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New Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Update Adds Long-Awaited Character Voices
7.6.2022
Last October, after a surprising amount of hype, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl debuted on all major platforms. While the game was well-received, one big complaint arose from the lack of voiced characters, making the whole thing feel a bit quiet and dead, especially compared to its competition....
Warner Bros. and Nifty’s to Launch Looney Tunes Story Bolstered by NFTs
3.6.2022
On Thursday, Warner Bros. announced it was collaborating with the non-fungible token (NFT) focused social media platform Nifty’s and at the end of June, the two firms will launch a story-driven NFT collection called “Looney Tunes: What’s Up Block?” The upcoming NFTs will...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Seems To Offer Better Character Creation Options
2.6.2022
Of all the details revealed in yesterday’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet news, one of the more subtle highlights was revealed in fleeting glances. For the first time in the franchise, it looks like character customization might have begun to acknowledge a neglected section of its fanbase. Read more
The Art Of Horizon Forbidden West
27.5.2022
Horizon Forbidden West has been out long enough now that the game’s artists are free to post their work on sites like ArtStation, so tonight we’re going to be taking a look at all kinds of stuff that went into the game’s creation. Read more
Gaming’s Best Character Creators, From Demon’s Souls To Final Fantasy
19.5.2022
Sometimes I think I like sliding into a character creator sandbox more than the game it’s attached to. Character creators let me play a benevolent god that only creates hot people—like Abercrombie in the 2010s, except I’m a socialist. I feel powerful and clever until I run smack into a wall:...
Skyrim Player Recreates Themselves Perfectly In-Game
13.5.2022
The very first time I played Skyrim back in 2011 I rushed through the character creation and made a guy that ended up looking like Matt Pike, which ruled. The second time, though, I spent an age trying to put myself in the game and couldn’t get anywhere near it.Read more
Overwatch Devs Explain Why First Black Female Character Took So Long
15.4.2022
After years of waiting for an update, we finally know what exactly Overwatch’s 33rd playable character, Sojourn, can do–and why her release has taken so long. Read more
Genshin Impact’s Kokomi Used To Suck, But Now She's Fun As Hell
8.4.2022
I didn’t try to recruit Kokomi, the water-element healer, during her initial, limited release. Instead, I opted to skip her for Childe, the water-based archer who can slay packs of enemies in seconds flat. I regret that now. After spending over a hundred wishes to get Childe (which would’ve cost...
Kirby Is Officially The Only Nintendo Character To Win A Grammy Award
4.4.2022
Don’t let your memes be dreams gamers, because last night Kirby, in the year of our lord 2022, won a Grammy.Read more
Welcome to NovaTerra: Coorest’s Upcoming P2E Metaverse
31.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. NovaTerra is a Metaverse MMORPG featuring a play-to-earn model. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity has turned the planet into a barren wasteland. Following the planet-wide devastation, massive drought has made water an extremely scarce and valuable resource....
Genshin Impact's Latest Character Reveals Clouded By Ongoing Leak War
28.3.2022
Genshin Impact’s characters are its greatest asset, so naturally developer Hoyoverse strives to control how and when information about them is revealed to the game’s massive player base. Nevertheless, Genshin has been struggling with leaks since it was first released, and no amount of legal action...
Yoshitaka Amano, One of the World’s Greatest Illustrator, Character Designer, Joins Gensokishi Online Project
24.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. GensoKishi Online, the GameFi and metaverse incarnation of the award winning Nintendo Switch/PS4 game “Elemental Knights” is proud to announce its collaboration with one of Japan’s greatest. YOSHITAKA AMANO, the legendary designer, the god of game art,...
Classic Guilty Gear Character Comes Out As Non-Binary In Latest Game
21.3.2022
Guilty Gear Strive’s next roster expansion will see fan-favorite Testament return to the fold with an updated design, moveset, and gender.Read more
Bethesda Shows Off Eight Whole Seconds Of Starfield
16.3.2022
Bethesda has unleashed another mini-salvo of teases for its upcoming open-world space RPG, Starfield. Director Todd Howard and others spoke a bit about how factions, companions, and other mechanics will work in a new roundtable video, and also showed eight whole seconds of what looks like actual...
Excuse Me While I Gush About Starscourge Radahn, Elden Ring’s Best Character
11.3.2022
I’m nearing 60 hours with Elden Ring and, frankly, I still have no idea what’s going on story-wise. Like previous Souls games, the lore FromSoftware crafted with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is a mess of proper nouns and vague insinuations. One thing I do know, however, is that a boss...
Genshin Impact Turns A Bad Storyline Into A Sublime Portrayal Of Grief
22.2.2022
When the main story of Genshin Impact’s Inazuma region concluded last September, a lot of fans (including yours truly) felt a little bit let down. The story felt incomplete, and the actions of its main villain, the goddess Raiden Ei, didn’t seem very logical. Later story updates helped to clarify...
Lost Ark's Depiction Of Female Characters Feels A Decade Out Of Date
14.2.2022
Lost Ark is a lot of fun. I’ve played hours and hours of it and I’m excited to play more. However, the latest smash hit on Steam is facing criticism for how it portrays its female characters. Read more
Riot Forced To Explain A Valorant Character Is Not Into NFTs
27.1.2022
Riot Games, the creators of League of Legends and online shooter Valorant, has issued something of an apology to fans of the latter after a tweet appeared to show one of the game’s characters enjoying the works of an NFT artist.Read more
Mysterious! Guilty Gear Character’s Boobs Keep Growing With Every Sequel
26.1.2022
Even in a franchise as full of brilliant characters as Guilty Gear, Baiken rules. The fucked-up samurai, despite missing both an eye and an arm, is canonically one of the strongest people in the fighting game’s universe, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the brash swagger she brings to every...
How To Pick The Best Four-Star Character In Genshin Impact's Lantern Rite Event
24.1.2022
Don’t fret if you’ve had absolutely terrible luck rolling for characters in Genshin Impact gacha banners. The Lantern Rite Festival is running again this year, which means that every player will be able to earn a free four-star character in the Fleeting Colors in Flight event. After accumulating...