August 2020

Activision has filed suit against a cheat and hack program developer, forcing the company in question to disable their hacks for Call of Duty related products. The cheats in question were used in both Warzone and Modern Warfare. Hack maker CxCheats posted a statement to their Discord server, later taken down along with the whole server, regarding the lawsuit.”As a result of our lawsuit with Activision, we have agreed to cease development and support for all Call of Duty related products or services sold through the site,” said the statement posted by the screenname Cam, “These products will not be…

Given that Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes raised $1.5 million the very first day it was on Kickstarter, triple its humble $500,000 goal, we knew it was going to finish with an impressive total. It certainly has, completing its crowdfunding campaign with $4,571 million. That puts it just behind Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, which raised $4.7 million on Fig.Eiyuden Chronicle reunites Yoshitaka Murayama, the creator of the Suikoden series and writer of the first two games, with character designer, writer, and producer Junko Kawano, who worked on the first and fourth Suikoden. Like its inspiration it promises to be a…

To say Eiyuden Chronicle’s Kickstarter campaign has been successful would be an understatement. Eiyuden presents itself as a spiritual successor to Konami’s acclaimed JRPG series Suikoden, reuniting original director Yoshitaka Murayama with several key developers. Launched with a funding goal of just over $500,000, it has now wrapped up with $4.57 million in funding, having hit every one of its stretch goals.It’s been compared to Castlevania’s spiritual successor, Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night, Kickstarted by ex-Konami producer Koji “IGA” Igarashi, who has lent support to Eiyuden. Suikoden was never as popular as Castlevania though, yet it has maintained a dedicated…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.When you’re playing a stealth game or immersive sim there’s nothing more fun than defeating all the NPC guards (whether with chokeholds, tranq darts, half a brick in a sock, or whatever), then dragging  the bodies to a hidden corner of the map where you can collect them together in a great big pile.It’s been observed by others that plenty of videogames are really about tidying up, whether they have us wiping icons off a map or deleting bad guys from a level. They tickle the…

During Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, we saw a trailer for Doom Eternal expansion The Ancient Gods, Part One. To summarize: Somebody heard you hate the Marauder, so now here’s two of them at once.In an interview with PCGamesN, id Software executive producer Marty Stratton explained that it will be an expandalone, only he didn’t use that beautiful word for some reason. What he said was, “we want the DLC to reach as many people as possible. In fact, you don’t even need to own Doom Eternal to buy the DLC and play it.”Game director Hugo Martin clarified that it’ll be…

Chivalry 2, the Monty Python Black Knight duel simulator initially planned for release this year, has been delayed until 2021. As a recent development update from Torn Banner Studios explained, “As we settle in to working together in new ways in a COVID-19 world, our development timelines are shifting to utilize this additional time to better meet our core goals for Chivalry 2”.Though we’ll be hacking off each others’ limbs later than expected, when released Chivalry 2 will contain “several quality of life improvements and also include what was originally post-launch content”. “This means more maps and game features will be…

Sacred Fire is an upcoming RPG set in ancient Scotland that uses a system based around psychological decisions and emotional development in gameplay. Players will manipulate their allies and enemies’ motivations to succeed you’re encouraged to “control your emotions and outsmart your opponents to turn the odds into your favor.” And yes, that’s the voice of Doug Cockle on the trailer. He’s also known for playing Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher series.The main conflict of the game revolves around an invasion of Scotland—called Caledonia at the time—by the Roman Empire. Sacred fire’s story focuses on freedom of choice, and is…

Members of Dotemu, Guard Crush, and Lizardcube, the three groups behind Streets of Rage 4, recently did an AMA on Reddit. In between all the questions about when they would add missing character Eddie “Skate” Hunter or give everyone a dash move, they were asked: Will Streets of Rage 4 be getting DLC?According to Cyrille Imbert, CEO and executive producer of Dotemu, the answer is yes. “We haven’t decided anything yet,” he wrote, “but we have tons of ideas and listen to you guys as well. So there will definitely be more content. We just need a bit more time…

A statement from Ubisoft says that the company will be removing the ‘raised fist’ symbol from the mobile game Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad. The game used the symbol to represent its villains, a revolutionary organization called Umbra. In a statement posted to Twitter, Ubisoft called the inclusion of the symbol “insensitive and harmful in both its inclusion and how it was portrayed.”An update regarding Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad: pic.twitter.com/G6Hb1SO7GxAugust 29, 2020Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad is a “hero collecting” game available on iOS and Android that includes heroes and villains from the broader Tom Clancy brand. Ubisoft has stated that it will…

Sony has said in a 2020 corporate report that it plans to bring more first-party games to the PC in the future. “We will explore expanding our 1st party titles to the PC platform,” says the report, “in order to promote further growth in our profitability.” The decision to bring more of the Sony in-house catalog to the PC is cited as a key strategic point to the coming direction of its Game & Network services division.The reason for the change is partially given in the report: “Competition from online PC games and players from other industries is expected to continue…