Month: May 2021

Developer Vizor Games has announced an “intense” player-versus-player combat arena game, Blood of Heroes, for the PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and PC. In a press release, Vizor Games director Dmitry Voronov said that the studio was inspired by games like Dark Souls, and wanted to make an “unforgiving” PvP experience. “We wanted
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Out now on Xbox, Blazing Beaks is a roguelite game made by developer Applava. The premise is as straightforward as many other roguelites in the genre in which you proceed through a series of rooms, fighting enemies, coming across shops, and taking down bosses. What sets Blazing Beaks apart from others though is found in
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Overwatch 2‘s new director Aaron Keller has said that he is “very focused” on the player-versus-player aspect of the upcoming title, and plans to make it “as compelling as we possibly can.” During a lengthy interview with GameSpot, Keller said that there are 60 million players that enjoy Overwatch‘s PvP and while Blizzard Entertainment is
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Respected Japanese news publication The Nikkei has published a report that claims that the Kyoto-based company is significantly ramping up Switch production amid the rumours of a Switch Pro model which is speculated to release later this year. The report states that Nintendo is increasing Switch production to 30 million units for this fiscal year
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id Software has added paid cosmetic downloadable content to DOOM Eternal after previously promising that there will be no microtransactions. As reported by Video Games Chronicle, two cosmetic packs were released last week on all platforms: DOOMicorn Master Collection Cosmetic Pack costing $4.99 and The Series One Cosmetic Pack costing $8.99. The former includes unicorn-themed cosmetics and
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RPG Maker as a platform is fairly robust and versatile, as with a little imagination and trickery, creators are able to come up with games other than just the intended RPG. It’s admirable to see developers try to push the envelope with this platform too, but despite attempts to create something novel, the limitations are
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Last September, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa claimed the video game giant already had multiple ‘visual content expansion projects‘ in the works. At the time, it was thought he was referring to movies and/or possible television series. Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination’s animated Mario movie is currently scheduled for release in 2022, so what might follow this?
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Konami, the publisher behind gaming franchises like Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid, has announced that it will not be attending E3 2021.  This may come as something of a surprise, given Konami was among the publishers listed as early commitments to attend the show back when it was confirmed in March 2021.  However, in
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