Kingmakers Combines Back to the Future With Army of Darkness and It’s Blowing Up Right Now – IGN Next
Kingmakers was announced just a little over two weeks ago, but all of IGN’s audience metric data suggests that it might soon follow Palworld and Helldivers 2 as a huge breakout sensation.So why do we think it's about to blow up? With nearly 11M views across IGN's social media channels, Kingmakers is the most-watched video game trailer on IGN social so far this year.Kingmakers is also one of the most viewed new games in 2024 so far across IGN's YouTube channels, racking up over 1.1 million views
Sony Has The Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy On Lock [Update: Or Not!]
Updated: 3/6/2024, 4:40 p.m. ET:Washington Post reporter Gene Park has amended his interview with FF7 Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase to state that only the first two games in the trilogy are confirmed to be PlayStation console exclusives. “It was a mistake on my part to write the sentence like that. The entire…Read more...
Chilly survival builder Frostpunk 2 is out in July
11 Bit Studios has announced that the follow-up to their 2018 survival city builder, Frostpunk 2, will arrive on July 25, 2024. You can pre-order the deluxe edition today to get access to the beta.
The original game focused on your building a city in the middle of a disastrous ice age to shelter your people. You had to keep them warm, gather resources, and endure harsh storms. Frostpunk 2 takes place 30 years later, and the focus moves back to a larger picture with your city sprawling out in
Who Is Moomin And Why Does His Friend Snufkin Have A Video Game? | New Gameplay Today
Moomin, the popular Finish comic character from the 1940s, is getting a video game in 2024 – and we're ready for it. You could be forgiven for not being familiar with the character. Though he has made appearances in North America, he's never reached the popularity of his comic contemporaries like The Peanuts Gang or Mickey Mouse. I only became aware of the character after visiting developer Remedy in Finland in 2015 for our Quantum Break cover story. Members of Remedy's team educated me
More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023
In 2023, more than 500 games earned more than $3 million (around £2.3 million) in gross revenue via Steam, according to Valve. The stat was shared as part of their annual summary, a breakdown of the platform's past year in terms of new features and performance.
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Helldivers 2 on PS5, PC Is One of the Biggest Games on the Planet Right Now
Just keeps breaking records.Helldivers 2 isn’t just blowing up like a traditional bomb – it’s becoming more of a nuclear blast. The game, developed by Arrowhead and published by Sony, is quickly establishing itself as one of the biggest third-person shooters on the planet – and it’s attracting the players to prove it. Despite being limited by server capacity, the title set a new concurrent users record on Steam overnight, topping a peak of over 255k.<related ids="162244,162104">Read the fu
Diablo 4's $30 Class-Locked Portal Skins a Fresh Hell for Fans
"Portal through Sanctuary in style".Blizzard is a company notorious for inflicting microtransactions on its player base, a hell Diablo 4 players have been enduring for a while now. But the company's latest overpriced aesthetic offering goes so far beyond the pale that we can't help but admire its outright brazen nature. For just $30, the asking price of many better games, you could own the Dark Pathways pack, which changes the colour of a player's portal.As you'd expect, the announcement went ov
Nvidia Briefly Overtakes Amazon To Become Fourth-Most-Valuable US Company
Tech giant Nvidia hit an all-time high on the stock market on Monday, managing to briefly surpass even Amazon when it reached a market valuation of $1.83 trillion. The rally saw it temporarily become the fourth-highest valued US-listed company behind Alphabet, Apple, and Microsoft, Bloomberg reports.By market close, Nvidia had fallen back to fifth place again behind Amazon, with Nvidia closing at $1.78 trillion. Amazon was just ahead of it at $1.79 trillion. Nvidia has already increased its mark
Capcom Currently Polling Player Interest for Sequels to Okami, Dino Crisis, More
Yes.Spotted by our sister-site Nintendo Life, publisher Capcom is currently holding what it's calling "Super Elections", asking fans and players for their feedback relating to its lineup of games and offering eligibility for various prizes (Capcom wood badge set, a key art catalogue, and Capcom Hanafuda) for taking part. It's pretty cute stuff for the most part, but some questions certainly stand out.One asks fans which Capcom franchise they would most like to see receive a sequel or spin-off, r