While we take in some much-needed rays this June, the Summer Game Fest will be presenting more titles to consumers at home or perhaps on the beach. Not many details have been shared about this year’s events, but we do know that Double Fine’s Day of the Devs is returning to the show yet again, according to Gematsu. Applications are now available for developers who would like to share their games during the Day of the Devs....
Brawl Stars, a freemium mobile game developed and published by Supercell, has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime revenue, largely due to strong in-app purchases in 2020. According to Sensor Tower, the game is the fourth title from Supercell to pass the $1 billion mark, after Clash of Clash, Clash Royale and Hay Day. Clash of Clans, which generated $681 million in last year, is the company’s biggest earner, In comparison, Brawl Stars, which was released worldwide in 2018, grossed $526 million for the Finnish studio in 2020....
Listening to conversations you really shouldn’t be a part of is a guilty pleasure far too many of us have. Now you can indulge in it without the social stigma that tags along in real life - by playing Telling Lies on PlayStation 4, Xbox One or Nintendo Switch, starting April 28th. The game is described as an investigative thriller game in which you listen to records of conversations, stolen from the NSA, that span a two-year period....
As promised, developer Telltale Games revealed more about its upcoming Batman adaptation at a special SXSW panel. Unfortunately, the studio did not offer up any new footage, but they did present fans with a release window: summer. That’s right, the first of five episodes for Batman: A Telltale Games Series will be available in just a few short months. In addition to revealing a release window for Batman, Telltale also shared a few design decisions behind the game....
With the Joker being present in Telltale Games’ episodic graphic adventure title Batman: The Enemy Within as the character John Doe, it makes sense for the developer to eventually include his main squeeze, Harley Quinn. As it so happens, the company has now confirmed that she will be a part of the story as it unfolds as well, with Telltale Games officially releasing the first clip featuring the Maid of Mischief in action....
What’s helped turn video games into such a lucrative and popular industry is that there are a wealth of different genres that titles can explore that in some ways gives them even more versatility than film or television. Each genre has its own merits, but horror video games have progressively grown to find mainstream success. Horror games can mess with the audience in all sorts of ways, whether psychologically or through aggressive scare tactics....
While creepy monsters are excellent for a scare and tend to hog the limelight, environments also play a huge role in determining a horror game’s success. Which are the best and worst areas in the main Resident Evil entries? This discussion will not cover Resident Evil 0 or Code: Veronica, which some fans argue is the real version of Resident Evil 3. Now, when it comes to creating haunting environments, Capcom has a knack for it....
Perhaps no medium understands television’s terrifying potential quite like film. That’s right: countless horror movies have paid homage to the spooky possibilities of their industry’s smaller screen little brother over the years. Movies like Poltergeist, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and The Ring all recognize that a television set is a potentially powerful totem. A TV set is a device that families have placed in their living rooms for decades, passively welcoming in all manner of signals, blithely trusting that evil somehow won’t piggyback its way on them....
Among the powerhouse franchises of Rockstar Games, there’s also several smaller IPs that haven’t received the same widespread acclaim in quite some time. For as big as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption has become, Rockstar Games has also published titles like Bully and Midnight Club in the past. One of the more recent one-off titles in Rockstar Games’ catalogue is L.A. Noire, a high-budget detective game that featured realistic facial simulation as its defining feature....
The story of La Llorna, the weeping woman, is well-known in Mexico. Details, such as the color of her dress or the exact date of her death, might change depending on geography and teller, but the basic folklore remains the same: There once was a woman who drowned her children in a fit of grief and jealousy. Afterward she committed suicide but was damned to wander the world looking for other children....
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is a massive action role-playing video game released in 2019 and has a huge fan-base and audience. It is set in Washington, D.C. and it revolves around the aftermath of “Green Poison”, a genetically engineered virus. There’s a lot of content in Division 2 to go over, and there are extension packs to purchase after that, so players rarely get bored with it. Some assignments in the game are classified, and these contain clues as to what really happened in Washington D....
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim launched in 2011, and is easily one of the most popular video games of all time. Nearly a decade later, Elder Scrolls fans are still waiting on news for the next game in the long-running franchise, but unfortunately, it seems as though they will have to wait awhile longer. Responding to a fan on Twitter, Bethesda’s Pete Hines confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 news is years away....
This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier spoilers. The opening installment of Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier gives us a little time to catch up with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), as they begin to navigate a post-Blip and post-Captain America world. The weight of what they’ve been through clearly weighs heavily on their minds and the pair are struggling in some ways, but slowly making progress in others....
Over the course of the last two decades, the gaming industry has seen significant shifts in how video games are created and played. Thanks to improvements in technology and graphics, games have better, more realistic visuals. Thanks to the growth and expansion of the internet, gamers can now play in real time with friends and strangers from around the globe. More recently, there’s been a shift in the way video game developers collect revenue: namely DLCs and microtransactions....
The Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy of dystopian YA novels by Suzanne Collins, that were adapted into a four-film series, with the third book being split into two films. The story follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who volunteers for the annual battle royale, the Hunger Games, after her sister Prim’s name is drawn. Like the gladiators of old, Hunger Games tributes are compulsorily drafted to fight to the death in dangerous arenas, for the amusement and appeasement of the masses....
There’s a lot of Nintendo news coming out lately. We learned today about the new Smash DLC fighter from ARMS, New Pokemon Snap was just announced as the sequel to the beloved N64 game, yet no further news about Breath of the Wild 2. We’re only clamoring for it so much because there are so many questions the fans have about the trailer for BotW2, particularly about the mummy that seems to be Ganondorf....
Just when all hope seemed lost for a Breath of the Wild 2 release, or even any new information about the game, in 2020 the French came to the rescue. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was an utter smash for Nintendo among established Zelda fans and newcomers to the decades-old franchise. Breath of the Wild came out back in 2017 and there had been little news about a follow up game up until a trailer was dropped in June of last year....
Stan Against Evil isn’t just a show that fits into horror; it’s a show that’s obsessed with and passionate about the genre. Dana Gould, the show’s creator, is one of the biggest horror fanatics that you’ll come across and that knowledge and love of the genre gets channeled into every single episode of the series. Stan Against Evil’s unique point-of-view allows the series to tackle these classic horror tropes and still bring something new to the table....
Nichelle Nichols — famous for playing Nyota Uhura in Star Trek and six classic-era Trek feature films — has died at the age of 89. Her legacy as an activist and icon will live on not just in Trek, but also in the countless people she inspired. Martin Luther King Jr. was a personal fan of Nichols on Star Trek, as are Barack Obama and Stacey Abrams. She changed the direction of NASA forever by recruiting the first Black and female American astronauts ever and changed the way mainstream science fiction TV actually looked....
Stardew Valley is full of characters that players love to learn and speculate about. Among them is a rather curious fellow named M. Rasmodius, better known as the Wizard. He doesn’t live near town but instead keeps to himself in a tower in the forest. The player doesn’t even get to introduce themselves first, as he only becomes available after you first enter the community center. Even after first meeting him, he still comes off as pretty mysterious....
