In celebration of Blizzard Entertainment’s 30th anniversary, we’ve recharged three of the very first games we ever developed — bringing forward all the history, hard work, and love that went into making them — and added a few extras. So, fire up the time machine and dive into the Blizzard Arcade Collection, available today on
Month: February 2021
Venture Beat and iSpot.TV are reporting that during the period of the 16th January-15th February Nintendo topped video gaming ad impressions in the United States. Nintendo adverts in the USA accounted for a rather hefty 79.3% of TV ad impressions for the video game industry. The Kyoto-based company had 307.3 million TV ad impressions which
Mid-Saturday update: PS5 restock for Saturday hasn’t happened yet, and that’s due to the fact that it’s extremely rare over the weekend. The good news is that we have a brand new way to track PS5 stock on Twitter. Many US buyers found successful. Follow us for notifications on where to buy PS5 next –
Casey Donnellan Games and tinyBuild (Hello Neighbor) have announced that they’re bringing their first-person action game Kill It With Fire to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices on March 4th. Kill It With Fire has players hunting and exterminating spiders with a variety of weapons. The game boasts a “realistic” fire simulation
Niko Partners’ senior analyst Daniel Ahmad has revealed that Chinese giant Tencent has acquired a 10 percent minority stake in Lost Soul Aside developer, UltiZero Games. Details of the deal have not been made public by either of the companies at the time of this writing, but Ahmad said that Lost Soul Aside‘s development is “progressing
Microsoft has clarified some information about FPS Boost, the newly-announced enhancement feature that can be applied to backwards compatible games. In mid-February, Microsoft announced the first set of backwards compatible titles to take advantage of FPS Boost, a feature that improves legacy games with higher, steadier framerates to make games visually smoother. Working on a system level,
I regularly use the columns of TheXboxHub to bemoan gaming naming nomenclature, but #SinucaAttack leaves me at a bit of a crossroads. On one hand, the word ‘Sinuca’ is a clever phonetic spelling of snooker, one of the core themes of the game itself. But then on the other hand, the name as a whole
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword might not necessarily be everyone’s cup of tea, but that hasn’t stopped the recently announced Switch HD version from soaring to the top of the charts on Amazon. In fact, it’s done so well it’s now listed as “temporarily out of stock” on Amazon’s US and UK stores. On
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox. OpenAI GPT-3 is a tool that generates human-like text. Replica is a tool that generates human-like voice acting. Combine these three things, as Modbox developer Lee Vermeulen did, and you get: given the brush off by shouty NPCs you can have conversations with, in VR, with your real
I hadn’t heard of Voyage until just a few hours ago, which seems like a waste. I could have spent months or years looking forward to this game, and instead it’s here already, available to buy and looking beautiful. Voyage is an about two people wordlessly exploring a series of hand-painted landscapes, solving puzzles and
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Forest of Illusion has acquired a near final build of Rare’s unreleased Dinosaur Planet for the Nintendo 64 system and released it for everyone to play. As many of you will know the project was reimagined late in development and then released as Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube on 22nd September 2002 Miyamoto and
Best Buy is offering up a massive range of Xbox deals this weekend, with discounts lining the shelves for a limited time. From games to premium accessories and even extending to discounts on digital credit at the Microsoft Store, there are Xbox deals to suit everyone up for grabs here. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
One More Level, Slipgate Ironworks, and 505 Games have announced that their cyberpunk slasher Ghostrunner has sold 500,000 units. Accompanying the news was the game’s console demo, which is now available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The Ghostrunner demo has just hit consoles! Run it on your #NintendoSwitch, #Xbox One, and
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:38 GMT The next Steam Game Festival will occur in June. The next Steam Game Festival returns June 16-22, so you will have a bit of a wait (thanks, resetera). Like previous festivals, you can expect plenty of demos, chats with developers, and live streams. Earlier this month,
id Software co-founder, John Carmack, thinks that given global component and hardware shortages, companies should directly auction their products in the interest of transparency, and cut the middlemen (in this case, bots and scalpers). In a series of tweets spotted by Video Games Chronicle, Carmack wrote: Given shortages and speculators on things like 3090 GPUs
We’ve previously had the chance to Save the Light with Steven Universe, but now it’s all about joining the Crystal Gems once more in order to battle away in the ultimate RPG to Unleash the Light! Available to purchase and download on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC through Steam
Earlier this month, Activision Blizzard confirmed the sequel to the team-based shooter Overwatch would be not be arriving this year. At the time, it was simply explained how the company outlook for 2021 did not include the launch of this title. Today, at BlizzCon Online, game director Jeff Kaplan and the team elaborated on this,
While Diablo II: Resurrected isn’t trying to precisely duplicate the original’s look, the newly-announced remaster is making an impressive effort to match some parts. Watching a panel at BlizzCon today, I was delighted to hear about how they dug up ancient Blizzard assets to recreate and even reuse in the remaster. My favourite titbit: the
Fortnite has been embracing crossover character skins for ages now, and two big names are about to join the cast! More information is dropping tomorrow evening at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time via official Epic channels, but for now we’ve got a spiffy new reveal trailer showcasing Ryu and Chun-Li from the Street Fighter franchise. After Master Chief, Kratos, and
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