Gaming

I was optimistic that Firewall Ultra could be the long-awaited MacGuffin in the fancy new PS VR2’s come-up story. The original, Firewall: Zero Hour, entered the scene with bombast in 2018, making the most of far less impressive tech, so it makes sense that eye-tracking, Sense controllers, and foveated rendering…

A busy week sees us digging into a number of topics, including our hands-on impressions of Forza Motorsport, Gearbox reportedly being put back up for sale by the financially wobbly Embracer Group, saluting Epic Games Chief Creative Office Donald Mustard upon his retirement as we remember his three awesome Xbox…

Unity caused a firestorm of backlash from game developers on social media yesterday following its announcement that it would begin charging developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity’s game engine. Even though Unity has already walked back some aspects of the Unity Runtime Fee,…

Those looking for more information about Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will want to mark their calendars for Sept. 19, as SEGA has announced a RGG Like a Dragon Direct for that day. The stream, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s…

Among Us could be another major casualty of Unity’s new installation fee, which has sparked chaos throughout the games industry since its announcement yesterday. Speaking with IGN, Innersloth programmer Forest Willard confirmed that “pulling Among Us for a while” is on the table while the developer looks for a solution….

There’s an old joke about 4X games that goes something like this: after you spend several hours on YouTube watching tutorials, you get to fumble your way through a playthrough with a vague idea of what you’re doing before you inevitably make some fatal mistake you don’t recognize until much,…

Microsoft has announced the full list of games coming day one with Xbox Game Pass Core tomorrow, September 14. Xbox Game Pass Core, which has replaced Xbox Live Gold, includes 36 games to play on Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One. There’s a mix of games from Microsoft’s…

In recent years, Apple has shifted more and more focus to adding gaming-centric features to its hardware, mostly on Mac computers. The Apple Wonderlust Event confirmed the iPhone 15 Pro is joining in, with the next Apple flagship smartphone set to receive native versions of AAA games including Resident Evil…

In some big Sims news today, EA has confirmed that The Sims 5, codenamed Project Rene, will be “free to download when it’s ready.” “This means that when Project Rene is ready and fully open to players, you will be able to join, play and explore it without a subscription,…

Game developers aren’t happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity’s game engine. It’s called the Unity Runtime Fee, and the new pricing model will apply to developers who reach a certain amount of installs…