Tag: video games
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Trailer Casts a Dark Shadow
The super-fast rodents are piling up. Today, Sega and Paramount Pictures released a trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the latest installment in the surprisingly successful video game adaptation series. (I say “surprisingly” because when the first Sonic the Hedgehog film came out, movies based o...
Read MoreStar Wars Outlaws Still Looks Buggy the Week of Its Release
Ubisoft’s big release of Star Wars Outlaws is this Friday, and despite the company initiating the“biggest marketing campaign ever” – which mostly amounted to flying YouTube influencers to California and sending them to Disneyland – there are signs that the game is not ready for prime time....
Read MoreCompetitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
We’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...
Read MoreSuccess of Black Myth: Wukong Enrages Games Journalists
Black Myth: Wukong, the highly anticipated Soulslike action game from Chinese developer Game Science, made a lake-emptying splash when it debuted yesterday. Its first day racked up 2,223,179 peak concurrent players on Steam, the second-highest ever after the 3,257,248 PUBG: Battlegrounds scored in 2...
Read MoreBlack Myth: Wukong Sets the Steam Charts on Fire on its Release Day
Today is launch day for Black Myth: Wukong, the first game from Chinese studio Game Science that has had an embattled road to its release. Based on a Chinese novel called Journey to the West about Chinese history, culture, and mythology, Black Myth: Wukong has been criticized for not being more di...
Read MoreKong: Survivor Instinct Trailer Showcases the Worst of the Monsterverse
The Monsterverse – the series of giant monster movies from Legendary Studios featuring Godzilla, King Kong, and other famous movie creatures – is making its video game debut (aside from some web and mobile games), and it’s got the same feel as the movies: very little of the monsters but lots o...
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