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A Bunch Of Awesome Games Have Big Free Updates
22.11.2024
We live in a time of plenty. Perhaps even excess. Before I finish a game, or sometimes even start it, the developers are already releasing free updates ranging from new quality-of-life settings to full-blown content add-ons. Each one makes the game worth revisiting and adds to the pull of picking...
Steam Has New Rules For DLC And Season Passes To Prevent Players From Getting Screwed
21.11.2024
You shouldn’t pre-order games, but people do it all the time anyway. Increasingly, people have gotten in the habit of pre-ordering DLC too, paying up front for content that won’t be delivered for months or even years, if ever. Valve’s now cracking down on the whole thing with stricter rules...
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Horse Armor Sold Millions Despite Backlash, Ex-Bethesda Dev Says
16.10.2024
Back in 2006, Bethesda released its first piece of downloadable content on console for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was armor for horses and it cost $2.50. Players were outraged, but Bethesda made bank. “That was kind of a head shaker for us: you’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it,”...
Little Big Planet 3 And All Its DLC Will Be Delisted Very Soon
8.10.2024
PlayStation announced earlier today that Little Big Planet 3, as well as all LBP DLC, will be removed from the PSN Store on October 31. If you’ve ever wanted to own LBP3 digitally, you only have three weeks left to purchase it before it’s gone.Read more
Starfield's Big Expansion Shattered Space Is Getting Hammered By Negative Reviews
3.10.2024
It felt like Shattered Space might finally bring space RPG Starfield closer to the original promise of its sprawling NASA-punk space adventure. Instead, the new expansion is getting slammed even harder than the base game by early players, and seems set to potentially end up being one of...
A Black Myth: Wukong Expansion Could Be Coming Early Next Year
16.9.2024
Black Myth: Wukong quickly became one of the biggest games of the year, and it might be getting an expansion sooner than some expected. A previously teased DLC is coming as soon as January 2025, according to a new report on the content plans for the fantasy action game. Read more
Age Of Mythology Remake DLC Is Just Old JPEGs And People Aren't Happy About It
4.9.2024
Age of Mythology: Retold is out today on Xbox and PC. Critics seem to like it and people who paid extra to play early are mostly happy with this remastered version of the classic 2002 PC strategy game. However, players aren’t excited at all about being asked to spend money on 22-year-old JPEGs....
Bethesda Locks The Hottest Indy Behind A $100 Paywall
28.8.2024
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is set to arrive this December on Xbox Series X/S and PC. (And later, on PS5.) And because it’s 2024, there are like 4 different versions of the game you can now pre-order. And one of the pricier editions is the only way to snag the hottest version of Indy ever...
Get The Whole Dying Light Series For Cheap Ahead Of The Beast’s Release
21.8.2024
Techland announced the newest Dying Light game at Gamescom earlier this week. Subtitled The Beast, the new first-person zombie game (which began as DLC for Dying Light 2) will follow the protagonist of the first title, Kyle Crane, as he embarks on a journey for revenge. What is he getting revenge...
Get This Diabolical And Hilarious Cult Game On Sale ASAP
13.8.2024
Back in 2022, one of the most unexpectedly big games of the year was a cute little cult simulator. Cult of the Lamb, developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital, made a huge splash when it launched two summers ago and spoke to all the little freaks and deviants out there....
Castle Crashers' First DLC In 12 Years Lets You Make Your Own Characters
26.7.2024
Castle Crashers was one of the first breakout indie darlings on Xbox 360 to show players the console’s Live Arcade wasn’t just a backwater for low-effort shovelware. The Behemoth’s Flash-animation-inspired arcade brawler became an instant classic, and over a decade later its getting its biggest...
Stardew Valley Creator Asks Fans To Shame Him If He Ever Breaks Promise To Keep DLC Free
22.7.2024
Stardew Valley has received years of major updates with thousands of tweaks and additions since it came out in 2016. The pixel-art farming sim just keeps growing, and all for a one-time price of $15. Creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone says that’s never changing. Read more
GTA V’s Story DLC Was Canceled Because Of ‘Cash Cow’ GTA Online, Former Dev Claims
5.7.2024
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 outstanding The Ballad...
Toys 'R' Us' New AI-Generated Ad Is Truly Horrible And More Of The Week's Takes
29.6.2024
Toys ‘R’ Us—or, more accurately, the brand’s reanimated corpse—made waves this week with the release of an AI-generated ad that inadvertently reveals so much about this era of widespread “enshittification.” Our piece on that, as well as a lament for the way expiring licenses are killing Forza...
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, As Told By Steam Reviews
26.6.2024
Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring’s only expansion, and is therefore a really big deal. After years of anticipation, it finally landed last week, and players have been digging into it ever since. Evidently there’s a lot there, considering this expansion builds on one of the biggest games I’ve...
Veteran Elden Ring Players Can't Believe How Much The DLC Is Kicking Their Asses
20.6.2024
It’s Elden Ring day, again. Shadow of the Erdtree, its long-awaited and massive expansion, is finally live and, surprise, it’s really, really hard. Even veteran players are getting their asses kicked. Whether it’s new bosses or random scrubs out in the field, everything seems to be hitting harder...
Redfall Fans Are Finally Starting To Get Refunds For Abandoned DLC
20.6.2024
Microsoft’s shocking decision in May to close a collection of Bethesda-adjacent studios saw Dishonored and Redfall developers Arcane Austin suddenly closed down, before the studio was able to complete Redfall’s promised content. Those who bought the game’s never-to-be-released Hero DLC are now,...
Elden Ring Players Will Still Get Some Cool New Features Even If They Don't Buy The Erdtree DLC
14.6.2024
I imagine the cross-section of people who still play Elden Ring but aren’t buying its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is pretty small. Even so, those people are in luck since they’ll still get to take advantage of a free update going live alongside the DLC. In addition to various gameplay changes...
Almost Two-Thirds Of PC Players Aren't Ready For Elden Ring DLC
11.6.2024
Elden Ring’s one and only expansion DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, is out June 21. That’s less than two weeks away. But were you already aware that in order to be able to play it, you need to have beaten both Starscourge Radahn and previously optional boss, Mohg, Lord of Blood? Because it seems that...
Shadow Of The Erdtree Previews Tease A Massive Follow-Up To Elden Ring
4.6.2024
With less than three weeks until the release of Shadow of the Erdtree, fans are clamoring for information on the expansion. The one and only DLC for FromSoftware’s award-winning action RPG Elden Ring is the big release of the summer, dropping on June 21. While we’ve had a couple of teases of...