Jonathan Blow’s The Witness is now rated by the ESRB for the Xbox One, despite console exclusivity having been previously announced for the PlayStation 4. Jonathan Blow, well known indie developer of Braid and co-founder of the Indie Fund, is hard at work putting the finishing touches on his upcoming game, The Witness. Tentatively scheduled for a January 26 release date, The Witness was previously announced as a PlayStation 4 timed exclusive. That was later corrected to PS4 console exclusivit...

Amazon reveals its top selling games and consoles of 2016, Pokemon Sun and Moon for 3DS lead the list while Final Fantasy XV follows closely on third place. The first week of the new year is a time to look back on the last one, which online retail giant Amazon is doing by publishing its list of best selling games and consoles of 2016. The company did great business in the console market thanks to its packaging of the PS4 with top-selling games like Uncharted 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. O...

Compared to other games in the series, Far Cry 5 seems to have a sharper sense of humor. This is mainly evident through its side missions, including one that references the infamous Donald Trump pee tape that may or may not exist, and another that revolves around the Testy Festy – an annual celebration where the residents of Hope County, Montana come together to get drunk and dine on bull testicles. If players chat with Casey at Fall’s End, he will task them with making the necessary prepara...

Shortly after Star Wars Battlefront 2‘s launch back in November of last year, fans’ displeasure over the way in which the science fiction shooter implemented loot boxes in the game caused a massive backlash within the title’s community and brought anger to gaming fans around the globe. Following this, Electronic Arts attempted to mitigate the controversy by hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread on Reddit, with an “EACommunityTeam” account response relating to loot boxes eventually becoming...

Although Gen 3 is still in the process of rolling out, the Pokemon GO community is always ready to look ahead and start planning for the next stage of the metagame. Gen 4 is likely close to a full year away, but it’s never too early to start planning for which pokemon will be the most important for Battle Raids and holding Gyms when they do arrive. With that in mind, some of Pokemon GO’s min-maxers have already started crunching the numbers on how each member of Gen 4 will stack up against t...

BioWare’s new game Anthem may not be releasing until 2019 (at the earliest) but that isn’t stopping fans from asking tons of questions about the game. More importantly, even though they won’t give big picture details, the developers are in some cases willing to answer those questions. Of the team members currently working onAnthem, Technical Design Director Brenon Holmes seems to be the most connected with the game’s growing community. And as such, Holmes tries to give excited gamers some hi...

Sea of Thieves, the forthcoming Microsoft exclusive, is being pitched as a games as a service-style game. Publisher Microsoft sees it as the sort of game that players will want to keep coming back to month after month. It comes as little surprise then, that like so many other games as a service, Sea of Thieves will also include microtransactions. Speaking to IGN, Rare’s executive producer Joe Neate confirmed that the first major post-launch Sea of Thieves update will introduce microtransacti...

Although the launch of Capcom’s role-playing game Monster Hunter World is right around the corner for fans on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the PC community unfortunately has to wait a few more months thanks to a delay that gave the title a tentative release date of “Autumn 2018.” Following the announcement, there wasn’t much known as to why such an extensive gap between the completion of the PC and console versions exists, but now producer Ryozo Tsujimoto has offered some insight into Capcom’s...