Gaming

The Transformers are toymaking’s greatest idea and video gaming’s greatest shame. Giant robots turning into vehicles and always firing lasers at each other: they’re every perfect video game idea combined into one kickass concept, and sometimes several Transformers combine into a giant superbot to kick even more ass than that. They’re not even human, so …

Microsoft may be looking to expand the Xbox One’s mod abilities.  That information comes from Windows Central who claim that they have received internal documents from a recent presentation that reveal Microsoft’s desire and intentions to implement platform-wide mod support for the Xbox One.  While games like Halo 5, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 support mods …

Jim Carrey is reportedly in negotiations to play Eggman/Dr. Robotnik in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog film adaptation.  In what has to be the most ’90s story that you’ll hear all day, Deadline is reporting that Carrey and his representatives are currently working with Paramount films executives in order to secure the villainous role. It doesn’t seem …

Insomniac’s take on Spider-Man isn’t just one of the PS4’s biggest upcoming exclusive, it’s one of the biggest titles in Marvel’s new approach to game releases. Spider-Man will not be directly associated with the MCU or a particular film, but will instead tell a unique story of the studio’s design.  Spider-Man will focus on young …

The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a card game called The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls.  Four Souls is a bit of passion project for McMillen. He informed IGN that he was initially approached by an outside company who wanted to make a card game based on The Binding of Issac. …

“SOS ZETA HALO GRID.”  With this distress signal, Halo Infinite situates its story on the last remaining Halo ring. While 343 has kept silent about the story and gameplay thus far, we know that at the very least we’ll spend a lot more time with series protagonist Master Chief this time around, as he faces …

As well as some corking first-party games, the Nintendo Switch also has a growing library of classic arcade titles. And if you love such vertical games as Galaga, Ikaruga, and Strikers 1945, you’ll know that they all come with an option to flip the screen so that the action can be viewed as it was …

Epic is concerned that Fortnite games are just boiling down to “just build lol,” and they’re prepared to make some pretty drastic changes to the game to do something about it.  In a post on the Fortnite blog, Epic addressed some aspects of the Fortnite metagame that have become a bit of a running joke. …

Netflix has begun production of a series based on author Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books. The upcoming Netflix series is not directly related to the CD Projekt Red video game franchise aside from the similarities that the two will naturally share.  That fact adds a slightly humorous twist to this announcement when you consider that Sapkowski recently spoke …

Bethesda is reportedly suing Warner Bros. over allegations that the developers of the Westworld mobile game is based on code stolen from Fallout Shelter.  This information comes from TMZ who claim that they have received documents that confirm that Bethesda is not only suing for a share of the Westworld mobile game’s profits but have requested that …