Author: Zach Barbieri

When I first started my cop journey, The Precinct reminded me in part of ABC’s The Rookie. There is a basis to the game that grounds itself in some form of reality before you get involved in a bank robbery gone wrong on your first day, blasting from behind the cover of your car, trying to take down armed attackers. It feels weird to begin your first foot patrol the day after that, handing out parking tickets and stopping a vandal, but to my understanding, that’s just how life goes on the mean streets of Averno City in the 1980s,…

Microsoft has announced that they are making cuts to around 3% of its entire workforce. CNBC reported that Microsoft had 228,000 people in its employ as of June 2024, with the aim of reducing management layers across the entirety of their teams. This will affect roughly 6,000 jobs at the company. A Microsoft spokesman stated: We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace. As of now, there is no word on how these cuts will affect the gaming side of their business moving forward. Early last year, Microsoft cut 1,900…

Tekken fans have been, for years, been asking for the American food chain restaurant Waffle House to become a playable battleground in the popular fighting game series. While this has mostly been a fan desire at this point, apparently Katsuhiro Harada, the Tekken 8 game director, has actually been reaching out to the company, trying to put something together. Harada took to X, responding to fans fervent for the collaboration to happen in the Tekken 8, the most recent entry. Prior to this, Harada, a Japanese game developer, expressed interest in learning more about this, given that there is some…

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed from a 2025 launch window to 2026. The game has been mostly quiet, save for a trailer released last year, making it less surprising that the title needs extra time. Skydance Games released a statement confirming this, attributing this to a need for extra polish time. Within this was a hint that Skydance may be poised to show more information soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRc_Vy-W0yw Skydance Games said: Taking this additional time will allow us to add more polish, and make sure we give you the best possible experience, and one that lives up to…

Sega and RGG Studio have announced that Virtual Fighter 5 R.E.V.O., the latest version of their popular fighting game series, has been announced for release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, as well as the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. This announcement comes several months after this version was initially released on Steam earlier this year. This news was shared during a Virtua Fighter direct on Sunday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwjAPp-w6Q During this announcement, Virtua Fighter project producer Seiji Aoki stated: I know we’ve kept you waiting, our Steam release Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. is finally coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Since Virtua Fighter…

On Friday, May 9th, 2025, the Communication Workers of America announced the creation of the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild-CWA, a union representing nearly 200 employees, and offering “wall-to-wall” representation for developers working under Blizzard Entertainment on the Overwatch competitive shooter. This isn’t the first union formed at Blizzard either, as the World of Warcraft development team similarly formed one in 2024. Wall-to-Wall unions represent the entire workforce of a company, rather than a more targeted discipline-based union, such as the QA union formed at Raven Software back in 2022. Overwatch Gamemakers Guild organizers Frank Le Cocq, Foster Elmendorf, and Jess Castillo…

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion shadow dropped two days before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and the expectation was that the rerelease of one of the most beloved RPG series of all time would completely overshadow the release of an experimental turn-based RPG. And it didn’t, in fact, the developers at Sandfall Interactive have actually stated that the release of the Bethesda helped with their exposure, raising people’s awareness of quality RPGs. We all know this; we were there. In actuality, there was a bigger, more pronounced dichotomy playing out between the two titles, one that was very quickly glossed over…

Sega has announced that a Virtua Fighter Direct is scheduled for Sunday, May 11th, and stated it will “reveal new developments in the Virtua Fighter series.” This news was released via Sega’s official X/Twitter account, with the event going live at 10 AM EDT, and coincides with the final day of Evo Japan. https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/1921017761515663679 While it is not stated what will be showcased during this event, there is a possibility we will get more information, or another fresh look, at the awaited Virtua Fighter 6, being developed by Like A Dragon developer RGG Studio. An initial announcement trailer was made…

Nintendo has stated they expect the Nintendo Switch 2 to sell 15 million units worldwide during its first nine months on the market. The company has shared these sales forecasts as part of their fiscal report for the year, which ends on March 31st, 2025. They additionally stated they expect software sales for the platform to total 45 million in sales over this same period of time. The original Nintendo Switch sold around 18 million units worldwide during its first year of sales. The handheld was released initially on March 3, 2017, selling 2.74 million units by the end of…

Sometimes, simplistic experiences make for the best, which could very well sum up what you can expect with Double Dagger Studio’s debut game, Little Kitty, Big City, which pretty much gives away the premise right in its title. You play as a little kitty that needs to explore the big city, there really isn’t much more to it. This doesn’t detract from the experience, though, as the city getting lost in the city is exactly the charm of the experience. You want to get engrossed. The journey, not the destination, is what makes the game an experience worth having. The…