Derek Strickland
Senior Gaming Editor - Florida, USA
Derek joined the TweakTown team in 2015 and has since reviewed and played 1000s of hours of new games. Derek is absorbed with the intersection of technology and gaming, and is always looking forward to new advancements. With over six years in games journalism under his belt, Derek aims to further engage the gaming sector while taking a peek under the tech that powers it. He hopes to one day explore the stars in No Man's Sky with the magic of VR.
Editorial Responsibilities: news and games
Derek Strickland has written 9298 pieces of content
- May 2022
- Epic Games funded Alan Wake remaster at a loss
- Take-Two's $12.7 billion merger with Zynga expected to close tomorrow
- Fortnite to get full Unreal Engine modding tools in 2022
- Nintendo forecasts earnings drop as it gears up for new Switch model
- Nintendo FY22 hits $14.7 billion net sales, third highest of all time
- Nintendo has released over 11,000 video games in the last 39 years
- Nintendo sees post-pandemic software surge as Switch supply squeezed
- Switch will beat Wii, DS lifetime game sales by 2023
- From NES to Switch, Nintendo has now sold 5.4 billion video games
- Switch helped Nintendo sell over 822 million games so far
- Nintendo Switch top 10 best-sellers: Mario Kart 8 hits 45 million
- Norman Reedus on Death Stranding 2: 'We just started the second one'
- Grand Theft Auto has made $7.5 billion since GTA V's release in 2013
- Activision buyout is 'moving fast,' says Microsoft president
- Witcher 3's PS5, Xbox Series X/S next-gen version gets release window
- Borderlands 3 is free on the Epic Games Store, get it ASAP
- GTA remastered trilogy sales drop to less than 1 million
- Grand Theft Auto hits $1 billion for first time since GTA V's launch
- Saudi PIF buys 5% Nintendo stake for $3 billion before 10-for-1 split
- PlayStation Home needs to come back for Sony's new metaverse
- Sony outlines its ambitious plans for the metaverse
- Red Dead Redemption 2 hits 44 million sales, surprises Take-Two
- Techland trades zombies for sorcery, next game is new fantasy IP
- Final Fantasy franchise sales: Top-selling Final Fantasy games ranked
- Arma is coming to consoles with full mod support
- Final Fantasy XV hits 10 million sales and didn't underperform
- Sony will add new PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games every month
- Tons of Ubisoft back catalog games come to PlayStation Plus in June
- GTA V hits 165 million sales worldwide, 44% of all GTA sales
- Fall Guys goes free-to-play with a premium season pass
- PlayStation Plus Premium is great for new PS5 owners
- PS1 classics on PS Plus have built-in save states and boosted FPS
- Nintendo has sold 538 million handhelds to date
- 84% of PS Plus Premium's huge 740 game library is still unknown
- Square Enix invests record $792m in game dev, new studios, blockchain
- Switch hits 107.65 million sales, #3 top-selling Nintendo hardware
- Switch helped Nintendo make $62.8 billion since launch
- The Dune game we always wanted is in development right now
- Sony to distribute Bloober's new games, possibly includes Silent Hill
- Take-Two's $12.7 billion Zynga merger may close later this month
- Nintendo announces 10-for-1 stock split to boost share volume
- Elden Ring is bigger than Call of Duty Vanguard in the United States
- Elden Ring sells 13.4 million, beats Bandai Namco's forecast by 235%
- Remedy to push players to the edge of madness in Alan Wake 2
- Alan Wake TV show in production at Walking Dead network AMC
- One of the best games of 2017 is free on the Epic Store right now
- Dead Space remake release date is in January 2023
- Codemasters and Criterion team up for new Need for Speed game
- Starfield's 2023 delay hits Xbox hype hard
- PS5 supply issues: Sony expects to ship 18 million PS5s in 2022 - 2023
- PlayStation stats: Third-party game sales dwarf first-party sales
- PlayStation Plus subs drop and most gamers still aren't subscribed
- PlayStation 5 hits 19.3 million sales amid supply constraints
- PlayStation made $7.59 billion from microtransactions in FY21
- Sony has sold nearly 1.89 billion PS4 and PS5 games
- PlayStation 4 shipments crash to lowest point in console's history
- Gotham Knights is PS5, Xbox Series X/S exclusive, skipping last-gen
- Incredible Unreal Engine 5 clip paves way to next-gen Backrooms vids
- Stardew Valley continues massive success streak with 20 million sales
- EA plans Lord of the Rings smartphone game to bolster mobile earnings
- People Can Fly updates its new games pipeline, includes 5 projects
- Sony may have leaked new Gotham Knights multiplayer features
- NFTs weren't the main reason Square Enix sold to Embracer Group
- Take-Two's microtransaction terminology now includes NFTs
- Most of Take-Two's awards are based on stock, not microtransactions
- Halo TV show is a 'global hit,' helped push Paramount+ to 39.6m subs
- Microsoft may lose $1 billion a year making Call of Duty exclusive
- A new WWE role-playing game is in development, to be announced soon
- Final Fantasy XVI is NOT done, Square Enix will take time to polish
- FTC issues Second Request in Sony's $3.6 billion Bungie deal
- Microsoft's xCloud streaming is a boon for discovery and game sampling
- WWE 2K22's strong sales helps boosts WWE company earnings
- Microsoft's mergers F2P with free-to-stream in new cloud power play
- Mafia 4 happening amid 2K Games management shake up
- Square Enix owns IP rights of People Can Fly's new Project Gemini game
- Outriders didn't make a profit in 2021, People Can Fly confirms
- Chinese games titan NetEase launches game studio in U.S.
- Why New York City is suing Activision-Blizzard
- More than 3,000 people are working on Call of Duty, Activision says
- Bungie speaks out on Supreme Court Roe v. Wade reversal draft
- Ubisoft founders may buy out shares to prevent takeover
- Overwatch made less than 10% of Activision-Blizzard's 2021 revenues
- Here's how much Square Enix spends on games development
- Blizzard takes on Clash Royale with Warcraft Arclight Rumble
- Crysis 4 gets help from Hitman 3's original dev lead
- Square Enix lost $200 million from its two Marvel games
- Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy are included in Embracer buyout
- Blizzard cancelled its Pokemon Go-like Warcraft mobile game
- Analysis: Why Square Enix sold its Western division to Embracer Group
- Tomb Raider trilogy sells 38 million, Deus Ex duology at 12 million
- Eidos Montreal has multiple games in development using Unreal Engine 5
- Embracer: Crystal Dynamics and Eidos' new games are 'very interesting'
- Embracer has 230 games in development, but only 13% of them are AAA
- Embracer to buy Crystal Dynamics, Eidos, includes Deus Ex, Tomb Raider
- Here's what Death Stranding 2 could look like on Unreal Engine 5
- Business titan Berkshire Hathaway now owns 9.5% of Activision's stock April 2022
- Analysis: Making sense of Sony's new PlayStation Plus conversion chart
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick made $185 million from 2019 - 2021
- Cheaper ad-supported Xbox Game Pass, PS Plus subscriptions are likely
- Ads are funding Meta's multi-billion dollar pivot into the metaverse
- Modern Warfare 2 is a 'new era of Call of Duty,' Activision says
- Sony confirms it has disabled PlayStation Plus subscription stacking
- Xbox gaming ads could supercharge Microsoft's $10 billion ad business
- Ex-Nintendo President has a compelling argument in favor of NFTs
- Here's how many billions of people use Facebook everyday
- Activision shareholders approve Microsoft buyout with 98% yes vote
- Meta's Reality Lab division loses billions as metaverse spending ramps
- Mark Zuckerberg expects metaverse to be the primary platform by 2030
- New Elder Scrolls VI rumors are bullsh*t, sources say
- Starfield's engine is a 'piece of crap,' former Bethesda dev says
- PlayStation teams will make PS Plus game demos, not developers
- Blizzard revenues drop to lowest point in 8 years
- Microsoft says it is 'looking into NFTs and cryptocurrency'
- Existing PS Plus & PS Now subscribers get free PS Plus Premium upgrade
- Assassin's Creed Infinity, new Far Cry, Ghost Recon are far away
- Modern Warfare II is the 'most advanced' Call of Duty in history
- Xbox revenues expected to drop up to 9% due to console supply issues
- Xbox dominates US, Canada, UK, and Western Europe in Jan - March 2022
- SEGA is delisting classic Sonic games ahead of Sonic Origins remaster
- Xbox makes a record-breaking $3.74 billion in Q3 2022
- Activision-Blizzard loses 63 million MAUs as Call of Duty, WoW slip
- Viking sensation Valheim is one of the best-selling indies of all time
- Cyberpunk 2077 game sales updated by CD Projekt RED
- Nintendo delays star-studded Super Mario Bros film to Spring 2023
- Ubisoft confirms leaked F2P arena game Project Q won't have NFTs
- Sony's new game preservation team will archive PlayStation games
- PlayStation 5 gets this long-awaited feature this week
- Activision lost 50 million users in one year. is Vanguard to blame?
- Of course Hideo Kojima is making a PS5 game, why wouldn't he be?
- Did Ubisoft break its promise to gamers? It appears so
- Ubisoft grows increasingly vulnerable to a buyout or takeover
- Halo Infinite season 3 will face tough competition in November
- Halo Infinite season 2's calendar is missing, so we made one
- Ubisoft could be a new buyout target, will Sony or Microsoft buy?
- Ubisoft is making a new goofy PVP arena game with team BR mode
- Call of Duty Operation Monarch could be the most epic live event ever
- Bobby Digital invading your citadel: Wu-Tang Clan slices onto Fortnite
- Baldur's Gate 3 now set for a 2023 release, may compete with Diablo 4
- Gearbox acquires new studio to work on Borderlands 4 and a fresh IP
- Wizards of the Coast raising Magic: The Gathering card prices
- Watch-to-earn: PlayStation may reward players for watching in-game ads
- Switch Online price hike likely for Game Boy, Game Boy Advance games
- Some of the best NES games of all time are coming to Switch Online
- Controversy steals Sonic's limelight as SEGA nostalgia backfires
- Nintendo patent isn't for clothing durability in Breath of the Wild 2
- 35% of streaming subscriptions are cheaper ad-supported plans
- Netflix teases 'interplay' between TV shows and video games
- Netflix to make cheaper subscription plans with ads
- Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 11 years
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 release date moved up by two months
- Uncharted visionary working on new Star Wars game
- CD Projekt delivers second-best sales revenues of all time in 2021
- Report: Twitter board to reject Musk's $43 billion buyout offer
- The father of modern RPG video games is now making NFTs
- SEGA Super Games: Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi with online multiplayer
- Sonic Origins rated in South Korea and Japan's CERO board
- Activision financials possibly hint at Call of Duty in 2023
- 'No one is doing NFTs,' Blizzard president says
- Is Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer cancelled? CD Projekt won't say
- Sonic's Roblox game speeds past 100,000 concurrent users in two days
- Square Enix wants to make a create-to-earn blockchain platform
- Hideo Kojima has no interest in selling Kojima Productions to Sony
- CD Projekt spent $19 million on Cyberpunk 2077's expansion in 2021
- Halo Infinite battle royale Tatanka: 100 players, bots, shrinking map
- Halo Infinite 'Warzone-scale' battle royale may launch in season 3
- Microsoft plans to bring in-game ads to free-to-play Xbox games
- Blizzard suggests 2023 release date for Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2
- Diablo II Resurrected sold more than Cyberpunk 2077 through 2021-2022
- Cyberpunk 2077's first expansion is coming 3 years after launch
- Sean Murray hypes new game: 'it's so ambitious it's almost impossible'
- Mass Effect 5 now in early development phase, no updates for a while
- CD Projekt abandons multiplayer in Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine
- Witcher 3 has sold 40 million copies, makes up 61% of franchise sales
- Cyberpunk 2077 game sales have dropped 70% since launch
- Master Chief Collection more players than Halo Infinite for 48 hours
- Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo make big changes to auto-renewal in UK
- KOTOR remake dev Aspyr to acquire Baldur's Gate developer Beamdog
- Witcher 3 next-gen delayed 'until further notice,' CD Projekt RED says
- Brandon Sanderson is already making a game, and Bandai Namco wants in
- Xbox Series X/S SoC could move to 6nm for better yields
- Nintendo's new $40 million R&D center coming in 2027
- Fortnite players raise $144 million for Ukrainian relief
- Master Chief Collection nearly beat Halo Infinite's numbers on Steam
- Halo 3 ODST's new Floodfight is an instant classic
- Embracer CEO: If you make 200 games like we do, there's less risk
- Halo Infinite is nearly 4x as popular as Battlefield 2042 right now
- Epic Games nearly doubles its valuation in 2 years
- Sony invests $1 billion into Epic to supercharge games, film, and TV
- Two reasons the new Witcher uses Unreal Engine 5: Confidence & agility
- Kingdom Hearts 4 announced with impressive next-gen visuals
- SEGA's new games could take Twitch Plays concept to the next level
- SEGA's new Super Games to use Unreal Engine 5, AI and Houdini
- SEGA didn't say its new Super Games will use NFTs
- Bungie is gearing up for Destiny films and TV shows
- New Ghost Recon game in development, may not include Quartz NFTs
- Epic shows how UE5's Nanite tech can radically improve in-game visuals
- Epic Games teams up with LEGO to revolutionize the metaverse
- Call of Duty is no longer an annual franchise, Activision confirms
- Activision to make all 1,100 QA testers full time employees
- Bloober Team is working on at least four new games
- Remedy announces Max Payne 1 & 2 remaster for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
- Sony denies access to cheap PlayStation Now deal to prevent savings
- Ubisoft just exposed a major flaw with gaming NFTs
- Nearly half of next-gen console games are using Unreal Engine
- Epic's new UE5 multiplayer starter game is basically Mass Effect
- Bloober Team revenues up nearly 300% on best-selling The Medium game
- Halo Master Chief Collection isn't getting BR either
- Halo Infinite devs: 'We need more time to get details sorted'
- This $59.99 PS Now deal converts to new 740 game PS Plus Premium tier March 2022
- E3 2022 officially cancelled, ESA to try for E3 2023 instead
- Capcom is giving all of its employees a 30% raise
- Report: NetEase to buy Star Wars Eclipse developer Quantic Dream
- Don't buy Sony's new yearly PS Plus Extra subscription, and here's why
- PS Plus Collection games can leave and rotate out just like Game Pass
- Epic Games, Xbox donate $100 million in Fortnite VBucks to Ukraine
- Riot Games has raised $5.4 million for Ukrainian relief
- Breath of the Wild 2 delayed to 2023, Elden Ring may secure GOTY 2022
- Activision harassment lawsuit settled for less than 1% of 2021 revenue
- New PlayStation Plus: 740 games across six generations for $119 a year
- Activision agrees that Warzone install sizes are 'f*cking crazy'
- New One Piece Odyssey game looks like a manga fan's dream RPG
- Video games industry raises over $113 million for Ukraine
- Halo was the best-ever debut across 32.8 million Paramount+ userbase
- Elden Ring Review: One Ring to Rule Them All
- Netflix acquires third game dev studio to release more free games
- Fortnite has raised $70 million for Ukraine in a week
- Sony to make gaming history next week with breakthrough business plan
- GTA+ is a new $5.99/month Grand Theft Auto Online subscription
- Microsoft has paid $2.5 billion to indie devs in the [email protected] program
- DirectStorage GPU-based decompression is coming, Microsoft says
- Gran Turismo 7 players get 1 million free credits as an apology
- DirectStorage reduces CPU overhead by 40% on Windows 11
- Gran Turismo 7 will soon let you sell cars for in-game credits
- DirectStorage currently does not support GPU decompression
- Forspoken loads in just 1 second on PC with DirectStorage
- The Witcher's new medallion is what you think, CD Projekt RED says
- 343: Halo opportunities are 'like porn, you know it when you see it'
- Tencent earned $33 billion in 2021, more than Nintendo & Xbox combined
- Intellivision Amiico retail console gets official unboxing
- New Suicide Squad game's 2023 delay actually makes a lot of sense
- Sony: PS5 VRR coming soon and all games are supported
- Elden Ring patch 1.03.2 doesn't nerf anything (thank Marika!)
- New strange Sonic Xbox controllers belong in a Looney Tunes episode
- Forspoken's strange tilted UI belongs in a VR game, not an RPG
- Stranger Things crosses over with one of the best FPS games of 2021
- Halo brand makes more marketing deals as Halo Infinite stagnates
- New Ghostbusters game announced from Friday the 13th developers
- Fortnite microtransactions raise $36 million for Ukraine in one day
- New PlayStation acquisition secures live service future
- New Witcher game won't be exclusive to Epic Games Store, CDPR confirms
- CD Projekt RED and Epic Games team up to revolutionize Unreal Engine 5
- Witcher 4 will be a 'new saga' for franchise on Unreal Engine 5
- Babylon's Fall will continue as Platinum is likely contractually bound
- Netflix's new Tekken TV show looks epic, has fantastic animation
- Epic is donating 100% of Fortnite's Vbucks earnings to Ukraine relief
- Oblivion turns 16, is now old enough to legally drive in the U.S.
- Stand with Ukraine PC games bundle: $40 for TONs of great games
- Ubisoft brings game engines to the cloud with virtual machines
- Elden Ring has secret walls after all, but there's a catch
- Bungie never wanted to make Destiny 2 and had a vision for single game
- Halo Infinite uses proprietary anti-cheat called Arbiter
- Square Enix donates $500,000 to Ukranian relief
- Hogwarts Legacy looks fantastic on PS5 graphics-wise
- Respawn has multiple projects in incubation including a new IP and FPS
- Embracer Group is prepared to donate up to $5 million to Ukraine
- Hogwarts Legacy will have no microtransactions, Avalanche confirms
- Elden Ring is already getting new content and that's a great sign
- Scream's David Arquette stars in new Supermassive thriller The Quarry
- Starfield will mimic Cyberpunk 2077's character faction starts
- Halo TV series' first season cost as much to make as a video game
- Zynga could help bring full cross-play to GTA Online
- Detroit: Become Human breaks 6.5 million sales, QD working on 3 games
- Quantic Dream seems to have no issue with hiring new developers
- New game economy job listing hints Dragon Age 4 is singleplayer-only
- BIoWare hiring 7 new developers to work on next Mass Effect game
- Elden Ring now officially a franchise, game hits 12 million sales
- GTA 6 release in 2024 is 'likely' says Jefferies analyst
- EA cancels its EA Play Live summer show: 'Things aren't lining up'
- Tencent acquires majority stake in RiME developer Tequila Works
- The perfect Matrix game finally exists and here's what it looks like
- This newly released DirectX 12 API could revolutionize PC games
- NFT sales plummet by 80% and trigger the 'great NFT sell-off'
- Sony devotes an entire State of Play to a single third-party game
- Konami files new trademark for Silent Hill as sequel rumors ramp up
- Report: GTA 6 coming in 2024, Rockstar making tons of progress
- FromSoftware workers report low pay as parent company earns $1 billion
- Discovery will soon be WB Games' new parent company
- Ex-Nintendo president doesn't trust Zuckerberg to innovate metaverse
- Gearbox boss: Borderlands 3 PlayStation cross-play is 'inevitable'
- Nintendo stops console & game shipments to Russia due to 'volatility'
- Xbox aspires to have a 'steady stream' of new games released over time
- Peter Molyneux's new game Legacy has sold $57 million worth of NFTs
- System Shock, Deus Ex dev Warren Spector: 'NFTs are ridiculous'
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake 2 news teased on new 35th anniversary site
- Halo TV show: Here's how much Master Chief's armor weighs in real life
- Fake GameCube meme console becomes real, complete with folding screen
- Russia Ukraine war to significantly impact chip supply
- Activision's most important game is coming to mobile
- Grab GTA IV for super cheap right now on Steam's new Rockstar sale
- Dead Space remake confirmed for early 2023, possibly before March 31
- Windows drivers released for Steam Deck (but there's no audio yet)
- Bungie may have as many as 4 new projects in the works
- Analyst: PlayStation is doomed, they can't compete and have no chance
- New indie mega bundle raises $3.5 million for Ukraine relief
- Destiny 2 content and expansions removed from sale in Russia, Belarus
- This one game saved Sony's State of Play from disaster
- Russia can no longer buy PlayStation games or consoles
- Analyst: Rockstar has 5 games in development including GTA 6
- New Batman multiplayer game Gotham Knights coming October 2022
- Deep Silver parent company donates $500,000 to Ukrainian relief
- Steam's 2021 MAUs beat PlayStation, more than double Epic Game Store
- Xbox consoles reach 2.3 million lifetime sales in Japan
- Sanctions block Russian Twitch streamers from getting paid
- Watch the Halo TV show for cheap with this amazing Paramount+ deal
- Here's why you shouldn't compare Assassin's Creed to Elden Ring
- Grand Theft Auto V is only $10 on PS5, and $20 on Xbox Series X/S
- Amazon in talks to produce God of War TV show for Prime Video
- Cyberpunk 2077's amazing character models showcased in eye-opening vid
- Gamer pays cam girl $20,000 to play Elden Ring with him for 40 hours
- Dead Space remake live stream announced for March 11
- WWE may leave 2K Games and negotiate a deal with EA Sports
- Activision ceases game sales in Russia, raises $300,000 for Ukraine
- Square Enix's latest RPG gets delayed by 8 months
- Halo Infinite should cross over with other Xbox Studios franchises
- Epic Games stops commerce with Russia in protest of Ukraine invasion
- Sony hiring for head of live services to lead new online games
- Halo Infinite lead multiplayer systems designer leaves 343 Industries
- Amazon cancels plans for Russian language support in New World
- Red Hot Chili Pepper's Californication music video is a playable game
- SEGA pledges a meaningful donation to Ukrainian relief
- One of Halo's best game modes is finally coming to Halo Infinite
- Halo Infinite campaign and split-screen co-op delayed
- EA bans sales of games in Russia and Belarus due to Ukraine war
- Nintendo eShop no longer accepts Russian rubles
- Microsoft stops sales of Xbox consoles, games, and services in Russia
- Thanks to Funimation, Crunchyroll now offers 40,000 episodes of anime
- Dungeon Siege is back, but fans are very disappointed
- GTA V has a 4K 60FPS raytracing mode on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Gran Turismo 7 microtransactions are 700% more expensive than GT Sport
- The Nintendo Switch, five years later by the numbers
- The Pokemon Company donates $200,000 to help Ukrainian families
- Babylon's Fall could be Square Enix's latest flop
- CD Projekt RED stands with Ukraine, bans game sales in Russia, Belarus
- Buy John Romero's new Doom II map and support Ukrainian relief
- Intellivision goes quiet as it negotiates with new investors
- World of Tanks developer fired for supporting Ukraine invasion
- Netflix buys its second game developer to accelerate free gaming plan
- STALKER 2 development halted as dev team faces war in Ukraine
- Sony exports mysterious 'console prototypes' to U.S.
- Epic Games has acquired music marketplace Bandcamp
- Sony ships out thousands of mysterious dev kits...what are they for?
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human Review
- Forspoken will tap GPU power to unlock full NVMe speeds on PC
- Steam Deck stick drift is real, but dead zone calibration can help
- Bandai Namco gives all employees $5,000 a year raise
- Rejoice, Tarnished! Trolli has created edible Elden Rings
- Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin celebrates Elden Ring launch
- DLSS-enabled Nintendo Switch Pro reportedly found in NVIDIA leak February 2022
- Twisted Metal TV show: Post-apocalyptic comedy coming to NBC's Peacock
- NetMarble creates its own blockchain with proprietary cryptocurrency
- More powerful Steam Decks will happen, Valve says
- Valve has no plans to raise Steam Deck price to match high demand
- Payday 3 news: Development is in full production for 2023 release
- Elden Ring guide: Limgrave east and west map fragment locations
- Elden Ring guide: How to get the Torrent mount
- Steam Deck may inadvertently steal Nintendo's retro gaming market
- Diablo 2 ladder: D2R ladder reset may be in April 2022
- Valve plans to support the Steam Deck for a 'long time to come'
- Meet the new starter Pokemon for Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet
- New Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will supercharge Nintendo's 2022
- Gabe Newell is 'more than happy' to get Game Pass on Steam
- Elden Ring PS5 and Xbox Series X/S load times shows surprising results
- FromSoftware is 'constantly working' to fix Elden Ring's PC FPS issues
- DICE 2021 awards opens with: 'F*ck Bobby Kotick'
- Gabe Newell reveals why crypto games were removed from Steam
- Naraka Bladepoint's NetEase earned $9.8 billion from games in 2021
- Mobile titan NetMarble is working on six blockchain games
- PlayStation Spartacus is a lot like Nintendo Switch Online + PS Plus
- Microsoft has 'lot of interest' in making Fallout New Vegas 2
- Mass Effect 5 release date is years away, game in early pre-production
- Dragon Age series has lost two executive producers in 3 years
- Dragon Age 4 enters 'middle stage' of production, may be ready in 2024
- Apex Legends mobile moves into regional testing
- No Call of Duty for 2023 may impact Xbox, PlayStation earnings
- Call of Duty 2023: No mainline game, zombies instead
- LEGO will help bring 2K Sports' billion-dollar brand to casual gamers
- Game Pass watch out, Sony secures day one releases on PlayStation Now
- Bethesda.net PC launcher is dead, all games moving to Steam
- Square Enix orders more HD2D remakes...it's time for Chrono Trigger
- Guardians of the Galaxy launch sales 'undershot expectations'
- Final Fantasy XIV 10-year content roadmap announced
- Analyst: Sony vastly overpaid, Bungie makes $200 million revenue
- Fallout 76's 2022 roadmap: New seasons, expeditions and more
- Darkstalkers is back with new 10-game arcade collection
- Street Fighter 6 was built for esports with next-gen haduken tech
- Crypto games actually aren't very popular, still very speculative
- Team Ricochet serves just desserts to Warzone cheaters
- Embracer has made 71 acquisitions, has $851 million for more buyouts
- Nintendo top 10 games: Pokemon smashes with nearly 14 million sales
- Nintendo made $6 billion net sales, $1.7 billion net profits in Q3'22
- Borderlands 3 sales hit 15 million, franchise sales at 74 million
- Borderlands dev Gearbox plans to release 10 AAA games by 2026
- Hot Wheels Unleashed broke even on second day of sales, Milestone says
- Embracer Group now has 271 IPs and franchises across 88 studios
- Diablo 2 player breaks max life threshold with 33,000+ life barbarian
- Battlefield 2042 needs to go free-to-play to succeed, data suggests
- Embracer gives coy update on Dead Island 2 release date
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla has made $1 billion in consumer revenues
- Nintendo has been called 'destructive' to video game preservation
- Nintendo Switch has generated nearly $60 billion in revenues
- Ubisoft to deliver 4 AAA games in FY23 including Skull & Bones
- Ubisoft Q3 earnings drop 30% in 2021, and here's why
- Ubisoft on buyout possibilities: 'We can remain independent'
- Embracer has an incredible 216 games in development
- EA should 'blame' this game for Battlefield 2042's demise, not Halo
- Metro Exodus game sales: 6 million copies sold to date
- The Last of Us TV show set for 2023, HBO exec says
- CD Projekt wants to raise Cyberpunk 2077's 30FPS cap on Xbox Series S
- Halo TV show season 2 ordered as part of Paramount+ content blitz
- Sonic 3 movie and a live-action Sonic TV show are in development
- Nintendo permanently removes retro games from sale starting in 2023
- Why is Sony obfuscating Horizon Forbidden West's pricing?
- Elden Ring PC specs: GTX 1060, i5-8400 minimum, GTX 1070 recommended
- The Ring, The Grudge producers making a BioShock movie with Netflix
- Seagate reveals Horizon Forbidden West external HDDs for PS4, PS5
- Next-gen Cyberpunk 2077 patch gives you a reason to play on consoles
- Reminder: Final Fantasy 15 had its own metaverse years ago
- Bandai Namco's grand metaverse may include Tekken, Dragon Ball hubs
- CryptoPunk Alien NFT sells for $23.6 million (8,000 ETH)
- CD Projekt may reveal Cyberpunk 2077 PS5, Series X release tomorrow
- Chip shortage could delay new next-gen Switch Pro, Switch 4K
- Chip shortage eats into Nintendo Switch console profits
- Nintendo won't tarnish wholesome brand image on speculative metaverse
- Nintendo races towards subscription retention with new Mario Kart DLC
- 'Exciting releases' will help make Take-Two earn $3 billion this year
- Take-Two microtransaction revenues hit $551 million in Q3, 5 year high
- Some of Take-Two's 62 game pipeline could be delayed or cancelled
- Rockstar doesn't need to charge $69.99 for GTA V on PS5, Series X
- PlayStation first-party game sales: PS4 & PS5 1st party sales so far
- Horizon Zero Dawn sales double to 20 million in 3 years time
- Warzone 2 is a 'massive evolution of battle royale' on a new engine
- PS5 beats Switch, Series X sales in January due to wider availability
- SEGA's F2P games are popular in Japan, but not really anywhere else
- Legendary Wii Sports gets resurrected on Nintendo Switch
- No Man's Sky opens the infinite cosmos on Nintendo Switch
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, Warzone 2 may be revealed tomorrow
- YouTube made $28 billion from ads in 2021, more than PlayStation
- YouTube NFTs: Creators may soon monetize video & art NFTs on new store
- YouTube is embracing the metaverse, starts with gaming
- GTA 6 may emphasize singleplayer: We never said singleplayer was dead
- New Assassin's Creed game will be smaller in scope, not open-world
- Grand Theft Auto series has made $7.3 billion since GTA V's release
- Zynga to make blockchain play-to-earn NFT games
- Microsoft: All future Call of Duty games coming to PlayStation too
- GTA trilogy boosts Grand Theft Auto franchise sales to $310 million
- PlayStation first-party game sales made up 12% of Q3 software
- Sony's new live games need to be F2P and not require PS Plus
- Kirby may headline tomorrow's new surprise Nintendo Direct
- Intellivision has raised at least $39 million for the Amico
- Red Dead Redemption sales: 65 million total, RDR2 at 42 million
- GTA trilogy remaster sold 10 million, or 30% of GTA V's launch sales
- GTA V hits 160 million sales, beats entire Assassin's Creed series
- PlayStation: $4 billion in games revenues, 94% from digital
- PS Plus: 43% of PlayStation MAUs are PlayStation Plus subscribers
- Sony made over $2 billion from microtransactions in Holiday 2021
- King has made more money than Blizzard every year in the last 3 years
- Nintendo has sold over 5.3 billion games in 38 years
- Activision made a record $5.1 billion from microtransactions in 2021
- Activision 2021 earnings: Best year ever, record revenues and income
- Call of Duty Mobile has made $1.5 billion since launch
- Of course Vanguard sales were down: 2020 was Call of Duty's best year
- GTA V E&E on PS5, Series X: 4K 60 FPS, raytracing, next-gen effects
- Steam Deck is a chonky beast of a handheld (because it's also a PC)
- GTA 6 development 'well underway', Rockstar confirms
- Naughty Dog could be working on 3 new PlayStation projects
- Nintendo has sold over 533 million handhelds in 33 years
- Switch sales beat Wii, likely to beat Game Boy by Holiday 2022
- Nintendo Switch sales break 100 million
- PlayStation pecking order: Here's where the PS5 fits in
- Sony has $10 billion left to spend on acquisitions through 2023
- PS4 and PS5 unite to sell nearly 2 billion games combined
- Sony offers Bungie employees $1.2 billion retention incentive plan
- PS5 sales figures: PS5 hits 17.3 million shipments, PS4 at 117.1m
- WarnerMedia delays Suicide Squad game to 2023 before Discovery merger
- PS4 sales at lowest point for second consecutive quarter in a row
- EA will 'keep looking at' new acquisitions going forward
- EA: Skate 4 launching soon, will support user-generated content
- EA Play may deliver content 'beyond games' in the future
- EA has 3-4 unannounced games to release in FY23 period
- Apex Legends will make nearly $1 billion in FY22, EA says
- EA now lukewarm on NFTs: 'Right now we're not driving hard' on NFTs
- Battlefield 2042's 'disappointing sales' drops EA's forecast by $100m
- Destiny 2's Witch Queen is a huge success and it's not even out yet
- Sony could revolutionize PlayStation gaming with Discord's help
- FTC investigates Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout for anti-trust
- Game devs condemn NFTs, tell fans they will never support them January 2022
- Zelda NES world map built with LEGO bricks defines the word epic
- Bungie buyout signals big evolution of Sony's games business
- Destiny won't be PlayStation exclusive following Sony buyout
- Sony buys Bungie: Destiny dev remains independent, self-publish games
- Sony is buying Bungie, creators of Halo and Destiny
- Sony goes cross-plat: First PlayStation Studios game coming to Switch
- Last of Us actor Troy Baker heeds fans, abandons NFT plans
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake 2 announcement news 'maybe' coming this year
- Report: The Rock to star in new Call of Duty movie
- Miyazaki: Elden Ring won't make players bang their head against a wall
- FF7 Remake 2: Multiple new Final Fantasy 7 projects coming Nomura says
- Halo TV show release date: Streaming only on Paramount+ in March
- Peacock: 9 million paid subscribers, 2022 spending to hit $3 billion
- Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 update: New box art spotted, may not be delayed
- Halo Infinite's new gametype is aimed at casual recreational players
- Halo Infinite Big Team Battle BTB: New fix will take 'some time'
- Ubisoft clearly doesn't get NFT market, Quartz NFTs are bad business
- New Evil Dead game delayed to Friday the 13th, May 2022
- SEGA sells all arcade business shares, will still make arcade cabinets
- Warzone 2: Separate game that starts fresh with Modern Warfare 2
- Mortal Kombat 12: NetherRealm trolls fans with spoof leak
- Shovel Knight 2? Yacht Club possibly teases new Shovel Knight game
- Death Stranding Director's Cut PC releases March 30 with $10 upgrade
- New ESO expansion, High Isle, includes all previous expansions
- Crytek ramping up workforce for Crysis 4, is hiring 23 developers
- Hyperscrapped: Ubisoft kills battle royale Hyper Scape
- Horizon Forbidden West is finished and ready to ship on PS4 and PS5
- AT&T didn't mention WB Games or video games once in its Q4 report
- WarnerMedia re-iterates Gotham Knights, Hogwarts Legacy 2022 launch
- Dying Light 2 will be supported until 2027 with new DLC, expansions
- Activision doesn't recognize Raven union, forces NLRB election process
- Halo TV show's alternate timeline could cross-over into Halo Infinite
- HBO Max, HBO add 13 million subscribers in 2021
- The Steam Deck, Valve's Switch-like handheld PC, releases Feb 25
- Of course Halo Infinite is biggest launch in Halo history...it's free
- Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty 2023, new Warzone coming to PlayStation
- Why did Netflix stock drop? The reasons behind the 28% share plummet
- Xbox makes history with $5.4 billion earnings during Holiday quarter
- Blizzard's new IP: Modern meets fantasy online survival game
- Respawn making 3 new Star Wars games: FPS, Jedi Fallen Order 2, more
- Outriders 2: People Can Fly making second game for Square Enix
- NetEase's billions back Yakuza director's new gaming dreams
- Outriders took 5 years to develop, Square Enix deal was signed in 2016
- Outriders Worldslayer: Second major expansion possible for 2023
- Steam concurrent users hit all-time high of 29.2 million
- D2 Act 6: Streamer indicates D2R expansion possible with new act
- Analyst: Xbox to make $16 billion in 2023, Activision $10 billion
- Law firms investigate motivations behind Activision-Blizzard buyout
- Sony: There was no plan to end PS4 production in 2021
- Switch N64 Zelda Ocarina of Time graphics haven't been fixed after all
- This new Switch N64 game adds big value to Switch Online service
- Ubisoft done with Watch Dogs Legion, no more updates coming
- 343i finally fixing Halo Infinite's monetization, and here's how
- Ubisoft Quartz NFTs only made $2,392, likely hurt by higher supply
- Most game devs not interested in NFTs or crypto, GDC survey suggests
- D2 new runewords: This new D2R runeword is very strange
- Netflix won't be making all of its own video games
- Netflix subscribers hit 221 million in 2021 as paid adds miss mark
- COD Xbox exclusive: Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation
- Reminder: Sony authorized to spend $18 billion on investments
- Call of Duty exclusivity: First Xbox, then PlayStation...now Xbox?
- Activision: This is the right transaction, right buyer, at right time
- Sony to lose $260 million a year if Call of Duty goes Xbox exclusive
- Sony believes Activision games won't be Xbox exclusive
- Halo Infinite Big Team Battle is still broken after new update
- Take-Two CEO: GTA trilogy remaster doing 'great' despite launch issues
- Activision CEO contemplated buying press websites to control coverage
- New D2R runewords: Unbending Will, Flickering Flame, Wisdom, Mist
- Rockstar Games receives $77 million tax credit for RDR2, GTA 6
- Phil Spencer becomes Microsoft's first CEO of gaming
- Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision buyout is largest in game history
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick to leave following Microsoft buyout
- Xbox Game Pass now has 440 games, offers tremendous value
- Xbox Game Pass hits 25 million subscribers, up 150% in two years
- Activision-Blizzard games aren't going full Xbox exclusive
- Diablo 2 gets its first new runeword in 17 years, and it's amazing
- Xbox Series S in stock at Amazon for $299 MSRP
- Warzone suffers as dozens of Activision devs remain on strike
- Activision shareholders threaten to divest if demands aren't met
- Sony's latest backwards compatibility patent isn't new, just revised
- GTA V may be delayed on PS5, Xbox Series X over technical difficulties
- Here's what Elder Scrolls 6 could look like on Xbox Series X
- PS3 games on PS5 are remnants of PS Now, not backward compatibility
- Konami Castlevania NFTs: over $164,000 (49 WETH) made so far
- God of War PC played by over 49,000 Steam gamers in first day
- Halo Infinite store prices to drop after 41 days of over-monetization
- Respawn's next game is a singleplayer FPS set in 'unique universe'
- Netflix hikes price of basic, standard & 4K subscriptions plans
- Game services made $127 billion in 2020, or 70% of total earnings
- Games actor Troy Baker embraces NFTs: You can create, or you can hate
- SEGA files multiple NFT trademarks, including SEGA NFT classics
- Xbox One retired, Microsoft now exclusively produces Xbox Series X/S
- Activision's Bobby Kotick is #2 most-paid CEO in gaming
- Halo Infinite's multiplayer to get 'serial narrative content'
- Analysts: GTA 6 to release by 2024 and help earn $9 billion
- WipEout devs making new Twisted Metal game for Sony
- Feature-complete build of Horizon Forbidden West leaked
- Sony brings PS4 production out of retirement to offset PS5 demand
- STALKER 2 gets a massive delay to the very end of 2022
- Take-Two to bring mobile games to Zynga ad tech platform within 1 year
- Halo franchise game sales figures: Will Halo Infinite ignite sales?
- Xbox Series X/S shipments estimated at 12 million, beats Xbox One, 360
- 343i to fix some of Halo Infinite's biggest issues by February
- LEGO may cut ties with Activision-Blizzard over abuse scandal
- Associated Press to sell decades' worth of historic photos as NFTs
- Dying Light 2 only takes 20 hours to beat, Techland clarifies
- Top most expensive video game acquisition buyouts of all time
- Take-Two's $12 billion Zynga buyout is largest in video games history
- Rust has sold 12.4 million copies in the last 8 years
- The Order: 1886 PS5 remake possibly in development
- Halo Infinite cross-core customization could take months of work
- FromSoftware's new Armored Core game is a sci-fi Dark Souls
- New KOTOR Remake to have action combat like FF15 and NiOh
- Analyst: Next-gen Switch Pro 4K model coming in 2024, not in 2022
- Dying Light 2's playthrough time is 10x longer than Breath of the Wild
- The best PC game of all time gets reborn with new ray tracing mod
- 343i hiring new Halo Infinite monetization designer
- Mario Kart 9 is in active development for Switch, will have a 'twist'
- New South Park FPS may have South Park 64-style online multiplayer
- Halo Infinite players want compensation for broken Big Team Battle
- GameStop won't stop at NFTs, now investing in blockchain games
- Apple CEO Tim Cook's compensation was nearly $100 million in 2021
- Epic Games uses Sony's next-gen VENICE cameras to power the metaverse
- Sony's PlayStation VR 2 is about innovation, not sales
- Dying Light 2's new skill trees feature more moves and abilities
- Fallout TV series casting calls sent out by Amazon
- PlayStation Tournaments coming to PS5, gamers compete for cash prizes
- E3 2022 will be digital as ESA, publishers give up LACC venue spot
- Here's why Konami's new Castlevania NFTs aren't worth buying
- New Elder Scrolls Online expansion takes us to sea elves' Pyandonea
- SEGA promises to avoid NFTs if gamers think it's a money-making scheme
- Ubisoft+ is coming to Xbox, but won't be included in Game Pass
- HBO Max hits 73.8 million subscribers, but Netflix and Disney+ conquer
- PS5's Death Stranding Director's Cut is coming to PC via Steam
- Here's how much Netflix executives will make in 2022
- PC gamers vote: Here are Steam's best games of 2021
- Ken Levine's next game is very far behind, doesn't have a name yet
- One of the best Star Wars games ever is free for Amazon Prime users
- Kojima's new game: 'experimental, radical, and will challenge mediums'
- Twitch co-founder launches Fractal NFT marketplace
- PC gaming explodes: Steam hits new 28 million concurrent player record
- SEGA: PC makes up 16% of total Yakuza series lifetime sales
- Yoshi-P teases the next Final Fantasy XIV saga arc
- Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 is apparently coming to Xbox soon
- Grand Theft Auto trilogy remaster physical retail version has no maps
- Square Enix wants to do it all: blockchain, cloud gaming, AI, XR
- Square Enix to make play-to-earn blockchain games with token economies