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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem expansion ‘coming soon’

Matthew Wilson 7 hours ago Software & Gaming Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem launched earlier this year, bringing back the Diablo-era with some twists and turns along the way. Since launch, Wolcen Studio has been working on fixing bugs and improving the game. Soon, the game will get its first free content expansion, as well as… Read more

Original Super Mario Maker losing some online features in 2021

Home / Software & Gaming / Original Super Mario Maker losing some online features in 2021 Matthew Wilson 8 hours ago Software & Gaming This week, Nintendo announced that it will be partially ending support for Super Mario Maker in 2021. The original game brought some life back to the Wii U in 2015 by… Read more

Cuphead ‘The Delicious Last Course’ pushed back to 2021

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Software & Gaming Cuphead is one of the best indie games to release during this current console generation, starting off as an Xbox One/PC exclusive and eventually transitioning to PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Studio MDHR are still working on the game now all these years later, but the upcoming expansion… Read more

50 years of video game history in one graph

The video game industry has registered sales for 165 billions of dollars in 2020: a study by Pelham Smithers shows how the success of the sector has increased over time, even if the factors that have decreed it continue to change by Rosario Grasso published 25 November 2020 , at 15: 51 in the Videogames… Read more

First hacks for Game & Watch from Nintendo emerged

Although Nintendo only recently released its Game & Watch handheld, resourceful hackers have already managed to crack the device. As a result, titles such as The Legend of Zelda or Contra can also be played on the handheld. The security researcher Thomas Roth has already published a video to this effect on the YouTube platform…. Read more

Monster Hunter: The Movie content is coming to Monster Hunter: The Game

The upcoming Monster Hunter movie doesn’t exactly look like the most faithful adaptation of the games, centering as it does around a gun-toting US Army soldier played by Milla Jovovich, but that’s not stopping Capcom from engaging in some cross-promotion. Downloadable content based on the movie is coming to Monster Hunter World: Iceborne next month…. Read more

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’s designers talk about following up Breath of the Wild

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, which launched on the Nintendo Switch last week, is a curious thing: a blockbuster release that’s both a sequel and a prequel. It’s a follow-up to 2014’s Hyrule Warriors, a game that mashed together the fantastical realm of Hyrule with the action-heavy gameplay of the Dynasty Warriors series. But it’s… Read more

Xbox head Phil Spencer says console tribalism is ‘one of the worst things about our industry’

Microsoft and Sony are often considered direct rivals in the game space, competing for players through new consoles and exclusive games. Brand loyalty and “console wars” for some players dictates whether they’ll grab a PlayStation or Xbox. Extreme fans have even escalated their affinity for one over the other into harassment. But Microsoft’s real threat… Read more

Spider-Man: Miles Morales outsold Call of Duty during PS5 launch

Mustafa Mahmoud 59 mins ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming As the PlayStation 5 finally launched in the UK last week, many who managed to get their hands on the console likely also picked up one of the PS5’s launch titles. One of the biggest games to launch alongside the console was Call… Read more

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity sold three million copies at launch

Home / Software & Gaming / Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity sold three million copies at launch Matthew Wilson 1 hour ago Software & Gaming Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that it would once again be teaming up with Koei Tecmo Games, this time for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – a prequel to The… Read more

Super Mario Bros. 3 sold at $ 156,000 at auction: it's the most expensive game ever sold

New record for Nintendo’s mascot: after the feat of the first episode, sold last July at 114. 000 dollars, Super Mario Bros. 3 breaks the record of its predecessor. A sealed copy of the game, featuring a very rare design, sold for an astronomical figure. by Pasquale Fusco published 24 November 2020 , at 11:… Read more

Khronos announces final specification for Vulkan Ray Tracing extension

João Silva 29 mins ago Featured Announcement, Software & Gaming For the last couple of years now, developers looking to include ray-tracing in their games have had to use DirectX 12 or rely on a custom, unofficial extension for Vulkan. That will change soon though, as Khronos has now released the final specifications for its… Read more

Playstation 2: The best-selling game console of all time is 20 years old

At the 24. November 2000 the Playstation 2 was launched in Europe. The successor to Sony’s first game console was launched in Japan in March, the USA was on 26. October turn. Despite the delayed start, Europe becomes the most important market for the PS2: Over 55 million times the game console is sold there…. Read more

Nintendo’s Game & Watch can run Doom, barely

Intrepid developers have done the expected and necessary: Doom now runs on Nintendo’s recently released Game & Watch portable. The Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. was designed to run three games, but successfully porting Doom shows it can handle others if you have a lot of patience (via Hackaday). This version of Doom is… Read more

Why is it so hard to turn off the PS5?

Sony’s PlayStation 5 user interface could really use some work, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the simple act of trying to turn the thing off. On most recent consoles, it’s been pretty easy to shut down the device with just the controller. Simply press and hold the PS button / Xbox button… Read more