If you like games that handle like Project Gotham Racing, you might love this. Over the years, racing sims have come a long way. Gaming PCs and consoles have become more powerful, physics and tire models have become more accurate, and after COVID, it seems like nearly everyone has…
TV tie-ins aside, it’s the combat tweaks over the past year that really matter. Like anybody, I have a few controversial gaming opinions and tastes. One of the most controversial is that Fallout 76 —the multiplayer take on Bethesda’s rethink of a beloved ’90s open-world computer roleplaying game—has been…
Analysts see trouble for studios like BioWare, potential for Saudi meddling. This morning’s announcement that EA plans to sell itself to a consortium of private equity firms is one of the biggest business stories of the year. The $55 billion deal is the largest leveraged buyout in history and…
Epic will “inquire into our partner’s creative intentions” before making a final decision. If you watch this for a full hour, leave a comment to receive absolutely no prize. Epic Games has disabled a Fortnite emote based on the HBO show Peacemaker after the latest episode cast the dancing…
Investors will receive $210 per share, well above the stock’s all-time high. Friday’s reports that Electronic Arts planned to go private were publicly confirmed Monday morning. Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners will join together to pay an estimated $55 billion for…
There’s an unparalleled purity to MOO2’s commitment to the fantasy. I love 4X games. I’ve tried other strategy game genres, but frankly, they don’t stick if they’re not first and foremost 4X games—at the heart of it, it must be about exploring, expanding, exploiting, and yes, exterminating. I suspect…
Saudi investment fund, Jared Kushner are reportedly among the interested buyers Video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts is planning to take the company private in a deal that could be worth as much as $50 billion, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Financial Times. All three…
The lower-powered ROG Xbox Ally comes in at a more reasonable $599.99. Microsoft and Asus revealed the ROG Xbox Ally handheld PC gaming line in June and promised an October 16 launch date in August. But they waited all the way until Thursday night to reveal preorder pricing set at…
What’s next, Sonic games on Nintendo consoles? Oh, wait… For decades now, the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has been associated with Microsoft’s own DOS/Windows operating systems and, more recently, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions like this 1986 Macintosh port notwithstanding). However, that era seems set to end as Sony announced…
Feeling any better about your backlog yet? If you spend any significant amount of time using Steam, you’ve probably joked ruefully about your massive backlog of games acquired through cheap bundles or the service’s frequent massive sales. However, we’re willing to bet your backlog can’t hold a candle to…
