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...
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...
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...
Crash Bandicoot finally returned to his home on the PlayStation this past weekend at the PlayStation Experience. The remaster of the original trilogy, first promised to us at E3 2016, finally has some gameplay backing it up, and the iconic character has never looked better. No seriously, this is the best character model we’ve ever seen of him. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy uses all...
A PC game is a PC game, right? Not if you buy it on the Windows store, apparently, and Microsoft is refunding purchases of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare purchased since the game’s release a few days ago. Those who bought the game on Microsoft’s built-in store quickly found that they weren’t able to play the long-awaited (363 very long days) game with their friends who bought the game...
Because I’m old, I remember when a floppy disk carried a meaningful amount of information. we’d buy them by the stack at places like Best Buy and Circuit City and carefully label them, each packed with 1.44MB of animated GIFs we definitely wanted to use on our GeoCities pages. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes up just a bit more space. 70GB minimum, in fact. That’s almost 50,000...
Activision Blizzard’s regular investor call took place yesterday. Among other things, executives addressed the hate being poured onto the newly released trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. At the time of this writing, the trailer’s roughly approaching 400,000 dislikes, which is double the number of likes it currently has. Don’t even bother scrolling down into the comments;...
Call of Duty has been pretty stale for a while. Since Black Ops II, none of the entries has contributed much to the series. Following yesterday’s unveiling of Infinite Warfare, Infinity Ward talked about what they want to bring to the series with what might be its biggest departure since their own Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Let’s not mince words, here. Call of Duty is still...
The next shoot’em up from Activision will be entitled Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. I mean, we knew that already. Information had been slipping out for a few days, and everything we knew has been confirmed. It’s coming from Infinity Ward, and it’s all but guaranteed it’s called Infinite Warfare. It releases on November 4, 2016. A remaster of Modern Warfare is a pre-order bonus. But...