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“It’ll be a game for freaks,” said Ben Esposito of Neon White in a gameplay trailer when it was announced for Nintendo Switch last July. Really, it’s a game for people who like fun, campy, melodrama alongside their speedrunning. In a video preview of the game, Esposito describes Neon White as a speedrunning first person shooter meets visual novel that’s “nostalgic but not in a superficial way”. “We really wanted to make a game that felt cool and it really felt like the self-indulgent Y2K anime game of our dreams,” he says....

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit looks better with every trailer, and today we have a new one showing what the street racers of Secrest County are up against. So far we’ve seen a lot of the new Criterion developed title. Last week, Criterion Producer Matt Webster explained the Autolog feature, and we’ve witnessed a few of the exotic cars gamers will get to unleash this November. However, we haven’t seen much of the cop cars in the new Need for Speed....

Friday has arrived, and Borderlands 3 players know exactly what that means. Every Friday through Sunday, and sometimes other days of the week as well, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford heads to Twitter and drops a prize for his followers. The prize is, of course, a Shift code for a new Borderlands 3 Golden Key, but players will have to redeem it before 8:00 am PT Saturday morning for it to still be valid....

Welcome to the final week of September, 2010, Ranters. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover this time out, so let’s get right to it. The floodgates are officially open. In fact, the floodgates seem to have been washed away entirely, beaten down by the relentless crush of new releases. Several high profile games make their long awaited debuts this week, including Dead Rising 2, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, and Final Fantasy XIV....

Many might be skeptical of Goldeneye 007’s ability to recapture the magic gamers felt so long ago on the N64 spending countless hours in grueling multiplayer deathmatches but Eurocom is hoping to convince them by blending the old school with the new. In our newest trailer for the game we get a better look at some of the multiplayer maps from the original as well as some of the intriguing new locations....

New World Armoring Leveling is among the many tiny components that come together to offer an experience that is intended to be unique to each player and for Players that wish to focus on crafting various types of armor and storage increment utilities. In this guide, we’ll focus on how you can get the most out of leveling up your armoring profession in New World. Here’s more on armoring leveling up in New World....

It is worth understanding that a decreasing playerbase is completely normal for any new game. There are simply a lot of players who try out something when it launches and decide that it isn’t to their taste. Despite this, the rapid rate at which New World‘s playerbase is leaving is a concern. Why is everyone leaving? There are several reasons that players are leaving. However, many feel that above all the state of the game at release is the most difficult issue to overlook....

Nintendo is seeing an incredible amount of success with the Switch, which recently outsold the SNES with over fifty million units shipped around the world. The Switch still has a ways to go before it outsells the biggest Nintendo home console of all time - the Nintendo Wii. The Wii sold over a hundred million units around the world and most of those sales can be attributed to Wii Sports. A lot of people scoffed at the WiiMote and its motion control gimmick when Nintendo first showed off the Wii, but Nintendo was the one laughing in the end when people lined up to buy the system around the world....

Nintendo has announced its latest financial results for the period ending December 31, 2020 and revealed that it has shipped 79.87 million consoles worldwide, officially outselling the lifetime sales of the Nintendo 3DS at 75.94 million. Currently, only the Wii at 101.6 million, Game Boy at 118.7 million and Nintendo DS at 154 million units have sold more in their respective lifetimes, cementing the Switch as one of the most successful pieces of hardware from the company....

Brighten up your Friday afternoon with a No Man’s Sky video which focuses on trade, including mining for resources on one planet and selling on another. It’s simple really, as Sony explains. “Resources are a vital part of exploration, trading and survival. No Man’s Sky has its own periodic table of elements – some familiar to our world, some new and unknown – and each one is used in different ways....

Google and Microsoft aren’t the only companies that foresee cloud gaming as the future of video games. Nvidia has jumped into the fray with the official launch of its new cloud gaming service GeForce NOW. Nvidia’s gaming platform is now officially out of beta and offers a service similar to those of Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud, which is still in the preview phase. Members of the service will be able to seamlessly play games on PC, Mac (but not iOS), and Android, as well as TVs using Nvidia Shield....

Obsidian Entertainment is working on several RPGs, the developer confirms. Many were surprised when the company, which created The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas, announced survival game Grounded at X019 and not a new RPG. Speaking to Eurogamer, Adam Brennecke, programmer and game director on Grounded, confirmed that “Just like with Outer Worlds we have big RPGs being worked on right now. " The developer didn’t reveal any details about these RPGs, but Obsidian’s studio head Feargus Urquhart said that the developer has “more than one, less than 40” games in development....

OLED vs LED: Must Know Facts A common issue with OLED and LED lights is that they will get confused for LCD. LCD stands for liquid crystal display and is merely a reference to the screen or display. As such, any device – such as a TV, micro computer, laptop, or phone – can be LCD while still being OLED or LED.The same confusion applies to 4K devices. 4K refers to the specific resolution of a TV, laptop, phone, or monitor and can come with an OLED or LED display....

Key Points Sometimes readily available PCs and Laptops do not meet the requirement for gaming and customizing your own seems like the best option.Keyboard is a component that is responsible for a smooth gaming experience as well.While buying the keyboard, we have listed the features you should keep in mind for the best gaming experience. If you’re planning to build a PC for gaming or work, there are a lot of components to consider....

Outriders uses the concept of World Tiers (WT) or “World Levels” (assuming you’re used to the mechanic from other games). It’s a way for players to gauge the difficulty. Picking tougher options yields better loot and rewards for farming runs. Meanwhile, lowering it allows for speedier completions. Still, there are a few tidbits that you should know about as you progress further in the campaign. Here’s our Outriders guide to help you with the World Tier system....

Release Date: November 6, 2018Platform: PCDeveloper: OverkillPublisher: Starbreeze & 505 GamesGenre: Cooperative First-person Shooter Overkill’s The Walking Dead has the worst opening mission I’ve played in years. With no direction about where to go or how anything works, you’re dropped into your group’s camp with three other survivors to seal the gates and keep a horde of walkers at bay. Between the confusing process of having to go around the camp for additional planks to fortify the gates, and less than optimal combat, you’ll probably fail this mission more than once unless you start off with an experienced group....

Minecraft has been an incredible success that still manages to draw players in as they create their own worlds. The game has managed to spark the imagination of players across the globe, and this is largely because of Minecraft’s enjoyable single and co-op game modes. The game still offers skins and updates to its devoted fanbase and those who enjoy galactic space travel will be excited about the latest Mass Effect pack....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the fastest-selling COD title ever by surpassing $1 billion in sales and beating the record previously held by Black Ops 2. The astonishing new record was revealed in an official press release published on Business Wire. It took only ten days after Modern Warfare 2’s release on Oct. 28 to reach the $1 billion mark. Black Ops 2 previously set the record in 2012, when it took 15 days from release to reach $1 billion in sales....

Modern Warfare 2 has become a consistent presence on player consoles and systems worldwide. The follow-up to Activision’s 2019 installment is now one of the most played and purchased games on the Steam charts and this trend will more than likely continue with the approaching release of Warzone 2. Due to its success, the game has predictably garnered praise from both its fan base and critics alike. In addition to the compliments this latest title has received, it has also gathered a considerable amount of nominations at the 2022 Video Game Awards....

Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to shatter entertainment sales records, setting a new five-day sell-through record of approximately $550 million. Activision hasn’t reported actual unit sales for the five-day period. Last week the publisher announced that the game had sold 4.7 million day one in US and UK combined. Modern Warfare 2‘s launch beat all previous first and five-day entertainment industry box office, book and video game sell-through records:...