Gaming

Square Enix and People Can Fly have announced Outriders Worldslayer, an expansion to 2021’s chaotic looter shooter, will launch this June. Outriders Worldslayer pushes the action into the further reaches of the world of Enoch, to regions where frost storms and blizzards have coated the landscape with snow and ice….

Imagine, if you will, a world in which Nicolas Cage had played Aragorn or Neo. That could very well have been our reality, had the actor not firmly had his priorities in order. He is one of the most recognizable leading men in Hollywood… and the face of some of…

Earlier today, Meta hosted its second annual Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, featuring a variety of announcements including a brand-new Ghostbusters VR game. The showcase sparked a spirited discussion within IGN about the Meta Quest 2’s comparative dominance of the VR market, where it currently enjoys a roughly 78 percent market…

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will now produce the It Takes Two movie adaptation. Variety reported that Johnson is set to join Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia to produce the project on behalf of Seven Bucks Productions for Amazon Studios and dj2 Entertainment. The Sonic the Hedgehog movie writers Pat Casey…

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…