It’s been a while since I picked up a zombie game. Back when the genre was at its peak, I was with everyone else in spending hours in Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Island, and Call of Duty’s Zombies mode.…
May 14, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
The Astroneer Rover Update is here and brings a brand-new vehicle to the game according to a blog post on the game's official forums. Astroneer is an early access sandbox game developed and published…
May 8, 2018 | 10:55 EDT
Rend is an in-development faction-based survival game with a fantasy theme. It's made by new independent studio Frostkeep Studios, which is made up of former developers from World of Warcraft, League…
May 8, 2018 | 10:41 EDT
PUBG Corp has announced that the new, smaller, island-themed map Codnamed: Savage will be returning to PUBG servers very soon. Speaking in a post on Steam, the team revealed that the map will be…
May 7, 2018 | 08:58 EDT
PUBG Corp has announced a survey for players to give feedback on the weapon changes recently implemented in PUBG. The new update tweaked the stats of several weapons, in an effort to add more balance…
May 5, 2018 | 04:38 EDT
In Frostpunk, you take on the role of a leader whose sole job is to keep your city alive. Billed as a "society survival" game, you must build a city to keep your citizens alive in a frozen wasteland…
May 1, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
The city builder genre is not one known for its engrossing narratives. Generally, as the genre goes, it follows the footsteps set out by Wil Wright long ago in SimCity, with the idea of being more an…
May 1, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
When a game releases, we only see the latest version of it coming out. Sometimes, we’ll see that evolve through patches that can radically change a game over the years—compare World of Warcraft 2017…
April 23, 2018 | 09:00 EDT
Storytelling is something that appears to be intrinsic to the human race. No one is sure when we first told stories, though at this point it’s believed to be somewhere past 10 000 BC using a series…
April 22, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
PUBG Corp has announced that map selection is due to arrive in PUBG. After being one of the most requested features from players, the option to choose from each of the soon to be three maps will be…
April 19, 2018 | 11:56 EDT
In a market where everyone is attempting to be the next big hit, it is inevitable that some companies will copy one another in an attempt to get to the top. Unfortunately, this can lead to asset…
April 6, 2018 | 08:48 EDT
11 Bit Studios has announced that This War of Mine will be available to play for free on Steam until Sunday, April 8, 2018, as part of a celebration for the upcoming debut of their new game Frostpunk…
April 5, 2018 | 10:20 EDT
Hello Games, the studio behind open-world space exploration game No Man's Sky, has today announced that the game will be making its way to Xbox One alongside a huge update, this summer. The physical…
March 29, 2018 | 11:23 EDT
According to an update posted on the PUBG Steam Community, developers are testing region locking in KR/JP servers. Once the update is applied to the live version of the game, only players who reside…
March 26, 2018 | 01:50 EDT
Since the end of last year, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been plagued by cheaters, with many claiming that it has gotten so bad, it has ruined the entire experience for them. After some digging…
March 24, 2018 | 03:00 EDT
Bluehole, the developer behind PUBG has announced that the game will soon be getting custom game types as part of a new Event Mode. The news was revealed via a post on the game's Steam Community page…
March 22, 2018 | 02:55 EDT
Giant survival MMO ARK: Survival Evolved is making its way to Nintendo Switch, Studio Wildcard announced at GDC 2018 today. The news was revealed during Epic Games’ “State of Unreal” presentation, in…
March 21, 2018 | 06:28 EDT
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS is reportedly working on a region lock system according to USgamer. The source for the potentially upcoming region-locking comes via a post on the /u/PUBATTLEGROUNDS…
March 16, 2018 | 02:56 EDT
An update for Astroneer has been released today which improves upon the game's existing rovers with new models and functionality according to a forum post on the game's official website. The primary…
March 15, 2018 | 11:20 EDT
Players using in-game cheats in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is nothing new. The issue is so prevalent, in fact, developer PUBG Corp. stated controlling the cheating was one of the studio's major…
March 13, 2018 | 04:50 EDT
Days Gone, the motorbiking/zombie killing PS4 exclusive has been delayed to 2019, having previously been scheduled for a 2018 release date. The update was given via a new release date listing for the…
March 12, 2018 | 11:34 EDT
Neil Druckmann, Creative Director of 2013’s The Last of Us, has been promoted to Vice President of Naughty Dog "in recognition of his expanded role, contributing on critical, studio level decisions…
March 10, 2018 | 01:46 EST
Originally planned for 2017, Frostpunk was delayed to early this year, hopefully sometime in the first three months. 11-bit studios missed the mark, but not by much. The city management/city survival…
March 9, 2018 | 08:50 EST
The Alterra Corporation ship Aurora passed by the uncharted world of 4546B only to meet with disaster in Subnautica. Taking on the role of Ryley Robinson, you barely escape the Aurora and land on the…
March 1, 2018 | 11:30 EST
Gamers are spoiled for choice in the Survival genre, although many of the games are quite similar in a lot of ways. If you like crafting guns from raw metal and shooting zombies in the face, you…
March 1, 2018 | 11:30 EST
The Basebuilding Update is now live in Astroneer according to a news post on the game's Steam Community page. Astroneer is a sci-fi sandbox published and developed by System Era Softworks. Players…
February 22, 2018 | 05:59 EST
The fine folks behind PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS have announced ping-based matchmaking is on its way in a news post on the game's Steam Community page. In PC 1.0 Update #6, the developers of PUBG…
February 20, 2018 | 02:07 EST
I recently previewed the sci-fi sandbox Astroneer and had an absolute blast with the game. It's just past version 0.5 and has a lot of the game's core systems sorted out, and we're less than a year…
February 14, 2018 | 11:00 EST
Astroneer is a sci-fi sandbox developed & published by System Era Softworks. Sometime in the near future, space travel is a little bit more ubiquitous than today. This prompts an interstellar…
February 14, 2018 | 09:00 EST
With each passing day, the possibility of ubiquitous space travel nears ever closer. There are untold valuable resources just in our own little asteroid belt, nevermind the countless planets beyond…
February 14, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Battleye, one of the anti-cheat measures used in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, has reported that they banned over 1,044,000 cheaters in January 2018 alone, according to a tweet from the service. Two…
February 6, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Rust, the open-world survival game developed & published by Facepunch Studios, will be leaving Steam Early Access on February 8, 2018, according to a blog post on the game's official website.…
January 22, 2018 | 08:01 EST
We Happy Few, an indie exploration and survival game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox, has been delayed until summer according to a production update from the game's developers…
January 21, 2018 | 08:50 EST
Chinese publisher Tencent has helped indie game PlayerUnkonown'sBattlegrounds and the Chinese authorities in cracking down on cheat-makers for the title. Tencent has, according to Bloomberg, aided…
January 16, 2018 | 12:37 EST
Recently, Aaron Greenberg, Head of Xbox Games Marketing at Microsoft, has released news that the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds now has over 3 million players. This is quite…
January 12, 2018 | 05:00 EST
Subnautica, the underwater survival game developed & published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment, is leaving Early Access on January 23, 2018, according to a tweet from the game's official account…
January 9, 2018 | 12:58 EST
As we reach the conclusion of 2017, it is perhaps fitting that this year's breakout gaming hit PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has yet another story set for it. As of today, PlayerUnknown's…
December 29, 2017 | 06:22 EST
Anti-cheat software BattlEye has announced an update on the number of people banned from PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS on their Twitter account: 1.5 million and counting. The last announcement from…
December 28, 2017 | 08:45 EST
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 1.0 is ready and raring to go - the game will finally be leaving early access (at least on PC) on December 20, 2017, according to a tweet from the game's official…
December 20, 2017 | 09:59 EST
PLAYERUNNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has racked up over 1 million players on the Xbox One in 48 hours according to a news post on the official Xbox website. Additionally, the game will be bundled with every…
December 16, 2017 | 10:00 EST
Bluehole, the developers behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, announced during the Game Awards that PUBG 1.0 for the PC will officially come out on December 20th of this year. This would officially…
December 8, 2017 | 12:21 EST
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has secured a deal to enter into the Chinese gaming market with the condition that the game will receive certain changes for the region (such as better alignment with "…
November 22, 2017 | 08:15 EST
This War Of Mine: Stories - Father's Promise, a new DLC from the game where civilians try to survive in a war-torn environment, is out now according to a news post on the game's Steam Community page…
November 15, 2017 | 10:00 EST
Return to the frozen white wasteland with Icy: Frostbite Edition. An all new experience building on the original release of Icy, the Frostbite Edition adds new features to the game, including a…
October 14, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The worldwide sensation that is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds just won't stop, recently setting a new record for having the most concurrent players online thanks to 2 million people. The previous…
October 13, 2017 | 12:27 EDT
Microsoft is supposedly in talks with Bluehole about extending the exclusivity of PUBG on Xbox platforms. According to Bloomberg, this information comes from people "familiar with the matter." The…
October 5, 2017 | 12:46 EDT
Bluehole, Inc. announced today the formation of PUBG Corp., which will handle business and development of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Chang Han Kim, who lead PUBG development as its Executive…
September 29, 2017 | 02:00 EDT
A couple of weeks ago Epic Games announced a 100 person Battle Royale mode for Fortnite, the base building/defending third person shooter. In that linked article, the description of how the Battle…
September 22, 2017 | 10:52 EDT