Hogwarts Legacy 6 Months Later: Is Anyone Still Playing?
11.8.2023
Hogwarts Legacy launched on February 10 of this year and was an instant sales hit—so much so that it’s still the highest-selling game of 2023, even with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the mix. Though Switch exclusivity is likely part of the reason why Zelda can’t catch up to...
Baldur’s Gate 3: 17 Features You'll Definitely Want To Mess With
11.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an enormous game, and it’s based on the equally dense tabletop RPG (TTRPG) Dungeons & Dragons. But if you’re looking to optimize or even simplify your experience, there exist a bunch of settings and not-so-obvious gameplay features that can streamline your adventuring...
Pokémon Tourney Cracks Down On Hacked Monsters, Disqualifies Tons Of Players
11.8.2023
The biggest Pokémon tournament of the year is going on right now and tons of players are getting disqualified for fielding hacked teams. The first Pokémon World Championship since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s big launch, the stricter checks are apparently catching some pros off guard, and ending...
Report: Jeopardy! Players Turn Down Rare Opportunity To Return, With Good Reason
11.8.2023
Jeopardy!’s 40th season is scheduled to begin on September 11. And this time around the popular trivia show is inviting past players from previous seasons to play one more time, a rare opportunity that most contestants never dreamed would happen. But to play again these contestants are being asked...
All Game Sales Should Be Announced Like This
11.8.2023
Video game discounts are usually announced with the casualness of a grocery store flier—maybe the developer will post something about it on its news center, or Steam will send you a perfunctory email about getting 20 percent off. Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya might...
We Have Opinions About Baldur's Gate 3's Approach To Romance
11.8.2023
To quote Shakespeare, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” If you’re a player character in Baldur’s Gate 3, however, you may have better luck than most mortals, as it’s possible to find yourself with a whole party full of companions willing (and possibly eager) to pursue romance with...
Baldur's Gate 3 Puts Luck Ahead Of Fun
11.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is obviously a triumph. It’s an astonishingly ambitious and successful RPG, which brings the long-abandoned series back to its D&D routes, while building on everything developers Larian learned when making the exceptional Divinity: Original Sin games. But if there’s one aspect...
Bruce Lee Is Getting An Anime Series
11.8.2023
On Friday, Deadline broke the news that martial arts legend Bruce Lee will finally get his very own anime series.Read more
Overwatch 2 Steam Reviews Are Predictably Brutal, Say Porn Is The Best Part
11.8.2023
Blizzard added first-person shooter Overwatch 2 to Steam on August 10 alongside its stacked Invasion chapter, and the game is already getting review-bombed to the lowest circles of Hell. Read more
Fan Painstakingly Ports WipeOut, Dares PlayStation To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own Remaster
11.8.2023
WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free...
Popular GTA Role-Play Community Scooped Up By Rockstar Ahead Of GTA 6
11.8.2023
The team behind the biggest Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 role-playing communities, Cfx.re, is officially becoming part of Rockstar Games. The new partnership comes ahead of the possible launch of GTA VI in 2024, and will lead to an updated policy that officially allows the addition...
Tekken Producer Has Had Enough With The 'Silly' Death Threats
11.8.2023
No one likes death threats or otherwise intimidating remarks that threaten violence. Such comments are callous, dehumanizing, pointless, unproductive, and do nothing for anyone. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada made that expressly clear, telling folks to not ask him for shit if all they’re going...