Released globally on April 26, Shift Up’s adventure game Stellar Blade debuted with controversy due to its over-sexualization of the game’s outfits for the female characters. The title follows “Eve,” a survivor of the invasions by the monstrous Naytibas, fighting against the invaders using various blades for melee and martial arts combat. During its worldwide release, the title was listed to be published without censorship in Japan, which led the general manager of EA Japan, Shaun Noguchi, to question the Japanese ratings board, the Computer Entertainment Ratings Organization (CERO), on X, reg...
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Posts circulating within the Tomb Raider community on X were sending complaints to the development team of the third game’s remastered edition regarding a graphical change that had occurred in the game’s most recent update… the removal of the suggestive pictures of the franchise’s main character, Lara Croft, had seemingly disappeared from the infamous “Sleeping With The Fishes” level of the game. As the user, SmashJT, pointed out, the before and after photos were taken comparing the wall in the first room from the original 2000 game to the updated wall after the 2nd update released on April 11...
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After its release on April 10, the Prime Video show Fallout, based on the role-playing video game franchise of the same name, won praise from the series’ fans and critics. Over ten days later, the official X account for the franchise posted that their latest game, Fallout 76, had received over one million downloads within a day after the show’s release. In a follow-up post, the account stated that the franchise had over five million total downloads in a day as well. Many fans and the official Xbox account congratulated the development teams involved in the franchise for this accomplishment, wi...
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Earlier this year, freelance data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz uploaded a blog post to hir website showing the best build to have the fastest racer in Mario Kart 8. For this, he used the “Pareto Front” to calculate the efficiency of each of the 703,560 combinations of character, vehicle, tires and glider used for player builds in the racing game. Designed by the Italian polymath Vilfredo Pareto, the front sets all of the solutions calculated by the Pareto Efficiency. Mayerowitz used this method to combine the different builds players can make in Mario Kart 8 down to 14 of the most efficient af...
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From April 20 to 22, Nintendo’s squid-themed shooter, Splatoon 3, will host a “Splatfest” event where players can experience in-game musical performances and see the game’s characters and cities with a spring theme. On the game’s official X account, the developers told fans that this year’s theme will involve the question: “Which fuzzy fluffiness do you like the most?” The post included the three options of “Baby Chicks,” “Li’l Bunnies” and “Bear Cubs,” with the studio asking fans to pick their favorite of the three. And it was not just the fans who were saying their favorites – the official W...
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After its release in 2022, Rockstar Game’s GTA+ subscription service has hosted several games previously released by the studio within their massively successful title, Grand Theft Auto V, which continues to be one of their best-selling games despite launching over a decade ago in 2013. While it had first been released to introduce new in-game benefits for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, in October 2023, they had started to have the subscription include older games from their library to be available to play in rotation within the base GTA V game. At first, it was the old...
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After releasing on February 29, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with overall acclaim from fans of the Final Fantasy franchise and critics. Although its different take on the story was criticized by some players, the game’s modern art style has been well welcomed by the gaming community, reflecting the advancements in the graphical quality of games in the ninth generation of consoles. Shortly after the release of the second game, the project’s creative director, Tetsuya Nomura, confirmed that the development of the third and final entry of the remake trilogy is “off to the races already” in a video t...
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Throughout its five-year development, fans anticipating Team Cherry’s upcoming Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, have been teasing each other with memes regarding the game’s unknown release date. One of these supposed “jokes” came from a user named Eroke on the gaming forum site ResetEra, who posted a screenshot of the title receiving a rating of “12+” from the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) of South Korea. However, this may be less of a joke than what fans had thought. On April 1, a product marketing manager for Xbox, Tao Sila, posted on X that the wishlist page for Silksong wa...
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On April 1, Blizzard Entertainment updated their massively successful first-person shooter game, Overwatch 2, with a patch reflecting the mischievous holiday of April Fools Day. This has been a yearly tradition for the franchise that fans look forward to each year. To see the changes that the patch had made to the game, players could access the new content by selecting the “Balanced Overwatch” option in the Main Menu. After selecting the option, players could discover the various ways that the studio had “unbalanced” its heroes. For example, D.Va’s “Self-Destruct” move can knock players hit by...
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World of Warcraft players have more to do than wait for the upcoming expansion of The War Within. We have finally uncovered the mystery behind the secret patch. The WoW team developed this mode away from Public Test Servers to prevent it from leaking. It worked too well, considering how little we knew previously. A brand-new battle royale mode called Plunderstorm has been released. The secrecy now makes all the more sense. Undeniably, nothing like this has ever existed in the game in its long history. The game mode is new for WoW, and moreover, it’s a new direction for Blizzard. Thankfully, th...
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