According to a new report from Kotaku and confirmed by The Verge, Nintendo has closed its offices in California and Toronto. The shuttering of the office in Redwood City, California, affects around 100 employees within Nintendo’s Sales and Marketing department, as well as its NMI, which is “a dedicated merchandising field team who work with retail stores across
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343 Industries has revealed in a new Inside Infinite blog post that it relied on character and enemy designs from the Halo 3/Halo: Reach era of the franchise for inspiration. Microsoft and 343 Industries have been pretty open about their desire for Infinite to harken back to the days of classic Halo. It’s set on
The WD Black SN750 is a super-fast PCIe 3.0 SSD – and the 1TB model is down to £87 at Amazon UK, a historic low price. That’s a fantastic price for what was once among the fastest NVMe SSDs on the planet, with read speeds up to nearly 3500MB/s… before the advent of faster (and
So far, 2021 has been a solid financial year for Sony. The acquisitions of Returnal developer Housemarque, Nixxes Software (known for its first-party PC ports), Star Citizen’s Firesprite, and remaster heavyweight Bluepoint Games contributed to a 20% increase in Sony’s total workforce. According to VGC, this employee surge also led to record revenue numbers, as
The SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ is a brand new gaming headset, offering a series of small upgrades over the already-brilliant Arctis 7P. It’s rare to see new items discounted right away, but today you can get this new model up for 12% off with code MOUNTAIN12.
It is important to keep in mind what is going on within Activision Blizzard at this time regarding ongoing allegations about the work culture. The ongoing lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company is over reported toxic workplace culture. The bulk of the suit focuses on “violations of
Western Digital’s 14TB Elements external hard drive is one of the largest you can buy, making it ideal for backing up entire computers, storing massive media libraries and generally being a massive data hoarder. It normally retails for around £300, but today it’s dropped down to £222, an £89 discount below RRP.
Returnal came out earlier this year and while it reviewed quite well, especially here at Game Informer where we gave it a 9.5 out of 10, one critique some had with the roguelite was that it needed some kind of save system. Before the 2.0 update, if you needed to stop a run in Returnal,
Moonglow Bay reviewA little frustrating in places, but Moonglow Bay is mostly a chill fishing RPG that digs into its themes of community, resilience and rebuilding in surprising and consistently interesting ways. Developer: Bunnyhug Publisher: Coatsink Release: October 26th 2021 From: Steam, Microsoft Store / Xbox Game Pass, Epic Games Store (Nov 11th) Price: £20/€25/$25
Resident Evil’s Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield are the newest horror-themed skins added to Fortnite, following the likes of Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. Both are of these famed survival-horror stars are now available for purchase in Fortnite’s in-game shop. They were introduced through a fun little teaser video that you can see below:
In honor of the name change for the gunslinger Cole Cassidy, formerly known as McCree, Activision Blizzard is offering the chance for Overwatch players to change their own names. Well, their BattleTag. It is important to keep in mind what is going on within Activision Blizzard at this time regarding ongoing allegations about the work
Fans of action-heavy Metroidvanias should keep an eye on the newly-announced Souldiers. No, that’s not a misspelling but rather a clue as to what sort of game you’re in for. Developed by Retro Forge Games and published by Dear Villagers, Souldiers is a beautiful 16-bit Soulslike that already looks impressive. Players choose from one of
Cyberpunk and Witcher crew CD Projekt have acquired The Molasses Flood, the American studio behind post-apocalyptic raft ride The Flame In The Flood and base-building game Drake Hollow. Huh! The studio will be making a game set in one of CD Projekt’s world, which warrants a second: huh! It’s all secret for now.
When I think back to the ggames of my childhood, nothing puts a warm, fuzzy smile on my face like Warcraft 2. As one of the few PC games I had growing up, I ended up playing the campaign over and over again – or at least starting it over and over again – for
Change isn’t for everyone: just ask the 5% of Steam Hardware Survey respondents still using Windows 7. Sadly, even the most eager of early adopters might be looking to find out how to uninstall Windows 11, the very latest of Microsoft’s operating systems. It could be the newly centralised Start menu; it could be the
Grasshopper Manufacture Inc., the studio behind the No More Heroes series headed by Goichi Suda aka Suda51, has been acquired by NetEase Games. This acquisition comes as NetEase continues its growth by way of acquisitions and partnerships, with the company obtaining a minority stake in Quantic Dream, a stake in Bungie, and more, over the past
Football Manager 2022 pre-launch beta is live now. If you buy the kicking sim on Steam or Epic, you can immediately start playing a nearly-finished version of the game. If you’re really committed you can probably be sacked at least once before the sun comes up.
Update, 10/21/21: Nintendo has released a software update for Metroid Dread that fixes the progression bug it tweeted about last week. It fixes “several other issues to improve overall gameplay experience,” too, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. To download the update, connect your Nintendo Switch to the internet. Return to the console’s home menu and