Author: Blake Hester

[ad_1] Admittedly, it’d take very little for me to be on board with a Death Stranding Director’s Cut. It only needed to be more Death Stranding for me to be sold on revisiting Hideo Kojima’s latest vanity project. Luckily for me, that’s exactly what the Director’s Cut is. I love the original release, and this…

[ad_1] It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the holidays. If you’re reading this, I’m not at work right now, and it’s great. My brain is happily free of thoughts about video games, video game articles, and the people who play and read both. I’m free. Free at last. Until January.  But taking a…

[ad_1] A new year, a new slew of video game heroes and villains. This year had a lot of great stand-outs – from characters we met for the first time to old favorites. Narrowing down our favorites wasn’t easy, but after much deliberation, here are our top picks for the best heroes and villains of…

[ad_1] Bokeh Game Studio, the new independent development house headed up by Silent Hill director Keiichiro Toyama, finally unveiled its debut project, Slitterhead, tonight at The Game Awards. Predictably, it’s grotesque.  The trailer opens with a man walking down a typical city alley before running into a woman. Shortly thereafter, we get our first glimpse…

[ad_1] Tonight during The Game Awards, Deep Silver Volition showed off a new trailer for its upcoming Saints Row reboot. There wasn’t any news in the trailer that people didn’t already know – especially if they read Game Informer’s cover story a few months back – but it was a new look, regardless.  In the…

[ad_1] Planet of Lana, the debut project from developer Wishfully Studio received a new trailer tonight at The Game Awards.  One of the most notable things about the game’s appearance at tonight’s show was the announcement of its composer: Takeshi Furukawa, the BAFTA Award-winning composer for The Last Guardian. We got a taste of his…

[ad_1] Update 12/03/21 7:19 p.m. Central time: A new report from The Washington Post further details today’s layoffs at Raven Software. According to the outlet, “at least a dozen” contractors on Raven’s QA team have been let go. As the outlet points out, that’s about one-third of the QA department’s overall testers. More contractors are expected…

[ad_1] Raven Software, one of the primary development studios behind Activision’s annual Call of Duty series, has laid off a number of people within its QA department – some of which recently relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, where the company is based.  News of the story first broke on Twitter, where Raven team members began posting…

[ad_1] Thanksgiving sucks. It’s the one time of year you see all those family members you spend the other 364 days of the year avoiding. You know, the cousin that’s way into NFTs and meme stocks. The uncle who listens to the Joe Rogan Experience and somehow finds a way to reference it at every…

[ad_1] After the first series of Resident Evil movies made over a billion dollars in box office revenue, production company Constantine Films is ready to reboot its biggest film franchise. But where the original series deviated drastically from the source material, new director Johannes Roberts – known for his work on 47 Meters Down and…