After refusing to do anything meaningful with the Splinter Cell license in the years since 2013’s Blacklist: Aftermath, Ubisoft seems to haTve heard the fans’ plaintive cries because it’s decided to bring sneaky spy Sam Fisher back in a new remake of t…
Twitch’s ‘Pay-To-Win’ Boost Feature Doesn’t Actually Help People, Surprising No One
It seems Twitch’s controversial “pay-to-win” Boost feature is a bust. There was no positive impact for streamers who took part in a test of the Boost feature, according to a data analyst who crunched the numbers. Read more…
Xbox Game Pass PC Gets A New Name And Four More Day One Games
Xbox Game Pass is a good name for a subscription games service. Xbox Game Pass for PC is not, so Microsoft got together with rappers Lil Dicky and GaTa last night during The Game Awards to announce the PC version’s new name, the much more sensible PC G…
Ex-Telltale Devs Are Making A Star Trek Game
The best Star Trek games are adventure games, and one of the best makers of adventure games was the original Telltale Games. Tonight at The Game Awards, Dramatic Labs, a studio made up of over 20 ex-Telltale folks, announced Star Trek: Resurgence, an i…
Steelrising Game Says What If Victorian Times But With Robots?
Steelrising got a new trailer tonight during The Game Awards 2021, showing off its wild mix of robots and a Victorian-era world. The game is coming out next year to PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.Read more…
U.S. Government Curious Why Teslas Allow Gaming While Driving
When Tesla expanded its growing list of dashboard touchscreen games last winter, the update inexplicably allowed drivers to play them while the electric car was in motion. Almost a year later, the United States government is finally asking the company …
Ubisoft’s NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company kn…
GTA Online Gets First Actual Story Expansion In Years, Starring Franklin and Dr. Dre
Rockstar Games just announced a new major content drop for Grand Theft Auto Online. The series of missions titled The Contract will feature Franklin, one of GTA V’s protagonists, and rapper Dr. Dre. In addition to Dr. Dre’s music, Rockstar promised swe…
Xbox Game Pass Adds Another Surprise Game
Xbox has started to release games on its popular Game Pass subscription service without announcing them, and it’s starting to feel like an advent calendar. Serious Sam 4 was previously only available on the PC and Stadia, but it got a surprise launch o…
Scuf’s New PS5 Controllers Have Cool Features, Large Price Tags
Atlanta-based Scuf gaming’s made a name for itself with outstanding third-party controllers for Xbox One, Series X/S, and PlayStation 4. Now the peripheral maker sets its sights on the PlayStation 5 with the new Scuf Reflex line, a trio of high-perform…