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 7761 pieces of content
- June 2021
- Starfield built on next-gen Creation Engine 2 tech for Series X, PC
- Starfield releases 11/11/22, is Xbox Series X/S and PC exclusive
- Insomniac says they were astonished by the PlayStation 5's power
- Wizard With a Gun channels Ralph Bakshi, Toejam and Earl, Don't Starve
- Geoff Keighley's big Elden Ring reveal was years in the making
- Far Cry 6 playable villain DLC is a roguelike revenge fantasy
- Jordan Vogt-Roberts working on game-related projects beyond Metal Gear
- Vaas is returning to Far Cry 6 as a playable character
- Homeworld 3 now in production, isn't a prequel or a remaster
- Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope: 2022 release, not a sequel, new combat
- Ubisoft's new Avatar game: Next-gen exclusive, coming in 2022
- More Assassin's Creed Valhalla expansions coming in 2022
- Riders Republic: Jetpacks, snowboards and hovercraft fun in September
- The new Evil Dead game looks hellishly fun, brings PvPvE chaos in 2021
- Jedi: Fallen Order's PS5 version natively imports PS4 saves
- Sony: 'Our IP is so strong it seems perverse' not to expand to mobile
- Elden Ring: Set in Lands Between, a seamless and dynamic fantasy realm
- New Splinter Cell, Far Cry, and Castlevania TV shows announced
- E3 leak: Outer Worlds 2 reveal coming, Microsoft to publish
- Kojima changes creative process after Death Stranding predicted COVID
- Shadow Warrior 3's Flying Wild Hog to reveal new game at Devolver's E3
- New next-gen Xbox consoles in development at Microsoft
- Microsoft to release 4 first-party Xbox exclusives every year
- Hackers steal one of EA's most prized billion-dollar assets
- Elden Ring: January 21, 2022 on PS5, Series X, here's tons of screens
- Death Stranding director's cut announced for PlayStation 5
- Battlefield 2042 is $69.99 on PS5, Series X, no free next-gen upgrade
- GameStop's new CEO left Amazon to lead e-commerce transformation
- GameStop shrinks debt by 91% in 2021, losses reduced by 59%
- Game Pass coming to smart TVs as native built-in app
- Microsoft Flight Simulator listed for June 15 release on Xbox Series X
- Call of Duty Vanguard to be revealed in Warzone, WWII tie-in at launch
- Overwatch is getting cross-play, cross-progression coming soon
- BF2042: No campaign, story told exclusively through multiplayer
- New BF2042 mode developed by Respawn boss at DICE LA, no battle royale
- Battlefield 2042's 128-player Conquest exclusive to PS5, Series X, PC
- Capcom E3 stream set for Monday, June 14 at 5:30PM EST
- Valve's new Steam Pal handheld may not be revealed at E3
- Borderlands dev's new game accidentally confirmed by site code
- Ubisoft changes new Rainbow Six name to make it COVID-19-friendly
- Halo Infinite community director shoots down 'bogus' reports
- EA introduces new Battlefield logo ahead of game reveal
- These awesome indie games need to be on your radar
- Respawn might be working on multiple Star Wars projects at once
- Microsoft may announce new smaller-scale acquisition at E3 2021
- E3 2021: Here's all the dates, times, and streams
- Far Cry 6: Everything we know so far
- At $399, Atari VCS will serve a niche market when it releases June 15
- New Battlefield leaks: Called Battlefield 2042, beta test in June
- Take-Two buys leading soccer dev in latest play for mobile growth
- The only current Xbox Series X exclusive is also coming to PS5
- Dead Island 2, new Metro, and Saints Row V won't be at E3 2021
- Rumor: Halo Infinite will release September 2021 with crazy MP hybrid
- U.S. may be conquered in Battlefield 6, there's 'no home to return to'
- Battlefield 6 screenshot leak: futuristic setting, crazy sandstorms
- Dark Horse forms game division, new Hellboy, Sin City games possible
- 2K Games E3 leaks: Firaxis Marvel game, Borderlands Tiny Tina spin-off
- New Battlefield trailer on June 9 should deliver huge BF6 info blowout
- EA CEO Andrew Wilson: The games industry is on fire
- New Guardians of the Galaxy game may premiere at Square Enix's E3 show
- GTA 6 may use Bitcoin as in-game currency
- Nintendo to transform old customer service plant into a gaming museum
- EA builds hype for modern-day Battlefield 6 with a free copy of BF4
- Nintendo E3 2021 plans confirmed for June 15 at 12PM EST
- No, CD Projekt RED isn't making new games based on Thorgal comic books
- Sony confirms Days Gone 2 is dead, Sony Bend working on new IP
- God of War sequel delayed to 2022 to focus on quality, safety of team
- God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7: not PS5 exclusives, coming to PS4
- Pokemon Company made a record $1.1 billion in 2020
- Crysis Remastered Trilogy announced for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, Switch
- Battlefield 6 reveal: June 9 at 10AM EST on YouTube
- SEGA wants to create multiple billion-dollar Super Games by 2030
- CD Projekt still not sure when Cyberpunk 2077 returns to PS Store May 2021
- 1/3rd of Cyberpunk 2077's dev team is preparing future games
- Yes, Far Cry 6's guerrilla revolution is political, Ubisoft says
- Cyberpunk 2077 made over $21 million in CD Projekt's Q1 period
- CD Projekt hits record Q1 revenues, net profits slide on high expenses
- Far Cry 6 has outfits that buff stats similar to Assassin's Creed
- Techland is taking your Dying Light 2 questions for new info video
- Far Cry 6 devs holding Reddit AMA on June 1 to answer your questions
- Ubisoft hires AI, machine learning expert to lead product technology
- Shadow Warrior 3 dev Flying Wild Hog is working on four new games
- Saints Row V, Dead Island 2 and more likely at new Koch Media E3 event
- PlayStation 5 will be profitable next month and beyond, Sony says
- Sony confirms PS4 is critical to PlayStation business through 2023
- Far Cry 6 releases October 7, 2021 on consoles and PC
- New Switch Pro dock may have an ethernet port
- Leaked Battlefield 6 footage isn't the actual reveal trailer
- Horizon Forbidden West has a glider and a grappling hook
- Sony to spend lots more on game development, Jim Ryan says
- Far Cry 6 has jetpacks and rocket-shooting backpacks after all
- Dying Light 2's City Alignment system lets you reshape the world
- Dragon Quest XII to use Unreal Engine 5, dev in early prototype stages
- Switch Pro planned for September 2021, to phase out base Switch model
- Dragon Quest III getting remade in Octopath Traveler's HD-2D engine
- Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate announced as a darker, adult RPG
- Sony will sell more PS5s next year than any other PlayStation console
- Sony to spend $18 billion on investments, more acquisitions possible
- Uncharted 4 is coming to PC, Sony confirms in new presentation
- Unreal Engine 5's new temporal AA upscaling is great for PS5, Series X
- Creative Assembly's new 'Super Game' FPS could be SEGA's own Fortnite
- Here's Unreal Engine 5 running on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X
- Xbox E3 2021 show: June 13 with 90-minute reel of Xbox, Bethesda games
- Ubisoft to show off Far Cry 6 next-gen gameplay on Friday, May 28
- Sony to double-down on mobile ports of PlayStation IPs
- PlayStation boss Jim Ryan to discuss gaming today at Sony's IR Day
- Sony AI working with first-party PS5 devs on AI machine learning
- Ubisoft+ subscribers will get free in-game items every month
- CD Projekt still doesn't know when Cyberpunk 2077 will be back on PS4
- SEGA plans simultaneous global releases, new games on Epic Store
- New Dying Light 2 stream set for Thursday, May 27
- SEGA to hold special Sonic showcase to celebrate 30th anniversary
- New State of Play to show new Horizon Forbidden West PS5 gameplay
- Valve's new SteamPal may be a Switch-like handheld that plays PC games
- Roblox 'should be accessible on all devices,' CEO says
- Tony Hawk 3 remastered possibly in the works
- Unreal Engine 5's new Nanite tech will transform next-gen game dev
- GTA V on next-gen likely to cost $69.99 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- After its triumphant Returnal, Housemarque is hungry for more
- Netflix to make more games as extensions of established franchises
- EA teases new IPs and games that will lean into user-generated content
- EA opens new studio for an open-world game, Shadow of War exec to lead
- With COD Vanguard, Battlefield 6, GTA V, Holiday 2021 will be packed
- GTA V made nearly $1 billion in revenue last year
- Take-Two Interactive will release 62 games in the next 3 years
- Summer Game Fest starts June 10 with 35 attendees announced
- Naughty Dog has been 'digging into PS5 hardware' since launch
- GTA parent company isn't worried about PS5, Xbox Series X shortages
- Starfield is 'nowhere near done,' team was small until 2019
- Take-Two CEO on metaverse: 'We already do that in GTA Online'
- Embracer is paying Sony, Microsoft, Steam more than it spends on games
- New Knights of the Old Republic KOTOR remake may release by March 2022
- Instant fast travel in Skyward Sword HD is locked behind a $25 amiibo
- The Last of Us 2 now hits nearly perfect 60FPS on PS5
- GTA Online with Roblox's business model? Take-Two CEO comments
- Bethesda.net online forums will be shut down very soon
- Gearbox's new IP will release by April 2022 with 2K Games publishing
- Securities fraud lawsuit against CD Projekt Group moves forward
- eBay banning Adults Only rated video games sales in July
- Outer Worlds 2 may be published by Private Division, not Microsoft
- GTA 6 may release in Take-Two's FY2024 (April 2023 - March 2024)
- Grand Theft Auto V has now sold 145 million copies worldwide
- Rockstar teases GTA III surprises, Liberty City in GTA Online?
- GTA V releases for the third time on PS5, Series X in November 2021
- Tencent's new cloud gaming controller is swappable and modular
- Payday 3 company Starbreeze shrinks its losses by 95%
- New Starfield leak shows progress from early 2019 build
- Report: Starfield release date may be 2/22/22 exclusively on Xbox, PC
- Fallout 76 players really don't like the new legendary crafting system
- FF7 Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase now leads Final Fantasy franchise
- Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker: Tons of screenshots, videos and more
- Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker release date is November 23 on PS4/PS5, PC
- Starfield is Xbox, PC exclusive, will skip PS4 and PS5, report says
- Sony releasing black DualSense controller 8 months after PS5's launch
- Starfield leaked screenshots show third-person, first-person action
- Nintendo: Our production plans are more uncertain now than other years
- Sony giving away free Call of Duty Warzone double XP tokens on May 20
- Nintendo gearing up R&D spending for next-gen hardware, tons of games
- 80s stars Rambo, John McClane coming to Warzone, Black Ops, COD Mobile
- Remedy to self-publish and self-finance some future games
- From Alan Wake to Control: Remedy revenues grew 700% in last 10 years
- Control team's new AAA project in early pre-production phase
- Remedy's new Epic-funded AAA game entering full production
- Dragon Age 4 release date won't happen before EA's FY2023 period
- Sony: 25 new PS5 games in development, will offer incredible variety
- EA teases 'new business models' for Battlefield 6 for extended play
- Quakecon 2021 is all-digital this August, in-person event cancelled
- EA 'leaning heavily' into big franchises with record R&D spending
- EA expects Apex Legends to make $750 million this year in net bookings
- EA isn't ready to give up on last-gen consoles, no next-gen exclusives
- EA outlines new three-part plan responsible for $7.3 billion guidance
- Apex Legends earnings hit $1 billion, made $600 million in FY2021
- EA: Battlefield 6 coming to PS4, Xbox One, not next-gen exclusive
- EA CEO confirms Battlefield 6 reveal for June, not this month
- Valve boss teases Steam games coming to consoles
- EA Play Live returns in late-July, expect Star Wars, Dragon Age & more
- Roblox gears up for significant expansion as Q1 revenues, DAUs soar
- Uncharted 4 was the first time facial capture was used at Naughty Dog
- PS5 supply 'won't catch up with demand' despite 6nm refresh in 2022
- Battlefield 6's reveal set for June, DICE teases a big 'boom'
- The Coalition will push Unreal Engine 5 to new levels on Xbox Series X
- Die Hard's John McClane to join Rambo in Call of Duty Warzone
- Rambo coming to Call of Duty Warzone on May 20
- The Division gets F2P spinoff, may eventually follow Warzone model
- Leaked Starfield image borrows John Berkey's exotic sci-fi style
- Final Fantasy VII Intergrade is PlayStation exclusive, 6 months on PS5
- CD Projekt may team up with modders for Witcher 3 next-gen release
- Warzone to be next Metaverse stage with Rambo, Terminator crossovers
- Sony's PlayStation 5 refresh in 2022 won't be a PS5 Pro
- Activision exec: Each of our franchises has to have a mobile presence
- Randy Pitchford confirms Borderlands 4: 'We're working on the big one'
- Activision teases big financial 'step change' in 2022
- Nintendo reports all-time profit high of $4.5 billion in FY2021
- Nintendo made $3.2 billion from digital games in FY2021, up 68% YoY
- Xboxes aren't profitable, but the Nintendo Switch certainly is
- Nintendo's top 10 Switch games have each sold 10 million copies
- Switch hits 84.59 million sales and conquers Game Boy Advance
- Days Gone studio Sony Bend ramping up workforce for new IP on PS5
- Tencent could be forced to sell ownership of Riot and stake in Epic
- PlayStation 5's Game Boost titles outlined in new Sony teaser
- Mass Effect remaster trilogy hits 120FPS on Series X, 60FPS on PS5
- Microsoft exec: Our 30% commission is required to build Xbox consoles
- Activision's Q1 2021 performance is the best in 10 years
- Xbox boss 'hasn't given up' on launching xCloud on PlayStation, Switch
- Activision Q1 microtransctions hit $1.343 billion, best Q1 in 6 years
- Dead Island 2 listed as Epic Games Store timed exclusive
- Activision teases big Warzone boom: 'Were just scratching the surface'
- Activision expects to make a record-breaking $8.37 billion in 2021
- Call of Duty Vanguard built for next-gen PS5, Series X consoles
- Walmart game streaming service, Project Storm, outed by Epic trial
- CD Projekt vice president of game design leaves because of 'bad blood'
- Sony buys minority stake in Discord, PSN and Discord to unify in 2022
- FPS Boost breathes new life into 97 Xbox games
- How to play the Resident Evil Village demo as much as you want on PC
- Elden Ring may be delayed further, FromSoftware parent company warns
- Mass Effect trilogy remaster comes with a 11GB day one patch
- Microsoft may reduce Xbox game store cut from 30% to just 12%
- Nintendo to solve Switch shortage in 2021 with 30 million unit influx
- Epic Games buys creative powerhouse ArtStation, all tutorials now free
- Hitman dev's new IP may be a medieval fantasy online game with dragons
- Here's a look at guns in Halo PC's third-person shooter prototype
- Konami is in 'deep development' on new games, maybe Silent Hill? April 2021
- Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask possibly coming to Switch eShop in 2021
- 343 is going all out with Halo Infinite's PC port
- Halo Infinite: cross-gen cross-play, cross-progression on PC and Xbox
- Doom Eternal now has paid cosmetic microtransactions
- Activision cuts CEO Bobby Kotick's salary, shrinks bonus by millions
- New Assassin's Creed Valhalla update makes Altair's armor viable
- Valheim publisher Coffee Stain: New games won't be heavily monetized
- Call of Duty is the third best-selling franchise of all time
- Resident Evil Village has a hilariously weird puppet show spoof
- Microsoft delivers an Epic win for game developers
- Battlefield V headlines PS Plus freebies ahead of Battlefield 6 reveal
- Sony to invest another $184 million in first-party PlayStation studios
- PS4 is the king of software with 1.5 billion games sold, dethrones PS2
- GameStop will use new share offering to wipe out long-term debt
- PS4 sales dwindle, total 116.1 million as PS5 breaks into Sony charts
- PlayStation 5 launch slightly beats PS4 at 7.8 million shipments
- Monster Hunter Rise soars across Capcom's charts with 6 million sales
- Xbox's record $3.5 billion Q3 earnings solidifies all-time yearly high
- Friday the 13th The Game's final patch update detailed
- GOG earnings up 114% in 2020 to $92.2 million thanks to Cyberpunk 2077
- Legendary Street Fighter vet Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom
- inXile's Brian Fargo teases new game, but it's a long ways off
- SEGA will start selling NFTs in 2021 to help stabilize earnings
- New Sony State of Play will focus on new Ratchet & Clank PS5 exclusive
- PC game Scavengers can host over 9000 players at once
- GameStop to 'aggressively expand' store inventory selection
- New Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart gameplay flexes PS5s ray-traced visuals
- Ubisoft slows Assassin's Creed Valhalla updates to focus on quality
- Respawn's next big IP might be an online live service adventure game
- Naughty Dog 'just short' of having two big productions going at once
- CD Projekt allocated $53 million for Cyberpunk 2077 refunds/returns
- CD Projekt RED on buyout: We see no profits in joining a bigger group
- Outriders dev opens new studio to work on two new projects
- PS5's Godfall listed for PlayStation 4 as 6-month exclusivity ends
- Sony VASG game R&D division to use machine learning for facial capture
- Warzone to hit 120 FPS on PS5, Xbox Series X with new next-gen patch
- New Judgment trailer shows game breaking 30FPS on PS5, Xbox Series X
- CD Projekt made more revenue in Q4 2020 than any full year of earnings
- PS5's Returnal may hit 4K 60FPS with ray tracing on
- Cyberpunk 2077 sold more on PC than PS4 and Xbox One combined
- CD Projekt RED started developing its next-gen RED Engine tech in 2015
- Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the biggest investments in gaming history
- Naughty Dog devs have a direct say into new project choice
- Infinity Ward's new Call of Duty 2022 to use next-gen AI
- Microsoft giving Xbox LIVE Gold credit refunds, here's how to get one
- Xbox makes history by cutting Xbox Live Gold requirement for F2P games
- Sony to bundle its own movies into PlayStation Plus Video Pass
- Knights of the Old Republic returning with KOTOR remake at Apsyr Media
- DirectStorage uses new algorithm to unlock max IO with desktop GPUs
- Warzone hits 100 million players, helped Activision hit $4.8bn in mTX
- Battlefield 6 reveal likely before EA's Q4 report on May 11
- Discord no longer wants to sell to Microsoft as it eyes IPO instead
- Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan leaves Blizzard after 20 years in game dev
- Apex Legends mobile detailed by EA, coming first to APAC regions
- Konami renews Metal Gear Rising, Castlevnania trademarks
- Xbox's new breakthrough paves the way for mainstream cloud gaming
- Jim Ryan: PS3, Vita stores to stay online for foreseeable future
- IO Interactive's new IP is a dream come true for its oldest developers
- Doom running on a holographic display lets you peek around corners
- Battlefield 6 last-gen reports clarified by leaker
- Resident Evil Village's lycan werewolves are pretty terrifying
- Hitman was supposed to be a live game with Hitman 2 & 3 as expansions
- Spider-Man Miles Morales US sales beat Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima
- In June, ESO players can buy lootbox items without spending money
- Beloved Mercenaries mode returns in Resident Evil Village
- U.S. games market accelerates to new 13-year high
- Baldur's Gate remaster publisher Beamdog is developing a new IP
- Report: Amazon cancels new Lord of the Rings MMORPG
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla's first expansion delayed slightly to May
- New Resident Evil Village demo: Everything you need to know
- Resident Evil 8: 4K 45FPS on PS5, Xbox Series X with ray tracing on
- Hitman dev's new IP: multiplayer game built on a 'brand new concept'
- Hitman dev expands to tackle biggest projects ever
- Square Enix has no plans to sell, hasn't received buyout offers
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition has a photo mode across entire trilogy
- Outriders inventory wipe restoration won't require a patch download
- Ubisoft announces vague E3 2021 plans with Ubisoft Forward showcase
- Ubisoft launches its own G4TV-style channel about games called gTV
- Cyberpunk 2077 earnings up 268% over Witcher 3's 2015 record highs
- Epic's revolutionary MetaHumans 3D model tech now in early access
- Outriders dev plans mass restoration of lost inventory items
- New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-em-up looks shellshockingly good
- Apex Legends hits 100 million players in 2 years
- PS5 now supports 1080p 120Hz monitors, still no 1440p output
- CD Projekt RED has 'no option' but to fix Cyberpunk 2077
- 19 year-old Rockstar Cartel domain updated, is it GTA 6 related?
- House of the Dead Remake brings 90s arcade zombie slaughter to Switch
- Konami makes a new...indie game sequel to a Famicom sidescroller?
- Epic Games raises $1 billion, Sony invests $200 million more into Epic
- GTA 6 modern day rumors possibly sparked by Rockstar job listing
- One of the new Warcraft mobile games may be a monetized RPG
- Blizzard's most exciting new project isn't a video game
- Sony is fixing the PS5's biggest drawback slowly but surely
- Blizzard's new multiplayer shooter may not be exclusively first-person
- Diablo 2 Resurrected dev Vicarious Visions to help with Diablo 4
- Diablo 2 Resurrected's Amazon is getting roasted by players
- Report: Xbox doesn't have big lineup of exclusives ready at all
- Outriders fills up user's SSD with 23GB of crash log data
- Red Barrels doubles its workforce for new Outlast Trials game
- BioShock 4 to be open world systemic game with next-gen AI
- Why did Sony deny Days Gone 2? High budget was likely a big reason
- Third-party sales might've generated $795 million total on Epic Store
- Report: Total Epic Store losses to reach $593 million by 2021
- Report: Epic Games made $3.85 billion in 2020, $1.54 billion in profit
- CD Projekt has been removed from Steam anti-trust lawsuit allegations
- New Mass Effect remaster trilogy is now finalized and ready to ship
- Fallout 3 could be the first theme of Fallout 76's expeditions
- Doom Eternal director Hugo Martin once tried standup comedy
- New Uncharted in the works from Days Gone studio and Naughty Dog
- Naughty Dog wasn't originally leading new The Last of Us PS5 remake
- Report: Sony is chasing sales at the cost of morale of its creatives
- Diablo 2 Resurrected shows mercenary skill levels and damage
- Atari is creating its own Mario Maker for old-school 1970s retro games
- Hitman dev IO Interactive still working on a new IP alongside 007 game
- Dishonored dev's mind-bending shooter Deathloop delayed to September
- New PS5 game Abandoned ignites wild theories about Kojima's next game
- Halo Master Chief Collection on Xbox gets mouse & keyboard support
- EA could use AI to automatically scale a game's difficulty
- Atari might make a new SwordQuest singleplayer RPG
- Crysis Remastered gets frame rate boost on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Death Stranding PC port is a success, made over $27 million in 2020
- 505 Games will get a cut of Payday 3's future earnings
- Check out 11 minutes of Mass Effect remaster vs original gameplay
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford teases new IP after Embracer merger
- IO's new James Bond game is about passion, not about commercial sales
- These big changes are coming to Mass Effect in new trilogy remaster
- ASRock motherboard adoption in Japan beats ASUS in historic record
- GTA V rotates back into Game Pass to help kick off Take-Two's Q1
- Diablo II Resurrected's alpha test begins April 8, singleplayer-only
- E3 2021 is all-digital, Xbox, Nintendo, Take-Two, Konami to be at show
- Lost Castlevania Dreamcast game resurfaces on prototype CD
- Ubisoft China delivers first complete Chinese content-based AAA game
- New Clash of Clans: Clash Heroes game is basically Diablo + Gauntlet
- Microsoft to detail Xbox plans at 'What's Next' event in a few weeks
- Scalpers selling Mario 3D All-Stars for $1,000 - $25,000 on eBay
- GameStop (GME) selling 3.5 million shares to pay debt, fund ventures
- World's largest Switch: 650% bigger, full 4K TV display, weighs 65lbs
- Respawn: Titanfall fans should 'hang on' for Apex Legends season 9
- Apex Legends cross-progression, private games to take 'a little while'
- New Apex Legends heroes take over 1 year to make, Respawn says
- Tencent's new games controller is very derivative and very familiar
- Nintendo made 15% of North America's gaming revenues in 2020
- Rarest Mario game in existence sells for $660,000
- Insomniac may be using Sony AI machine learning for Spider-Man on PS5
- Outriders will get expansions if people like the game enough
- Outriders dev asks players not to be too harsh as game servers crash
- Outriders had more players on Steam than any other Square Enix game
- A single Tencent studio made more than Activision-Blizzard in 2020
- Old Xbox games still get FPS boosts when streamed to mobile devices
- Resident Evil 8 runs buttery smooth on last-gen PS4 Pro
- Paying for E3 2021 demos is a bad idea--luckily the ESA scrapped it March 2021
- Ubisoft scaling Anvil, Snowdrop engines to flex next-gen consoles
- ESO is reborn with dramatic next-gen PS5, Series X upgrades
- Developer: Mario 3D All-Stars removed to drive FOMO sales
- Report: Remedy working on 2 Alan Wake games, including AAA sequel
- Bizarre indie Mundaun inspired by The Shining, took 6 years to develop
- Razer reports first-ever profits since going public
- New Witcher game to enter development in 2022 with new RED Engine tech
- CD Projekt RED's new games will have online elements
- CDPR will now show games closer to launch to manage expectations
- CD Projekt RED on crunch: 'We're working hard to minimize stress'
- Witcher 3's next-gen port will still release in 2021 on PS5, Series X
- New Warzone + Modern Warfare update is 133GB on PC
- Monster Hunter Rise shipped 4 million copies in just 3 days
- Resident Evil 8 will let players build walls to defend themselves
- Nexon makes $874m 'friendly investment' in Bandai Namco, Konami, SEGA
- Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2 makes over 1,000 fixes, needs 58GB on PS4
- Tony Hawk is crashing big time on Series X, and fans are angry
- Report: CD Projekt had trouble defining Cyberpunk 2077 from the get-go
- BioWare chief of staff Jonathan Warner leaves studio
- Sony to pay unionized workers bonuses worth 7 months of salary
- Warframe loading times cut in half on PS5 thanks to memory tweaks
- Death Stranding 2 or Kojima's new horror game might be revealed soon
- Microsoft in 'advanced talks' to buy Discord for $10b as soon as April
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag scriptwriter Darby McDevitt leaves Ubisoft
- Call of Duty 2021 takes place in WW2, Activision expects lower sales
- Back 4 Blood puts a spin on zombie survival with roguelite card system
- New Axiom Verge 2 details: Standalone prequel, protagonist revealed
- GameStop shrinks board of directors, expects Reggie FIls-Aime to leave
- New PS5 exclusive Returnal has gone gold and is ready to ship
- Ghost of Tsushima, a game based on samurai movies, will become a film
- Cheat in Outriders and the devs will permanently brand your account
- Castlevania-esque indie The Last Faith NEEDS to be on your radar
- Godzilla and King Kong will smash into PUBG Mobile soon
- Fallout 76 pets: dogs & cats first, more creatures (and robots?) later
- Hitman 3 is getting a 7-part expansion for each seven deadly sin
- Pokemon Go devs to work their magic on Pikmin with new AR mobile game
- Amazon hires top Rainbow Six talent to lead new studio, make new IP
- Xbox LIVE name changed to distinguish subscription from online network
- Japanese company gives employees day off to play Monster Hunter Rise
- Switch Pro: Xavier SoC with DLSS 4K gaming, 1.4 TFLOPs, Volta GPU?
- Microsoft said to buy Discord for $10 billion
- Buy RE8 on Stadia and get a free Chromecast Ultra, Stadia controller
- Resident Evil 8 PC specs: RTX 3070 4K 60FPS, GTX 1070 1080p 60FPS
- Sony to shut down PS3, Vita, PSP digital shops this Summer
- Fallout 76's 2021 roadmap introduces alien invaders this winter
- Terraria has sold more copies on mobile than consoles
- Remedy: Making games for two different console generations sucks
- No, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick didn't get a $200 million bonus payout
- Embracer (THQ Nordic) raises $860 million to fund acquisitions
- Doom Eternal isn't the last Doom, id has many other stories to tell
- Tencent patents Switch-like handheld-console hybrid system
- Spider-Man Avengers hero delayed, may not come in 2021
- Avengers 2021 roadmap reveals big plans like Black Panther expansion
- CD Projekt teases big fixes coming to Cyberpunk 2077 in Patch 1.2
- Game Pass has the definitive PC version of NieR Automata
- Payday 3 finds a publisher for 2023 release, Starbreeze is saved
- New Batman Gotham Knights game delayed to 2022
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla's free Altair armor isn't really worth using
- Avengers PS4 to PS5 save migration is messy and complicated
- Ubisoft gives out 'godly' Assassin's Creed Valhalla gear for free
- Valhalla's first expansion FINALLY gets a release date
- Forspoken, new RPG from Final Fantasy 15 devs, pushes PS5 to its limit
- Gamescom 2021 goes hybrid with digital streams and on-site event
- Sony giving away a ton of free PS4 games just because
- New Xbox feature improves one of gaming's most frustrating problems
- Dying Light 2 will release in 2021, Techland promises
- Doom Eternal's new Hellbreaker hammer smashes skulls in DLC trailer
- esports live events are latest casualty in Activision's restructuring
- Apple app store revenues have grown 3500% in 10 years
- Google Play app devs now keep 85% of revenues on first $1 million
- Assassin's Creed II lead opens new studio to work on PlayStation games
- PS Now users don't re-subscribe because lack of quality games
- Switch to beat Wii and DS in 2022, become #1 in game sales
- This hugely memorable indie game is coming to Game Pass tomorrow
- Launching Outriders on Xbox Game Pass could be risky
- Xbox FPS Boost lowers resolution, not compatible with all games
- Gamer gets Final Fantasy 7 running on Android smartwatch
- Sony closing PS4 communities feature despite thousands of active users
- Bungie to rotate out Forsaken story content to reduce confusion
- Beloved Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade fighter is back
- Techland: We announced Dying Light 2 too early,' game not in dev hell
- PS5 is the fastest-selling console in U.S. history (so far)
- Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 FPS Boost support unlocks 60FPS option
- id Tech 7 could become Microsoft's own Frostbite engine
- Microsoft helped Bethesda save and redeem Fallout 76
- Techland will finally reveal what's up with Dying Light 2 next week
- Todd Howard excited about launching experimental games on Game Pass
- Game Pass will propel Xbox to new billion-dollar heights in 2021
- Bethesda exclusives confirmed: Games exclusive to Game Pass platforms
- EA might start experimenting with interactive game-movies
- Sony teams up with Denuvo anti-cheat to make PS5 more secure
- Epic buys photogrammetry experts to fuel next-gen Unreal Engine 5
- GameStop dreams of a digital empire, to become a 'technology business'
- PS5 gets frosty in new custom water-cooled build
- Microsoft now owns Bethesda. So what's next? Here are some predictions
- Report: Microsoft to outline Bethesda's future plans this Thursday
- Some new Bethesda games are Xbox, PC exclusives, Microsoft confirms
- ESO: What's new in Gates of Oblivion's first Flames of Ambition DLC
- Halo dev Marcus Lehto closing Disintegration studio V1 Interactive
- Microsoft's buyout of Fallout-maker approved by worldwide regulators
- Xbox gamers can play Stadia on their consoles via new Edge browser
- Warframe dev Digital Extremes might work on new cloud games
- Doom guy gets a hammer in new Ancient Gods Part 2 expansion
- CD Projekt RED delays annual earnings report due to cybersecurity hack
- Take-Two says it won't increase game remasters for PS5, Series X
- Watch Dogs Legion online coming March 9 on consoles, delayed on PC
- New Dungeons and Dragons third-person AAA RPG in development
- Remedy: Two big new AAA games in dev, Control team leads one project
- Nintendo CEO: Every year is a do or die situation for us
- Microsoft's ZeniMax buyout complete, listed as 'realized' by investor
- Valve kills Artifact 2.0, gives away all game cards for free
- Next-gen Snowdrop engine to use ray-traced audio, free up PS5's CPU
- Take-Two: 'We think consumers are ready for $70 games'
- Biggest Diablo 2 mods may not work with Diablo 2 Resurrected remaster
- Bungie peels back game development curtain for behind the scenes magic
- Diablo II veteran's studio Echtra Games joins Zynga
- Diablo II singleplayer saves are compatible with Diablo II Resurrected
- Nintendo Switch: Four years of success, by the numbers
- New Switch Pro 4K: dock upgrade, OLED display, 2021 release
- Resident Evil VIIlage possibly delayed a month to June 22
- Diablo II Resurrected's first alpha test is singleplayer-only
- Sony patents banana controller, Donkey Kong would approve
- Halo Infinite is basically an RPG, but it won't have crafting systems
- Alien Left 4 Dead-style shooter is what Colonial Marines shouldve been
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake 2 to flex PS5's power, UE5 upgrades possible
- Sony could make its own Netflix-style TV and film subscription service
- Epic Games buys another huge indie dev in plan for gaming dominance
- E3 2021 cancelled, will be all-digital, L.A. city officials confirm
- Like SEGA, Bandai Namco is selling its arcade business
- Deep Silver may be cooking up something big for 2021-2022
- Dead Island 2 may skip current-gen as PS5, Series X, and PC exclusive
- EA to go all out with Battlefield 6, wants to prove itself in 2021
- This leaked Elden Ring footage is like Dark Souls + Witcher 3 February 2021
- Halo Infinite will have mysteries floating in the sky
- Amazon Prime subscribers get brutal indie Blasphemous free in March
- Sony will fix PS5's biggest issue this summer
- Destiny 2 to get cross-play in mid-August during Season 15, lots more
- Rushing to market, overspending, & mismanagement killed Google Stadia
- Yeah...Square Enix is making Final Fantasy 7 battle royale mobile game
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake costs $69.99 on PlayStation 5
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake free on PS Plus, but won't include PS5 upgrade
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake coming to PS5 with 60FPS, free next-gen upgrade
- Dragon Age 4 development timeline: All the major milestones so far
- EA gives BioWare permission to do what it does best: singleplayer RPGs
- Cyberpunk 2077 source code hack halts update development for weeks
- Halo TV show debuts 2022 on Paramount Plus streaming service
- Anthem reboot cancelled, game will stay as-is with no future updates
- HP buys Kingston's HyperX peripheral division for $425 million
- Cyberpunk 2077 won't be fixed on consoles until March
- Sony to reveal new PS5 games during State of Play stream this Thursday
- New runewords may come to Diablo II Resurrected post-launch
- Tony Hawk 1+2 coming to PS5, Series X with 4K 60FPS and 1080p 120FPS
- Report: PS5's God of War Ragnarok sequel delayed past 2021
- Sony breaks console exclusivity, launching big PS4 games on PC in 2021
- Gran Turismo 7 delayed to 2022 on PlayStation 5 due to COVID-19
- Next-gen PS5-powered PSVR headset announced, won't come in 2021
- Tencent raises $8.3 billion, may target big gaming acquisitions
- Diablo 2 remaster supports breakpoint builds even with uncapped FPS
- Diablo II Resurrected remaster hits beastly 8K uncapped FPS on PC
- Diablo 2 remaster won't support local couch co-op or cross-play
- Xbox's biggest advantage over PS5 just got better than ever
- Diablo 2 Resurrected remaster: Everything you need to know
- Konami may be done making its own Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania games
- New Silent Hill from Kojima? Sources say Japanese dev leading project
- Diablo 2 remaster lets you swap to classic visuals at any time
- Diablo II Resurrected remaster has ALL original D2 weapons and armor
- Diablo 2 remaster coming to consoles, Blizzard makes dreams come true
- Rumor: Layers of Fear dev making new Silent Hill reboot for Konami
- Report: Diablo 2 remaster is coming to consoles as well as PC
- Destiny coming to 'additional media,' TV show or movie possible
- Blizz North designed an expansion beyond Diablo II Lord of Destruction
- Bungie is now one step closer to publishing its own games
- EA now officially owns Codemasters, promises regular cadence of games
- Burning Crusade confirmed for World of Warcraft Classic
- Breath of the Wild 2 news coming sometime in 2021, Nintendo says
- Nintendo Direct February 2021: All the reveals and big announcements
- Kingdom Hearts comes to PC as Epic exclusive with $59.99 price tags
- Today's Nintendo Direct is the first main showcase in 533 days
- Axiom Verge 2 arrives on Steam eventually, but Epic Store comes first
- ZeniMax Online hiring for multiple unannounced games
- This 10-foot PS5 costs $70,000 and it actually works
- Xbox Series X vertical/horizontal orientation doesn't affect airflow
- More games to support Xbox Series X's Quick Resume soon
- Diablo, Warcraft, and Overwatch to get their own Warzone ecosystems
- Borderlands series sells over 60 million copies, generates $1 billion
- Report: Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 source code auctioned for $7 million
- 2K Games to publish Borderlands 4 and other future Gearbox games
- Call of Duty earnings jump by 200%, helps Activision earn $3.9 billion
- Blizzcon 2021 has a 40-minute Diablo show, D2 remaster reveal possible
- Activision made $4.8 billion from mTX in 2020, 57% of revenues
- EA to sell senior shares to help pay for acquisitions, business costs
- Xbox Series X Review: Dream Machine
- EA R&D spending rises as it gears up for Battlefield 6, next-gen games
- EA could kill Anthem once and for all and free up BioWare devs
- Grand Theft Auto V sales hit 140 million worldwide
- Final Fantasy 14 on PS5: 4K graphics, boosted FPS, ultra-fast loading
- PlayStation 5 to launch in gaming's biggest region in Q2 2021
- E3 2021 will be 100% digital, ESA will stream event from June 15 - 17
- In just 40 weeks, Animal Crossing will soon be king of the Switch
- Nintendo Switch sold more games in holiday 2020 than EVER before
- Warzone will integrate three Call of Duty games in 2021
- Neither Diablo IV nor Overwatch 2 will release in 2021
- Switch sales conquer 3DS, now Nintendo's 5th best-selling console
- Diablo 2 remaster should release in 2021 alongside Diablo Immortal
- Activision made more money in 2020 than its ever made before
- Bethesda founder and CEO Robert Altman passes away
- Good news for PS5 owners: Compression is shrinking game installs
- PS5 launch sales don't beat PS4 due to supply restrictions
- Embracer aka THQ Nordic now owns 244 IPs including Borderlands
- THQ Nordic buys Gearbox for $363 million with $1 billion bonus clause
- PS4 sales hit 115.5 million, drop astronomically by 77% in Q3'20
- EA's Star Wars games have made $3 billion, multiple new games in dev
- Battlefield 6: Spring reveal, 2021 launch, all-out military warfare
- Switch sales ignite holiday 2020 with third straight quarterly record
- Mass Effect remaster side-by-side comparison shows big console upgrade
- Blizzard lets you celebrate its 30th anniversary by buying a $60 pack
- Sonic the Hedgehog movie success leads to a new Blue Blur TV show
- Google no longer wants to invest into Stadia, kills first-party games January 2021
- Gran Turismo 7 won't be online-focused, to be traditional like GT1
- Starbreeze still hasn't secured a publisher for Payday 3
- Viewers watched over 1 TRILLION minutes of Twitch streams in 2020
- Crowd erupts into chaos from PlayStation 5 lottery
- Hitman 4 possible, and IO Interactive already 'looking to the future'
- Sea of Thieves now breaks huge FPS threshold on Xbox Series X consoles
- New mystery Halo Infinite equipment can send players flying off maps
- Roblox IPO delayed for 'some time' as SEC forces accounting change
- Hitman 3's massive success will help fund IO's new 007 Bond game
- Skyrim's 4K 60FPS mod trick won't work in Fallout 4, mod creator says
- Last of Us II has now won more awards than The Witcher 3
- U.S. Senator on GameStop stock shock: Wall Street system is broken
- How Control performs with ray-tracing on/off on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Xbox is about to make more money than it ever has before
- Tesla's new Model S refresh plays The Witcher 3
- AMD, Microsoft: Next-gen SoC supply will be 'tight' until mid-2021
- Why GameStop's stock has spiked 671% in a week
- PS5 version of 2019's best game is free on PlayStation Plus
- CD Projekt RED is late to the Cyberpunk 2077 modding party
- New 007 game may be less violent and show a more suave James Bond
- New James Bond game is IO Interactive's biggest project ever
- Epic Games just radically supercharged EA's business
- Runescape now backed by $230 billion investment firm
- Oblivion remaster Skyblivion mod shines in first gameplay footage
- Dragon Age 4's mainland setting confirmed, map may rival Inquisition
- Konami won't stop developing games, consolidating biz to be profitable
- This is the reason Konami doesn't make new Metal Gear Solid games
- Report: KOTOR 3 is happening, but BioWare nor EA are involved
- Report: Tencent raising billions to buy EA, Take-Two, or others
- GTA Online Cayo Perico heist breaks bank with highest earnings EVER
- Skyrim Oblivion overhaul mod Skybllivion looks AMAZING in new video
- Xbox redeems itself after alienating the entire games industry
- Cyberpunk 2077's big 1.1 patch fixes save glitch, reduces memory usage
- Tony Hawk developer helping Diablo II remaster, now a Blizzard studio
- Cyberpunk had biggest digital launch of ALL TIME, breaks sales records
- Xbox LIVE Gold gets big price hike, 6 months now same price as 1 year
- Capcom confirms Resident Evil 8 release date and free PS5 upgrade
- Resident Evil 8 Village demo available on PS5, features ray-tracing
- Valve's entire office won't move to New Zealand, just some workers
- Capcom is about to have an amazing year of earnings
- GabeN confirms more singleplayer games coming, hints at Half-Life 3
- New PUBG games: Mobile in 2021, console/PC sequel in 2022
- The world's most popular battle royale game is getting a TV show
- Rumor: Battlefront 3 is in development, but Battlefield 6 comes first
- PUBG dev's billion-dollar IPO may be biggest in South Korean history
- EA accidentally leaks Apex Legends' Switch release date
- The Medium PC spec requirements: minimum R9 390X for 1080p 30FPS
- Half-Life 3 from Last of Us II developer? Never say never
- Sumo Digital hints Crackdown 4 is in development
- Battlefield 6 may surprisingly come to these older consoles too
- GTA 6 could push CPUs to their limits with new next-gen NPC tech
- How to move Xbox screenshots to a USB stick automatically
- Elder Scrolls 6 is Todd Howard's main focus, not Indiana Jones
- New AC Valhalla patch fixes A Rivalry for the Ages quest and many more
- Xbox planning huge first-party game blitz for 2021, dev says
- Rumor: PS5 to get this legendary RPG in 2021 alongside PC release
- Cyberpunk 2077 director has this to say about recent allegations
- CD Projekt knew Cyberpunk 2077 had issues but released it anyway
- What was CD Projekt's original vision for Cyberpunk 2077?
- This amazing new feature makes Stadia much more competitive
- Bungie says goodbye to Halo forever by closing this piece of history
- Activision likely to beat $7.6 billion outlook on Call of Duty success
- U.S. gamers spent a record $56.9 billion on gaming in 2020
- CDPR's risky gambit paid off: Cyberpunk 2077 was #2 in U.S. sales
- CD Projekt now getting sued by THIRTEEN law firms for Cyberpunk 2077
- Ubisoft's Star Wars game: New relatable characters, story and lore
- Steam MAUs hit astronomical 120 million in 2020, up 26% year-over-year
- Capcom to show off new Resident Evil VIIIage gameplay on January 21
- CDPR has 'many more future plans beyond Cyberpunk,' maybe Witcher 4?
- Massive still working on Avatar game as it develops Star Wars project
- Cyberpunk 2077's PS4, Xbox glitches took CD Projekt RED by surprise
- Nintendo sold-in 1 million Switches in China, but that's not a lot
- New next-gen Harry Potter RPG Hogwart's Legacy won't release in 2021
- Jedi: Fallen Order now runs a lot better on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Cyberpunk 2077 coming back to PlayStation Store 'as soon as possible'
- Cyberpunk 2077 PS5, Series X upgrades may release in Aug/Sept 2021
- EA has a 'number of new Star Wars games' in development
- Ubisoft Star Wars: Live game possibly set in High Republic timeline
- Ubisoft making new Star Wars game, EA no longer has exclusivity
- Mass Effect remaster trilogy should release before EA's FY2021 ends
- Wolfenstein dev making new Indiana Jones game with 'original story'
- Lucasfilm Games is back, but it's still not developing games
- Square Enix's new Project Athia RPG won't be on Xbox until 2024
- Polish consumer protection agency is now investigating CD Projekt S.A.
- CD Projekt is now being sued by five law firms over Cyberpunk 2077
- Phison's new U18 controller brings 1.9GB/sec speeds to USB-C drives
- Stadia game streaming app coming to LG's smart TVs in 2021
- Xbox is making big power plays for RPG dominance
- Beat Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne? Try this Soulsborne for just $10
- Dying Light 2 writer might've left because the game is already done
- GTA V on PS5, Series X could use upgraded Red Dead Redemption 2 engine
- Switch sold 6.2 million consoles in Japan, made up 87% of 2020 sales
- Lenovo reveals Switch-like concept mini-PC, the LaVie Mini
- Sony might've killed the Killzone franchise, new games may not happen
- Epic Games buys gaming's most-used data compression technology
- Dragon Age executive producer shares new Dragon Age 4 concept art
- Roblox's value grows 700% to staggering $29.5 billion
- Twitch removes its best-known emote over political controversy
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer leak was entirely fake, CD Projekt RED says
- Nintendo literally LMAO'd when Microsoft tried to buy them
- Here's proof that Flight Simulator looks better than real life
- Fourth law firm suing CD Projekt S.A. for securities fraud
- Nintendo buys a new game studio for the first time in 13 years
- PS4 Pro no longer being manufactured in Japan, retired after 4 years
- Final Fantasy publisher's new dark sci-fi shooter Outriders delayed
- PS1 ninja classic Tenchu could rise from the shadows on PlayStation 5
- Prey 2 reboot sequel might be in dev, and Human Head might be involved
- What's coming to and leaving Game Pass in January 2021
- Mobile gaming made $79.5 billion in 2020, 71% of total app revenues
- Here's how to romance Judy Alvarez as male V. in Cyberpunk 2077
- Save your PS5 DualSense controller's battery life with this easy trick
- CD Projekt RED is getting sued by another law firm over Cyberpunk 2077
- Elder Scrolls 6 may be set in this region, Bethesda strongly hints
- Epic Games buys a MASSIVE 980,000 square feet shopping mall for new HQ
- PlayStation 5 launch sales disappoint in Japan, fall below PS3 numbers
- Xbox set to push new frontiers in 1-2 years, Phil Spencer teases
- Sony discontinuing multiple PlayStation 4 console SKUs in Japan
- This retailer is making custom PS5 consoles that look like PS2s
- Ubisoft Connect brings one of the best new features of console gaming
- Fallout 5 possibly in development alongside Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6
- Steam smashes 2021 with an insane 25 million PC gamers playing at once
- PUBG Mobile made $2.6 billion in 2020, smashes competition
- First 5 minutes of Hitman 3 showcases upgraded visuals and effects
- Waiting for Diablo 4? Try this epic Diablo-like action RPG for just $5
- Is your PS5 making strange noises like ticking or whining? This is why