It and Gears of War: Judgment sold around one million copies each People Can Fly wanted tomake a sequeltoBulletstorm, one of the most pleasantly surprising first-person shooters in years, but the prospect was deemed too risky. (I’m still not over this, if you couldn’t tell.) Instead, the studio went on to doGears of War: Judgmentwith Epic which, as it turns out, also failed to catch on in a meaningful way, despite the overall success of the coreGearsseries....

Bungie has banned theDestiny 2accounts of participants in the tirade of toxic and hate-filled comments that underscored the firstInto the Lightlivestream. While the stream showcased a free update offeringthe horde mode players had long begged for, the Twitch chat quickly became awash with racist, homophobic, and otherwise vile remarks. Then, after one developer inadvertently showed their Steam username, a flood of friend requests began to appear on stream, most with equally racist or otherwise toxic public-facing handles....

It didn’t launch with Steam Deck support, but now thatDiablo 4is officially on Steam it is fully supported. As of October 17,Diablo 4is now on Steam. This aligns with the launch of Season 2, Season of Blood, which means players will get a fresh start on Steam. Also, the Steam and Battle.net versions ofDiablo 4are cross-platform, meaning players of the two can team up together in Sanctuary. Can you playDiablo 4on Steam Deck?...

Publisher increases sales forecast It has been a very successful few years for Capcom. So much so, that the Japanese developer/publisher has actually gone ahead and raised its revenue forecasts for the year, such is the company’s confidence that its good fortunes are set to continue into 2021. Capcom now predicts that it will rake in somewhere in the region of ¥92 billion (roughly $890 million USD) in net sales, which is a forecast increase of 8....

Not a Hideo Kojima Game Welcome back to Comments of the Week! I’m Perro, and I’ll be your host for the best comments of the week from 9/11-9/17! This past week has been an interesting one, given that Nintendo’s latest Direct stream showed off more ofXenoblade 2,Mario Odyssey, as well as other goodies. With great announcements comes great comments, and I’m here to present you all with my personal picks of the best comments this past week!...

This is not just a signal… It’s a warning In an hour from now, DC Comics will kick off its DC FanDome 2021 live stream, offering up several hours of info pertaining to the company’s upcoming movies, TV shows, video games, comic events, and more. The show kicks off at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CEST and is expected to run around four hours in total....

I’ve said before that I can’t believe I finally own a phone I enjoy gaming on, and as more and more interesting looking games come my way, I find myself happier and happier with where the future of gaming on the iPhone seems to be heading. Totomi, a game with distinctively adorable art and a casual approach to gaming on the go, caught my eye and while back; I recently spent some time with it, exploring what it had to offer....

Disinfected Gamescom may be over, but the spirit of half-hour gameplay videos – so en vogue throughout the week – lives on courtesy of a video from publisher Techland of creepy first-person action titleDying Light 2. Taking place some 15 years after the events of the original, the city remains a deadly, survivalist environment where bandits and scavengers are to be feared by day, and the ravenous hordes of the infected are to be fought by night....

It took me a good 15 minutes of playingSmart As…until the pun in the game’s title hit me. Clearly, I shouldn’t be playing a brain training puzzle game but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it. Smart As…is the gameBrain Ageshould have evolved into, except it’s way prettier because it’s on the Vita. LikeBrain Age, developer Climax Group’s Vita experiment is centered around a variety of mini-games that challenge you in different ways....

Hold on, gonna nerd out for a sec Amplitude’sEndless Space 2is dutifully trudging through its Early Access period and the game’s third major update is bringing a new faction and (finally!) multiplayer. Said new faction is the Riftborn, an extradimensional being that lived in a pristine, geometrical plane untainted by strife. It was brought to the Endless universe when a rift tore open their (its?) dimension. The Riftborn uses time dilation spheres on entire galaxies to slow, speed up, or even stop their production, which sounds over-powered but I look forward to giving it a whirl....

Those character models could use some polishing After the first few trailers forRide to Hell: Retribution, I have to say I was not really impressed. I can dig the overall biker aesthetic, but the low resolution textures and flimsy character models make the game look like it’s already reserving it’s spot in the bargain bin. However, this new trailer has given me a different perspective. While it’s lack of visual polish was the first thing I noticed, I failed to appreciate the grindhouse movie aesthetic that the developers were trying to create for their story....

Three new characters and eight new tracks In a sorta blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment,Nintendo recently reminded us that moreMario Kart 8 DLCwas on the way in the form of a Direct. Thankfully, Wave 5 will include a whopping three new characters and eight tracks, including a new course called Squeaky Clean Sprint. Here’s a quick rundown of what to expect when the DLC drops in the “summer” of 2023. What doesMario Kart 8 DeluxeWave 5 contain when it launches in the summer of 2023?...

Minor improvements Final Fantasy Type-0 HDwas surprisingly good, and it looks like Square Enix isn’t quite done with it yet. In addition to the announcement of afull-on PC port later this year, the publisher has revealed a patch for the console edition. The update will apparently improve the general camera control of the game, as well as add in a reduction to motion blur. The patch should be available later today....