PEGI announce plans to slap higher age ratings on games with loot boxes, daily quests, and paid battle passes soon
The folks behind PEGI - the age rating system used for games in Europe outside of Germany - have announced plans to update their criteria so that games which feature likes of loot boxes, harbour NFTs or blockchain-related bollocks, or pressurise players into returning via daily quests will automatically be ...
Forza Horizon 6’s Tokyo City Is So Big and Detailed That it Had its Own Development Team | IGN First
Playground Games has grown.When I first visited the studio in 2014 for Forza Horizon 2, the crew still shared their building with a variety of other businesses. In 2018, when I again flew over to the UK for an early peek at Forza Horizon 4, there was a whole wing ...
“We’re going to lay off 1,000 people and that’s going to be on you”: Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan says redundancy ultimatum led to his Blizzard exit
Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has said his 2021 departure from Blizzard followed an ultimatum about redundancies which "ultimately broke" his resolve and led him towards the exit door. The developer frames that moment as the culmination of a number of tough years working on the hero shooter, which included ...
Magic’s Lord of the Rings Commander Decks Are Finally Back In Stock Online, and Just Got an Tidy Discount As Well
If you’ve been waiting for Magic: The Gathering’s return to Middle-earth with a Hobbit-focused set this year to jump into buying cardboard versions of your Tolkien favorites, we’ve got good news for you - and bad news for your wallet.The Commander precons from the Lord of the Rings set are ...
Life Is Strange: Reunion’s Entire Premise Goes Against the Original Game’s Message
The upcoming Life is Strange: Reunion is an attempt, as superficially befits the supernatural franchise, to rewind time. It follows the lead of 2024's Double Exposure, which brought back the original game’s protagonist, Max Caulfield, for the first time since 2015, evolving her from nervous high school student to intrepid ...
Microsoft confirm their PC game-running Project Helix should be in devs’ hands by 2027, and packs next-gen AMD innards
Microsoft have shared some more details about the hardware Xbox's next-gen console - the PC game-running Project Helix - will be packing. The new box is set to run on AMD-built tech with support for FSR upscaling, and should start to rock up on developers' desks as of 2027. That ...
Valve Breaks Silence Over NY Attorney General Lawsuit, Says Loot Boxes Are Like Baseball Cards, Pokémon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu
Valve has responded to the New York Attorney General's lawsuit, stating it has "serious concerns with the alterations the NYAG claims are necessary to make to our games."The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, announced her office was suing Valve at the end of February, alleging the platform illegally ...
Pokémon Pokopia Launch Sales Announced, Confirming It’s Off to a Strong Start
Pokémon Pokopia has launched big on Nintendo Switch 2, and sold 2.2 million copies over its release weekend. Across four days, the new Pokémon life simulation game shifted 1 million copies in Japan alone, despite supply constraints for its physical version being reported in several countries. Indeed, such has been ...
Former Overwatch Director Breaks Silence About Sudden Departure From Blizzard
"I literally thought I'd retire from the place".Before Blizzard's free-to-play multiplayer shooter Overwatch 2 arrived on the scene, there was the original paid experience led by game director (and fan favourite) Jeff Kaplan.You might recall how Kaplan made an abrupt exit from the company behind Diablo and Warcraft in 2021, ...
Tetris 99 Celebrates MAR10 Day With Super Mario Galaxy Cup, Unlock A Special Theme
Just in time for the movie!Super Mario is currently celebrating his 40th anniversary, and one other announcement for MAR10 Day this week is a new Tetris 99 Maximus Cup and Grand Prix.Read the full article on nintendolife.com ...
