divestments, and ironic task force appointments at Microsoft this week, over in the Call of Duty corner of the megacorp, something kinda cool happened. Activision released updated ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) and Black Ops 2 (2012). They come with caveats, of course: At … Read more
So, I’ve got to ask: Did you guys see this whole memory crisis coming a mile off, or what? Because, while we’re continually bemoaning the state of the industry with AI datacenter business hoarding all the available memory as fast as Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron can make it—and the ensuing pricing batshittery that has … Read more
Nvidia isn’t one to shy away from memorabilia. From signed golden graphics cards to selling CEO Jensen Huang’s iconic leather coat for charity, it’s fond of putting out things for collectors. But I never quite expected today’s reveal, a series of collectable trading cards. Shared to Nvidia’s YouTube page, the first set of trading cards … Read more
Indie creator Robert Yang—who makes good, funny, incandescently homosexual videogames—has an ongoing project. Radiator Forever is a free megabundle/remaster of Yang’s experimental, short-form games that includes titles like Hurt Me Plenty (description: “consent, negotiation, spanking, and aftercare”), Succulent (“juicy cheek physics and demonic possession”) and Stick Shift (“autoerotic night-driving, manually pleasure a gay car”). I’m … Read more
The memory supply crisis looks set to rage until at least 2028, when major players Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron all look set to complete capacity-expanding builds. However, that’s still a way off. So, a number of component companies are now looking to another China-based competitor to meet their memory demands. Earlier this week, MSI … Read more
If you thought Meta was stepping away from the VR market after seemingly turning away from the Metaverse and closing 3 VR studios earlier this year, think again, buddy. It seems like the plan as of right now is to put out multiple headsets in the future, memory crisis be damned. The news comes from … Read more
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is here and violently colon-less, despite my deep-rooted ancestral urge to fill every gap between those words with dots and dashes, as our forefathers did in the days of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. But it’s not Ubisoft’s crimes against grammar that prompted the game to hit Mixed Steam reviews … Read more