Why I Love: The TrailerFarm’s Dan Porter says every aspect of Naughty Dog’s blockbuster is evidence of an ambitious dev team fully invested in the project Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other’s work. This entry was contributed by Dan Porter, creative director and co-founder of ...
It’s been a weekly tradition in Fortnite: Battle Royale for a little while now: shortly after a week’s challenges go live in-game, the next week’s challenges leak out of the game files. Epic needs to have a certain amount of what it’s going to use in a coming week before it actually deploys it, and the challenges have been part of that for a little while now. And since we...
PUBG has supported custom games ever since it first launched, but for most players, they’ve been inaccessible this entire time. Instead of letting all players create custom games, PUBG Corp instead limited that ability to a select group of PUBG partners – typically streamers who had audiences large enough to fill up a custom server. Earlier this year, PUBG Corp said that it eventually wanted to op...
The Coalition have followed up on the announcement of Gears 5 at E3 2018, by revealing a new enemy character called The Warden. The latest entry in the Gears of War series, Gears 5 was teased for the first time at the event in Los Angeles recently. A trailer was released to mark the announcement, and those with a sharp eye would have noticed the new character teased towards the end of the trailer....
Earlier today, the Saudi General Comission for Audiovisual Media announced a ban on up to 47 video games in a move first reported by The Associated Press. It’s not an unfamiliar move in a country that’s recently halted the sale of games like A Way Out, but the reasoning for this ban has some slightly unusual origins. According an AP report, the ban (which covers game series including G...
Dead Island 2 apparently still going to happen. That’s according to the official Dead Island Twitter account. The sequel to the original open-world zombie hack-and-slash game is still under development, but we will have to wait further until the publisher is going to share more about it. We first learned of Dead Island 2 in 2014 where the game was planned to release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The De...
After the amazing gaming year that was 2017, many wondered how well 2018 would turn out. Fortunately for everyone, it has been great. The first half of the year has yielded a wealth of fantastic games, and there’s more on the horizon. Upcoming games for the rest of this 2018 include slew of hotly anticipated new games, like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, and a...