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It's hard to innovate in certain genres, pretty much because the basics that define them are set in stone, but sometimes a good idea is good enough to come up with quite an interesting game, and this is what happens with Iron Harvest. There are plenty of RTS games that are based on history and that offer you accurate representations of the war in certain periods. The Age of Empires series comes to mind as one of the first licenses...

Everything Blizzard touches is turned into gold. The company managed to become one of the most important video game developers in the world even before joining Activision and it was thanks to just a few franchises that have installed themselves as cult games at the top of their respective genres. When we talk about real-time Strategy, we are talking about StarCraft, of course. The original StarCraft was a big hit that got even more popular when its first expansion, Brood...

The announcement of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time last month, delighted all fans of the series. With a release scheduled for October 2, 2020 on PS4 and Xbox One, very little of the game has been revealed until now, but we have just discovered the first images of its gameplay, which give us an idea about how the new mechanics brought by the new quantum masks are going to work. We can now know a little more about the functions of two of these...

Keeping the development of a videogame secret is becoming quite an impossible task nowadays. Everyone has a camera on their telephones and access to the internet, so no matter how careful you want to be the possibility of a leak is quite high. It gets even more complicated when the matter involves third parties and usually, we see leaks that come from the websites or online shops and such. But Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has just inaugurated...

There are a number of factors that players can improve to have better results when playing first-person shooting games, but there are also some things that have an impact on your gameplay that you can't control. This is especially significant when we are talking of competitions at the highest level, where latency can be a matter of life and death for your character. If you are playing on a platform that is better or allows you to play with a...

Halcyon Colony is a place that anyone that has played The Outer Worlds will hardly ever forget. Obsidian Entertainment's action role-playing game turned out to be quite a fun experience, and that shouldn't really be surprising if we consider the popularity of other games developed by the studio, like the Pillars of Eternity series, Tyranny, or Dungeon Siege 3. The Outer Worlds has demonstrated that the studio still has what it takes to create a great game and...

It's been almost a year since Borderlands 3 was released and Gearbox has been busy during that time releasing additional content for their first-person shooter. The game had a great launch and it was highly anticipated, mainly due to the popularity of the previous installments in the series, but Borderlands 3 has managed to gather a lot of adepts by itself with its frenetic gameplay. Now that its anniversary is getting closer, Gearbox has prepared a lot of...

Unveiled last May during the Inside Xbox dedicated to the games that will be released on Xbox Series X, The Medium, which will be released at the end of the year on the next-gen console and PC, is one of the games that has drawn our attention. Although the video shown at the event was quite enigmatic and didn't reveal much about the game other than that The Medium will be a psychological horror game, it was really impressive,...

Yakuza series has been a staple on PlayStation for a long time before being available on other platforms, but when it reached Xbox and PC it became even more popular. The adventures of Kazuma Kiryu and all the other characters involved witht he Tojo Clan have been entertaining players for quite a few years and now that the new installment in the series will focus on a different character there is a lot of expectation among the fans to see...

World War Z is doing quite well despite being a game of a genre that has become quite popular lately. Killing zombies has always been one of the favorite hobbies of video games players, and the third-person shooter from Saber Interactive not only has managed to grasp the essence of the film it's based on, but it also delivers a good dose of thrilling action and interesting gameplay mechanics that have made World War Z a hit. To make things even...

Available in Early Access for over a year now, Risk of Rain 2 was originally scheduled to release its final version in the spring, but Hoopoo Games has decided to postpone it. Indeed, in May we knew that Risk of Rain 2 would be released in August, and now we know the precise date since the developers have just announced it.  August 11 is the chosen date to release Risk of Rain 2 version 1.0 on PC. The announcement...

When you play Mafia games you are not really focusing on their graphics. The story and atmosphere of the games are so intense that you usually immerse yourself quite deep into the life of Tommy Angelo as he progressively gets dragged into the criminal world of the mob organizations in 1930. Although the action in Mafia games is usually enough to get you hooked it's also great that the series has received a graphics overhaul, especially in Mafia: Definitive...

When Epic Games purchased Psyonix last year everyone expected some changes in the popular vehicular soccer videogame that has put the studio on the map. Rocket League has quite a wide fan base and it has been on Steam for quite a while, but things are about to change. The game is leaving its current business model to become free to play this summer, and it also will stop being available on Valve's gaming platform. The later is something that...

Released a little over a year ago on Nintendo Switch, Cadence of Hyrule has won over players with a rather special recipe. This is a cross-over between Crypt of the NecroDancer and The Legend of Zelda. takes the gameplay of the first one, a rhythmic rogue-like in which you move and attack following the rhythm of the music, to place it in the universe of The Legend of Zelda series. Cadence of Hyrule already has a first...

Overcooked! managed to get the attention of many players with its incredibly fun gameplay mechanics, and when Overcooked! 2 was released it improved most of those features, making the cooking games license even more popular. Both games have their good share of DLC that add new chefs, locations, and more to the game, so they are not lacking content at all. Now that next-generation consoles are close to being released, the guys at Team 17 and Ghost Town Games have...

August is becoming a great month for videogames, with a lot of releases scheduled for it. Among those, we can find the first DLC for Blasphemous, which was announced yesterday during the Day of the Devs event that followed Summer Game Fest. Team 17 has revealed that The Stir of Dawn will launch as a free DLC for the 2D action-platformer developed by The Game Kitchen, Blasphemous. The expansion will feature a lot of novelties and important changes...

Fans of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell series have been waiting for a new installment for a while now. At each event where the publisher confirms its presence, the players hold their breath hoping to hear of Sam Fisher. With the cancellation of E3 this year, Ubisoft offered its own online conference, Ubisoft Forward, ten days ago, but there is nothing new about Splinter Cell. There is no lack of rumors or potential clues on this matter, and we see new ones...

If you are among the players that have spent countless hours having a blast by playing Worms games with your friends at home you will probably not be very surprised when you know that Worms Armageddon has received a new update. Team 17 is working on Worms Rumble, a new battle royale version of the fan-favorite franchise, but many seasoned players favor the old gameplay style in 2D of the original titles in the series. There were already a lot...

The developers at Behaviour Interactive have been working on improving the features in their asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight. They are putting an emphasis on cross-play between all the platforms in which the game is available, including PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Google Stadia, and it seems that they are making some progress on that matter, although not as much as they would like. In a recent blog post on...

It's a real shame that Runic Games had to close its doors. The studio provided us with a few very good games while it was open, the most noticeable ones being the ones in the Torchlight series. Torchlight is an action RPG that features gameplay similar to Diablo but enhances it with a series of novelties. The game was released in 2009 and it rapidly got the attention of the fans of the genre with its randomly generated...