Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
I still remember the E3 2013 announcement for Respawn Entertainment’s sci-fi first-person shooter Titanfall. The trailer at first made it look like a Call of Duty clone, which makes sense considering the studio was founded by former Infinity Ward staff...
Electronic Arts has added nine classic games to Steam including Dungeon Keeper Gold, SimCity 3000, and WW2-era open-world action game The Saboteur, which had previously been delisted from Valve’s digital PC store, but is now back and on sale. Read more...
A wave of EA Classics has joined the most popular PC digital store, Steam, for the first time ever. This includes the Populous series. Designed by Peter Molyneux, it spawned the god game genre. The first Populous launched in 1989 for the Amiga, instantly becoming a success and spawning two sequels: 1991's Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods and 1998's Populous: The Beginning, the latter of which used 3D graphics. However, only the first two games have been added to Steam. Other EA Classics that just launched on Valve's store include the two games in the Dungeon Keeper series. […]
We’ve already had an unusual number of showcases and announcements this year, and it seems this particular train is going to keep right on rolling. Today Microsoft announced an Xbox Partner Preview, which will showcase over a dozen trailers for games coming to PC, Xbox, and/or Game Pass. We don’t have a full list of games that will be shown during the Xbox Partner Preview, but Microsoft has let a bit of info out of the bag. Players can look forward to fresh gameplay from Capcom’s unique-looking Japanese-mythology-inspired adventure Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, the African-inspired EA Originals Metroidvania Tales […]
2024 is set to be a pretty big year for RPGs, with the likes of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and Avowed all queued up to launch, but what about Dragon Age: Dreadwolf? There have been a number of hints that BioWare’s latest may be nearing completion, but when might we actually get our hands on it? Well, on the latest episode of Jeff Grubb’s Game Mess podcast, he let slip that EA and the devs working away on the game up at BioWare in Canada are “pretty confident” they can still deliver the game later this year […]
In yet another chapter of the seemingly unending layoff news, Electronic Arts (EA) announced it's laying off 5% of its employees, amounting to around 670 people. Ridgeline Games, a Seattle studio founded by Marcus Lehto of Halo and Disintegration fame to make a Battlefield single player title, will be shut down. Lehto had recently left Ridgeline Games, and some employees will join Ripple Effect (rumored to be working on a free-to-play Battle Royale mode for the next Battlefield), while Criterion Games will lead the Battlefield single player work. EA also confirmed the cancellation of the Star Wars first-person shooter game […]
Starting today, over 10,000 college football players will be able to decide if they want to get paid to appear in EA Sports’ College Football 25. In exchange for their image, likeness, and name, EA is offering players $600 and a free copy of the game. ...
Last year's Dead Space remake looks great, but it's visuals can reach some impressive heights with the right mods, as showcased in a new video shared online this week. The 8K resolution video put together by Beyond Dreams shows the remake of the first entry in the series running with a variety of mods, including the Complete Ray Tracing preset by Nice Guy, the Ray Tracing preset by massihancer, and a selection of other mods, including Restir G.I Ambient Occlusion, Volumetric Fog, Color Grading, Pulsating Bloom, DOF, and Camera mods. You can check out how this visual overhaul compares to […]
A new and free update for The Sims 4, EA’s uber-popular life sim, has added cosmetic options to the game that let you give your Sims vitiligo skin patches and patterns. To help celebrate this awesome addition, EA has brought in the world-famous model W...
Apex Legends Season 20, entitled “Breakout,” launches next week, and EA and developer Respawn/Respawn Vancouver have detailed what the update will include. Players won’t be getting a new Legend this time around, but in its place Respawn is promising a major shakeup to core gameplay in the form of a new in-game progression system. Each Legend will be able to unlock four upgrades throughout the course of a match, each of which will either augment existing abilities or even grant completely new abilities. As part of this change, armor upgrades will now be tied to the in-game progression system, rather […]
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is only a couple short months away, but if you want to kick off the FF7 fun early, you can in… Apex Legends. Yes, a new Apex Legends and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth crossover event kicks off next week, which will include a new takeover that will allow you to find and wield the iconic Buster Sword. In addition to that, you can expect the usual array of cosmetics, including some pretty cool-looking skins that see Apex heroes dressing up as the likes of Tifa, Aerith, Barrett, and Yuffie. You can check out a quick trailer […]
I wasn’t sure this day would ever come: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the once wildly popular mobile RPG in which players had to climb the Tinseltown ranks from the E-list to A-list, is shutting down. 10 years ago, this Android and iOS title dominated eac...
I still remember the E3 2013 announcement for Respawn Entertainment’s sci-fi first-person shooter Titanfall. The trailer at first made it look like a Call of Duty clone, which makes sense considering the studio was founded by former Infinity Ward staff...
Electronic Arts has added nine classic games to Steam including Dungeon Keeper Gold, SimCity 3000, and WW2-era open-world action game The Saboteur, which had previously been delisted from Valve’s digital PC store, but is now back and on sale. Read more...
A wave of EA Classics has joined the most popular PC digital store, Steam, for the first time ever. This includes the Populous series. Designed by Peter Molyneux, it spawned the god game genre. The first Populous launched in 1989 for the Amiga, instantly becoming a success and spawning two sequels: 1991's Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods and 1998's Populous: The Beginning, the latter of which used 3D graphics. However, only the first two games have been added to Steam. Other EA Classics that just launched on Valve's store include the two games in the Dungeon Keeper series. […]
We’ve already had an unusual number of showcases and announcements this year, and it seems this particular train is going to keep right on rolling. Today Microsoft announced an Xbox Partner Preview, which will showcase over a dozen trailers for games coming to PC, Xbox, and/or Game Pass. We don’t have a full list of games that will be shown during the Xbox Partner Preview, but Microsoft has let a bit of info out of the bag. Players can look forward to fresh gameplay from Capcom’s unique-looking Japanese-mythology-inspired adventure Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, the African-inspired EA Originals Metroidvania Tales […]
2024 is set to be a pretty big year for RPGs, with the likes of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and Avowed all queued up to launch, but what about Dragon Age: Dreadwolf? There have been a number of hints that BioWare’s latest may be nearing completion, but when might we actually get our hands on it? Well, on the latest episode of Jeff Grubb’s Game Mess podcast, he let slip that EA and the devs working away on the game up at BioWare in Canada are “pretty confident” they can still deliver the game later this year […]
In yet another chapter of the seemingly unending layoff news, Electronic Arts (EA) announced it's laying off 5% of its employees, amounting to around 670 people. Ridgeline Games, a Seattle studio founded by Marcus Lehto of Halo and Disintegration fame to make a Battlefield single player title, will be shut down. Lehto had recently left Ridgeline Games, and some employees will join Ripple Effect (rumored to be working on a free-to-play Battle Royale mode for the next Battlefield), while Criterion Games will lead the Battlefield single player work. EA also confirmed the cancellation of the Star Wars first-person shooter game […]
Starting today, over 10,000 college football players will be able to decide if they want to get paid to appear in EA Sports’ College Football 25. In exchange for their image, likeness, and name, EA is offering players $600 and a free copy of the game. ...
Last year's Dead Space remake looks great, but it's visuals can reach some impressive heights with the right mods, as showcased in a new video shared online this week. The 8K resolution video put together by Beyond Dreams shows the remake of the first entry in the series running with a variety of mods, including the Complete Ray Tracing preset by Nice Guy, the Ray Tracing preset by massihancer, and a selection of other mods, including Restir G.I Ambient Occlusion, Volumetric Fog, Color Grading, Pulsating Bloom, DOF, and Camera mods. You can check out how this visual overhaul compares to […]
A new and free update for The Sims 4, EA’s uber-popular life sim, has added cosmetic options to the game that let you give your Sims vitiligo skin patches and patterns. To help celebrate this awesome addition, EA has brought in the world-famous model W...
Apex Legends Season 20, entitled “Breakout,” launches next week, and EA and developer Respawn/Respawn Vancouver have detailed what the update will include. Players won’t be getting a new Legend this time around, but in its place Respawn is promising a major shakeup to core gameplay in the form of a new in-game progression system. Each Legend will be able to unlock four upgrades throughout the course of a match, each of which will either augment existing abilities or even grant completely new abilities. As part of this change, armor upgrades will now be tied to the in-game progression system, rather […]
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is only a couple short months away, but if you want to kick off the FF7 fun early, you can in… Apex Legends. Yes, a new Apex Legends and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth crossover event kicks off next week, which will include a new takeover that will allow you to find and wield the iconic Buster Sword. In addition to that, you can expect the usual array of cosmetics, including some pretty cool-looking skins that see Apex heroes dressing up as the likes of Tifa, Aerith, Barrett, and Yuffie. You can check out a quick trailer […]
I wasn’t sure this day would ever come: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the once wildly popular mobile RPG in which players had to climb the Tinseltown ranks from the E-list to A-list, is shutting down. 10 years ago, this Android and iOS title dominated eac...