Following on its previous update, ARC Raiders continues to make adjustments and changes to its PvP matchmaking system and how the system judges aggression versus a player defending themselves. After the game launched, there were plenty of speculation and rumors surrounding the matchmaking system in ARC Raiders and how players…

In the years that have followed Japan Studio’s closure in April 2021, many have wondered exactly how Sony could have ever justified shutting down the once beloved studio. Were sales truly so bad that the team behind Ape Escape, Shadow of the Colossus, and Ico–games that inarguably defined the early…

Over 10 years ago, Stardew Valley was released, designed and marketed as a love letter to classic farm life sims like Harvest Moon, and it effortlessly took the gaming industry by storm. To this day, it remains the definitive cozy experience—apart from franchises like Animal Crossing—and it has had such…

Yesterday, many Xbox users around the world were unable to sign in to their consoles, view their game libraries, or launch many of their games. This service issue has now been fixed, but Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet isn’t brushing it under the rug. Instead, Vliet has issued a full…

A Pokemon fan is hunting down one of the rarest shinies in existence by searching across 58 copies of a game running on Wii and GameCube consoles. The effort is remarkable, though it remains to be seen if it pays off for the Pokemon fan. While there are gamers out…

Grand Theft Auto V was released in a disc version across three different console generations. GTA VI is bucking that trend with a digital-only launch this fall. The franchise’s former lead writer and Rockstar Games cofounder, Dan Houser, weighed in on the demise of physical games during a recent interview…