Final Fantasy 14 Releases Aug 4th on Switch 2

John Romero, the co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D, has been confirmed as the headline keynote speaker for this year’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show, to be held in Bangkok this October. The industry veteran’s planned keynote, to be titled “Why We Still Make Games”, promises to “reflect…

The Metro series is finally, officially back with a new installment. 4A Games has just unveiled Metro 2039 to the world, the follow-up to the outstanding Metro Exodus, released all the way back in 2019. 2039 takes an unusual route with its scope, however. Rather than build on the semi-open-world structure of Exodus, the upcoming…

Four years ago, a developer called Jean Nguyen shared a short video on Dwitter of a spinosaurus pulling off a sick combo with Cloud Strife‘s Buster Sword. This, of course, blew up, but it wasn’t actually a game, just some animation work from the dev. And then, somewhere along the line, Nguyen decided to…

Google runs on ads. Facebook runs on ads. Apple runs on fees collected from its App Store which runs on ads. Why not turn gaming into the next great ad-driven business? That’s the logical conclusion of Electronic Arts’ new video game advertising platform which it announced back in June. EA VP of advertising and sponsorships…

An Apex Legends developer turned real grief into a permanent fixture inside the game, and most players will walk right past it. Apex Legends build engineer Tyler Owens has spent five years working on the game behind the scenes, the kind of job that rarely gets a face attached to it. When his mom died,…