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, […]
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is one of the biggest question marks on the near horizon – the new co-op DC Comics actioner has the pedigree, coming from Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios, but its gameplay debut was not well-received (largely due its live service elements). That backlash led to a delay and we haven’t seen anymore more from the game in months. Well, today Rocksteady dropped their first “Suicide Squad Insider” video, showcasing a bunch of new footage of the game in action. You can check it out for yourself, below. Rocksteady is keen to emphasize that Suicide […]
The upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora may not be quite as live-service-focused as some other Ubisoft titles, but make no mistake, the game will still offer the expected season pass and today we got the first details on what it will include. The main focus of the season pass are two new story expansions, “The Sky Breaker,” which arrives in the summer of 2024, and “Secrets of the Spires,” which drops in fall of 2024. The first of these updates will feature a new “festival of games” to participate in and a new RDA threat, while the second will introduce […]
Sony has been no stranger to experimenting with remote play for the past two and a half console generations. Since the technology first appeared on PlayStation 3, the only official Sony devices to offer remote play capabilities were of the PlayStation Vita line of devices, VAIO laptops, Bravia televisions, and their Xperia Play phone. The walled garden opened up with the PlayStation 4 as phones and PCs outside of the Sony ecosystem began offering up licensed Sony apps and even some third-party developers releasing PSPlay on both iOS and Android. Now, more than a decade since the PlayStation Vita hit […]
Remedy Entertainment has a lot of upcoming projects on its plate, with one of the most mysterious of the bunch being “Vanguard,” a Tencent-funded project originally envisioned as a free-to-play co-op title. Well, following the success of Alan Wake 2, it seems like Remedy is rethinking some of their upcoming slate. While Vanguard hasn’t been canceled, it has been rebooted – it will now be a paid premium title and will be referred to by the new codename “Kestrel.” Apparently, this re-envisioned version of the project will “will lean more into Remedy’s core strengths,” which, to me at least, means […]
Alan Wake 2 is here, and as you would expect from a survival horror game, it throws some fairly tough challenges at you, including a number of boss fights. Warning: This article contains end-game SPOILERS for Alan Wake 2. Beware! Alan Wake 2’s final major boss battle comes in the 7th chapter of Saga Anderson’s campaign, but before you get to that, you’ll have to take on one the most grueling combat challenge in the game. This is easiest the hardest part of the game, but with some of our tips, you’ll be able to survive (with a few curse […]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s campaign has already been available in early access for a few days, but the game arrives in full tomorrow, and a launch patch is being rolled out for the game. The update promises stability and performance improvements for the CoD: MWIII campaign (which isn’t getting great reviews so far) and to fix issues with being able to play offline. You can also expect a variety of UI improvements, tweaks to various maps, and some control changes, including the ability to double-tap a button to go into Tac-Stance. Here's a rundown of some of the […]
There have been a lot of hints lately that the “games as a service” bubble is bursting – Bungie badly missing its Destiny revenue targets, Sony delaying half their live-service titles, Epic admitting they’ve been losing money, to name just a few – but it seems some publishers haven’t got the memo just yet. Case in point, Warner Bros. Discovery recently released their earnings, and CEO David Zaslav says the goal is to double down on GaaS. “And similar to the leaders in the industry, we've led with multiple key franchises, each of which is $1 billion gaming property. Harry […]
While a mere morsel meant to satisfy the cravings of those who wanted to know what Kazuma Kiryu was up to before his guest appearance in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, this tightly crafted brawler RPG is meant to satisfy those that needed a bit more action before Infinite Wealth arrives on Western shores.
Today Grand Theft Auto fans got news they’ve been eagerly awaiting for a very long time, when Rockstar officially announced the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI will arrive sometime in December. Meanwhile, today also saw Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive release their latest quarterly earnings, which included a few more tidbits about what’s happening at the GTA studio. Q2 2024, which ran from the beginning of July to the end of September, was a solid one for Take-Two, as they brought in $1.44 billion in revenue. That represents a small year-on-year decline, but is still respectable considering T2 […]
Update: A second Mass Effect teaser page, this one listed under “Oculon,” has launched. It includes the following text and teaser video snippet. /////ACCESS CODE: OCULON-2819-DEFIANCE /////ACCESS CODE ACCEPTED /////TERTIARY ENCRYPTION DETECTED /////CLASSIFIED: REVIEW BRIEFING MATERIALS ON OFFICIAL ALLIANCE COMMS CHANNELS Could “OCULON-2819-DEFIANCE” be a reference to the in-universe year in which the next Mass Effect will take place? As for the video – oh so close to showing a face! That said, it looks likely to be a female figure and we don’t see any sort of long hair, so Liara remains the prime suspect, but who's to say. […]
Blizzard Entertainment is now part of the larger Xbox family following Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, but what does that mean for the future? This past weekend saw the first in-person BlizzCon in years, but the show was still oriented around a direction put in place by previous Acti-Blizz boss Bobby Kotick – one very much focused on exploiting dependable moneymakers like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. While those franchises will likely remain Blizzard’s bread and butter in the near term, some changes may be on the way. In a new interview with The Verge, Blizzard president […]
Alan Wake 2 is here, and as you would expect from a survival horror game, it throws some fairly tough challenges at you, including a number of boss fights. Warning: This article contains some early-game SPOILERS for Alan Wake 2. The first of these bosses you’ll face is former FBI agent Robert Nightingale. I say former FBI agent, because Nightingale has been murdered and come back to life as a violent, shambling (and very naked) “Taken.” Nightingale is actually one of the more difficult bosses in the game, particularly since he’s one of the first serious combat challenges you face, […]
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is one of the biggest question marks on the near horizon – the new co-op DC Comics actioner has the pedigree, coming from Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios, but its gameplay debut was not well-received (largely due its live service elements). That backlash led to a delay and we haven’t seen anymore more from the game in months. Well, today Rocksteady dropped their first “Suicide Squad Insider” video, showcasing a bunch of new footage of the game in action. You can check it out for yourself, below. Rocksteady is keen to emphasize that Suicide […]
The upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora may not be quite as live-service-focused as some other Ubisoft titles, but make no mistake, the game will still offer the expected season pass and today we got the first details on what it will include. The main focus of the season pass are two new story expansions, “The Sky Breaker,” which arrives in the summer of 2024, and “Secrets of the Spires,” which drops in fall of 2024. The first of these updates will feature a new “festival of games” to participate in and a new RDA threat, while the second will introduce […]
Sony has been no stranger to experimenting with remote play for the past two and a half console generations. Since the technology first appeared on PlayStation 3, the only official Sony devices to offer remote play capabilities were of the PlayStation Vita line of devices, VAIO laptops, Bravia televisions, and their Xperia Play phone. The walled garden opened up with the PlayStation 4 as phones and PCs outside of the Sony ecosystem began offering up licensed Sony apps and even some third-party developers releasing PSPlay on both iOS and Android. Now, more than a decade since the PlayStation Vita hit […]
Remedy Entertainment has a lot of upcoming projects on its plate, with one of the most mysterious of the bunch being “Vanguard,” a Tencent-funded project originally envisioned as a free-to-play co-op title. Well, following the success of Alan Wake 2, it seems like Remedy is rethinking some of their upcoming slate. While Vanguard hasn’t been canceled, it has been rebooted – it will now be a paid premium title and will be referred to by the new codename “Kestrel.” Apparently, this re-envisioned version of the project will “will lean more into Remedy’s core strengths,” which, to me at least, means […]
Alan Wake 2 is here, and as you would expect from a survival horror game, it throws some fairly tough challenges at you, including a number of boss fights. Warning: This article contains end-game SPOILERS for Alan Wake 2. Beware! Alan Wake 2’s final major boss battle comes in the 7th chapter of Saga Anderson’s campaign, but before you get to that, you’ll have to take on one the most grueling combat challenge in the game. This is easiest the hardest part of the game, but with some of our tips, you’ll be able to survive (with a few curse […]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s campaign has already been available in early access for a few days, but the game arrives in full tomorrow, and a launch patch is being rolled out for the game. The update promises stability and performance improvements for the CoD: MWIII campaign (which isn’t getting great reviews so far) and to fix issues with being able to play offline. You can also expect a variety of UI improvements, tweaks to various maps, and some control changes, including the ability to double-tap a button to go into Tac-Stance. Here's a rundown of some of the […]
There have been a lot of hints lately that the “games as a service” bubble is bursting – Bungie badly missing its Destiny revenue targets, Sony delaying half their live-service titles, Epic admitting they’ve been losing money, to name just a few – but it seems some publishers haven’t got the memo just yet. Case in point, Warner Bros. Discovery recently released their earnings, and CEO David Zaslav says the goal is to double down on GaaS. “And similar to the leaders in the industry, we've led with multiple key franchises, each of which is $1 billion gaming property. Harry […]
While a mere morsel meant to satisfy the cravings of those who wanted to know what Kazuma Kiryu was up to before his guest appearance in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, this tightly crafted brawler RPG is meant to satisfy those that needed a bit more action before Infinite Wealth arrives on Western shores.
Today Grand Theft Auto fans got news they’ve been eagerly awaiting for a very long time, when Rockstar officially announced the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI will arrive sometime in December. Meanwhile, today also saw Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive release their latest quarterly earnings, which included a few more tidbits about what’s happening at the GTA studio. Q2 2024, which ran from the beginning of July to the end of September, was a solid one for Take-Two, as they brought in $1.44 billion in revenue. That represents a small year-on-year decline, but is still respectable considering T2 […]
Update: A second Mass Effect teaser page, this one listed under “Oculon,” has launched. It includes the following text and teaser video snippet. /////ACCESS CODE: OCULON-2819-DEFIANCE /////ACCESS CODE ACCEPTED /////TERTIARY ENCRYPTION DETECTED /////CLASSIFIED: REVIEW BRIEFING MATERIALS ON OFFICIAL ALLIANCE COMMS CHANNELS Could “OCULON-2819-DEFIANCE” be a reference to the in-universe year in which the next Mass Effect will take place? As for the video – oh so close to showing a face! That said, it looks likely to be a female figure and we don’t see any sort of long hair, so Liara remains the prime suspect, but who's to say. […]
Blizzard Entertainment is now part of the larger Xbox family following Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, but what does that mean for the future? This past weekend saw the first in-person BlizzCon in years, but the show was still oriented around a direction put in place by previous Acti-Blizz boss Bobby Kotick – one very much focused on exploiting dependable moneymakers like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. While those franchises will likely remain Blizzard’s bread and butter in the near term, some changes may be on the way. In a new interview with The Verge, Blizzard president […]
Alan Wake 2 is here, and as you would expect from a survival horror game, it throws some fairly tough challenges at you, including a number of boss fights. Warning: This article contains some early-game SPOILERS for Alan Wake 2. The first of these bosses you’ll face is former FBI agent Robert Nightingale. I say former FBI agent, because Nightingale has been murdered and come back to life as a violent, shambling (and very naked) “Taken.” Nightingale is actually one of the more difficult bosses in the game, particularly since he’s one of the first serious combat challenges you face, […]