Mods can go well beyond putting the Teletubbies in Left 4 Dead. They can rewrite the makeup of entire games, change how they start, or create entirely new games unto themselves. Gargantuan in design, these large-scale projects can lend new life to older games or completely revisit how we play them, and this year’s Elden
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Audio player loading… Ubisoft has announced plans to use in-game events in games such as Riders Republic and Skull and Bones to raise awareness around the impact that climate change has on our planet. The plans were developed as part of Ubisoft’s participation in the Playing for the Planet Alliance’s annual Green Game Jam, which
Audio player loading… Whoever runs EA’s Twitter account has royally plowed the hornet’s nest with a tweet dismissing single-player games. Let’s bear in mind the stable of amazing single-player titles under the EA umbrella, to appreciate the true boldness of the tweet. There’s Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and long-running classic, The Sims, to name a
Samsung TVs just got a great new way to play Xbox games – and you don’t even need a console to play them. By downloading the Xbox app from the newly launched Samsung Gaming Hub platform, you’re now able to stream Xbox Series X|S games via the cloud. The only catch, as detailed in the
Audio player loading… The first non-promotional picture of Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 has been released, showing us just how streamlined the upcoming VR headset really is. Developer Bit Planet Games uploaded a picture of a PSVR 2 system on Twitter. Although the studio was quick to delete the post, likely for breaking an internal NDA
Audio player loading… God of War Ragnarok’s release date was reportedly going to be revealed today. But there’s been a change in plans. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier who says a God of War Ragnarok update was on the cards for today. According to a tweet (opens in new tab) he put out earlier
Sonic’s transition to 3D has always been tricky. That 2D to 3D lane change has continued to dog the hedgehog’s releases even into the modern generations (isn’t that right, Sonic Forces?) whereas former rival Mario kept soaring beyond galaxies, getting more comfortable with each release. For Sonic, these transitional woes were the case even at
Sony has officially announced its July 2022 PlayStation Plus line-up – and it’s a good one. As is now standard for PS Plus line-ups, the actual roster of games leaked a little while ago, cutting in line ahead of the official PlayStation announcement. Either way, now that we’ve had official confirmation from Sony about what
It’s been a great year for Atlus: per its most recent financial statement (for the period ending March 31), we learned that the sales of games released from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022 were above and beyond what the developer was expecting. Play 3 first. It’s worth it, I promise. So, with the
Someone please save me from writing something here every week. Is there a not an AI capable of doing this, albeit without my amazing sense of humour? We’ve got games that let you explore procedurally generated worlds! Someone procedurally generate some words for me! On that happy note, the VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast
More content for The Sims 4 is always welcomed by fans, and the latest expansion pack, High School Years, is no exception. High School Years will be taking us and our sims back to school as of July 28, and teenage sims will finally be in receipt of a real education!Here’s the official reveal trailer
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Petar Vukobrat/Unsplash)Valve has quietly changed the Steam Deck’s specs, unbeknownst to most who have put in an order in recent weeks. Steam Decks ordered at the time of the console’s release came with either a 256 or 512GB SSD,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Dolenc090 on YouTube)The name 3dfx certainly warms a lot of, um, mature gamers’ hearts. For a lot of us, the Voodoo 2 was our first actual 3D graphics card. And it was glorious. Even though we were gaming at
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: PCMag)Time to break out the violins folks, because the world’s largest motherboard manufacturers have a tearjerker of a tale to tell. Both Asus and Gigabyte are projecting significantly lower motherboard shipments for the rest of 2022. In fact, the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Online retailer Newegg is trying to clear its shelves of gaming gear right now, likely in anticipation of the next-gen components that will be arriving in the next few months. It’s been a while since any site offered steep discounts
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Valve has fiddled with its own gaming hardware over the years, but neither the Steam Boxes, nor the Steam Controller, nor the Index VR headset have garnered the same praise as the Steam Deck. Even in the era of the
Audio player loading… Only a few months after the launch of Elden Ring, it’s clear that FromSoftware is far from resting on its laurels, with director Hidetaka Miyazaki revealing that the studio has another game in the works that’s nearing the end of its development. In a recent interview with 4Gamer (opens in new tab)
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For the past few months there’s been a constant drip-drip-drip of rumors about the upcoming GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. The most surprising element of those rumors, at least on the Nvidia side of the fence, has been a dramatic