The 'Diablo IV' Nobody Ever Saw
This week, Blizzard released Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred , an expansion to the wildly popular fantasy action-role-playing game that tasks players…
Culture / Video Games
How to Get Started on Valve’s 'Deadlock'
When word got out that thousands of gamers were already playing Valve’s “secret” shooter Deadlock on Steam back in August, the first reaction fro…
Nintendo Is Suing ‘Palworld’ Creator Pocketpair
Palworld , colloquially known to fans as “ Pokémon with guns ,” is in hot water. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced Thursday that they’ve fi…
'Assassin’s Creed Shadows' and How ‘DEI’ Became Gamergate 2.0’s Rallying Cry
On May 16, the gaming and entertainment news site Dexerto tweeted an image from the forthcoming game Assassin’s Creed Shadows featuring one of its…
The Real Reason Will Smith Broke Twitch’s Biggest Streaming Record
Every summer, the Spanish Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos hosts a livestreamed boxing tournament called La Velada del Año (The Evening of the Year). I…
‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive
Necrosoft Games was running out of money. At the rate things were going, the video game studio’s director, Brandon Sheffield, surmised that the co…