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EA Play brings free access and play of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to Xbox Game Pass on both PC and console. EA Play members, PC Game Pass, and Ultimate Game Pass members will be able to play Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for free, continuing the next chapter in Jedi Cal Kestis’ story, as announced by Xbox. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor follows Cal as he explores the galaxy far, far away still further, taking...
EVE Online has long since transcended being called merely a game. Books are written about it’s politics. Great battles are recorded for posterity in the same way as we know all about the great battles of history – 1066, The Somme, Stalingrad, and so many more and yet, for a first-timer loading up the game it is difficult to see how to get involved in the bigger picture. To get into Eve is to...
The Electronic Software Association, the main lobby for the video games in the United States, remains flatly uninterested in helping any video game preservation efforts. On Thursday, an ESA lawyer told a rulemaking hearing of the U.S. Copyright Office his group’s membership doesn’t support any exceptions to U.S. copyright law that would aid preservation efforts. ESA lawyer Steve Englund told the...
The classic sci-fi strategy game Homeworld was due to have its third installment available already, some 20 years after the last one, but delays have caused it to be pushed back a little. Much like public transport you wait 20 years for one and then suddenly multiple show up at the same time and we are about to get Homeworld: Vast Reaches to play with in our Meta Quest headsets (Quest 2 and 3 at...
Pop megastar Billie Eilish has arrived in Fortnite (Festival at least) and, just as the roadmap leak suggested, she is headlining the main stage in Season 3. Lady Gaga is no more, step forward the queen of green. The update happened today which means the Billie Eilish skin, for Festival at least, is available with the main Battle Royale skin sure to follow before too long. How to get Billie...
Twenty-five years after Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness launched for Nintendo 64, someone has discovered a new Konami code lurking within — and it’s a pretty useful one. Found by two fans on the Castlevania 64 speedruns Discord server, this code unlocks all characters, plus their alternate costumes, plus a hard mode, on the spot. Previously, fans earned these unlocks after beating the game twice...
Fallout is, to put it mildly, having a bit of a moment. The success of the Amazon TV show has prompted a huge wave of players to install (or reinstall) the most recent Fallout game to continue to enjoy the unique ambiance of the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Fallout 4 has seen a 538% increase in concurrent players on Steam since the launch of the show. What’s that? Yes, Fallout 4, which came out in...
The latest version of Genshin Impact will soon be upon us – tomorrow in fact (April 24th) and as ever there will be a period of downtime for maintenance, which will hopefully go better than EA FC and Fortnite’s recent big maintenance updates did. You can get ahead of the Genshin Impact 4.6 game though by pre-installing the hefty update before the server starts to take its regular battering when...
In the first regulation of its kind in South Africa, the Remote Gambling Bill includes various measures that would apply to operators, players, and ads. The opposition political party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance, has introduced the new Remote Gambling Bill (B-11-2024) which aims to set out the first regulations for remote gambling in the country. A bill (the National Gambling...
Gemini, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, is set to get an update to its app that enables real-time responses, bringing it in line with how the artificial intelligence (AI) tool operates on desktops. Discovered by AssembleDebug, an expert in Google apps, and reported on PiunikaWeb, the feature was found within the app’s settings. Gemini assistant to bag a new "Real-time responses" option (also a...