Madeline Ricchiuto Archives

Patch 11 is coming to PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds and it will bring with it a spectator mode to custom games, new loot crates, new weapon skins, and slew of bug fixes. The patch will hit the game's PC test servers soon, and after a period of play-testing, will hit live servers within the week.

Titan Books, in conjunction with Marvel and Insomniac Games, will publish two tie-in books for Insomiac's PS4 Spider-Man exclusive game. The first book will be Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover, and will be a prequel to the game.

Digital Extremes has revealed two new additions to their Sci-Fi MMO Warframe: the first is Khora, the first Warframe added to the game in 2018, while the s econd is the Sanctuary Onlsaught team-based survival game mode for the Beasts of the Sanctuary update.

Milestone has announced that The Compound, a long-awaited feature, is now available for download separately and as part of the Monster Energy Supercross season pass for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players.

Asmodee Digital announced today that they will be publishing a brand new adventure RPG based on Fantasy Flight Games' beloved Mansions of Madness. The new RPG, called Mansions of Madness: Mother's Embrace, is being developed by Luckyhammers for a Steam release in 2019.

Ubisoft has announced the date and time of their E3 press conference for this year, which pretty much conforms to the company's previous plans of hosting their conference on the Monday before E3.

Rockstar Games has released the latest mode for Grand Theft Auto Online, the online component of Grand Theft Auto V, which allows players to hop in the new Weeny Issi Classic car in The Vespucci Job. The new patch also drops in two other cars, a new set of time trials, and even more discounts.

En Masse Entertainment has released the first update for TERA on PS4 and Xbox One. The Ruinous Manor update brings TERA vets a new max level dungeon, rare item sets, unique magic imbuing dyads, and high-level crafting materials.

Arena Net, the development company behind Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, recently banned about 1,600 players after accusing them of using cheating software. Allegedly, Arena Net found the suspected cheaters by using spyware.

Former head of Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, Darrell Gallagher has left the company to join Microsoft Studios' executive leadership. The announcement came by way of Microsoft's Matt Booty on Twitter.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is the latest expansion coming to Bethesda's Elder Scrolls MMO, and it was playable during Bethesda's PAX East event. The demo itself was relatively short for a massive open-world game, with demo windows capped at 20 minutes.

It's been an interesting day for Electronic Arts and Bioware, with both companies releasing interviews today talking about their hopes that Anthem will learn from their respective failures. For EA, that means learning from Star Wars: Battlefront II's micro-transactions debacle. For Bioware, Mass Effect: Andromeda.

As part of IGN's State of Decay 2 month of exclusive content, they implied that Undead Labs' State of Decay 2 might end up making its way to Steam after launch. The theory comes from an error message in the PAX East demo build of the game

The latest character to come to Street Fighter V's roster as part of the game's third season of content is the Guardian Hawk, Falke. Falke is a highly trained Shadaloo experiment, who was originally created as an alternative clone of M. Bison.

Shenmue I & II's western release was announced by Sega this weekend, and the company has taken some time today to confirm the price. North American players will be able to pick up the "definitive version" of both games for $29.99 USD.

8 Circuit Studios, which is comprised of industry veterans formerly at Nintendo, Microsoft and EA, is attempting to create an efficient cryptocurrency ecosystem to benefit gamers, developers, and publishers alike.

The next chapter of the Ivalice 24-man alliance raid series is set to arrive in Final Fantasy XIV in late May when Patch 4.3 goes live.

This past weekend at the Dandelion Meeting, a community gathering for Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross], Square Enix announced some changes coming to the game amid the various celebration activities. 

More Sega FES news, this time, Sega has announced that they'll be bringing Valkyria Chronicles to the Nintendo Switch. The strategy game was first released on the PlayStation 3 back in 2008 to wide acclaim, and has seen a recent resurgence with a remastered version hitting both PlayStation 4 and PC in recent years.

During this weekend's Sega FES, the company announced that both Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night will come with Virtua Fighter, Yakuza, and Sonic the Hedgehog-themed costumes.

Back in March it was leaked that several Sega Genesis games would be making their way to PC, Xbox One, and PS4 as part of the Sega Genesis Classics bundle, and many were sad at the suspicious lack of a Switch release. Now, there will be a Switch version.

Citadel Games' Legends of Aria is an MMO designed to be controlled more by the players than by the game developers themselves. Its an open form MMO that flies in the face of what we expect from MMORPGs these days, because it is pretty much nothing like World of Warcraft.

Right, let's get this one out of the way first: No, Underworld Ascendant is not part of the Underworld film series starring Kate Beckinsale. I know, I know, we all wanna play as Selene and go murder some dumb vampires, but this is not that game.

Limbic Entertainment GmbH and 505 Games' Memories of Mars is a sci-fi survival open-world game with a decent bit of tower-defense mechanics thrown in there.

Behavior Interactive's Deathgarden is an asymmetrical multiplayer game much like their breakout success Dead by Daylight, wherein four runners try and complete a set objective while avoiding the armored immortal Hunter.

Nintendo’s Shinya Takahashi took some time at the BAFTA Awards to tease new hardware coming from the company in the coming months.

God of War creative director Cory Barlog took part in an unplanned interview with YouTube channel Skill Up, to talk about his post GoW plans.

Gwent, the Witcher card game spin-off, will be getting a major vidual overhaul, two new updates, and a single player campaign to prepare for the game’s full launch.

According to a related report by Kotaku a secret studio within developer 2K is working on a new BioShock game. The secret studio, and its project, were both referred to with the codename Parkside, which likely refers to the location of the studio more than anything to do with the game.

SEGA has announced that both Shenmue I & II are going to be re-released on current gen consoles and PC. The re-release will allow a new generation of players to go on a thrilling adventure across recreations of Japan and Hong Kong to experience a tale of mystery and revenge.