Ubisoft and New Regency producing Splinter Cell film

Actor Tom hardy signed on to possibly act Ubisoft Motion Pictures has just annouced its partnership with New Regency Productions on a movie using theTom Clancy’s Splinter Celllicense.Just a few months agoUbisoft and New Regency announced their collaberation on the upcomiong flim based on theAssassin’s Creedseries. Both companies have been tight-lipped as to any details on the project, other than screenwriter Eric Warren Singer and actor Tom Hardy have signed on....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Sabrina Singh

UK Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart sees even higher sales figures in second week

Nailed Down It was another fine week for Ratchet, Clank, and new gal Rivet. Insomniac Games’ excellent PS5 adventureRatchet & Clank: Rift Apartretained the number one in the UK Charts, having achieved even higher sales in its second week of release than it did during launch week. While only a 2% sales increase, it’s still an incredibly rare occurrence, especially in the digital-friendly modern gaming age. Another surprise sales rise came in the form of Mojang’sMinecraft Dungeons, which skyrocketed up the charts to number two after UK electronics retailer Curry’s put a stock clearance price of just £13 on the Switch edition, which led to a huge rush of purchases for the blocky dungeon crawler....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 298 words · Laura Calhoun

Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One gets a new Japanese trailer

The Valkyrie Profile series doesn’t get talked about very often, but I actually quite enjoy it and am looking forward to the new title for the DS,The Accursed One. The Japanese trailer introduces us to some new faces and gives us a gander at the gameplay. There’s only one thing about this upcoming title that makes me feel a little sketchy: tri-Ace is developing, and while they have developed the previous titles as well, my recent brush withInfinite Undiscoveryhas me wanting to steer clear of their work for a little while....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Chad Weiss

Where to find the Commander Outfit colors in Jedi Survivor

Looking mighty The Commander Outfit colors inJedi Survivorlook great on Cal Kestis. It can be a bit of a hassle to find them inJedi Survivor,however. Here’s where to spot them and what you need. Commander Outfit colors in Jedi Survivor location Before you set off to find the Commander Outfit colors inJedi Survivor,you’ll need the ability todash through the green force fieldandBD-1’s Electro Dart. Once you have both of those skills, travel to theLoading Gantrymeditation point onKoboh....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 213 words · Joshua Williams

Writing about Kiki Trick: The sound of one hand clapping

When you write for a videogame blog, you know when lot of people are going to read your new post. Writing about SOPA,Resident Evil 6,Grand Theft Auto 5;these are the kind of stories that millions of people already have a vested interest in. Then there are the times when you’re pretty sure someone might have vested interest in what you’re writing about, but there is no way to be sure. It could be about some “indie” game, or “casual” game, or in this case, a Japanese Wii game aboutcomic surrealism sound recognitioncalledKiki Trick....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · David Castillo

Xbox One X seems great if you have a killer home theater setup

I don’t, so I’m not sold A month before E3, I booked a semi-mystery appointment for Project Scorpio on the day after it’d be revealed to the world. I didn’t know the structure of the meeting (interview, hands-on, presentation, etc.), just that Scorpio, now Xbox One X, would be the focus. There’s no doubt that it’s one of the show’s more important assignments, regardless of how it’d go down. Seated with 20-some other writers, we were shown a theater presentation for Xbox One X....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Lindsey Terry

‘League’ indeed: eSports are officially Real Sports!

Gumbel’d Tomorrow’s episode of the long-running, award-winning HBO sports programReal Sports with Bryant Gumbelfeatures a segment with Soledad O’Brien going behind the scenes at theLeague of LegendsWorld Championship. This is more odd for me to see as a lifelong sports fan than as a lifelong videogame fan. Mainstream cultural acceptance has always made sense in my mind, but the whole “videogames are sport” is still weird to me. Of course, as the clip from the segment emphasizes, I’m increasingly in the minority....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Kayla Curtis

(Update) Shenmue I & II will receive a patch on consoles next week

I see… [UPDATE:Segahas recently released a tweetannouncing that theShenmue I & IIpatch has been delayed, it will now be released sometime during the week of September 17. The publisher apologised for the delay, saying that they wanted “to ensure you get the best game experience possible”.] Last month saw the long-awaited re-release of Sega’s classic Dreamcast RPGsShenmue I & IIon modern platforms. Though the remasters had pretty faithful translations, they aren’t without their fair share of bugs, including cut-scene issues, missing prompts and the notorious “First Person Glitch”....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Marilyn Walker

10 books to read if you like The Wheel of Time

We’ve all experienced the blues when you read the last word in a spiraling book series and close the chapter on not just a story but an entire chapter of your own life. Yet, few fandoms could attest to the aggressive emptiness that assaults you in the aftermath likeThe Wheel of Timecommunity. Reading the 15-book, four million-word epic is like sitting through the lives of thousands of actual people and the story of an entire age....

July 26, 2025 · 11 min · 2177 words · Charles Soto

Alan Wake 2 – Initiation 9: Gone walkthrough

Alan’s final chapter in The Dark Place is arguably the shortest in the whole game. Our walkthrough and guide forAlan Wake 2– Initiation: Gone mostly exists for the sake of completion, but it’ll still be good to follow if you’ve forgotten how to walk forward in the game. Initiation 9: Gone walkthrough forAlan Wake 2 There is one final Echo to collect in the chapter, and you get it at the beginning....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 493 words · Colleen Ferguson

Alan Wake to hit Games on Demand on November 23

Experience one of 2010’s best Xbox 360 thrillers without leaving your couch — Microsoft will be addingAlan Waketo its “Games on Demand” line-up this month. The game will be available for download on November 23, and will sell or 2400 MS Points, which is about $30. This was the part where I was going to tell you where you could get the game right this second for cheaper.But a Google Shopping searchfor “Alan Wake” yielded some result for a book calledAre You as Happy as Your Dog?...

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Mr. David Chan

Balancing act: Killer Instinct to have early access tests

Caterpillars in sync Though every Xbox One has the potential tobecome a development kit, that feature won’t be available on day one, like seemingly many of the Xbox One’s features (third party headset support, the ability to use the controller with PCs, etc). Speaking toEdge Onlinein a comprehensive interview worth reading in full, Microsoft Studios’ partner creative director Ken Lobb explained the delay, vaguely explaining, “that there’s some work we had to finish on the back end before we could enable it....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Deborah Anderson

Bethesda unveils first gameplay footage of Rage 2

‘Stay tuned for more information’ Just in case you haven’t played the originalRageand don’t understand the gist — think post-apocalyptic wasteland, and you’re just about on the money.Rage 2,after beingouted by a Walmart leak, is now confirmed by Bethesda, and today they just dropped the first gameplay footage. Shown by way of a one minute trailer we’re given a quick rundown of the narrative, in a world “devoid of society, law, and order” (yep, checks out)....

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · David Harris