Image: 343 Industries Last week, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinitewhich makes headlines more often for its stumbles than its successes, suffered its biggest PR blow to date: Couch co-op, a feature first flaunted half a decade ago, wouldn’t come out as intended. It wasn’t delayed, as with most of the planned features for Halo Infinite. … Read more
Image: 343 Industries Last week, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinitewhich makes headlines more often for its stumbles than its successes, suffered its biggest PR blow to date: Couch co-op, a feature first flaunted half a decade ago, wouldn’t come out as intended. It wasn’t delayed, as with most of the planned features for Halo Infinite. … Read more
Image: 343 / Microsoft Since it was released in 2014, Halo: The Master Chief Collection received a variety of updates and tweaks, including maps and modes that in some cases were never in the original games. But one thing that wasn’t added were in-game microtransactions. That could change soon, however, as Halo developers 343 Industries … Read more
I can’t wait to see how low my teammate Zack’s accuracy is with this thing.Image: 343 Industries In the year since it’s been publicly playable, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite hasn’t received a single new weapon. But if recent leaks are to be believed, a new gun—the so-called bandit rifle, which looks a lot like … Read more
Image: Sega And to think, it’s been two whole months since the phrase has bounced its way across a stage in curly font: “WORLD PREMIERE.” That changes this afternoon with Gamescom’s opening live stream. In recent years, Gamescom’s kickoff event, officially called Opening Night Live, has become one of the big three annual video game … Read more
Image: Volition If you were hoping Saints Row would sate your hunger between GTA re-re-re-releases, you might be better off waiting a bit longer. Reviews for the open-world crime game, developed by Volition and out tomorrow for consoles and PC, are in, and so far, they’re…not kind. First announced last summer, Saints Row is a … Read more
Apex Legends kicked off its fourteenth season, hunted, this month. The latest content update adds a bunch of stuff to the game, including another playable character, tweaks to the OG Kings Canyon map, and a level cap increase. While this should be—and likely is—an exciting time for players of Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale shooter, the … Read more
Swaggy. Image: Volition Saints Row developer Volition uploaded a story trailer for the soon-to-be-released game today, finally giving us a look at what the upcoming reboot’s narrative has in store for players. Volition’s reboot to its long-running open-world crime comedy series, Saints Rowwas first revealed in August 2021. Originally slated for a February release, it … Read more
screenshot: Gearbox For those who love the grind, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is Borderlands heaven. For those who don’t, it’s a solid shooter that lacks the sharp hooks of a true-to-form live-service game. I imagine this dynamic will remain much the same in the wake of the game’s latest expansion, which adds the game’s first new … Read more
Set railgun to abrupt termination.Image: Blizzard Entertainment Losing a job is always an uprooting event, but getting fired in public is straight-up embarrassing, especially when you don’t know it’s coming. That’s exactly what happened this week in the world of the Overwatch League (OWL), with the New York Excelsior team unceremoniously terminating main support player … Read more