Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism
GTA V's multiplayer has been such a beast unto itself, it's very nearly consumed the idea of what Grand Theft Auto is these days.
I need trees, piers, and a bakery stat.
Foodfight! , an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, almost got a tie-in PS2-era video game. And while the tie-in game was never finished, largely because the movie lingered in development hell, we now have access to assets from the Foodfight! game
The crowd went wild.
As one of the best-selling video games of all time , one that has individually outsold entire video game series like Assassin’s Creed , it’s always been disappointing that Grand Theft Auto V never got story DLC. The franchise has had incredible DLC in the past, like GTA 4’s
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The co-developer on Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion and Paper Mario: Origami King was hit hard by several projects getting the axe by their developers.
Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?
What better way to incentivize players to help keep the community clean than by offering up a reward? Plenty of online video games have a cheater problem , but sometimes developers need players’ help to track them down. That’s what Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games
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The defunct publisher has delisted more indie games, including Super House of Dead Ninjas, Traverser, Mega Coin Squad, and Zenzizenzic.
"It was hard to make an argument that a standalone DLC would outcompete that."
If Elden Ring : Shadow of the Erdtree ’s first patch was meant to make the DLC easier , this second one is out for blood again. Effectively, patch 1.12.3 issues a host of balance changes that weaken a bunch of Shadow of the Erdtree’s new weapons and Ash of War skills, including
Promises unspoken.
Nearly six years after it launched, Nintendo Switch Online is still getting new NES classics added to its on-demand subscription service. Nintendo announced seven more games are now available to play. The esoteric bunch, which includes Mach Rider and The Mystery of Atlantis,
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It’s normal for an MMO’s peaks and valleys in player counts to correlate with expansion releases and the fallow years in between. So it isn’t surprising that Dawntrail , the new expansion to Final Fantasy 14 , has brought up the player numbers for Square Enix’s decade-old MMO.
Summer Games Done Quick is typically a beacon for good things. Every year, players break good games and perform wild acts of digital acrobatics as they do speedruns for a good cause. And the best good thing was the goodest of good boys Peanut Butter, a four-year-old Shiba Inu,
The man who would have made a Horizon show for Netflix has been accused of abusive behavior in the workplace.
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Do you remember Bulldozer or have you blocked out those dark times, too?
The poor Wii U. That inexplicable console that was simultaneously too confusing to be useful, but too unexceptional to be inspiring. Meaninglessly carrying the weight of the name of the phenomenal success of the Nintendo Wii, it was—by most metrics—a rare miss and a colossal
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A toolbox for approaching the strategic analysis of new game ideas.
Grab the new livestream Primogems before they expire.
It seems to be a better system than AMD's Privacy View feature but like all of them, it can't solve one key issue.
We have a Project Tamriel at home.
"Y'all can't just press True North?"
Black and white and previously dead all over—but thanks to this dock, resurrected.
The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.
Peanut Butter the speedrunning shiba is back in action tonight.
Tarkov players who report cheaters will earn in-game currency if their report results in a ban.
