Good luck with that In a rather short interview over on GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft’s vice president of Live Operations, Anne Blondel-Jouin, has stated that Ubisoft will no longer be making DLC that gamers feel obligated to buy. While the company seems to be looking to support its games for around five to ten years, there won’t be any substantial DLC that packs a new ending or completes a story arc. “Monetisation is something we have to be very careful about, and my team is in charge of that and making sure we find a right balance,” Blondel-Jouin stated....

Battling monster tokens never gets old Astria Ascendingis an upcoming JRPG with some veteranFinal Fantasydevelopers on board. And with their latest trailer, they’re showing some of those RPG inspirations in the introduction of J-Ster, an in-universe tabletop strategy game. Similar to Triple Triad fromFinal Fantasy VIIIor Tetra Master fromFinal Fantasy IX, J-Ster is a game-within-a-game where the player can duke it out on the digital table with strategy and hexagonal tokens....

Even Sonic would tell him to cool it Back with more impressions from playingBorderlands: The Pre-Sequel, I had some first-hand playtime with the cybernetic tough guy, Wilhelm the Enforcer, which I would like to relate to you with my mouth. Wilhelm may not be all he’s cracked up to be, yet. But he’s got a couple of interesting surprises.

Starts at 9AM ET 9AM Eastern?! Yep, Nintendo is letting their Indie World showcase stream rip early due to the fact that Gamescom is kicking off today in Cologne, Germany. This year is poised to be the E3 of Europe as the powers that be punch things up a notch in light of a rather lower key E3 2019. If you haven’t caught these before, Nintendo usually does a good job on them....

I would’ve loved an Elcor squadmate As part of aMass Effectretrospective feature inOfficial Xbox Magazineissue 99, the publication spoke with members of BioWare about concepts that didn’t make it into the finished games. While great in theory, non-humanoid party members would have been too costly, it seems. “Instead, we took all the development effort that we could have put towards an odd squad mate and made a larger, more polished game,” said executive producer Casey Hudson....

XDefianthas breathed new life into the FPS genre, but for some players who have jumped into the game, one weapon is ruining the game and making it difficult to enjoy the action: Sniper rifles. While reviews for the game have generally been positive, like any new game, there have been complaints. While theslow weapon progressionis probably the most frustrating issue right now, if you’ve been playingXDefiant, the odds are pretty high that you’ve been demolished by a sniper rifle....

If you’re a newXiaoowner inGenshin Impact, you’ll want to Ascend him to level 90 as soon as possible in order tomaximize his power. Here’s a list of everything you need to build up your Xiao! Character Ascension Primo Geovishap Xiao uses Juvenile Jades dropped by the Primo Geovishap in Liyue. The Primo Geovishap will be imbued at random with Pyro, Hydro, Electro, or Cryo, and you can easily tell which element it is based on the color of its body....

Timers… timers kind of always change Bethesda has added a big, foreboding countdown to theofficialFalloutwebsite. In roughly 23 hours, somethingFallout-related will be happening, but what that is we don’t quite know yet. This comes after we received some pretty decent evidence that a newFalloutgame is happening, thanks tothe LinkedIn pageof someone at Guillermo del Toro’s production company. Head to the bunkers, folks. This is not a test, this is really happening....

Mixed results for publisher’s Q2 Beleaguered publisher Activision Blizzard releasedits financial resultsfor the second quarter of 2022, presenting a mixed bag of successes and losses for some of the biggest blockbuster franchises in gaming. Overall, the most recent quarter did not turn around the company’s recent sliding fortunes, with overall revenue down a huge 28% on the same period last year. Of course, this still equates to total revenue of around $1....

Space seems a little less lonely with all these friends around! There’s a newAlien: Isolationtrailer out now, and this time it details the work that went into establishing a cast and all the painstaking motion capture that went into creating the characters you’ll meet in the game. It’s the final video in a series of behind-the-scenes featurettes, and I’m kind of glad to see the hype train coming back into the station at this point so I can temper my expectations for October 7....

Being an indie game developer can be tough, so it’s no surprise that few wish to add to their difficulties by developing homebrew software for legacy hardware. Sure, almost every other week, we hear of some dudes making a new Dreamcast shmup, but now and then, we hear about a new Atari 2600 or NES project. I still want to grab myself a copy ofBattle Kid: Fortress of Periland tear the f*ck out of it one of these days....

Offer includes Xbox One version Upgrading your PC for the latest games is something of a lost practice. Since a lot of games are based on console architecture, most newer toasters are able to run anything. Some games (Crysis) will push your system to the breaking point, but a lot of games don’t really need super computers. Regardless of that, Nvidia has teamed up with Microsoft and will be offeringGears of War 4for free with the purchase of select GTX 1070s or 1080s....

After completingExcision,Destiny 2players are treated to one of the best cutscene sequences in the entire franchise. However, a launch glitch caused some players to miss it, while others simply wanted a chance to watch it again. Traditionally,Destiny 2players only get one chance to watch a cutscene before they’re gone forever. Over the years, we’ve been trained to always be prepared for an important moment in the story just in case we have the only chance to see it....