Author: Zach Barbieri

CD Projekt has committed to a plan to release the next three games in the The Witcher series, a Ciri-led trilogy of games starting with The Witcher 4, within a 6-year timeframe. This is an ambitious plan, given the current game development cycles and the size of a traditional Witcher game. This was brought up during a financial call, in which Jjoin CEO Michal Nowakowski, who stated that the company  “should be delivered in a shorter period of time.” This is due in part to the development shift to Unreal Engine 5, which will additionally be used for development on…

When playing Sintopia, the phrase “This is my hell” came to mind. Everybody has probably said that at some point, but I’m guessing one of those times was while behind a desk or a counter, staring at the clock, hoping the last five minutes of work will tick away. This is why the idea of hell being a bureaucratic nightmare seems like such an enticing motif. Television, like Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, Purgatony, and most recently Hazbin Hotel, have all, in some context, depicted the monotony of paper pushing juxtaposed with the brutality of eternal damnation. Have A Nice…

It appears that a PC Version of Game of the Year-nominated Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is set to be announced soon. This is according to a listing that has popped up on the ESRB website. Gematsu has also reported that the publisher listed on the site is Sony Interactive Entertainment. This is interesting as, while SIE was involved with the original title, which was ported to PC eight months after release, 505 Games was the listed publisher on that port. With Kojima Productions having acquired the Death Stranding IP from Sony last year, it might have stood to…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, for all its flaws upon its release in 2004, is an RPG still celebrated to this day. Unfortunatle, based on the 4/10 I gave it in october, the sequel does not like it will achieve that same status. Part of the issue here is developer The Chinese room, brought in several years into development to take over for original developer Hardsuit Lab, ultimately did not release title that had many RPG elements, besides the fact it didn’t feel much like a sequel to the original title. According to the former Creative Director of The Chinese…

Naughty Dog closed last year’s Video Game Awards by finally showcasing their newest IP, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which they had been hinting at for a few years prior. Heading into the award season again, where announcements and trailers can be expected, some people might be hoping that games like this to get some form of showcase, but it sounds like we will need to wait longer for some official news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGy63pt9vA This conversation was kicked off by Journalist Colin Moriarty, who suggested he believed Naughty Dog was aiming for a 2026 release date, a suggestion quickly picked up by…

I want to start by prefacing that it has been years since I actually sat down to play a Call of Duty title. I did play Black Ops 6 last year through Game Pass, but when I say I have less than an hour overall in that game, I mean it. No, there was a time, in my youth, when I was playing to go pro, when Black Ops 2 was the most recently released game in the series. I got pretty close to it until my team tried to kill each other, but that’s a different story. The point…

Only a few weeks after Silent Hill 2 Remake received a listing on the ESRB Website, having been rated for the Xbox Series S/X consoles, Konami and Bloober Team have officially released the title on the platforms in a stealth release with no warning, at least in some regions. In addition to that, the title currently features a 50% discount for its launch. Fans have spotted that the game is specifically available in Australia, which is a day ahead of the US, making the release date Friday, November 21. While there is no official word for the game yet in…

Ghost of Yotei will receive a new game plus mode, something that fans have been waiting for, which is set to arrive for the game on November 24, alongside a free patch, Sony has announced. Features that will be coming alongside this include a harder difficulty, new armor sets, and weapon dyes, the ability to replay completed missions, as well as new accessibility options. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8MXfksWuw This news was announced via a PlayStation Blog post by Senior Communications Manager for Sucker Punch Productions, Andrew Goldfarb. This will allow Protagonist Atsu to punish enemies in the game, which, as he states: Yes,…

Only a month after Tales of Xilla Remastered was released, Namco Bandai has announced the next in their growing number of older games in the series to get that same treatment, this time PlayStation 4 title Tales of Berseria Remastered. The remaster is scheduled to release on February 26, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, and for the first time, on the Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgChQAkLCA Interestingly enough, while Tales of Beseria was well-received and self-contained, it is part of a two-game arc with the previously released title in the series, Tales of Zestiria, serving as a…

I started playing Demonschool back in August. Usually, you do not get codes for games, even indie games, THAT early on, but of course, the game was delayed when it was announced Silksong, a juggernaut of a title that was announced to be finally releasing around the same time. The sentiment was understandable, getting as far away from that window as possible since a game one of those games was undoubtedly about to be a mega hit, and the other was a new game just vying for exposure, but it is still hard not to feel bad for a potential…