Zack Zwiezen

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, made a lot of money in its last financial quarter. However, its virtual reality and augmented reality division, Reality Labs, lost over $3 billion. That means that since June 2022, the metaverse-focused division has lost a billion dollars per month, and Meta expects to continue losing billions on VR. As reported by MSNBC, in its first-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, Meta disclosed that Reality Labs had lost $3.85 billion. This is the division of…

Fallout 4’s “next-gen” update has removed the settings menu from the game on Steam Deck and reportedly made it worse to play on Valve’s portable PC, upsetting many players. When Bethesda announced plans to release a new, big “next-gen” patch for Fallout 4, people were excited. The open-world post-apocalyptic RPG, originally released in 2015, would run and look better on consoles. Some old bugs would be fixed, too and Bethesda was adding new content to the large game from its Creator Club store.…

So, you watched the Fallout TV show on Amazon, got excited about the franchise, maybe saw some folks playing Fallout 76, and decided that you were finally going to install Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic MMO and give it a real shot. But then you tried playing it on PC and discovered that it runs like garbage. Wait! Before you uninstall it, there’s a very simple way to make Fallout 76 run better. I recently, along with a million other players, re-installed and started playing Fallout 76 again. Howe…

The past year or so has been a slow-moving trainwreck for Embracer Group, following the large company’s unprecedented studio acquisition spree. And, after announcing on April 22 that the company was planning to split itself up into three different companies, the CEO of Embracer is only filled with excuses as to why his gaming empire crumbled, blaming everything from covid-19 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a new interview with Gamedeveloper.com, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors explained why th…

Microsoft and Marvel have teamed up to create a new X-Men-themed Xbox console that looks awesome and comes with a Wolverine-inspired controller, too. Sadly, this new console isn’t for sale and can only be won via a limited-time sweepstakes. Revealed on April 23, the new Xbox is wrapped in comic book art based on the new Disney+ streaming show, X-Men ’97, which is a continuation of the original animated X-Men series that aired on Fox back in the 1990s. The show has received rave reviews from cr…

Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison, along with her robotic arm and famous three-barrel revolver, is back in Phantom Fury, a new FPS boomer shooter adventure set after the events of 2021’s Ion Fury and its expansion. Where retro shooter Ion Fury was directly inspired by Duke Nukem 3D and its 2.5D Doom-like visuals, Phantom Fury moves ahead in video game history and is an homage to late ’90s and early 2000s FPS games, like Sin, Half-Life 2, Serious Sam, and No One Lives Forever. That means the game is…

El Paso, Elsewhere, an indie third-person neo-noir shooter heavily inspired by Max Payne, is the latest video game getting a Hollywood adaptation. And while it’s surprising to see a smaller, indie game get a movie, El Paso, Elsewhere is a perfect candidate for a film adaptation. Released in 2023, El Paso, Elsewhere is a fantastic, moody, and action-packed indie shooter about a troubled, drug-addicted monster hunter—James Savage—who is forced to stop his ex-girlfriend—a powerful vampire—from de…

Fortnite’s battle royale mode is so huge and popular in 2024 that most people forget the game actually launched without it. And Fortnite’s former boss, Donald Mustard, revealed in a recent interview that the popular mode was basically designed in the back of a car on the way to a meeting. In September 2023, after 15 years at Epic, Mustard announced he was leaving to work on new projects. He had helped grow Epic’s Fortnite into one of the biggest games on the planet, bringing in numerous crosso…

The future of physical media took another blow as Target confirmed previously reported plans that it would stop offering physical DVDs in store and transition to only carrying a select number of films in brick-and-mortar locations during specific, limited times. However, the retail giant said games would be—for now—unaffected by this change. Over the last two years, we’ve seen more and more signs that the era of physical media might be ending. In 2023, Alan Wake II became one of the first AAA…

Fallout is currently one of the biggest things in the world thanks to Amazon’s hit TV show. However, before all that, there was a time when Fallout as a franchise seemed dead. Then Bethesda stepped in, bought the IP in 2007, and announced plans to make Fallout 3, reviving the post-apocalyptic RPG series. And that’s when the company was flooded with death threats. In a new video about designing the creatures in Fallout 3 and 4, former Bethesda character artist Jonah Lobe shared stories about al…