Write ‘n’ Fight has every sign of being a gag instead of an actual game. And even if it is an actual game, it’s just a very very indie fighting game. But as far as gags go, I’ve seen a lo...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/08/21/is-write-n-fight-for-real-find-out-early-tomorrow/
Parody games don’t have a great track record. Most of them are cash-grab garbage that fail to successfully mimic the game they are spoofing. Like parody movies, the best ones are good genre pro...
Remember back when Wizards of the Coast updated Magic the Gathering by changing the hand size of your initial draw? Rather than drawing seven cards, you instead just took your full deck into your...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/07/uh-somethings-very-very-different-in-back-4-blood/
EA and DICE are launching Zero Hour, the first new season of content since the game released eight months ago. There have been small bits of cosmetic content as well as some substantial patching ...
Ubisoft has turned off online multiplayer and online services for 90 games. The list of impacted titles includes almost an even dozen Just Dance installments, a handful of Splinter Cells, older A...
It’s April Fools’ Day which means you get a tidal wave of dumb jokes and pranks all day on the internet. Game developers like to get in on the action by teasing fake updates to their games. S...
Epic Games has introduced a permanent gameplay mode for Fortnite with no building. All you old-school shooter vets that complained about the twitchy “juvenile” need to out-build enemies to su...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/03/29/you-wanted-a-pure-shooter-in-fortnite-now-youve-got-it/
Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz are doing press interviews for the launch of the new Batman movie. During their interview with French program Clique X, Pattinson recalled his love for Final Fan...
The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories DLC pack will not be sold in Russia due to the country’s federal laws against so-called “propaganda” that restricts the depiction of “non-traditional sexual ...
I hope you’re all happy. This is where we are. We’ve gotten to the point that Ubisoft Mainz is crowing about the “success and the extremely positive reception” of the cosmetic DLC they so...
The gold rush for gaming Non-fungible Tokens (NFT) is on! Ubisoft is the first big-name publisher dipping into the “investment” fad by introducing Ubisoft Quartz. Think of it as a way to make...
Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer released as a “surprise” early beta drop on November 15th, and in the days since almost everyone agrees that the shooting and movement is great, but...
Games Workshop has published a warning that real-world hate groups are not welcome. It’s been a thorny issue for decades. Racists, xenophobes, and extremists have always been attracted to the f...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/11/19/nazis-please-stay-away-from-warhammer/
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition is coming. That probably brings the different versions of Skyrim up to infinity plus one when you factor in all the platforms it’s on. It’s ten...
Jack White, former lead of the White Stripes, has published his first solo track in four years. Taking Me Back has that familiar Jack White distortion and heavy drums, but this time he’s partne...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/10/21/not-even-your-ears-are-safe-from-call-of-duty-vanguard/
Ubisoft has updated Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and added the Discovery Tour. The mode adds the peaceful “edutainment” tour of the game’s time period. Like previous entries in the series, y...
Epic Games is launching the initial version of its achievements next week. Since the Epic Games Store launched in December of 2018, one of the oft-cited criticisms of the platform is how it lacks...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/10/04/epic-games-achievements-unlocked/
Ubisoft is working on a new entertainment product based on its Driver property. Ubisoft Film & Television, most recently responsible for Werewolves Within, is developing a Driver live-action seri...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/09/14/are-you-ready-to-binge-some-driver/
Harry McCracken, an editor at Fast Company, used to write games for the Radio Shack TRS-80 when he was a teen. Back then, the games were sold as text code in a magazine or book that users would h...
If you’d asked me 20 years ago to name a bunch of Marvel superheroes, I would have done well enough. But if you ask me today? Now that Marvel is as culturally relevant as even the most famous D...
The 275th update — not an exaggeration! — to Star Traders: Frontiers has finally added mod support to the Trese Brothers’ sprawling and lovingly intricate space opera. With the release of t...
Mortal Shell, Cold Symmetry’s debut fantasy action combat game is getting a roguelike expansion. The Virtuous Cycle adds procedurally mixed levels, scatters enemies around randomly, and comes w...
Wreckfest is having a Carmegeddon event. The latest update to Wreckfest adds the Bleak City and Devil’s Canyon tracks from Carmegaddeon, complete with pixelated zombies to run over. Participate...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/08/03/not-even-wreckfest-can-resist-the-allure-of-zombies/
Ubisoft is adding level-scaling to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The next planned update for the Viking action roleplaying game will include five options for letting your game’s enemies grow in ...
The long-awaited co-op multiplayer features are now live in American Truck Simulator. SCS Software has released the 1.41 update which includes Convoy Multiplayer. The feature allows players to se...
Bethesda and id Software have abandoned their plans to allow Dark Souls-style player invasions in Doom Eternal. The now-dead feature would’ve had players taking control of monsters in other pla...
Mike Flanagan, director and writer of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Hush, and Oculus sat down with Rahul Kohli, actor and self-described avid gamer, for some conversation...
Rockstar Games is ending support for GTA Online on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. You didn’t forget that Grand Theft Auto V originally launched in 2013 on those systems, did you? How embar...
With the official confirmation that Halo Infinite’s mutiplayer modes will be free-to-play for anyone that wants it, the pool of potential players just got a lot bigger. Unfortunately for grind-...
When the Hellraid expansion for Dying Light launched last year, the reception was decidedly negative. The limited scope of the gameplay that the DLC presented was harshly judged by most as little...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/06/08/stay-awhile-and-listen-to-dying-lights-hellraid-dlc/
One of my complaints about Phoenix Point is that the stealth is poorly integrated into the game. From my otherwise enthusiastic review: Combat is very gamey and deterministic, but stealth is all ...
John McClane and John Rambo are coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Warzone mode and they’re bringing special additions to the map. Yes, that’s Nakatomi Plaza in the screenshot abo...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/05/18/welcome-to-the-warzone-party-pal/
Microsoft has dropped the requirement for a service subscription to access online features of free-to-play games today. You can now fire up Fortnite or Korgan (pictured above) on an Xbox and only...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/04/21/xbox-free-to-play-games-are-actually-free-to-play-now/
The United States is officially a real civilization in Age of Empire 3: Definitive Edition. Microsoft, Tantalus Media, and Forgotten Empires just added the new faction to the game. Unlike some fa...
Did you know there’s a game called Warzone that’s not a Call of Duty battle royale mode? It’s a turn-based strategy game available on mobile platforms and PC browsers that was developed lar...
There’s an Easter Egg in Homefront: The Revolution that allows a player to access a couple from levels from TimeSplitters 2. It’s tucked away in an arcade cabinet on the top floor of a desert...
Hello Games has updated No Man’s Sky with seasonal reward tracks. The Expeditions update adds a few changes like a revamped scanning process for missions, improved AI on enemies, and Twitch dro...
Frictional has released an update for Amnesia: Rebirth that turns it into a danger-free exploration game. Adventure Mode turns off monster aggression, turns up the lighting in dark rooms, removes...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/03/30/baby-mode-is-ready-in-amnesia-rebirth/
Croteam has released a new update for their 15-year-old Serious Sam 2, and it’s a beefy one. The 2.90 update adds a Beam Gun weapon, a flamethrower, rocket-jumping, sprinting, and all guns can ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/03/24/a-new-update-for-serious-sam-2-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh/
Microsoft has rebranded their gaming network from Xbox Live to the more plain-sounding Xbox network. Microsoft confirmed the change to The Verge and explained that the move was made to distinguis...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/03/22/xbox-live-is-dead-long-live-xbox-network/
There’s a whole cottage industry of explanation videos that recap and break down the deeper meaning behind movies, books, and games. Stuff like “The Ending of Tenet Explained” or “27 Hint...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/03/18/assassins-creed-valhallas-ending-is-certainly-no-tenet/
Grand Theft Auto Online’s loading times are notoriously slow. It’s been something of a running joke for nearly a decade that loading into Grand Theft Auto V’s multiplayer mode is excruciati...
In anticipation of an influx of new players from the upcoming Netflix anime, this already funded IndieGoGo campaign strives to have modders create a Dota 2 tutorial for newbies. There is an in-ga...
It’s no secret that the file sizes for games have gotten pretty large. It’s not unusual if a game balloons over 150GB after updates and expansions. The more recent Call of Duty games being pr...