At about the midway mark through each month, The NPD Group reveals the best selling games of the month before, or in some cases the entire year. This being the first month of the year, the companyhas announced the best selling games of 2020. Call of Dutyled the pack for 2020, withCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarandCall of Duty: Modern Warfarebeing the top two selling games of the year. It even overcame heavy hitters likeAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, which wasthe best selling game in France in 2020....

To be clear, very few games are balanced quite as well asDiablo Immortal. In previous franchise entries, some classes could take on challenging twenty to thirty times as difficult as other classes in the rifts, creating a massive disparity between player options. RELATED:Diablo Immortal: Tips Every Beginner Should Know Things aren’t so badly imbalanced inDiablo Immortal. Skills, gems, and gear, it’s all been toned down and fine-tuned to prevent any class from falling off of the map or leaving the rest in their dust....

Neat! Fresh off of a solid launch, the folks over at Disneyhave released an iPad appforDisney Infinity. The app itself is Toy Box oriented, as it allows you to build and create worlds that can be put into the console version. You’ll start off with a limited amount of items (and just Mr. Incredible), but the real way to use this app is to sync it with your console game, which will allow you to unlock all of the pieces you’ve encountered in your save file....

Just the other day, Crysis developer Crytek announced thatCryENGINE 3 was locked, loaded, and ready to be licensed by other developerswho may find themselves fancying the tech. In the post, we presented all of you with a single still image of Brad Nicholson’s backyard as rendered with the engine. That moist jungle — the same place where man was trained to weight lift by a group of bipedal badgers — never looked better....

The boss fights in FromSoftware titles have become infamous among fans for a brutal difficulty built around stamina management and capitalizing on small windows of opportunity. However,Demon’s Soulsis often held up as an outlier among the Soulsborne series, due to the way that manybosses from the Dragon Godto the Storm King are more puzzle than actual fight. There are a few fights that buck this trend, with one of the most notable exceptions to the puzzle rule being the Flamelurker that blocks passage beyond area 2-2....

Here’s a rather pitiful piece of news regarding Left Behind Games. The publisher ofLeft Behind: Eternal Forceshas beensending threatening lettersto blogs who dare to say bad things about its work.Eternal Forcesis an RTS based on a Christian book while its publisher appears to be quitesanctimonious and self-satisfied. Of course, if Left Behind reads that, it might sue me! Here’s whatGameologyhas to say: …If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve probably seen that we’ve posted some rather critical remarks on the game Left Behind: Eternal Forces… we’re apparently on [CEO] Troy Lyndon’s radar… On Monday, they escalated their response by sending me a nastygram threatening me with legal action unless I remove “false and misleading” comments from this website....

The Nindies Spring Showcase starts at 9:00am PT Nintendo has yet anotherlive-streamed video presentationlined up for this week. On Wednesday, March 20, we’re getting a new Nindies Showcase with “roughly 30 minutes of information” on Nintendo Switch indie games. I’m expecting plenty of upcoming games and ports of old favorites. Considering how much Nintendo has crammed into past Nindies presentations and the fact that the Game Developers Conference is happening this week, we’ll have lots of names and dates to jot down....

While 343 Industries and Microsoft went relatively silent aboutHalo Infiniteafter its big delay was announced, reveals for the game have been ramping up. 343 has provided monthly updates onHalo Infinite, giving fans an idea of what to expect from the game, though many details still have yet to be revealed. Notably,Halo Infinitedoes not have an official release date and most of its story details are being kept underwraps, but it seems some of these details have been leaked....

Hunter Rank is one of the most important things to note inMonster Hunter Wilds, and your ultimate aim is to increase it as quickly as possible. TheHRacronym inside the game representsHunter Rank, increasing gradually. However, you’ll have to partake in certain activities to increase the numbers, and specific activities are better suited for the job. This guide will help you understand the underlying system and how to raise your ranks quickly....

After beingannounced in July 2022and delayed in August 2023, it looks like the planned remake ofLollipop Chainsawis switching gears. Dragami Games president Yoshimi Yasuda announced as much on Twitter, saying they’ve “changed the game design ofRePOPfrom remake to remaster.” Without sharing any details, Yasuda added that this decision was based on “requests.” The recent delay ofLollipop Chainsaw RePOPwas put in place to provide “the best possible quality experience.” Originally planned as a remake and set for sometime in 2023, Dragami Games then changed that window to summer 2024....

With twenty-six movies under its belt and more to come in the following years, theMCUis showing no signs of slowing down. Especially now that theMCUTV series premiered, all superhero fans have plenty of content to watch. As a result, it’s sometimes easy to forget the older movies that came beforehand. RELATED:Comic Storylines Deadpool 3 Should Pull FromTruth be told, not all MCU movies are great, some are just “good”. Even then, there’s plenty of options to choose from if the fans want to return to the older movies and remember how the MCU used to be....

This is embarrassing. I’ve been covering all these littleZeldanuggets, from music and pins to comics and beyond, all to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary, and I completely missed perhaps the coolest item of them all. Allow me to play catch-up. Hyrule Historia, released in Japan yesterday for 3255 yen (about $42), is a massive 274-page tome filled with tons of lovely nuggets and concept art from theZeldaseries’ illustrious history. A good chunk of the book is dedicated toSkyward Sword, and there is even a sneak preview of the upcomingAkira HimekawaSkyward Swordmanga....

That means a few more days of waiting for North America Hello Games will be working onNo Man’s Skyright up until the last minute and then some. As confirmed this afternoon, thePC versionis slipping a few days to a Friday, August 12 worldwide release. Previously, the space-exploration title wasset for August 9in North America. “I really want to clarify our PC release date,” said studio founder Sean Murrayin a series of tweets....