The move to a new venue didn’t slow down Brazil’s Independent Games Festival 2019, which took place in Sao Paulo’s busy financial district’s Paulista Avenue, down at Club Homs last week. As usual, BIG Festival was free to enter and open to the public, where crowds gathered to see the independent games that were competing…
A light has recently been shined on the problematic development process of Call of Duty Black Ops 4. According to a recent report from Kotaku, the AAA shooter had a difficult development period that ended with the game’s campaign mode being discarded in favor of the battle royale mode, Blackout. The change was made about…
PAX East 2019 is set to be a pretty hot event for Magic: The Gathering, as it’s going to unveil the first Mythic Champioship Invitational, a Magic: The Gathering arena tournament set to award winners up to one million dollars in prizes. Out of the ten million total, the rest will be awarded to whoever…
Blizzard has just announced that Mercy’s getting a new cosmetic skin called Pink Mercy. Unlike other skins, though, you can buy this one directly through the Blizzard store, and 100% of what you pay will go to and benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). This promotion starts today and will last until May 21st,…
EVO 2017 also proved to be full of surprises — some, not so much surprises, but confirmation of previously leaked announcements — in terms of news relating to fighting games. Most of these were delivered in between grand finals on Sunday. Here’s a rundown of all the news that came out of Las Vegas this weekend……
It was terrific weekend for videogame fans for sure. The curtains have closed, and Evolution 2017 is finally over. For three packed days, competitors from all over the globe duked it out, with only a few making it out for the grand finals that not took place yesterday over at the Mandalay Bay Arena, but…
Saying that EVO is the world’s biggest fighting game tournament might be an understatement. What began as “Battle of the Bay” in Sunnyvale, CA in 1996 with a meager forty-person bracket for Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Street Fighter II Turbo eventually moved to much bigger venues in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it’s been held ever since,…
Warner Bros has just announced that there’s a new update out today for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor that will allow players to import their biggest nemesis into the new game, Shadow of War. With the Nemesis Forge, as it’s called, you’ll be able to import aspects of your playthrough into the sequel, such as the uruk that evolved into…
Indie developer and publisher tinyBuild is currently being threatened of legal action by Russian publisher Buka Entertainment over the claims made by tinyBuild about the troubled development behind No Time to Explain. According to tinyBuild head Alex Nichiporchik, the whole mess began in 2011, when half the funding to No Time to Explain was suddenly pulled by Buka…
Diablo 3’s receiving new content next week, on the 27th. Priced at $15, ‘Rise of the Necromancer’ is set to bring one of Diablo 2’s fan favorite classes into the current game on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It includes an assortment of bonuses like a new non-combat pet, more bank tabs for PC owners of…
