Category: Technology

Epic Games today lifts the lid on MetaHuman Creator – a new tool designed to bring the highest fidelity facial rendering to the wider development community. It’s part of Epic’s ongoing mission to democratise high-end graphics technology, giving a wider range of development studios the chance to deliver characters up there with the industry’s best […]

Remember what Hearthstone was like at launch, when Blizzard’s card game was all the rage? That original 240 card set is coming back in a new way to play the game as it was in 2014. Classic Format is Blizzard giving Hearthstone the WoW Classic treatment. As detailed in a post on Battle.net, Classic Format […]

We knew a Sonic the Hedgehog movie sequel was coming. We knew its release date – April 8th 2022, with full production starting next month. And now we know what it’s going to be called. A short video shared on the film’s official Twitter account revealed the title – the somewhat predictable, unimaginative but nevertheless […]

Steam hit Valheim has sold over 1m copies in just a week, its publisher has said. The Viking-themed survival and crafting game launched as an Early Access title on 2nd February, and quickly rose to the upper echelons of Steam and Twitch. Valheim hit a peak of 160,000 concurrent users on Steam, and had over […]

A US law firm is investigating a potential class action over PlayStation 5 DualSense drift. Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith (CSK&D), the firm behind the ongoing class action lawsuit against Nintendo over Joy-Con drift, asked affected customers to get in touch via an online form. “CSK&D is investigating a potential class action based upon reports […]

2021 has already been a bad year for video game scalping – but it’s just gotten worse. McDonald’s Happy Meals, which now contain Pokémon cards in the US, have become the latest scalper target. This year is Pokémon’s 25th anniversary, and so naturally there are packs of Pokémon trading cards in McDonald’s Happy Meals to […]

BlizzConline, the digital-only version of Blizzard’s long-running fan convention, kicks off next week, and those eager to learn more about the highly anticipated likes of Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 can now peruse the full event schedule in order to plan their diaries accordingly. Described as an “all-digital community celebration and exhibition of Blizzard games […]