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Space Marine 2 Director Explains Why They're Rolling Back Its Most Controversial Changes
23.10.2024
Last week, Space Marine 2's 4.0 update arrived and many players weren’t happy about it. While the free patch did add a new mission, it also made the co-op third-person shooter much, much harder in some annoying ways. Now, developer Saber is rolling some of these changes back and promising to...
Palworld Out Now On PS5 Days After The 'Pokémon With Guns' Survival Game Gets Sued By Nintendo
25.9.2024
Who’s ready to capture some Pokémon-looking creatures and force them into labor camps to manufacture assault rifles? As announced in the new State of Play, PlayStation 5 players can now join in the Palworld fun with a port out on Sony’s platform just a week after maker Pocketpair was sued...
The Best Guns And Weapons To Use In Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
6.9.2024
Space Marines love guns. They’re born loving guns. Their blood has bullets running through it. So naturally, the Imperium has a wide range of weapons for players to use in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. But which to use? Which is best? What if you’re using the wrong gun?! Calm down, it’s...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Best Weapons For Barret
25.6.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s gun-arm wielding, zealous environmentalist, Barret, not only makes for a great ranged fighter, he can typically soak more damage than anyone else given his high defense and HP stats. So when it comes to kitting out Barret with the best gear, it’s a solid idea...
Konami Hopes Metal Gear Solid Delta Could Bring The Series Back, New Ad Suggests
11.6.2024
The upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3, marks a major turning point for Konami’s stealth action series. Due to come out before the end of this year, Delta will end a nine-year drought since 2015’s Phantom Pain (we don’t count Survive)....
Sonic Team Boss Explains Why Shadow The Hedgehog Doesn't Use Guns Anymore
10.6.2024
2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog game is a fever dream to look back on because of its dark tone, a striking departure from Sonic series norms. It included swearing in its dialogue, had its titular antihero use vehicles when it would have been faster to run, and most infamously had him using firearms...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Brings Back 'Dude Sitting With Guns' Cover
28.5.2024
Finally, our lengthy national nightmare is over. After years of waiting and suffering, I can confirm that the next Call of Duty: Black Ops game will bring back the franchise’s iconic “Dude with guns sitting on the cover” iconography. Truly, a time for celebration. Read more
Plus: here comes Hellblade II - how will it do?
17.5.2024
Also: a look at the console charts, and this week's big guns
Palworld, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.4.2024
It’s been long enough that we can probably stop calling Palworld “Pokémon With Guns,” right? Pocketpair’s monster-taming survival game has amassed millions of players, all while remaining legally distinct enough that The Pokémon Company’s lawyers haven’t come after them. But the jokes about...
FF7 Rebirth’s Rufus Shinra Is A Pain To Fight (Here’s How To Beat Him)
2.4.2024
In what has to be one of the more annoying battle sequences of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, President Rufus Shinra shows up to take Cloud on in a one-on-one match in the Gold Saucer in Chapter 12. As in Final Fantasy VII Remake, Rufus is a fast and deadly opponent. Yet he’s very beatable if...
Our Favorite Video Game Weapons Of All Time
27.3.2024
In a video game, you’re only as good as your weapon. Try getting through Elden Ring’s hardest boss battle without a powerful sword, or a tough multiplayer match in Halo 3 without nabbing the Needler and unloading on an incoming Ghost. Even the most elite-level gamers among us owe some of their...
Palworld Devs Say ‘Triple-A Games Are Not For Us’
15.3.2024
One of 2024's biggest games, Palworld, was not developed by a big team. In fact, Pocketpair founder Takuro Mizobe recently told Bloomberg that the studio is tight-knit because it’s modest in size, comprising just 55 people in Tokyo. Mizobe also said that he not only wants to keep Pocketpair...
Helldivers 2 Is Getting A Ton Of New Gear And Guns Very Soon
7.3.2024
Good news, soldiers of democracy: Helldivers 2 is getting new guns and gear to help you fight the robot menace. You’ll have to earn these new toys (and pay for a new premium battle pass), but these upcoming electric- and laser-based weapons should help turn the tide of war, and possibly help...
New Steam Hit Mixes Vampire Survivors With Mining And Guns
21.2.2024
Vampire Survivors might not be the first auto-shoot-’em-up ever made, but it has certainly become the blueprint many clones and imitators have followed since its launch in 2021. One game in that mold, Deep Rock Galactic Survival, takes that basic formula and does something different, adding mining...
Modern Warfare III Is Getting A Bunch Of New Maps And Guns In Season Two
5.2.2024
Modern Warfare III and Warzone Season 2 drops on February 7, and with it a chunk of new content and a new battle pass. With four brand new 6v6 maps, a new War map, new guns, and much more, things ought to feel quite fresh come Wednesday. So if you’re itching for some more team deathmatch action...
Palworld Has Reached Nearly 20 Million Players In 12 Days
31.1.2024
What started off as a relatively obscure survival game known colloquially as “Pokémon With Guns” has officially become the biggest third-party Game Pass launch of all time, as Palworld has reached 19 million players in just under two weeks. That’s a lot of people catching legally distinct...
Palworld Mods Turn ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Into ‘Digimon With Guns’
31.1.2024
While the Palworld mod that turns every critter in Pocketpair’s survival game into a Pokémon has been hit with Nintendo’s banhammer, that hasn’t stopped fans from modding the game to feature characters from other monster-taming series. Digimon mods are starting to pop up to replace Palworld’s...
Unpacking The ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Game Palworld And Its Controversies
22.1.2024
It has been a whirlwind of a weekend for Palworld, the Ark-like survival game colloquially called “Pokémon With Guns.” Pocketpair’s latest has already sold over five million copies since launching in Early Access on January 19, and shot to the top of Steam and Twitch charts over the weekend....
After Playing Palworld For 6 Hours I Still Haven't Shot A Pokémon With A Gun
22.1.2024
Over the weekend, I downloaded Palworld on my PC. I was excited. After all the weird trailers and screenshots showing Pokémon-like creatures using assault rifles or being shot with handguns, I was ready to earn official Xbox achievements as I killed Pokémon facsimiles using modern guns. It...
Modders Have Already Put Actual Pokémon In Palworld
22.1.2024
Even before it entered Early Access on January 19, Pocketpair’s monster-collecting survival game Palworld was widely being referred to as “Pokémon With Guns.” But mere days after launch, modders have already taken steps to really drive the comparison home by adding actual Pokémon characters to...