PUBG is overhauling the crate system to scale back a bit on microtransactions

And a higher chance to get a free crate PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds‘ crates have nudged players a little too aggressively toward microtransactions ever since the game’s 1.0 release. Currently, spending in-game points will result in getting a Desperado crate about 40 percent of the time — that’s the one that costs real money to actually open. Developer PUBG Corporation has a new system that better suits both the people who want to spend money and the folks who just want to open the free crates....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 184 words · Jessica Parker

Sheep Life codes (February 2025) [New!]

Updated: June 28, 2025 Searched for new codes! Some people have to complete deadly minigames to get cash, but not you because you’re a farmer. Instead of walking across glass platforms, you’re making a local business on your farm. You have sheep, and having sheep means making money inSheep Life. To earn cash more easily and speed up your farm expansion, consider usingSheep Lifecodes. You’re a farmer, and farmers work hard for a living, so take a small break and get some extra cash for your troubles....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · David Torres

Sony: We’re going to treat the PS4 like the PS3

Shuhei Yoshida speaks It was rumored that Sony came to the decisionto oppose DRM-laden policiesvery late in the game in response to Microsoft, but that’s not so, according to Sony. At a Sony Roundtable today, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida stated the following in regards to used games: “We didn’t make a policy decision [for other company’s mishaps] — it takes time and effort. We are going to treat disc games like the PS3 because there are a lot of people that like to share their games…we do expect more people will gradually shift to all digital, but it’s not going to happen overnight....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Willie Stewart

The Metal Gear series brings out the best in cosplay

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing First we were treated by cosplayer Kelly Jean’s amazingQuiet recreation that was so goodyou had to do a double take to see which one was the real image. Now continuing theMetal Gear Solid Vcosplay goodness isRBF, taking cosplay to the next level by riding an actual horse. His face is also highly detailed with all the battle wounds we see Snake suffering from in thatamazing E3 trailer....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Nicole Strickland

The Metro games have hours-long demos on PS4, Xbox One

Sharing is caring 4A Games has rolled out demos for the revampedReduxreleases ofMetro 2033andLast Lighton Xbox One and PlayStation 4, each offering “about one-third of the total game.” For free. The trial forMetro 2033 Reduxcovers the first eight chapters, up to Dead City.Metro: Last Light Redux‘s sampling spans nine chapters, up to Theatre. Should you want to continue the adventure from there, the demos can be upgraded to full versions ($24....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Kenneth Garrison

This happened: Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone 3GS

AnandTech gottheir hands on an Unreal Engine 3 tech demo that works on iPod Touches and iPhones. Holy crap! The playable demo has players moving and looking by using virtual thumbsticks on the screen and tapping the screen to shoot. Epic is working on multiple control schemes including the use of the tilt function. The simple game ofUnrealuses OpenGL ES 2.0 so it can only work with the latest iPhones and Touches....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · John Stout

THQ says Darksiders benefitted from post-holiday release

A lot of games were held back until 2010 to avoid being caught up in the holiday rush, but while many of these titles are waiting until long after the new year to launch,Darksidersdecided to smack 2010 in the face and come out just a week after the holiday period. Quite a risk, but THQ believes the gamble paid off. “The release date actually worked to our advantage. It tied to our marketing messaging around the apocalypse happening at the start of the new year....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 256 words · Helen Williams

Twitch plays Pokemon Go

The internet just caught a Rattata Time’s a flat circle. The meme-spawning shared experience that wasTwitch Plays Pokemonhas been reborn two and a half years later as Twitch Plays Pokemon Go. Following the success of the original stream, which had viewers in a chat room controlling the actions of the player avatar by typing in commands one at a time, Twitch “played” a lot of games, but it’s fitting that we circle back to the beginning....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Morgan Cook

Vive refutes the notion that VR is dying, cites ‘highest sales velocity of all-time’ without revealing numbers

No numbers has always been the whole problem Our interpretation of virtual reality’s commercial success is almost entirely anecdotal and relatively-uninformed. It has to be. Most of the major players won’t tell us VR’s adoption rate in actual sales figures. Sony is the only one who will, and it announced that PlayStation VR was at2 million salesas of last December. This near-universal non-disclosure has led to the widespread assumption that VR hasn’t taken off like many people thought it would....

May 23, 2025 · 3 min · 621 words · Whitney Brooks

Which Animal Crossing villager are you trying to ditch?

I won’t tell if you won’t! Maybe you have one villager in mind. Maybe you’re secretly plotting against your whole island community inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Either way, I’m curious! Who do you have it in for? The more I fall into a daily routine, the less patience I have for my particular band of weightlifting weirdos. There are way too many jocks running around, and much like a pitch-black loading screen that reveals an unfortunate reflection gazing back at me, these villagers are blowing up my sense of easygoing escapism....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 214 words · Michael Smith

Whiskerwood is like Timberborn, if it let you build an adorable sweatshop

Hooded Horse and Minakata Dynamics (developers ofRailgrade)have announcedWhiskerwood, a new settlement game with a focus on automation. Visually, it’s very evocative about thesurvival settlementsensation,Timberborn, but is more focused on automation and production rather than survival. It’s also about a different creature. WhileTimberbornwas centered around beavers (nature’s engineers),Whiskerwoodhas you watching over the well-being of mice. These mice, however, live under the thumb of aristocratic felines. Fat cats, if you will. Aristocats. The cats have demands that must be met, so your task is to gather resources from the environments and process them for export....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 262 words · Anthony Lindsey

2K is working on a mysterious remake

We recently learned viaMP1stthat 2K is working on a remake of one of their titles. The original report pointed at the LinkedIn page of an employee that reveals that the motion capture animator has been working on a bunch of new titles for the past couple of years. Mentioned in the lineup are a newBioshock, a new title in theMafiaseries, and the expected2K25 WWE and NBA 2K25titles. On top of that, however, the report also notes that 2K may be working on what’s described as an unannounced sports title, and on an unannounced remake....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Edward Miller

40GB sound bad? Killzone: Shadow Fall could’ve been 290GB

Downloading the initial 7.5GB should be enough to get you started A previous report pinnedKillzone: Shadow Fallas being arounda 50GB downloadfor PlayStation 4 users who opt for the PlayStation Network version. According toEurogamer, the title is now 39.7GB in Europe and closer to 37GB for regions which include fewer languages. This is optimized, mind you —Killzone 3had a larger file size despite the fact thatShadow Fallis, by technical director Michiel van der Leeuw’s estimates, “five to 10 times bigger” in terms of surface area....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 276 words · Savannah Ali