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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
14.5.2021
This weekend is for playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition. That’s it. Nothing else may be done or played this weekend. There will be no celebratory vaccine brunches or prolonged afternoon naps. Just an endless parade of dead-eyed Shepards approving messages. Read more
Resident Evil Village, As Told By Steam Reviews
14.5.2021
There’s a lot going on in Resident Evil Village: Big lady. Severed hand. Resident Evil 4 parallels. There are other things that happen too, but if you’re a Steam reviewer, those three are very much the main ones.Read more
Fans Polled Over Which Anime Or Manga Should Be Live-Action And Most Replied "None"
14.5.2021
Yikes! A Japanese poll asked one thousand men and women ranging from teens to those in their 60s to name which anime or manga they’d like made live-action, courtesy of Hollywood. The reply that took the number slot should surprise no one, really.Read more
Another Beautiful Day In The Galactic Empire
14.5.2021
Thom Tenery is an artist who has worked on Star Wars projects like Force Awakens, Rogue One and Solo.Read more
Skyrim Player Tries To Kill Every Single Living Thing In The Game, Will Die Alone And Remorseful
14.5.2021
No doubt looking for fresh challenges in a game that’s been out for nearly ten years, jaeinskyrim recently decided to embark on a quest to...kill every single person and creature in the entire game world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.Read more
Not Even Mass Effect Legendary Edition Will Compel Me To Make Different Choices
13.5.2021
Vanguard class. Colonist. Sole Survivor. Paragon.Read more
No, I Won't Ride The Giant Cat In The New Assassin's Creed DLC
13.5.2021
Last year, when Assassin’s Creed Valhalla launched, Ubisoft tried to get me to swap my trusty horse for a massive wolf. I firmly declined. Now Ubisoft is back to its old tricks, trying to once again tempt me into riding another ahistorically large version of an otherwise undomesticated animal. This...
Ghostrunner Is Getting A Sequel
13.5.2021
Good news for fans of wall-running and paint-by-numbers cyberpunk themes (so, everyone). Ghostrunner, the first-person cyborg parkour game, is getting a sequel, publisher 505 Games announced today. It’ll be called [drum roll] Ghostrunner 2.Read more
Why The Rain In Returnal Feels So Damn Good
13.5.2021
Returnal, a PS5 game based entirely on Vaas’ iconic refrain from Far Cry 3, is an impressive game. But few things are more impressive than its rain, which feels unnervingly real in your hands, a result of the PS5 controller’s advanced haptic feedback. Today, in a post on the PlayStation Blog...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla First DLC Is Good, But Feels A Bit Lonely
13.5.2021
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was a big game. (Maybe too big.) But I still found myself wanting to explore and conquer more after the credits rolled. Today’s new DLC, Wrath of The Druids, is mostly what I wanted: While it adds a big new map and storyline, it lacks the smaller side stories...
How Studio Ghibli Helped With The Latest Evangelion Film
13.5.2021
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno has a history that goes way back with Studio Ghibli—before it was even founded. One of the first big jobs he got in the industry was working on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 classic Nausicaä. Read more
Target Stores Will Stop Selling Pokémon Cards After Shortages, Fighting
13.5.2021
Thanks to a combination of the pandemic, late-stage capitalism and people being assholes, Target stores across the US are about to halt all physical sales of certain trading cards, with Pokémon on the list.Read more
Paradox Director Is Very Sorry For "Low Quality" DLC Releases
13.5.2021
Following fan backlash over Europa Universalis IV’s Leviathan DLC, which wound up the worst-rated launch on Steam of all time, the director of the studio responsible has apologised to fans for not just Leviathan’s poor quality, but that of some other recent releases as well.Read more
Resident Evil Village Looks Much Scarier As A PS1 Game
12.5.2021
I wasn’t blown away by the scares in Resident Evil Village, and it turns out a PlayStation 1-style demake is all the proof I need to believe the game would have been a much more terrifying experience on older consoles.Read more
Ethan’s Severed Hand Is More Than A Gory Resident Evil Gag
12.5.2021
We’ve established by now that Resident Evil Village puts protagonist Ethan Winters through a great deal of unpleasantness. But the already-iconic visual of Ethan’s hand being slashed and sliding off isn’t just a good running gag or Capcom at its most masochistic. It’s also a clue to an end-game...
My Singing Monsters Comes To Consoles With A Bunch Of Non-Singing Minigames
12.5.2021
Mobile hit My Singing Monsters is a game about collecting and breeding musical monsters whose unique noises join together to create beautiful music. Coming to consoles this November, My Singing Monsters Playground is a party game featuring more than 20 different minigames. Hopefully one of those...
Pretty Much Everyone In Resident Evil Village Needs Therapy
12.5.2021
I’m a big believer in therapy and finding healthy coping mechanisms, so throughout my playthrough of Resident Evil Village, I kept thinking about how much better off everyone would’ve been had they just worked their shit out. Seriously. I think everyone in this fucked-up game could benefit from...
Gundam's Zaku Makes A Pretty Good Japanese Teapot
12.5.2021
Quick! Out of all the Gundam mecha, if you were to pick one to make a Japanese teapot, which would you pick?Read more
Let's Remember Gran Turismo 5's Intro, Which Was A Masterpiece
12.5.2021
We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in my head for over a decade now, and it wasn’t trying to tell me a story. It was trying to teach...
Resident Evil Village Art Book Shows Ada Wong, Early Lady Dimitrescu Concept
11.5.2021
One of my favorite parts of gaming is learning the ins and outs of development, and most especially the plot points that may have been changed before launch. “The Tragedy of Ethan Winters,” an extensive digital art book included with the collector’s edition of Resident Evil Village, provides a...