Logan Paul’s sale of the Illustrator Pikachu card last weekend made a lot of headlines, but they were almost entirely based on the extraordinary $16.5 million price paid for the plastic-cased piece of cardboard. However, what surrounds the sale, and the use of prediction market gambling, might perhaps be the…

The second entry in the Vampire Survivors franchise, Vampire Crawlers, now has a free-to-play demo on Steam and Xbox, and it is already drawing in thousands of players. While many might argue that card battlers or deckbuilding games are not the hottest genres in the industry, Vampire Crawlers suggests they…

World of Warcraft players posting screenshots of their virtual homes on Pinterest as part of an official promotion are being banned from the social media site for spam.Blizzard is hard at work promoting WoW’s new player housing feature, and social media site Pinterest is another area where Blizzard is hoping…

We probably don’t need any more Neon Genesis Evangelion, but a new series was announced during the legendary anime’s 30th anniversary celebration, and it will have Yoko Taro, the director of the Nier series, on board as a writer. We know nothing about the series at the moment, including whether…

I think that gaming audiences generally need slightly higher standards for storytelling, as it often feels like we conflate production value and fidelity with good writing. Maybe this is why I can’t get onboard with claims about games like Horizon Forbidden West and Mafia: The Old Country having amazing narratives;…

James Bond has never been shy to get his knuckles bloody, and in IO Interactive’s 007: First Light, the rookie MI6 agent will have the opportunity to get into several scraps. This makes for a big departure from IO’s work on the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy–where combat was always…