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, […]
The popular vampire survival game V Rising has finally launched out of early access on PC, getting a flattering 9/10 score from our Francesco De Meo in Wccftech's review. Enriched by many additions, including endgame activities that promise to challenge even veteran players' knowledge of the mechanics and fighting skills, the 1.0 version of V Rising is the culmination of two years of hard work. While the experience is not particularly innovative and can get a little stale in solo play, the number of options and activities the game offers to those willing to delve deep into its complex yet […]
Nearly two years ago, Swedish indie developer Stunlock Studios (mostly known for the action MOBA Battlerite) released a vampire survival game called V Rising on Steam Early Access. The game quickly rose to the very top of Steam charts, selling over a million units in just over a week since launch. Just a few months later, V Rising had registered over two and a half million players. Over time, some users moved on to more recent releases, but Stunlock Studios slowly but steadily kept adding to the game, with the first major content update (Secrets of Gloomrot) hitting roughly on […]
Every once in a while, an indie game rises out of the blue to the very top of Steam sales. In 2017, that happened to Dead Cells, an extremely popular roguelite-Metroidvania game that sold several million copies over the years. Now, French developer MotionTwin is back with a new game, Windblown. Announced at The Game Awards 2023, it's another roguelite game, although with quite a few differences from the studio's big success. In Windblown, players become Leapers, warriors fighting to protect their home (The Ark) from the gigantic and deadly Vortex and its Sentinel minions. They will dash freely through […]
MMORPGs have offered the promise of player agency and being able to shape the world but those promises usually fall flat beyond the premise of having a stronghold in one part of the world or adjusting tax and trade ratios in another. Bitcraft: Age of Automata aims to break that concept down to the basic voxels by allowing players to literally shape the shared world as they see fit. With a single shared world to craft bit by bit, there's something special in the works with Clockwork Labs, Inc. My play session saw me along with one other developer showing […]
NVIDIA is working with its partners to create a new SFF gaming PC ecosystem which will be driven by "SFF Enthusiast GeForce" GPUs. NVIDIA Wants To Help Out SFF PC Builders Select The Best Components Under Its New Initiative, Will Feature "SFF Enthusiast GeForce" GPUs The SFF or Small Form Factor segment is popular among PC gamers for several reasons. Not only does it save space but builders can assemble some creative rigs to fulfill their gaming needs. While the industry has seen a lot of support for the SFF PC segment in the form of DIY components, there isn't […]
With Top Spin 2K25 now exceedingly close to its April 26 launch date, we were able to pry a few tidbits about the long-awaited fifth installment in the tennis franchise from Game Director Remi Ercolani. In our interview, we received confirmation that, unfortunately, online doubles will not be available at launch. TopSpin 2K25 won’t support online doubles at launch, but we’re hoping to offer more options in the future. Each mode will have its own specificities and unique features to keep players motivated to return and play daily, and all ranked modes will have leaderboards for fans to keep an […]
Nearly two years after the rumor shared by Jason Schreier, developer Hangar 13 (Mafia III, Mafia Definitive Edition) is almost ready to release Top Spin 2K25, the first new entry in the beloved tennis franchise since 2011's Top Spin 4. With only three months between the official announcement and the launch date (slated for April 26), there's a lot that fans are still eager to know about the game. To remedy that, we sent a list of questions to Hangar 13. Below, you can find the replies penned by Top Spin 2K25 Game Director Remi Ercolani. As a reminder, the […]
Wccftech recently met with the developers at Shiny Shoe at GDC 2024 to check out their upcoming roguelike, Inkbound. What makes this title so unique is approaching a roguelike dungeon together with friends in turn-based combat, something that’s been attempted in numerous action roguelikes but turn-based combat is still a rarity in the growing genre. Sitting alongside a couple of the core developers on the project, Wccftech got an advanced look at Inkbound ahead of the 1.0 launch that just went live on Steam. With Inkbound intended to be a social adventure, having a Hub world seemed like a no-brainer […]
Two months ago, Disney Games announced a massive $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games to support the creation of a persistent universe within Fortnite featuring the company's major intellectual properties. Yesterday, VentureBeat reported that Disney Games is hiring new industry executives to prepare for a new wave of investments. Bjorn Tornqvist has recently joined as the new vice president of games technology after a couple of decades at Ubisoft Massive (he was most recently the technical director for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), while Ray Gresko, formerly chief development officer at Blizzard Entertainment, is joining the team as senior vice president […]
ZeniMax Online has recently started its celebration of the 10th anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online with an event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bethesda kindly invited and arranged for Wccftech to attend the celebration event, which was mainly centered on the upcoming Gold Road Chapter due to launch in June for PC/Mac (where the game is also now playable via GeForce NOW) and consoles. While we previously covered the finer details of Gold Road's main feature, the Scribing system, here's a full transcript of the one-on-one chat I had with Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert during last week's event in […]
At GDC 2024, Canadian developer Piranha Games showcased new info and footage of MechWarrior 5: Clans, a standalone game and the first in a very long time to be narrative-focused in this franchise. As suggested by the game's title, this will be a Clan Invasion story (the first since 1995's MechWarrior 2), diving into the period that changed the politics of the Inner Sphere for good. According to the developers, this will be an ideal entry point for series newcomers, too. The plot will follow a promising young pilot who recently finished their intensive training on Huntress, the homeworld of […]
At GDC 2024, New Zealand-based developer A44 (known for 2018's Ashen) provided an updated look at Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, its upcoming action RPG that sits between God of War and a lite, more accessible version of the Soulslike genre. A44 is now composed of around 65 employees, and they've been working on this game for quite a while. Flintlock fantasy novels inspire the game's original setting with a striking central theme: Gods wielding magic versus armies made of regular people wielding guns from a Napoleonic era. At the beginning of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, main character Nor […]
The popular vampire survival game V Rising has finally launched out of early access on PC, getting a flattering 9/10 score from our Francesco De Meo in Wccftech's review. Enriched by many additions, including endgame activities that promise to challenge even veteran players' knowledge of the mechanics and fighting skills, the 1.0 version of V Rising is the culmination of two years of hard work. While the experience is not particularly innovative and can get a little stale in solo play, the number of options and activities the game offers to those willing to delve deep into its complex yet […]
Nearly two years ago, Swedish indie developer Stunlock Studios (mostly known for the action MOBA Battlerite) released a vampire survival game called V Rising on Steam Early Access. The game quickly rose to the very top of Steam charts, selling over a million units in just over a week since launch. Just a few months later, V Rising had registered over two and a half million players. Over time, some users moved on to more recent releases, but Stunlock Studios slowly but steadily kept adding to the game, with the first major content update (Secrets of Gloomrot) hitting roughly on […]
Every once in a while, an indie game rises out of the blue to the very top of Steam sales. In 2017, that happened to Dead Cells, an extremely popular roguelite-Metroidvania game that sold several million copies over the years. Now, French developer MotionTwin is back with a new game, Windblown. Announced at The Game Awards 2023, it's another roguelite game, although with quite a few differences from the studio's big success. In Windblown, players become Leapers, warriors fighting to protect their home (The Ark) from the gigantic and deadly Vortex and its Sentinel minions. They will dash freely through […]
MMORPGs have offered the promise of player agency and being able to shape the world but those promises usually fall flat beyond the premise of having a stronghold in one part of the world or adjusting tax and trade ratios in another. Bitcraft: Age of Automata aims to break that concept down to the basic voxels by allowing players to literally shape the shared world as they see fit. With a single shared world to craft bit by bit, there's something special in the works with Clockwork Labs, Inc. My play session saw me along with one other developer showing […]
NVIDIA is working with its partners to create a new SFF gaming PC ecosystem which will be driven by "SFF Enthusiast GeForce" GPUs. NVIDIA Wants To Help Out SFF PC Builders Select The Best Components Under Its New Initiative, Will Feature "SFF Enthusiast GeForce" GPUs The SFF or Small Form Factor segment is popular among PC gamers for several reasons. Not only does it save space but builders can assemble some creative rigs to fulfill their gaming needs. While the industry has seen a lot of support for the SFF PC segment in the form of DIY components, there isn't […]
With Top Spin 2K25 now exceedingly close to its April 26 launch date, we were able to pry a few tidbits about the long-awaited fifth installment in the tennis franchise from Game Director Remi Ercolani. In our interview, we received confirmation that, unfortunately, online doubles will not be available at launch. TopSpin 2K25 won’t support online doubles at launch, but we’re hoping to offer more options in the future. Each mode will have its own specificities and unique features to keep players motivated to return and play daily, and all ranked modes will have leaderboards for fans to keep an […]
Nearly two years after the rumor shared by Jason Schreier, developer Hangar 13 (Mafia III, Mafia Definitive Edition) is almost ready to release Top Spin 2K25, the first new entry in the beloved tennis franchise since 2011's Top Spin 4. With only three months between the official announcement and the launch date (slated for April 26), there's a lot that fans are still eager to know about the game. To remedy that, we sent a list of questions to Hangar 13. Below, you can find the replies penned by Top Spin 2K25 Game Director Remi Ercolani. As a reminder, the […]
Wccftech recently met with the developers at Shiny Shoe at GDC 2024 to check out their upcoming roguelike, Inkbound. What makes this title so unique is approaching a roguelike dungeon together with friends in turn-based combat, something that’s been attempted in numerous action roguelikes but turn-based combat is still a rarity in the growing genre. Sitting alongside a couple of the core developers on the project, Wccftech got an advanced look at Inkbound ahead of the 1.0 launch that just went live on Steam. With Inkbound intended to be a social adventure, having a Hub world seemed like a no-brainer […]
Two months ago, Disney Games announced a massive $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games to support the creation of a persistent universe within Fortnite featuring the company's major intellectual properties. Yesterday, VentureBeat reported that Disney Games is hiring new industry executives to prepare for a new wave of investments. Bjorn Tornqvist has recently joined as the new vice president of games technology after a couple of decades at Ubisoft Massive (he was most recently the technical director for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), while Ray Gresko, formerly chief development officer at Blizzard Entertainment, is joining the team as senior vice president […]
ZeniMax Online has recently started its celebration of the 10th anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online with an event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bethesda kindly invited and arranged for Wccftech to attend the celebration event, which was mainly centered on the upcoming Gold Road Chapter due to launch in June for PC/Mac (where the game is also now playable via GeForce NOW) and consoles. While we previously covered the finer details of Gold Road's main feature, the Scribing system, here's a full transcript of the one-on-one chat I had with Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert during last week's event in […]
At GDC 2024, Canadian developer Piranha Games showcased new info and footage of MechWarrior 5: Clans, a standalone game and the first in a very long time to be narrative-focused in this franchise. As suggested by the game's title, this will be a Clan Invasion story (the first since 1995's MechWarrior 2), diving into the period that changed the politics of the Inner Sphere for good. According to the developers, this will be an ideal entry point for series newcomers, too. The plot will follow a promising young pilot who recently finished their intensive training on Huntress, the homeworld of […]
At GDC 2024, New Zealand-based developer A44 (known for 2018's Ashen) provided an updated look at Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, its upcoming action RPG that sits between God of War and a lite, more accessible version of the Soulslike genre. A44 is now composed of around 65 employees, and they've been working on this game for quite a while. Flintlock fantasy novels inspire the game's original setting with a striking central theme: Gods wielding magic versus armies made of regular people wielding guns from a Napoleonic era. At the beginning of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, main character Nor […]