Something extremely weird happened on Thursday; Batman: Arkham Knight had an update on the Epic Games Store which quietly added Robert Pattinson’s Batman suit to the game, eight years after it released. Then it…was gone. While the upload obviously was an accident, the suit was not, and it looks like Arkham Knight, the famed conclusion
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I get the question “who needs balance in a PvE single player game??” a lot when I talk about that topic, but as it turns out, developers also believe that’s the case. Fortunately, that type of game does allow for a lot more buffs than nerfs, and now with Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.02 , we’re
We are about two weeks away from the release of The Marvels , the film that’s not just a follow-up to Captain Marvel, but also a follow-up to WandaVision, Ms. Marvel and Secret Invasion on Disney Plus, technically. All of that jammed into just an hour and forty-five minutes, the MCU’s shortest-ever film. At this
Ladies and gentlemen, this is 2023 in the video game industry. Just when you think there can’t be another critical smash hit and top quality game, there’s always another one around the corner. This time, after stellar scores from Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Spider-Man 2 last week, we have Alan Wake 2, which seems
Microsoft’s Xbox division [just reported](https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930627/microsoft-q1-2024-earnings-revenue-profits-windows-xbox-gaming-surface) $3.9 billion in revenue, its largest Q1 for its gaming arm…ever. And Bethesda’s Starfield deserves a lot of the credit. The figure is such a surprise because it comes in the wake of an actual 7% decline in revenue for hardware, actual Xboxes, but that’s offset by a 13% increase
Metal Gear Solid is one of the most storied franchises in gaming, but it’s now held captive by Konami, a company that’s a shell of its former self, with the brain behind MGS, Hideo Kojima, long departed and working on other projects. So in theory, while something like a Metal Gear Solid Master Collection should
Believe me, I was a big a skeptic as anyone when it came to both A) the Diablo seasonal model as a whole, starting a fully new character every time and B) how it actually went in practice, given Diablo 4 season 1 which I did not particularly enjoy, and only played for about a
If there is a fixture in every Diablo game, it’s that there is a secret level. And there is the game denying that there is a secret level. And it turns out, Diablo 4 is no different. Since launch, Diablo 4 players have been attempting to solve the mystery of the secret cow level, not
Eight years ago, back in 2015, Microsoft decided it would stop reporting exact hardware sales numbers for Xbox. This was two years into the Xbox One generation where unlike the 360/PS3 generation, it had fallen precipitously behind PlayStation after a rocky launch. But Microsoft’s position was that it cared more about the Xbox ecosystem, and
I already did this once, but the landscape has shifted. This time, I’ll try to use math rather than my own prediction radar, as now it seems somewhat safe to start talking about GOTY, given what’s just been released. If we’re talking about The Game Awards, the “definitive” GOTY pick in the industry these days