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New free-to-play games must put their best foot forward to compete with the big boys. Overwatch 2 is simply not doing that. A good friend of mine is a huge Blizzard fan, but had managed to miss Overwatch. He is exactly the target audience for a free-to-play re-release. Remove the barrier of entry and he had downloaded it within minutes. And yet his experience so far has been so poor as to put him off completely. When he is in…

When it was announced that a show was being created around The Last of Us, I was less than excited. In fact, I was completely indifferent. I thought it was just because I wasn't interested in the subject matter, but I also had to be honest with myself - I didn't know what hte subject matter was, because I had never played the game. When PlayStation Canada sent over a copy of the game for me to stream on my YouTube channel, my desire to watch went from non-existent to overwhelmingly excited. Is this plaguing you as well?

Stadia is dead. Google will refund the cost of hardware, games and DLC, and by January 18th the service will be completely wound down. I know what you’re thinking: wasn’t it already closed down? And that is the tragedy of Stadia. Because it wasn’t a bad idea. Like OnLive wasn’t a bad idea, or PlayStation Now. But they held such a strange position in the industry that they would never be able to find success. Why play something via the…

I've never been a huge Sony PlayStation fan. If you know me, you've known that fact for a long time. I was a Nintendo kid growing up, switched over to the Xbox during my formative teen years, and swung hard back to the Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo Switch after I got married and had kids. So many PlayStation franchises were lost on me, but having the PlayStation 5 in my house has been amazing. Why? I get to experience some of the best single player experiences available on console - one of those titles - The Last of Us - was one I never touched. Until last week.

Nine months ago Microsoft announced it was purchasing Activision. Here we are, in September, and things seem hardly any closer. There’s plenty of drama, and not much else it seems. So just what’s happening with this acquisition, and are we any closer to understanding what it means? There’s no doubt about it that plenty of work will be going on behind the scenes, and we’re getting the occasional snippet of that work too. But now the acquisition has hit a…

In the last 24 hours, SEGA has announced three new Yakuza games. And anybody who has ever played a Yakuza game will tell you that this is fantastic news – and that it deserves to be more. The franchise, now seemingly switching to its original title of Like a Dragon in the west, has been a very long-running franchise, but until remakes starting coming out and the franchise hit Game Pass I’m not sure it was hitting the audience it…

Playstation said “Big day tomorrow” to Nintendo America. I wondered what they were talking about! It turns out that there is a State of Play tomorrow too!! Whoa. A State of Play has been announced by Playstation! It will tomorrow and feature PS4, PS5, and PSVR2 info. It will air at 5pm central…so away from the Nintendo Direct that also airs tomorrow. Playstation even noted that it was a “Big day tomorrow” to Nintendo America. Whoa. You love to see…

A new Disney Dreamlight Valley announcement was made at D23 today. Toy Story will be joining the game this fall. Take a look at the announcement trailer and then come back here for our thoughts on the reveal. Toy Story in Disney Dreamlight Valley?! I want it now! Wow! This expansion looks amazing. Its coming late Fall. So I suppose November? I love the area where you explore the room from Toy Story with Woody, Buzz, and potentially others making…

The Activision purchase by Microsoft is one of the biggest tech purchases of all time. So naturally what people are getting really bent out of shape about is Call of Duty. It’s been a perennial big seller for generations, despite the fact that nobody in the gaming sphere admits to actually buying it. And it’s popular with good reason: it just works. It’s smooth, it’s fun, the online usually works without any issues. No problems at all. But now Microsoft…

The Outbound Ghost is turn-based rpg with paper-like graphics thats coming to PC, the Nintendo Switch, and other platforms this year. And it has a release date! We have all the info, plus a trailer below. The Outbound Ghost will be released for PC on September 21st! Also…the game will be getting physical copies on Switch/PS4/PS5. This physical release will happen on November 25! And we have to say that The Outbound Ghost looks AMAZING. The graphics are in a…