[ad_1] The suggestions included two-factor authentication for EA accounts, which could both improve overall security and discourage banned players from quickly creating new accounts. Players also told the company it could alert players if a report leads to action, use AI to moderate chats and find ways to improve cultural representation in game characters. The […]
Category: gamescom2019
Yakuza’s many remasters are about to pay off big time
[ad_1] At Gamescom 2019, Sega announced that three remastered Yakuza games — originally numbered 3, 4 and 5 — will be released in the West as The Yakuza Remastered Collection. The first instalment, Yakuza 3, is available right now if you buy the $60 bundle. Yakuza 4 will follow in October and Yakuza 5 will […]
‘El Hijo’ is a Spaghetti Western stealth game with heart
[ad_1] El Hijo is an isometric stealth game starring this 6-year-old as he traverses the desert, searching for his mother. She left him at a monastery, for his own protection, after their Wild West village was ransacked by outlaws. El Hijo — Spanish for “The Son” — decides to escape the monks, and the only […]
Sega is becoming its weird and wonderful self again
[ad_1] Even in its darkest years, though, Sega made some good calls. Intelligent mid-2000s acquisitions like Creative Assembly (Total War) and Sports Interactive (Football Manager) were joined in the ’10s by Relic Entertainment (Warhammer 40,000) and Amplitude Studios (Endless Space) to form a strong division in “Sega West.” This policy seems to be continuing: Sega […]
Tactics’ and the evolution of Netflix’s video game strategy
[ad_1] Netflix has even bigger plans for the future, though its ambition remains largely tied to the Stranger Things franchise. It hired Telltale Games to make a more complex narrative adventure set in the Duffer brothers’ universe, but that project fell through when the studio shut down in 2018. There’s still a location-based, augmented-reality Stranger […]
‘Streets of Rage 4’ is shaping up to be a worthy sequel
[ad_1] The gameplay teaser that followed half a year later showed a 2D game that seemed to play like the originals, but the art style still didn’t seem “right.” Why is the art such a massive departure? Would the game feel as direct and satisfying to play? Those were the kind of questions I was […]
'Windjammers 2' is a stylish update to a Neo Geo classic
[ad_1] Windjammers is basically Pong on steroids. The original, released for the Neo Geo arcade system in 1994, had two players throwing a frisbee — sorry, "ultimate flying disc" — across a net. If you managed to hit the opponent's end zone, you got some… [ad_2] Source link
‘Blair Witch’ expertly remixes horror gaming’s greatest hits
[ad_1] Blair Witch, the video game, is terrifying. Developed by Bloober Team, the studio behind Layers of Fear, Blair Witch is a mosaic of modern tropes culled from the most nightmarish horror games of the past decade. It has a camcorder mechanic, a lot like Outlast; it uses a flashlight as a demon deterrent, à […]
‘Disintegration’ is a tactical shooter that questions transhumanism
[ad_1] According to the director, Disintegration is set 150 to 200 years in the future. The robots in this imagined future aren’t controlled by artificial intelligence, though. They’re armored shells that contain fleshy and beautifully imperfect human brains. Why did humanity do this? To protect themselves from a planet that has been ravaged by climate […]
‘Need for Speed Heat’ isn’t anything like ‘Payback’
[ad_1] Unsurprisingly, the new game is vastly different to Payback. You no longer need Speed Cards, for instance, to upgrade your ride. “Speed cards were a little abstract,” Riley Cooper, creative director on Need for Speed Heat, told Engadget. “So we’re leaning much more grounded and straightforward [this time]. You get money, you buy the […]