The coronavirus pandemic has affected the games industry in all sorts of ways, but for Final Fantasy 14 fans it meant waiting an extra two months for the release of its next update. Patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal, was originally supposed to launch earlier this...
One third of developers have had their projects delayed due to the coronavirus. In a survey by the Game Developers Conference (which itself has had to go digital-only for its conference this year due to the virus), 33% of developers claim the game they have been...
Citing “overwhelming demand,” the development team of upcoming action-RPG Mortal Shell has decided to turn its previously closed beta into an open one. The beta is now freely available on the Epic Games store. Previously available only to a select few, the...
I rarely have latency problems in games, but lately I’ve noticed 100-plus pings and red Discord bars more often. I can’t prove the exact cause—Comcast just sucks sometimes—but an obvious hypothesis is that increased internet usage caused by COVID-19...
Hellpoint is a horror sci-fi Souls-like set aboard the space station Irid Novo, a once-bustling hub of human activity that’s now overrun by hostile aliens from another dimension. A February trailer was thoroughly dark and unpleasant in all the right ways, but...
