Gaming

Close to 10 years after its original release, Rockstar has quietly removed a handful of characters and jokes from Grand Theft Auto 5 that critics have described as harmful stereotypes of transgender people. As first reported by Ars Technica, GTA community members have noted various changes to the remastered version…

My Xbox and Me host MC Fixer joins us to discuss a big week of Xbox news, from Portal 2‘s lead writer publicly calling on Valve to greenlight Valve 3 to Amy Hennig getting another shot at a Star Wars game to Sega working on big-budget reboots of Crazy Taxi…

Crystal Dynamics announced its plans to add Jane Foster: The Mighty Thor to Marvel’s Avengers’ roster of playable characters. This will mark Avenger’s first new character since Spider-Man in November 2021. Jane, who has appeared in the Thor comics since the early 1960s, will join the game in Update 2.5….

As the controversy over non-fungible tokens (NFTs) continues to rage, Blizzard’s President Mike Ybarra has denied the company is interested in pursuing blockchain technology for its games. Ybarra was responding to a story from Video Games Chronicle reporting that a YouGov survey asked players about crypto and NFT products in…

Former Xbox vice president Ed Fries says that he tried to buy Blizzard multiple times back during his tenure at Microsoft before he left in 2004. In a podcast with XboxEra, Fries implied that the acquistion would have made sense given Microsoft’s history with the PC platform, saying, “I was…

Here in the US, we haven’t seen any price drop in the Nintendo Switch, which is kind of a drag. To be fair, though… Nintendo doesn’t really need to drop the price, because Nintendo Switch still sells extremely well in spite of being 5 years old. However, much like PS5…

After nearly two years, Sucker Punch has released what appears to be the final planned patch for Ghost of Tsushima and has said it is not “actively working on any additional patches at the moment.” As reported by PlayStation LifeStyle, Sucker Punch shared the news on the notes for Patch…

Ron Gilbert, the mind behind Monkey Island, confirmed another installment in the classic franchise earlier this month. The sixth installment, Return to Monkey Island, will feature the return of Gilbert along with Dave Grossman, who collaborated with Secret of Monkey Island and LeChuck’s Revenge. In an interview with Adventuregamers.com, Gilbert…

Microsoft is reportedly looking into letting advertisers insert ads into free-to-play Xbox games. This program is reportedly going to launch by the third quarter of this year. According to Business Insider, these ads could show up as rendered billboards in a racing game. However, it wasn’t able to be confirmed…

In the grim, unforgiving world of Elden Ring, there are no characters that can truly be considered heroes — not even the protagonist. But one community member has risen to fame in the last week: a naked man wearing nothing but a jar on his head who waits outside the…