How To Chip Away At A Massive Games Backlog
2.12.2020
It’s called a backlog—that long list of games you’ll “get to someday” but ignore in favor of re-running Hades yet again. Maybe yours recently swelled as a result of irresistible Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals. Maybe it’ll grow even more over the coming holidays. Whatever the case, a gargantuan...
The 10 Best Deals of December 2, 2020
2.12.2020
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The Brightness Slider Is The Dimmest Idea In Video Games
2.12.2020
“Retinas are fried after cranking up brightness to see enemies.” That is the headline of a Reddit post submitted one month ago to the Call of Duty: Cold War subreddit. His plight is achingly familiar. “It’s literally so difficult to see enemies in this game,” they write. So they delved under...
Spend Less Time On Fire With New Baldur's Gate 3 Patch
2.12.2020
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a new patch filled with nifty quality of life adjustments, as well as new story changes that I’m eager to see.Read more
Ensure a Secure, Private Internet: The Best VPN Deals of the Day
2.12.2020
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Mask Of The Rose Is A Romantic Visual Novel Set In, Uh, Fallen London
2.12.2020
Failbetter Games introduced players to the Fallen London universe, in which the English capital has been transported underground by mysterious forces, through an eponymous browser game and gothic survival sequels Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies. But the studio’s next project aims to be a more...
Destiny Now Has A Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
2.12.2020
Fans began trying to turn Destiny into a Dungeons & Dragons-style pen-and-paper RPG two years ago. This week they released the 1.0 version of the Dungeons & Destiny Player’s Guidebook, providing an entirely new way to experience Bungie’s loot shooter alongside the Dungeons & Dragons...
Your TV Speakers Are Terrible. Amplify Your Audio With the Best Soundbars, According to Gizmodo
2.12.2020
It’s amazing the picture quality you can get with a cheap TV these days—but as TVs have gotten thinner and better, their speakers have gotten tiny and terrible. If you want explosions to rock the room, your TV isn’t going to cut it—hell, it can barely even make dialogue intelligible. So a soundbar...
Somebody Call Roger Goodell: Madden NFL 21's Price Deflates to $25
2.12.2020
Madden NFL ‘21 (PS4) | $25 | GamestopMadden NFL ‘21 (XBO) | $25 | GamestopRead more
How Miles Morales Connects To Harlem In The New Spider-Man Game
2.12.2020
In Insomniac’s 2018 Spider-Man game, Peter Parker’s relationship with New York City involved the occasional selfie with a citizen and a lot of palling around with the NYPD. The new Miles Morales game does something different. It foregrounds Miles Morales’ relationship to Harlem and the community...
Catching Covid-19 Sucked, Though Video Games Helped
2.12.2020
Some call it a hoax. Others say it’s no worse than the common cold. But make no mistake: the covid-19 pandemic is very, very real. If you don’t believe the mountain of scientific literature, the army of medical professionals, the frontline reporting from countless reputable sources, the firsthand...
Immortal's Version Of Assassin's Creed's Leap Of Faith Is More Of A Panicked Plummet
2.12.2020
There’s a moment at the beginning of Immortals Fenyx Rising, the new open-world adventure from the developers of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, where it feels like newly-forged hero Fenyx is going to go full-on assassin. She climbs a massive stature, surveys the land, and then prepares to leap...