Author: Zach Barbieri

Developer: Night School Studio Publisher: Netflix Release Date: July 12th, 2023 Released For: Playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Windows, IOS, and Android Oxenfree wasn’t just a great game, it was a surprising one that came out of left field to become an indie darling. It also helps that the game was a brilliant coming-of-age story draped in well-crafted horror. Despite my being more than excited for this long-awaited sequel, one look at the original and you can see that Night School Studios set an almost impossibly high bar for the game. That bar is one that Oxenfree II: Lost Signals ultimately…

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: July 14th, 2023 Released For: Playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Windows Live Service, for like of any better way to say this, is here to stay in the video game industry. With the growing costs of development and a shifting landscape of constant acquisitions of course every publisher, Even Capcom, is chasing that one game that can financially offset their others. Exoprimal, unfortunately, is not that game. To be fair, I wasn’t hyped for Exoprimal. In actuality, I had actually forgotten that the game was still coming until it was only a…

Going into the Savage Gauntlet mode of Capcoms’ Exprimal, I had tempered expectations. The core game became a chore far earlier than it should have and I honestly couldn’t imagine what a PvPvE game about slaying hoards of dinosaurs needs to propel itself forward. Unfortunately, Savage Gauntlet is not a good case study for moving in the right direction. To start at the beginning, the mode was touted as an endgame mode. Anybody who has ever played an MMO, or any game with armor stats and levels should know what that is supposed to mean. We are talking about high-stat and high-level…

For people that have yet to make the jump to the newest generation of consoles but were still hoping to experience Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the continuation of Kal Kestis’s story from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you will soon be able to. During an earnings briefing for Publisher EA, it was revealed that Respawn Entertainment is currently in the ‘early stages’ of porting the sequel to the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. Jedi Survivor launched for the PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and PC in April of this year to positive reviews. Despite this, the PC version suffered from multiple issues, something…

Nintendo might be eying a second-half 2024 release window for the successor to the Nintendo Switch if a new report is to be believed. Sources close to the unannounced system talked with VGC and stated that developer kits for the console are now in the hands of partnered studios, with the release window of later 2024 intended to ensure Nintendo has plenty of units for its launch. According to these sources, the follow-up to the switch will remain a hybrid console intended to be played both on the go as well as connected to a tv. In an effort to cut costs, it…

Good news for Xbox players who have wanted to play the extremely popular MMORPG game Final Fantasy XIV Online, the game will finally be coming to the Xbox Platform after 14 years. This announcement came today during the Final Fantasy XIV Online Fan Fest event, which saw Xbox’s Phil Spencer take to the stage with Square Enix President Takashi Kiryu. The game was stated to be coming in the Spring of 2024, which will give them a decent amount of time to catch up on all the content currently available before the fifth expansion, Dawntrail, releases that Summer. The game will feature faster loading…

Dawntrail, the fifth major expansion to the extremely popular Final Fantasy XIV Online, has been officially announced by Square Enix and Creative Business Unit III. The newest expansion was announced during the Final Fantasy Key Note Address, with a trailer that highlighted a summer vacation theme as well as multiple new jobs, set to release sometime in the summer of 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkHO84SYLY During the event, Naoki Yoshida, known by fans as Yoshi-P, took to the stage to announce the expansion, before declaring he wanted to continue his work on the long-running MMO “until I die or even afterward.” Dawntrails story was described as being…

Sony has announced today through a post to the SIE Blog that the Sony PlayStation 5 has surpassed 40 million units sold to gamers. This milestone was hit only around 6 months after Sony had announced they had previously hit the 30 million milestone, back in January 2023/ The blog post, written by Sony Interactive president and CEO Jim Ryan, goes on to recount the early launch window of Sony’s now current generation of hardware. Launching in 2020, the console was beset by issues including hardware shortages and a global pandemic brought about by the spread of the Coronavirus, which lead to…

While much of this year has been focused on big-name RPGs like the recently released Final Fantasy XVI and the upcoming Starfield, developer Larian Studio has continued to get buzz concerning their upcoming Baulder’s Gate III. Much of this press has concerned the game’s massive amount of player freedom and choice, which is something everybody wants from a game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The romance options in particular have been singled out for having a vast amount of freedom in who you choose to pursue and how, as well as ultimately having intercourse with them. This feature was even given a large presence…

The developer behind The Witcher III and Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red, is set to lay off Around 100 employees in what the studio is calling “several deep transformations” within the company. Adam Kiciński, CEO of CD Projekt, announced this news today in a blog post on their official website. In it, he stated that after reshaping the development process for ongoing projects in development, such as the upcoming DLC Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, they are “now focusing on refining the shape of their teams.” Kiciński continued, stating that: We’ve carefully assessed all teams in the company in terms of their expected contribution to the delivery…