Last December, Ubisoft announced it was delisting its MMO racing game The Crew from all digital storefronts but shutting down the servers on March 31, 2024. Weeks after the servers were slated to shut down, Ubisoft began notifying players who owned a copy of The Crew that it was removing it from their Ubisoft accounts. Though Ubisoft is not the first company to shut down servers for an online-only game, the recent closure of The Crew’s online servers has inspired one individual to push for legal and government intervention to address the ever-growing industry trend. It's a trend that has spark ..read more

iFixit might be a familiar brand name for you from all of the helpful teardown videos of various electronics that they host on YouTube. Well, they also sell an awesome toolkit that helps you do the same. Amazon is offering the iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit for electronics, smartphones, gaming consoles, PCs and laptops, tablets, and more for only $59.96. It normally retails for $75 and we haven't seen a price drop for this kit in over a year. In fact, it wasn't even discounted on Black Friday. This is one of the very best tool kits you can buy for disassembling and repairing your electronics -- inclu ..read more

AFK Journey is a free-to-play fantasy RPG that released in March for PC and mobile, and it quickly became one of the top-rated games on iOS and Android. It gives you command of a party of heroes with a diverse array of classes and abilities, and with nearly 50 heroes currently available, your options are always growing and evolving. Your party consists of five members, but AFK Journey has several systems that allow you to easily and conveniently build your team how you want. For example, let’s say you’ve built your party to level 20 but get a new character you want to try out. When you swap th ..read more

After Helldivers 2 was removed from Steam for 177 countries following the recent PlayStation Network account-linking debacle, fans have been eagerly awaiting updates, especially after Sony reversed course on the account-linking decision. A couple updates did come in today — but not ones that fans were hoping for. Firstly, Helldivers 2 added the Baltics to its restricted countries, as recorded on its SteamDB page. But, more significantly, Ghost of Tsushima has also been restricted in countries where PSN is not available, leading to the same purchase restrictions as Helldivers 2. Both games are ..read more

The Nintendo Switch is incredibly popular, selling some 140 million consoles since 2016, but there’s one thing it lags behind in: streaming. Unlike the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X, the Nintendo Switch completely lacks any kind of native streaming solution, which means an external capture card is a must-have Nintendo Switch accessory for streamers. TL;DR - These are the Best Capture Cards for the Nintendo Switch AVerMedia GC513 Live Gamer Portable 2 Elgato HD60 X Newhope Video Capture Card Razer Ripsaw HD Asus TUF CU4K30 Capture Card Pretty much any capture card for Nintendo Switch will ..read more

This review covers the multiplayer modes of Homeworld 3. For thoughts on the multiplayer skirmish and War Games co-op mode, see the Homeworld 3 Single-Player Campaign review. When coming up with a real-time strategy game's multiplayer modes, a developer generally has two options: let us play with all of the toys in an all-out brawl until the other side is dead, with maybe a few minor twists thrown in, or try something new, different, and a little risky. In Homeworld 3, Blackbird Interactive has had it both ways, delivering both the bog-standard multiplayer skirmish match between Motherships an ..read more

This review covers the single-player campaign of Homeworld 3. For thoughts on the multiplayer skirmish and War Games co-op mode, see the Homeworld 3 Multiplayer review. Considering Homeworld 2 came out more than 20 years ago (and was remastered in 2015) it’s a welcome surprise how little had to change – and how little complexity had to be sacrificed – to bring this classic, large-scale space strategy gameplay up to modern standards and deliver a visually spectacular and mechanically varied campaign. Building and controlling an armada of strike craft, frigates, and capital ships in full 3D spac ..read more

Although EA is set to reveal College Football 25 in full sometime this month, the PlayStation Store has leaked the game's cover early. Spotted by The Athletic, Sony's digital gaming storefront accidentally shared the cover for EA's highly anticipated sports game. While the Deluxe Edition listing has been removed, the listing for College Football 25 has been updated to include a banner of the same image depicted on the game's Deluxe Edition. As you can see below, the cover is for College Football 25's Deluxe Edition. The image depicts several college football players set to return for another s ..read more

The first major patch for hit city builder Manor Lords, version 0.7.960, has been revealed by developer Slavic Magic and released for public testing. While this means the patch isn't officially out yet, those looking to enjoy its wealth of bug fixes and other improvements can now do so at the risk of some elements, like balance changes, being a tad off. Players happy to wait can do so knowing the full patch shouldn't be too far away. Revealed in a Steam post, Slavic Magic made these potential imperfections clear and recommended players back up their save files before switching to the test vers ..read more

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has set the game’s community yet another challenge: kill 2 billion Automatons to unlock a new Stratagem. The explosive PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter’s latest Major Order gives players five days to “decommission the targeted number of Automatons”. If the community hits the robot kill count within the set timeframe, the Anti-Tank Mines Stratagem will unlock. New Major Order: kill 2 Billion Automotons for Anti-Tank Mine ( New Stratagems) pic.twitter.com/LeNxCE6qmt — Helldivers Alerts (@HelldiversAlert) May 10, 2024 Killing two billion bots in five days sound ..read more