Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is real, and I'm riding my mid-90s kart racer nostalgia like blue sparks through a patch of Piranha Plants! Activision revealed the racer Thursday night at The Game Awards and confirmed that the game is a remake of the original made from the ground up by Beenox. The new release celebrates the 20th anniversary of the game by adding online play for the...
Those among us that have complained about Call of Duty games being too similar from year to year got our wish during this week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal. Activision had a host of changes to announce, including dropping the single-player campaign and the addition of a Battle Royale mode. One of the changes Activision will change the way PC gamers will play the game when it...
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy‘s unexpected success has lit a fire under the pants of Activision to crank out more games with more beloved mascots it bought from Sony. No longer relegated to a spokesperson for Skylanders, the one and only Spyro the Dragon will be making his grand return to video games in a new bundle that remasters his three original classics. Spyro the Dragon, Spyro...
There was a time when Call of Duty: Black Ops II was the game to beat in the multiplayer realm. These days, though, Battle Royale reigns supreme, with the combined popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite's free-to-play Battle Royale mode outstripping just about everything else out there. When investors look at Activision's docket of games and the stuff topping the...
This fall, the Call of Duty franchise will return to one of its most popular settings with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Activision streamed the announcement today on YouTube with the video below. Jump to 6:08 for the action: Activision isn’t offering much right now. The official reveal comes May 17 as part of a community event that will be held by developer Treyarch....
The Destiny 2 beta for PC is live right now, up through August 31. If you haven’t played it yet and you have a PC that can handle games at all, it’s worth checking out. I dove in to see how it looked and played, checking out the story content, as well as the quickplay multiplayer the three-player strike mission. Joey Davidson and I checked out the original Destiny at launch and found it...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is now being sold as a standalone edition on not only PlayStation 4, but PC and Xbox One as well. Initially, the remaster was restricted to being a bonus for one of the more expensive editions of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, released last November. It stayed that way for eight months, requiring players to buy Infinite Warfare‘s Legacy Edition...
Usually when a game’s release date changes, it means we’re going to end up waiting. Once in a while, though, a hotly anticipated game gets moved forward instead of pushed back. Destiny 2 just happens to be one of those, but it wasn’t a move Activision and Bungie made to thrill fans. It turns out there’s a very good reason. It’s because if they released it on a Friday as planned, we’d...
When Activision started selling Modern Warfare Remastered as a bonus part of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, we expected we’d see it sold as a standalone eventually. Call of Duty has taken a beating in recent years, and packaging a beloved game in with a less-desired one is a solid, if shady, tactic to get more copies out there. But now that the tail on Infinite Warfare has died, it...
Last year, Activision went all in on its annual Call of Duty outing, expecting the same amount of praise and criticism it always gets from around the gaming sphere. Only, Infinite Warfare was different. It walked away with a bulk of the internet poised against its sci-fi setting, and at one point, it had the statistically most hated trailer on YouTube. That negativity transformed into...