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Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers . To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject . Another launch for an online game, another launch with day one server issues. It's rare today that a game with online connectivity launches without server issues, and unfortunately for Paladins, Necromancers, Barbarians, and other players around the globe, Diablo 2: Resurrected is not without its own problems. Players are reporting server issues that prevent them from even playing the game, and these same issues are preventing players from seeing existing characters or creating new ones, too. Earlier today, Blizzard announced that it was taking the game offline for unscheduled maintenance in an attempt to fix the issues. Offline play should remain available for all players who have already authenticated. — Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) September 2...

The classic Jungle Book game is coming to modern consoles this fall, alongside The Lion King and Aladdin. The updated collection is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 9 for $29.99. Put together by publisher Nighthawk Interactive and development studio Digital Eclipse, this bundle will include everything from 2019's Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King , plus the Super Nintendo version of Aladdin and both console and handheld versions of The Jungle Book. Here's a game list of everything that was originally part of this bundle: Disney’s Aladdin - SEGA Genesis version Disney’s Aladdin - Game Boy version Disney’s Aladdin Final Cut - Includes additional content Disney’s Aladdin Trade Show Demo The Lion King - SEGA Genesis version The Lion King - Super Nintendo version The Lion King - Game Boy version The game also comes with an interactive museum, a rewind function, and an expanded soundtrack. Every physical version comes with a retro styl...

A new Kirby game, possibly called Kirby: Discovery of the Stars, seems to have leaked ahead of today's Nintendo Direct. Found in Nintendo Japan's release schedule by ResetEra user Oracion (image below), the game art seems to show Kirby in front of an overgrown cityscape. The Last of Us: Kirby Edition, anyone? Aside from the fact that it will be a physical and downloadable game, no further information is available, and the game's official page is not yet available. The listed title, Discovery of the Stars, is a machine translation of the Japanese name for the game, and may well change for western release. It would mark the first mainline Kirby game since 2018's Kirby Star Allies , which we called "frantic four-player fun that's continually a blast, thanks to countless ally combinations." That was followed by fighting game spin-off Kirby Fighters 2 in 2019. Today's Nintendo Direct airs at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK (that's Septem...

Last weekend, game developer Jeff Ramos posted a gif he'd made on Twitter . It showed a disembodied human hand dressed like a dishevelled police detective, simultaneously running on two fingers and holding a massive pistol with the rest. It's strange, funny, and undeniably well animated – all of which helped it click, receiving a few thousand retweets and over 10,000 likes. Emboldened, Ramos wondered what Reddit might think. When it hit r/gaming, the gif reached the same number of upvotes fairly quickly. Then it kept rising. Suddenly it hit Reddit's front page. At time of writing, it's passed 100,000 upvotes. Ramos' work had officially gone viral. "Many people commented [saying] that 'this could be a great game!'" Ramos tells me over email. "I tried my best to explain that this IS a game." In fact, it's a game that's already a year into development, aiming to mix the narrative of Max Payne, the sheer style of Superhot, the sc...

Games Workshop is best known for its miniatures games, Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar. But these present a significant barrier to new players in terms of digesting rules and collecting a whole army to put into the field. As such, it has long offered cut-down, introductory versions to entice the unwary. The latest is Warhammer 40,000: Fireteam, in which a squad of close-combat Space Marines take on the sinister, robotic Necrons. However, Fireteam takes a fresh approach by adopting a stripped-down version of the miniatures rules for what is inarguably a board game. It has cards, a hex grid and there’s not a range ruler to be seen. What’s in the Box Fireteam doesn’t look like much when you slide off the lid. Underneath a double-sided board, each surface printed with an abstract sci-fi battlefield, are a bunch of nondescript orange and white cards of various sizes. It’s when you realize that the box is deeper than the storage tray that the magic happens. Beneath are three sprues of ...

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers . To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject . Call of Duty Vanguard's subreddit has taken to poking fun at the upcoming game's audio design by claiming that it is "historically accurate". COD Vanguard recently ran an open beta for players to jump into the fray and test out their multiplayer skills. As well as giving fans the chance to get to grips with some of the Vanguard's new features, the beta also allowed developer Sledgehammer Games to receive feedback on a number of the game's elements. One such feature that players felt didn't live up to expectations was Vanguard's audio, with many players highlighting that it lacked a certain punchiness and often sounded muted. This prompted a response from Reddit user ian2345 who jested that the developer's decisions in terms o...

343 Industries recently showed off some more multiplayer action for Halo Infinite ahead of the game's back-to-back multiplayer tech previews starting this weekend. PC gameplay of a Big Team Battle CTF match on Fragmentation showed a little more of what fans can expect from Infinite when it launches later this year as well as an introduction to the game's very own loot cave – seemingly a reference to Halo creator Bungie's Destiny. As broadcast from Halo's official YouTube channel , community director Brian Jarrard was joined by Fernando Reyez Medina to speak about some of the gameplay elements shown off in Big Team Battle. During the match, (starting at around the 9:17 in the video below), the pair come across a large fortified door protecting what Medina says the team internally refers to as the "loot cave" - a seemingly quiet nod to a similarly named area removed from Destiny. Medina explains that accessing the cave's huge vault is something of a su...