Epic Games Boss Calls New Xbox Leadership Team 'World Class', Asha Sharma Responds
"Foreshadows serious dedication to the future of gaming".Yesterday, we brought you the news that Xbox had made even more leadership hires to take the team into a new era - and now Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has heaped praise on what Asha Sharma is building within Microsoft's gaming division.Taking…
Review: Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen (Switch 2) - An Enjoyable Collectathon That Kids Will Love
For real life!When Bluey: The Videogame launched toward the end of 2023, I found it a faithful yet soulless adaptation of the cartoon phenomenon from developer Artax Games, cramming some of the show’s most iconic locations into a repetitive one-to-two-hour game. It wasn’t great.Fast forward to…
After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old favourite and enhance, expand, and correct the wrongs of the past. Some of the best, such as Mafia: Definitive Edition, redraw the edges of an old story, elevating and embellishing what was there in…
Sorry, Black Flag fans: the new Assassin's Creed remake isn't adding any more legendary ship battles
The one thing I hoped to see more of.
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'[Marvel Rivals] scared us a bit': Overwatch boss says the explosive success of another hero shooter prompted Blizzard to take risks
The rival hero shooter helped inspire the team to move at a much faster pace.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a textbook remaster
The spitting image of the game I remember, despite how much it's actually changed.
Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date
They still make GPUs too, ya know.
An Overwatch player has come up with an ingenious plan to remind others how to actually play the game: 'A little ego check never hurt anyone'
Imagine the spawn door telling you to uninstall the game.
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe"
Finally, a game developer who agrees with my fervently held view that new technology makes everything worse. Celebrated designer Clint Hocking – him wot worked on Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Watch Dogs Legion, and the forthcoming Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe – has publicly opined…
‘Follower Of Jesus’ Who ‘Routinely Helps People Suffering From Demonic Oppression’ Fired From Popular Board Game Site For Rejecting Satan-Themed Game
The Werewolf-inspired social game was compared to a child predator by the site's ad manager
Fans Hated The Expanse RPG Protagonist So Much He’s Being Recast
Owlcat Games stated that the unnamed voice actor 'felt less expressive than we wanted'
Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on
The deal is currently undergoing an internal union vote.
Nintendo Teases LEGO Donkey Kong, "Rolling Soon"
Barrel roll.Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via Nintendo Today.As noted by the redoubtable Wario64, the video tease on the app shows only the logos of the Danish company and the SK series, with a little brick barrel rolling from right to left across a wooden tabletop:Read the…
Dragon Age: Inquisition's lead narrative designer is making an adventure game world "where the ordinary starts to feel like it is hiding something"
Efforts to start a blaze by huffing on the embers of BioWare's legacy continue with the announcement of Studio Reset - a new Canadian independent whose members include veterans of Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Anthem. The key personalities are Kaelin Lavallée, lead narrative designer on Dragon Age:…
'We Don't Want It At All' - Playasia Hates The Idea Of An Xbox Disc-To-Digital Program
Is it in the works? Who knows...If we go back to last week, you may recall that we highlighted a "pinch of salt" rumour that Xbox might be working on some kind of disc-to-digital program to compensate for the next-gen Project Helix console being a "fully digital" system.<related ids="201135">Read…
Witcher 3's heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2's associate director says it was crucial for 'understanding the craft' of quest design
It sure stunned me.
Check Out Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood Running On The Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
Update: New footage shown with CD-DA audio.Not a week seems to pass without a new porting project for the Genesis / Mega Drive – R-Type, RoboCop, Final Fight, Symphony of the Night, Super Castlevania IV... the list is pretty incredible now.Another notable Castlevania also seems to be coming to…
Stop Killing Games petition on game server switch offs will get a reply "before the summer", European Commission promise during latest debate
Following a public hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels last month, European politicians have debated the Stop Killing Games campaign's petition to put more consumer protections around online game server shutdowns into law again today, May 21st. This latest debate took place during…
'Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go': Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright
"It will surely be more successful than even Grace Blackwell."
Sony Just Raised PS Plus Prices In A Way Seemingly Designed To Make Everyone Mad
All tiers of Sony's subscription plan now cost a few more bucks after the company only suggested Essential was getting a bump