Author: Zach Barbieri

Nintendo has announced that there will be a change in pricing, charging different amounts between physical and digital Nintendo Switch 2 games beginning next month, with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. The title was previously announced with a price of $59.99 across both versions. While this price point will remain for the digital version of the game, the physical version of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will see a price increase to $69.99, a $10 increase in price. In a statement issued by Nintendo today, the company has said price increases for physical titles “simply reflects the different costs associated…

Microsoft has announced that an Xbox Partner Preview showcase will be held on Thursday of this week. The event is set to house several updates on already announced projects, but also promises “new reveals.” The Partner Preview, as the name implies, will focus on third-party developers with games currently coming to the Xbox platform and Game Pass, so it wouldn’t behoove fans to hope for updates to titles like Clockwork Revolution or Gears of War: E Day, titles being developed under the Xbox Game Studios banner. There have been a few announcements as to what we can expect during the…

Crimson Desert features a very large open world to explore, and it is slightly selective when it comes to explaining certain mechanics to you. As such, you might spend much of your early hours wandering the big world on horseback, but this can seem to become too much once the scope becomes clear. There is, however, a way to fast-travel between locations, making it much easier to move between areas. You just need to unlock it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZ1pXAlVAA If you go to the map from your menu, you will notice large areas covered in white, with a question mark at the…

While January was a relatively slow month for game releases and sales, February served to shake up the sales charts dramatically, thanks to several new releases. This includes the hotly anticipated Resident Evil Requiem, which debuted in the number 1 spot for February, making it the biggest release of the month, and by extension, the year so far. No specific sales figures have been released from Capcom yet as to how many copies the game has sold. Capcom did celebrate 6 million units sold globally, making it the fastest-selling game in the series to date. Unfortunately, even with a strong…

Ubisoft has ceased game development at the North Carolina-based studio Red Storm Entertainment, resulting in the loss of 105 jobs. This, according to a source who spoke with the site Gameindustry.biz. The studio will remain open, but the remaining employees will be refocused to work on the Snowdrop Engine, along with IT and customer relations. Red Storm Entertainment was founded in 1996 and has since been closely associated with the Tom Clancy-branded military shooters, including Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. The studio also had experience developing for VR, having worked on Werewolves Within and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR. They were…

The developer behind Alan Wake II, Remedy, has released the final update for their first-person shooter live service spin-off of their Control series, FBC: Firebreak. Available to install now, this final update adds a friend’s pass system to the game, allowing up to three friends to play while only one person needs to own the game. Alongside this, the price of the game, which was previously $39.99, has received a permanent decrease to $19.99. All of this follows the game failing to find an audience after launching last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDCimMDtqM Remedy has stated that they plan to keep the servers…

Warner Bros. Games has announced that LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has had its release date moved. Instead of arriving on the previously announced date of May 29, the title will now arrive on May 22, a week earlier. This release date is for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, with a Nintendo Switch 2 release planned for a later date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCGdYd_Uj44 This news was announced via a new trailer for the game, for which the studio captioned the video by stating, “You signaled. He answered.” The original release date was announced in December of last year, during…

CD Projekt has stated that there are “No Plans for further or additional Cyberpunk 2077 content beyond the 2023 expansion, Phantom Liberty. This news comes amid reports that the studio is currently developing a secret expansion for its 2015 title, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is rumored to be developed by Fool’s Theory, the studio behind The Witcher Remake. The Polish studio responded to a fan’s question on social media, directed at the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account. In response to a question regarding whether the FPS action RPG would get any secret new DLC, the company stated, “We have no…

With the narrative of Tales of Berseria, Namco Bandai feels like they crafted a more poignant narrative for now than they did when it was originally released. Coming out of COVID-19, we saw multiple economies far weaker than they have been in recent memory. The solution that came out of that, as always, was blame your neighbor and trust us, the wealthy and the powerful, to bring order back into your life. It’s a sad state of affairs; I feel like I have seen it in a cyclical nature since I was 10, only having developed the words to articulate…

The director of Resident Evil Requiem, Koshi Nakanishi, has confirmed plans for the game’s post-launch content. This announcement was via a post made by the director on X in which he once again thanked players for the strong sales of the title, with the game hitting 5 million sales last week, along with a big demand for physical copies of the game. In this video, it was confirmed that there are multiple plans for the latest Resident Evil game, including a story expansion, a mini-game planned for May, and a photo mode. https://twitter.com/RE_Games/status/2031325052268921100?s=20 In this video, Nakanishi stated: We’re planning to…