Derek Strickland
Gaming News Reporter & Reviewer
Jacksonville, Florida
derekstrickland at tweaktown dot com
Derek is absorbed with the intersection of technology and gaming, and is always looking forward to new advancements, whether it's VR with the Oculus Rift or Augmented Reality. With over four years in games journalism under his belt, Derek aims to further engage the gaming sector while taking a peek under the technology that powers it. He hopes to one day explore the stars in No Man's Sky with the magic of VR.
Derek Strickland has written 4079 pieces of content on TweakTown, they are listed below:
- Anthem made $3.5 million in microtransactions
- Digital-only Xbox One has 1TB HDD, includes three games
- Epic won't let 'crappy games' on its store
- Steam's library UI is getting a makeover
- Google Stadia's save sharing feature is revolutionary
- Games titan Tencent earns $45 billion in 2018
- Xbox will 'go big' with streaming at E3 2019
- $399 Oculus Rift S has inside-out tracking, 1440p resolution
- No, Disney won't make its own Star Wars games
- Cuphead coming to Switch with Xbox LIVE integration
- Obsidian's new Outer Worlds skips Steam
- Witcher 4 may be CD Projekt RED's next game
- Strong sales cement Anthem in EA's playbook
- Ocarina of Time Online brings co-op to Hyrule
- Google's console-killer Stadia wages war on the industry
- Google's Stadia changes gaming forever
- Atari VCS console upgraded to Ryzen APU
- Google's game service lets you piggyback off streamers saves
- Master Chief Collection on PC won't support Play Anywhere
- Master Chief Collection PC beta tests announced
- This Millennium Falcon SNES, NES console is epic
- Starfield could be the star of Bethesda's E3 2019
- Master Chief Collection on PC won't require Xbox LIVE Gold
- Red Dead Redemption 2 patch downgrades visuals
- Project Stream to support Switch JoyCons
- Star Wars: Dark Forces reborn in Unreal Engine 4
- Steam game streaming now extends outside the home
- Epic Store is slowly morphing into Steam
- Epic boss: exclusives are pro-competitive
- Leaked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 art is fake
- No Man's Sky's biggest update goes above and Beyond
- BioWare boosts Anthem's loot drops
- Project xCloud 'Netflix for games' service demoed
- Xbox LIVE comes to iOS, Android games
- BioWare: We're listening, Anthem is here to stay
- Left 4 Dead devs reveal new zombie FPS Back 4 Blood
- Borderlands 3 isn't the only game Gearbox is working on
- Anthem is more fun to talk about than to play
- Why Master Chief Collection is coming to Steam
- Steam games can be streamed to Xbox One
- Halo: Reach campaign, firefight sold separately in Halo MCC
- Jade Raymond could lead Google's gaming division
- Gearbox teases Borderlands 3 reveal on March 28
- Master Chief Collection is coming to PC and Steam
- Google teases new gaming platform
- Hype hits service games the hardest
- Halo: Infinite may have ongoing live campaign
- Grim Dawn's big new exotic expansion launches March 27
- Podracer fan game reminds us when Star Wars games were fun
- Anthem boycott will hit EA, BioWare where it hurts
- Breath of the Wild looks dead without cel-shading
- Remedy's new game Control launches in Summer 2019
- Two new Octopath Traveler games in development
- Google's leaked gaming controller looks super uncomfortable
- Epic wins Fortnite dance-off, lawsuits dropped...for now
- The Division 2 on PS4 is 92GB, has huge 80GB day one patch
- Cyberpunk 2077 is still deep in development
- Blizzard layoffs affected IT and marketing the most
- Ex-BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn leads Improbable's dev team
- Battle royale games to make $20 billion in 2019
- EA's E3 2019 plan isn't about gamers, it's about engagement
- Dark Souls dev wants to make live games
- Nintendo doesn't want to over-monetize gamers
- PS4 remote play comes to iPad, iPhones
- 3D Realms' new FPS Wrath: Ruin of Aeons brings hellish chaos
- GOG summons Diablo, raises hell on PC
- Nintendo Switch VR Labo kits revealed
- Mortal Kombat 11 roster: all confirmed fighters so far
- Mortal Kombat 11's story warps through previous games
- Anthem isn't breaking PS4s, BioWare says
- Game Pass, Xbox LIVE, xCloud may get combined in one sub
- Master Chief Collection coming to PC, possibly via Game Pass
- Antec reveals affordable ARGB Dark Avenger gaming chassis
- Digital-only Xbox One S coming in May
- Anthem is crashing, soft-bricking PS4s
- Apex Legends hits 50 million players faster than Fortnite
- BioWare: EA won't close us, Anthem is doing well
- Game Pass on Switch isn't happening, sources say
- Gwent's new Crimson Curse expansion stars Witcher 3 vampire
- Friday the 13th slasher coming to Switch
- Microsoft wants to bring Game Pass to every device
- Resident Evil 2 makes Thomas the Tank Engine terrifying
- Making video games is risky business, even for Activision
- Amazon and Comcast want to buy Nexon
- Bungie might've spent NetEase investment to buy back Destiny
- Activision earns mostly from consoles, Blizzard from PC
- Fallout: New Vegas dev helped write Jedi: Fallen Order
- Activision sets aside $97 million for fired employees
- Don't expect to see Microsoft's biggest games on Steam
- Activision: our vision is monetization and engagement
- Anthem takes cues from Diablo to fix loot problem
- Borderlands 3 reveal at PAX East likely
- Horizon: Zero Dawn sells a much-deserved 10 million
- Microsoft paves way for Game Pass on PC
- Cyberpunk 2077 will be at E3 2019
- Aquaman 2 to release in 2022, original scriptwriter returns
- Sony drops PlayStation Plus value by nixing PS3, Vita games
- New Alien CGI show is made from Isolation game cutscenes
- Red Dead Online makes 500% less than GTA Online
- Pokemon Sword and Shield announced on Switch
- Visceral's Star Wars game was very far into development
- How to enjoy Anthem as a BioWare fan
- New Pokemon Switch info coming tomorrow in Direct showcase
- GOG storefront earnings drop, Gwent didn't meet targets
- Xbox Games Pass Coming To Switch? Maybe Not. Here's Why.
- Square Enix isn't doing too well right now
- Rumor: Watch Dogs 3 set in London, coming in 2019
- Obsidian's The Outer Worlds to release in August
- Capcom will keep making PC ports of its biggest games
- Anthem needs a loading screen minigame
- Anthem is built to make money, not be fun
- Fallout 3 remaster teased by Amazon listing?
- Fallout 76 gets three free expansions in 2019
- EA CEO pay is 371 times higher than average worker's salary
- 343i crunched hard for Halo 4 and Halo 5
- Bowser takes over Nintendo of America
- Top 10 Twilight Zone episodes
- New Twilight Zone trailer is full of classic throwbacks
- Apex Legends wall running, Titan mechs possibly on the way
- AxE: Alliance vs Empire preview: MMO mobile chaos
- Overkill's The Walking Dead sells less than 100K units
- Anthem hits native 4K on Xbox One X
- Square Enix to combine dev teams amid losses
- Path of Exile PS4 release set for March 8
- Monster Hunter: World smashes Japan's sales charts
- Lootboxes sneak into Black Ops 4
- Xbox One still flops in Japan
- Google to reveal gaming platform at GDC 2019
- Razer kills its PC game storefront
- Switch VR may happen via Google Cardboard-like Labo kits
- Anthem's loading times may be a big problem
- Resident Evil 2 Remake Review: Fright Night
- Activision: Destiny was tying up our resources
- Activision cut jobs to focus on monetization as well as dev
- Anthem's epic skins cost $8.50 a piece
- Crackdown 3 only exists to sell Game Pass subscriptions
- Neill Blomkamp's Anthem film is absolutely amazing
- Xbox Game Pass is vital to Microsoft's future
- Watch Dogs 3 may launch in 2019
- Hollow Knight sequel announced
- Tetris 99 boosts Switch Online value
- Activision earns $7.5 billion as it cuts 800 jobs
- Sony sees cloud, free-to-play as potential threats
- Link's Awakening Switch remaster set for 2019
- Jim Ryan to lead Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2019
- Mass Effect isn't dead, BioWare reaffirms
- Call of Duty 2019 will have singleplayer campaign, co-op
- Activision fires nearly 800 employees
- PS5 2019 reveal isn't likely
- Neill Blomkamp making Anthem short film
- Why Sony is skipping E3 2019
- Neill Blomkamp teases Anthem project, possibly short film
- Apex Legends coming to mobile eventually
- EA stock bounces back after earnings drop
- Konami game earnings up 18% to 105.8 billion yen
- EA won't stop fracturing game launches
- Microsoft's first-party game plan is unique
- Xbox gaming earns $4.32 billion over holidays
- Xbox LIVE subscribers hit 64 million
- Take-Two net revenue up 159% in Fiscal Q3'19
- Take-Two doubles down on live services
- Blizzard layoffs to affect non-gaming departments
- Nintendo 3DS to live alongside Switch, but for how long?
- New The Outer Worlds info revealed
- Disney happy with EA's Star Wars games
- Apex Legends sees titanic growth with 10 million players
- Anthem's post launch content detailed
- Anthem's cataclysmic storms will change the game world
- EA Access coming to PS4 or Switch
- Borderlands 3 may release in 2019
- EA has multiple new IPs in development
- Red Dead Redemption 2 sells 23 million copies
- EA: We have to make hard choices about investments
- EA stock dives as Battlefield V disappoints
- New Payday game incoming...but it's for mobile
- EA teases new Titanfall games
- Capcom's profit spikes by 108%
- Apex Legends could eat into Anthem's most important metric
- Titanfall battle royale Apex Legends is already a success
- Switch made 85% of Nintendo's nine-month FY18 earnings
- Apex Legends doesn't require PS Plus on PS4
- Titanfall 60-player battle royale FPS announced
- Metro devs aren't giving up on PC
- 2K Games opens new studio for mystery project
- PS Plus save clouds bumped to 100GB
- 3DS may be retired soon
- Switch Online subscribers pass 8 million
- New Super Mario Bros. film coming in 2022
- Future Metro games won't skip PC, here's why
- Titanfall free to play battle royale game on the way
- Dr. Mario free to play mobile game incoming
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sells 12 million
- Pokemon Switch RPG coming late 2019, Bayonetta 3 is TBA
- Nintendo Switch sales break 32 million
- PS5 devkits out in the wild, analyst says
- EA backpedals on lootboxes in Belgium
- GameStop won't sell, stock plummets 27%
- Quantic Dream partners with NetEase for next-gen games
- Resident Evil 2 ships 3 million in first week
- Resident Evil 2's free survival mode kicks off Feb. 15
- Apple making game streaming service
- Metro Exodus timed exclusive to Epic Store
- Konami code unlocks chiptunes in Anthem
- Star Wars Tattooine scene recreated in Far Cry 5
- PlayStation VR sparks holiday VR sales
- Zelda NES gets reborn in Doom
- The Division 2 supports 120Hz on Xbox One X
- Anthem demo woes underline issues with online-only games
- PUBG may go free-to-play
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev likely working on new Blizzard IP
- Most devs say Steam shouldn't get 30% of cuts
- Fortnite's lootboxes are now transparent
- Metro Exodus PC specs are quite demanding
- Nintendo not planning new Switch model
- Metroid Prime 4 development reset, delayed on Switch
- Xbox One sales hit 41 million
- Antec announces budget GX202 mid-tower case
- EA on Anthem's cosmetic unlocks: Shards or Coins, not both
- Anthem has a social space separate from Fort Tarsis hub
- Anthem shifts EA's monetization strategies
- New law firms suing Activision over Bungie split-up
- Metro Exodus has transforming guns
- Anthem is finalized and ready for shipment
- Crytek making new AAA online game
- Anthem's world is always changing, says BioWare
- Battlefront II embraces the dark side and adds Count Dooku
- Mortal Kombat 11 may have cosmetic monetization
- Sapphire launches new AMD RX 570 16GB crypto mining card
- Fallout 76 isn't going free-to-play
- Anthem microtransactions detailed
- New Layers of Fear 2 trailer cruises the midnight seas
- Square Enix to make more HD-2D games like Octopath Traveler
- Nintendo to miss 20 million Switch sales, analysts predict
- If Anthem's cosmetics fail, paid expansions are likely
- The Divison 2 story sets U.S. capital aflame with chaos
- Lords of the Fallen devs open indie publishing label
- Metro Exodus' story reacts to your decisions
- Visceral's Star Wars game was basically Star Wars Uncharted
- Resident Evil 2 supports ultrawide monitors
- Top 10 premium games of 2018 in revenue
- Path of Exile 2019 roadmap detailed
- Microsoft calls Project xCloud its 'Netflix for games'
- Blizzard hiring 17 devs for new Diablo game
- Overkill's The Walking Dead delayed on PS4, Xbox One
- Ronda Rousey will voice Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat XI
- Bungie committed to Destiny for long haul
- Mortal Kombat XI's story takes us back to the past
- Mortal Kombat XI gameplay is fluid, chaotic, and violent
- Anthem's Ranger class has a Destiny Titan-like bubble shield
- Nintendo Switch outsells PS4 2:1 in Japan
- Fortnite earns $2.4 billion in 2018, tops free-to-play chart
- Free-to-play made 80% of 2018 digital game revenues
- IO Interactive opens Swedish studio to work on new franchise
- New Dragon Ball Z action RPG in development
- Resident Evil 2 Remake demo impressions
- Ghostbusters 3 set for Summer 2020, teaser trailer released
- EA cancelled new Star Wars game to work on smaller project
- Elite Dangerous devs working on new IP
- Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr brings dragons back to Tamriel
- EA cancels new Star Wars game, disrupts release timeline
- New Evil Dead game still happening
- Digital-only Xbox One may have pre-loaded services, games
- Xbox Game Pass is wildly successful
- Netflix's new price hike is biggest in company history
- Blizzard has lots of projects in dev, co-founder reiterates
- Steam had 90 million MAUs, 47 million DAUs in 2018
- Anthem has matchmaking for all activities
- SNES Switch Online games likely on the way
- Antec reveals new P101 Silent mid-tower chassis
- G.Skill reveals Trident Z DDR4-3466MHz RAM for AMD X399
- Activision fraud investigation prompted by Bungie breakup
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice's verticality adds tons of freedom
- This Anthem class chart is amazingly detailed
- Epic Store refund policy mimics Steam
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey getting big changes
- Resident Evil 2 Remake demo beat in 3 minutes
- Fallout 76 secret room found, contains every item in game
- Tencent's Honor of Kings reigns with $1.93 billion in 2018
- Verizon testing cloud game streaming service
- NetEase to publish Blizzard games in China thru 2023
- Mad Box console design chosen, looks fake
- Destiny 3 set for 2020, analyst predicts
- Destiny hand-off may hint at confidence in new Blizzard IP
- Bungie could morph into a developer-publisher
- Co-founder Mike Morhaime departs Blizzard in April
- Xbox Game Pass pays you for playing games
- Dragon Age 4 could have live multiplayer
- Epic fail: Epic's abysmal customer service scores F from BBB
- Red Dead Online gets second battle royale mode
- Amazon's game streaming service set for 2020
- Next-gen Xbox backward compatibility likely
- Corsair shrinks LED dies by 92% with new Capellix tech
- Division 2: uncapped FPS on PC, spec requirements revealed
- Gears of War 5 console KB&M support is just the beginning
- Epic Store wins big with Ubisoft partnership
- Razer's new Tomahawk Elite case has built-in liquid cooling
- Oculus Rift drops to $349
- Metro Exodus' story is built on hope and struggle
- Sony must to sell 4.8 million more PS4s to hit fiscal target
- Alienware 51m laptop has swappable CPU, GPU
- RE2make demo brings chills and thrills to all platforms
- Samsung reveals new Odyssey gaming laptop
- Toshiba reveals 16TB CMR hard drives
- Thermaltake reveals liquid-cooled RGB DDR4-3200MHz RAM
- New Alien game is a MMO shooter for consoles and PC
- New Vive Pro Eye replaces controllers with eye-tracking tech
- New Vive Cosmos VR headset is modular and expandable
- HTC's new Viveport Infinity is the 'Netflix of VR'
- How Fox's new Alien games could work
- Alien: Blackout is a standalone mobile game
- Nintendo won't give up on home consoles in favor of mobile
- Nintendo may release more microtransaction smartphone games
- Square Enix interested in blockchain, game streaming
- Microsoft's studio buyouts are just beginning
- RAGE 2 gets 15 minutes of new gameplay
- New Alien game teased
- Take-Two's Private Division is great for AA studios
- PT gets reborn on PC, but download it fast
- Diablo III's Tristram event is up again, but it's still lame
- Mad Box looks like a PC, still sounds like a bad idea
- HTC teases new VR tech for CES 2019
- Ex-Hearthstone devs working on new Marvel game
- Tencent could buy games titan Nexon
- Elder Scrolls Online could get new expansion in 2019
- New game Deathloop trademarked by Bethesda owners
- New Fallout 76 update lets players sell items to each other
- Beyond Skyrim takes us to the Dunmer isles of Morrowind
- Project Cars devs' next-gen console sounds like a bad idea
- Switch may get console-based hardware upgrades, not handheld
- Handheld-only Switch coming in 2019 for $199, analysts say
- Modded Wii fits in your pocket
- PlatinumGames teases big announcements in 2019
- FeelReal lets you smell VR gaming
- Netflix to poach Activision's chief financial officer
