From the team that brought you LawBreakers come “Radical Heights,” a very 80’s take on the battle royale shooter-style game that’s been growing ever-more popular as of late. Boss Key’s multiplayer shooter takes place in the not-so-distant future of 2023. In the game’s version of events, America went through some sort of “dissolution” conflict and…
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My Take on the New Atari VCS
Last week, Atari announced its latest gaming offering: the all-new Atari VCS. Formerly called the “Ataribox,” (from a defunct Kickstarter campaign from last year), the new VCS is a Linux-based machine with an AMD processor that promises to run games old and new. But even with the reveal, there still remained questions about the Atari…
Epic Releases $12 Million Worth of Paragon Assets
Earlier today, Epic Games announced that about $12 million worth of assets from it’s defunct MOBA game, Paragon, are now available on the Unreal Marketplace for all Unreal Engine 4 developers to use. This by itself is pretty amazing, but here comes the real kicker: it’s all free!
The First ‘Inside Xbox’ Premiers Saturday
Earlier this week, the Microsoft announced “Inside Xbox,” a first look at all everything that’s going to be happening on Xbox in the coming months. The first of these will drop this coming Saturday at 2PM CST and will focus on Sea of Thieves, PUBG, Far Cry 5, and the return of the original Xbox’s…
ESRB To Add ‘In-Game’ Purchases Labels to Games with Loot Boxes and Microtransactions
The ESRB announced yesterday that they are going to begin requiring an extra label placed on game boxes that feature any sort of in-game purchase system. Here’s the full statement:
What the Heck is Nintendo Labo?
Nintendo’s got a brand new idea, and it centers around…cardboard? Yeah, like me, you might be rather confused right now. Apparently, Nintendo Labo, one of Nintendo’s newest products, is a kit that includes cardboard sheets with patterns printed on them (and the corresponding game, though I must admit that Nintendo’s ad on the subject didn’t make this…
Rumor: Gen 8 Starter Pokemon Leaked
It would be an understatement to say that anticipation for Nintendo’s Switch version of Pokemon is running high. Gamers haven’t gotten a home console-based Pokemon game since Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness released on the Gamecube almost 13 years ago! Even then, it wasn’t the mainline series entry fans had been hoping for. Nintendo has…
The Gloves Are Off in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon
We already knew big changes were coming to Pokemon with the upcoming release of Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon. It was going to feature additional challenges. It was going to have new antagonists in the form of every themed team from just about every past pokemon generation. It was going to introduce new…
GameStop Plans for In-Store Video Game Rentals
A few days ago, my attention was stopped short by this headline on Mashable: GameStop basically just turned itself into a Blockbuster for video games Wait…what? Is exactly what I thought. And the article that followed said exactly what the headline promised. It seems GameStop is getting in the rental game…sort of. In short, later…
Rockstar Releases Second Red Dead Redemption II Trailer: Some Thoughts
If there’s one game coming out next year for which I am truly excited, it’s Red Dead Redemption II. So you best believe that as soon as I heard Rockstar would be releasing today something new about the game, I was willing and ready to tune in. Turns out that “something” is the game’s second…
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