by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 7, 2017 | News, News Section
November 4th was officially dubbed ‘Game Day’ for the charity organization Extra Life, and game they did. In just 24-hours, Extra Life – with the help of thousands of streamers, organizations, and gamers – was able to raise $1,805,727. This puts Extra Life’s current...
by Jordan Love | Nov 6, 2017 | News, News Section, PC, Videogames
BlizzCon 2017 has come and gone and Blizzard made sure to pack as much as possible into the two day celebration. One of the biggest reveals came in the opening moments of the convention when CEO Mike Morhaime announced that StarCraft II would become free-to-play...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 3, 2017 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
EA’s Chris Evenden has already said that he believes the future of video games is in streaming, but another company may have been him to the punch. In September of 2017, the game streaming service Jump launched with a goal of curating the massive sea of games into...
by Jordan Love | Nov 3, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Starting on November 14th, StarCraft II will become free-to-play. The announcement was made during the opening conference of this year's BlizzCon, Blizzard's annual celebration of all things them. The announcement came from CEO Mike Morhaime and was quickly followed...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 3, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
It recently came out that because of an ESRB mandate, the indie game Ruiner would not be able to releases a physical copy of their game. In an open letter, the publisher said that because of fees leveraged by the ESRB for digital and physical versions of games to...
by Jordan Love | Nov 3, 2017 | News, News Section, weekly
Each week, Fast Travel helps you get caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week's biggest news pieces. Then it's on to a little dollop of indie news. Followed by a helping of "The Best Thing on the Internet,...
by Jordan Love | Nov 2, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Super Mario Odyssey is selling better than any Super Mario game before. Just last week Nintendo announced that the game had sold a whopping 2 million copies within its first few days on the market, including 1.1 million copies sold in the U.S. alone. Now the game is...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 2, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
The Switch is most likely going to be the most successful Nintendo system ever sold. Boasting a new Mario and Zelda game in the year of its launch has helped cement that. But for all the praise the Switch has been getting – and it has been getting lots – the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 1, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
The battle royale genre is only speeding up as the year’s end gets closer, and Fortnite is burning up the track. While PUBG is still the reigning champ, Fortnite: Battle Royale is getting ever closer. Today marks their passing the 800k concurrent player mark, and that...
by Jordan Love | Oct 31, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Sony released its second quarter earnings report today and the electronics company has its PlayStation division to thank for a steep rise in profits and an increase in year-end estimates. The PlayStation console is the core of Sony's gaming division that also includes...
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