Archived: STALKER 2 developer cancels NFT plans after blowback

The makers of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl on Thursday evening abandoned plans to introduce NFTs to their post-apocalyptic game, shortly after posting — and quickly deleting — a lengthy defense of the revenue-generating scheme. “Based on the feedback we received, we’ve made a decision to cancel...

Music streaming service Bandcamp joins the Epic Games ecosystem

Bandcamp, a music marketplace founded in 2008, is joining Epic Games according to an announcement released on Wednesday. Bandcamp will “keep operating as a standalone marketplace and music community,” wrote Ethan Diamond, Bandcamp co-founder and CEO. Diamond will continue to lead the team, which will continue to focus on an “artists-first revenue model.”

Battlefield 2042’s new patch finally adds a scoreboard

Six months after its launch, Battlefield 2042 is finally getting a real scoreboard on Tuesday. The scoreboard comes as part of an update that also fixes a couple of bugs and introduces a new cosmetic bundle, but doesn’t add voice chat. Battlefield 2042’s new scoreboard isn’t too flashy; it’s...

Stalker 2 development paused: 'We are striving to help our employees and their families to survive'

Stalker 2 studio GSC Game World was one of the first to speak out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and to call for financial aid for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Today the studio released a brief video emphasizing the increasing danger in the country, which has forced it to move the development of Stalker 2 "to the sidelines" while it focuses on protecting its employees and their families.

Halo Infinite co-op won’t launch with season 2

Halo Infinite’s cooperative campaign and level-editor Forge mode sound like they’re going to take a little longer than anticipated to arrive. Both the online and split-screen version of co-op and Forge have no set release date, developer 343 Industries announced Friday, and co-op won’t launch with season 2 on May 3.

Watch Sony’s new State of Play here for the latest on PS5 games

A new State of Play, Sony’s Nintendo Direct-style livestream series, will be broadcast Wednesday at 5 p.m. EST/2 p.m. PST, offering new details on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games. Wednesday’s State of Play will be livestreamed on PlayStation’s Twitch and YouTube channels, and will run about 20 minutes,...

Why FromSoft fans should be excited for Armored Core

Fans of FromSoftware have been rewarded for their patience with the triumphant release of Elden Ring. The game is good. But what comes next? Luckily, we may already know: a new entry in the studio’s longest-running and long-dormant series, Armored Core. It’s been nine long years since we got...

Gotham Knights launches in October

Gotham Knights, the open-world, Bat-family action-RPG from WB Games Montreal, launches Oct. 25, the studio announced Wednesday morning. The news comes almost one year after Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the highly anticipated project had to be delayed a year into 2022. No other details accompanied Wednesday’s announcement. Gotham...

Nintendo delays Advance Wars Switch remake amid Russian invasion of Ukraine

Nintendo delayed the release of Switch game Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp on Wednesday, citing “recent world events” — unmistakably a reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The remastered remake of the first two Advance Wars games was slated to arrive on Nintendo Switch on April 8.

Disney Plus to offer cheaper, ad-supported subscription plan later this year

The tail end of 2021 saw a minor milestone in the so-called “streaming wars”: For the first time, Disney’s blockbuster-ready Disney Plus service topped Netflix in new subscribers, a numbers game that ultimately sent Netflix’s stock price plummeting. Now, in 2022, each streamer is plotting how to maintain quality while making business sense of a gargantuan content undertaking. For Netflix, that meant a baseline price increase. For Disney, it means adding new versions of the service for people who haven’t smashed that subscribe button.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is bringing back a fan-favorite multiplayer map

Activision and Treyarch announced a bit of a surprise this morning — there’s a new map headed to 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and it’s arriving tomorrow. The map, WMD, is a remastered version of the map of the same name from the original Call of Duty: Black Ops, and is set around an abandoned weapons facility.

This fan demake shows what Elden Ring would have looked like in 1995

Elden Ring is a gorgeous game that takes advantage of modern hardware. But what if that wasn’t the case, and the designers were restrained to the limits of 1995 technology? This is the intriguing question behind the concept of a “demake,” where a developer re-creates a title as if it were designed for an older platform.

Elden Ring guide: Weeping Peninsula dungeon locations and rewards

In this Elden Ring Weeping Peninsula dungeons and rewards guide, we’ll list all of the optional dungeons in the Weeping Peninsula with their locations on a map and tell you about the rewards you’ll get for completing each of them. Elden Ring’s dungeons are optional areas — usually...

Lost Judgment’s first add-on, Kaito Files, lets you play as the muscle with a ‘primal nose’

Lost Judgment, the sequel to Yakuza spinoff Judgment, will get a few new mysteries for fans to solve. A new add-on pack titled The Kaito Files will be available on March 28 across PlayStation and Xbox platforms. Players who own Lost Judgment’s ultimate edition or the season pass will receive the DLC for free; otherwise, it will be available for purchase separately for $29.99.

Dragonlance playtest materials released for Dungeons & Dragons

Rumors that the Dragonlance setting will be returning to 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons were all but confirmed on Tuesday when publisher Wizards of the Coast released a new packet of playtest materials. Called Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn, the bundle includes one new race, one new subclass, multiple new backgrounds, and a selection of related feats.

God of War TV series reportedly in the works with Amazon

A God of War live-action TV show is reportedly in the works according to a story at Deadline. Amazon is negotiating for rights to the show to go to Prime Video, Deadline sources said. The Expanse creators and executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, as well as The Wheel...

DICE reworking Battlefield 2042 maps, says future maps will be smaller

After a rough launch period for Battlefield 2042, developer DICE updated players on key design changes for its shooter in a blog post Thursday morning. The studio says it has discovered some pain points across all of Battlefield 2042’s maps — although these issues are prominent in some maps more than others — and revealed changes coming in season one to help alleviate the problems, as well as plans to build smaller maps in the future.

Cookie Run: Kingdom codes guide (March 2022)

Cookie Run: Kingdom codes help players looking for Crystals and other goodies like furnishing items. Available from the game’s social media accounts, you can redeem codes for sweet loot. Our Cookie Run: Kingdom codes guide will show you the currently active codes and explain how to redeem them. Active...

Square Enix delays Forspoken to October

Forspoken, the action-adventure game from Luminous Productions and Square Enix, won’t be coming out in May, the developer announced on Monday. Instead, Forspoken will now be released on Oct. 11, in order to give Luminous Productions more time to polish the game. “Our vision for this exciting new IP...

Elden Ring guide: Stormveil Castle basement grave and root monster boss fight walkthrough

Elden Ring’s Stormveil Castle is bigger than we thought, and in this Elden Ring guide, we’ll show you how to reach the most hidden area in a Legacy Dungeon full of hidden areas, destroy some rats, collect items, and defeat a boss who isn’t exactly a boss but is totally, actually, unquestionably a boss.

Elden Ring guide: Flying Dragon Agheel

So killing the Tree Sentinel just wasn’t enough for you. You’re newly arrived in the land of Elden Ring — The Lands Between — and you crave destruction. Now, you’ve set your sights on considerably larger prey: the Flying Dragon Agheel, a gargantuan terror living in Limgrave, unnervingly close to the First Step site of grace where you emerged into Elden Ring’s open world. And we’re here to help.