[ad_1] Another weeklong round-the-clock spree of speedrunning video games has come to a close, with Summer Games Done Quick raising $2,436,614 for Doctors Without Borders. Held in Minneapolis, the event saw 37,776 donations, with the highest contribution being a solo $61,200 donation. This year, 2,600 in-person attendees got to experience a hectic relay race pitting…
[ad_1] Cutting corners: Petitioners have been trying to alert European regulators to the issue of deactivated online games for over a year, and game publishers have started responding. As consumer rights activists and game companies debate the viability of preserving online titles, recent analysis highlights just how stringent some End User License Agreements (EULAs) are…
[ad_1] Microsoft was rocked by more than 9,000 job cuts this week. A significant number have come from its gaming division, resulting in the closure of multiple game studios and the cancellation of numerous in-development projects at Xbox and its contracted studios. We’ve already learned that Microsoft has closed the studio that was developing the…
[ad_1] It’s a week packed with video game announcements at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest and a string of showcases from the likes of PlayStation, Xbox and other developers. Sony’s State of Play broadcast took place on June 4 and brought plenty of announcements and updates on upcoming games, including the reveal of 007 First…
[ad_1] The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally a thing you can buy in the US — or at least, a thing you can try to buy. The $450 console officially went up for sale at midnight ET on June 5, with numerous retailers offering the device both online and in-store. Predictably, online stock dried up…
[ad_1] Editions is the name of a new game publishing label launched by Lost in Cult, the same company known for making gorgeous books about video games, like Outer Wilds: Design Works. The new label’s aim is to preserve indie games, including some that haven’t been released on physical media before, and to celebrate their…
[ad_1] Why it matters: Efforts to reverse-engineer source code from retro console games to create native PC ports have intensified in recent years. Most completed projects have brought high resolutions, modding capabilities, and other enhancements to titles from the Nintendo 64 era and earlier. However, recent breakthroughs have begun to make more advanced platforms, like…
[ad_1] Table of Contents Table of Contents All Gears of War games in release order All Gears of War games in chronological order The original Gears of War trilogy on the Xbox 360 introduced us to the world of Sera, Delta Squad, and the Locust Horde threatening to wipe humanity off the map. Since then,…
[ad_1] Available for: PS5, Xbox, PC | Length: 14 hours Split Fiction is the latest game from the studio behind It Takes Two, and like its predecessor, it’s an imaginative, crowd-pleasing adventure that’s designed from the ground up to be played with another person. It moves fast, it plays great, it’s lighthearted and it has a…
[ad_1] LG TVs are getting Xbox cloud gamingThe app is coming to WebOS 24-compatible TVsAll you’ll need is Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and a controller Microsoft has been on a mission as of late to brand everything from here to there an Xbox, mostly off the back of the company’s cloud streaming efforts. The latest…
