It looks like Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is looking to expand its portfolio of titles for this upcoming generation. In a report from Reuters Canada today, the house of GTA is set to buy British publisher Codemasters, known for the DiRT and F1 series, for $973 million. That’s an awful lot of cash. According to Codemasters’ holdings group, the publisher received a buyout offer to the tune of 729....
On June 10 of 2020, Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX was announced. The world was stunned as the last entry, a platformer called Alex Kidd in Miracle World, was released in 1986. It was originally Sega’s response to the Super Mario series and it was a serious one, met with critical acclaim and fan delight. Sega eventually decided to give its time to the Sonic franchise, but it took the company 34 years to realize that it had likely left some magic on the table....
Tencent, the Chinese conglomerate that has its hands in many different industries, may soon be acquiring another company. Its latest buyout target is Leyou, the parent company behind video game studios such as Warframe’s Digital Extremes and Gears Tactics’ Splash Damage. A few days ago on July 10, Leyou released a document announcing a halt in stock trading “pending the release of an announcement pursuant to the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers which constitutes inside information of the Company....
There is an adult conversation to be had about Microsoft purchasing Zenimax and its subsidiary, Bethesda Game Studios. There are stock market implications, the futures industry, financial investments, physical locations, existing assets, employment status, collateral impact on existing and future titles. This is not that adult conversation. Sure, serious discussion about this will be making headlines for a while now across major media, business, and news sources. But there’s also a time and a place to throw back one’s head in laughter and poke a bit of fun at all of the angles of this story and that time is now....
Generation 1 of Pokémon was filled with a bunch of unique creatures that fans could capture for themselves. However despite this there were also a bunch of weak ones that aren’t worth the player’s time and fans should completely stay away from if they are looking to form a strong team of creatures. This list will go over 10 ridiculously weak Kanto Pokémon that no player wants to be caught dead with....
This The 100 review contains spoilers. The 100 Season 6 Episode 5 The 100 continues to embed more world-building per minute this season than I could have possibly imagined. It never feels like eating our exposition vegetables – on the contrary, I find myself pausing and rewinding to make sure I haven’t missed any of the precious nuggets the writers have seen fit to drop in, like in the old days with Lost or Battlestar Galactica....
Subnautica: Below Zero has changed a lot since it first became available via Steam early access in January 2019. Initially conceived as DLC for the original Subnautica, Below Zero has since grown into a fully-voiced sequel with a greater emphasis on character-driven narrative than its predecessor, inspired by sci-fi like Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Stainslaw Lern’s Solaris. Developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment is a tremendous proponent of open development, incorporating feedback from fans in real-time, and this already-challenging approach to making a game was further complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced team members to collaborate from home....
“We Are The Weirdos, Mister.” A phrase you’ll find printed over t-shirts, pin badges, mugs, earrings, tote bags, necklaces, and more all over the internet. It’s the most iconic line from The Craft, a film released 25 years ago that still has a rabid following today. For anyone unfamiliar with The Craft, it’s a line spoken by Fairuza Balk’s Nancy, an inferno in black lippy and sunglasses, the de facto leader of a homemade coven made up of outsiders who have taken the raw deal the world has given them and rejected it by learning to harness the power of nature....
From its first trailers, the upcoming survival The Day Before recalls a bunch of notable projects, like The Division 2 or even The Last of Us. Now, Fntastic’s game is adding another obvious reference, displaying its inspiration in the offroad simulator Snowrunner from Saber Interactive. The Day Before came out of nowhere at the end of this January and the project by The Wild Eight developer Fntastic quickly drew players’ attention....
There is a lot of excitement surrounding the addition of raids in The Division 2. And thanks to dataminers looking into the game’s files, there’s a detailed look at what the first raid will contain. Not much was known about the raid before this, just that its name has been officially revealed as Operation Dark Hours, and the raid is an eight-player activity. Spoilers follow. According to user kevindavid40 on The Division subreddit, the raid looks to start at the Ronald Reagan airport, which does appear to line up with the quick glances of the raid Ubisoft shared in a trailer detailing the game’s first year of content....
This weekend, The Elder Scrolls Online is having a free-to-play event across all platforms. While players will still have to wait to get Elder Scrolls 6, they can scratch that Elder Scrolls itch by doing a little bit of play Online. The Elder Scrolls Online is an MMORPG that loosely ties in to the other games of the series. It has chapters that explore some familiar locations and lore in more depth than the originals, like Skyrim and Morrowind....
This article contains spoilers for The Fabelmans. You can read our spoiler-free review here. It is not how this type of story is supposed to go. Sam Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), a lad who is also a thinly veiled portrait of Steven Spielberg’s youth, has been bullied, humiliated, and finally assaulted by his high school’s golden boy, Logan Hall (Sam Rechner). The six-foot-plus gorilla never openly made an Antisemitic jape at Sammy’s expense....
The first week of November saw the initial wave of next-gen reviews spilling out into the world, but last week saw the PS5 and Xbox Series X finally make their way into the hands of fans. Next-gen has now become current-gen, which is clearly visible in our reviews of the biggest games of the past week. TheGamer has been playing and dissecting each and every one of the major new titles as they have been released....
This article contains Marvel’s Hawkeye episode 2 spoilers. At the end of the second episode of the new Marvel streaming series Hawkeye, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) are captured by the Tracksuit Mafia. Clint willingly lets himself be caught and is brought to what looks like some kind of abandoned shopping center, while Kate crashes the party — literally, through a skylight — as the Mafia is trying to interrogate Hawkeye to no avail about the whereabouts of, you guessed it, Kate....
This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 3 Episode 1 The Magicians is not messing around, and season three is off to an amazing start with “The Tales of the Seven Keys.” Not only are we presented with an impending “epic quest,” but there are also several foreshadowed confrontations in the mix as well as lessons to be learned from enemies of the past. Add in one of the most enjoyable pop culture laden conversations ever between Eliot and Margo, and the result is a season premiere that bodes well for an exciting set of stories to come....
Acclaimed horror-game developer Bloober Team’s latest endeavor, The Medium, focuses on a psychic medium named Marianne who can see both the spiritual world and the physical world, sometimes in tandem. Bloober Team announced The Medium in 2012, but made little mention of it since. Now, after some release delays, it will be an Xbox exclusive title with a dual release for PC. Game Rant got to see some of The Medium in action, and it’s not too soon to say that players definitely have something to be excited about....
When the world found out about the existence of Star Wars: Squadrons through a Microsoft Store leak, EA went ahead and made things official. Previously known as Star Wars: Project Maverick, fans only had an art piece and a few rumors to go off of. Now, we know that the new game is being developed by EA Motive and taking on the flight sim genre, set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. When Alec Guinness first portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi, the cinematic landscape was enjoying a more civilized age. A film was a film, and if it went well, you might make another one. But now, it’s all about plotting out sequels and spinoffs years ahead of the fact. And so, it’s come to light that Old Ben might be getting his own Star Wars Story within Lucasfilm’s sprawling cinematic universe....
At the end of The Mandalorian season 1, Din Djarin was given a pretty specific mission from the Armorer: find the people who are supposed to take care of “the Child” and deliver this helpless little green guy back to them. Presumably, this means Mando is going to track down some Jedi and/or other characters who look like Yoda. But, the strangest thing about this huge, overarching plot point is that there is no way the audience actually wants Mando to complete his quest....
After nearly two-and-a-half years of regular updates, support for Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has finally come to an end. The video game overcame a rocky start to become arguably the best Star Wars game the galaxy has ever seen, with fans now able to enjoy all three eras both on and offline, all while playing as some of their favorite characters. Things have certainly come a long way since the game’s early controversy, so this list will take a look at the 10 best changes EA made to the title following its release back in November 2017....
