Despite everything else going on in the world, video games had a very strong year in 2020. This year saw a wide range of gigantic sequels, surprise hits, and livestreaming favorites emerge, and now there’s some solid data to see how certain games performed with the general public. Amazon has released a list of the best-selling video games of the year for both the United States and the United Kingdom, which provides some interesting insight into the gaming trends of 2020. Read More...
Square Enix showed off PlatinumGames Babylon’s Fall during their E3 2021 conference, a new live-service hack and slash action game where up to four players can team up to grind out an endless gauntlet of dungeons. No release date was given, though interested players can sign up for an upcoming closed beta.
Babylon’s Fall is a live-service action game, featuring a “never-ending” tower. PlatinumGames’ Babylon’s Fall was first revealed a few years ago, and today we learned what the developer has been up to since then. Read More...
Vicarious Visions is bringing Naughty Dog’s classic platformer Crash Bandicoot back to PlayStation 4 on June 30th, and in a new interview the developers revealed just how much work went into the process. As it turns out, Vicarious had to rebuild nearly the entire game from scratch without the source code.
“Almost everything was missing,” Vicarious Designer Dan Tanguay said to Ars Technica in an interview.
“The original engine was specifically built for PlayStation 1. Read More...
