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Marvel Rivals' Confusing Use Of The Term 'Ace,' Explained
17.12.2024
Marvel Rivals is the latest game to make a splash in the hero shooter scene, and it’s easy to see where it takes its inspiration from. That’s not to say the developers didn’t put enough of a unique spin on things. Team-up abilities, for example, are a special mechanic and there are quite a...
Earning 'SVP' In Marvel Rivals Is A Pretty Sweet Way To Lose
17.12.2024
Marvel Rivals might not feature a post-match ”Play of the Game” like Overwatch, but every match highlights the most valuable player, or MVP at the end. You can also see the MVP highlighted on the match summary screen if you were on their team. If you weren’t, you would instead see another player...
Everyone's Having A Totally Normal One About Black Myth: Wukong Not Winning GOTY
16.12.2024
Award ceremonies are very silly. One film, or book, or game, isn’t objectively better than all the others, because that’s not a thing. But the notion that it is nonetheless serves as the bizarre basis for such events, and it’s one that it seems the developers and players of Black Myth: Wukong...
Netflix Will Make Squid Game: Unleashed Free For All To Play
13.12.2024
In an act of holiday magnanimity (and crafty marketing), Netflix is giving everyone a new way to compete with your friends. On December 17, the streamer will release its mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed for everyone to play for free, regardless of whether they have a Netflix subscription...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Fans Are In Love Again After A Surprise Update Addresses A Ton Of Complaints
12.12.2024
The vibes in the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero community have been absolutely rancid lately, but a huge free update has just changed that. The 3D arena fighter’s latest patch fixes a ton of broken mechanics and OP abilities that were ruining the game’s ranked mode. Even more importantly, local...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Have A 'Canon Mode' For Animus Purists
12.12.2024
Ubisoft is an strange ol’ publisher, closing down teams and killing off so many projects—but the games that do reach us tend to be the most extraordinarily accessible, replete with groundbreaking options to make the games playable for the widest numbers of people, in the most specific ways...
Every Team-Up Attack In Marvel Rivals, Explained
11.12.2024
It certainly feels appropriate that a cooperative game based on superheroes and villains would let them work together to take out the opposition. Marvel Rivals takes that to heart with its Team-Ups mechanic, which allows certain character combinations to unlock stat boosts or even special...
Marvel Rivals: The Kotaku Review
10.12.2024
Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s shameless Overwatch-like featuring the heroes and villains that have captivated comic book readers and moviegoers for decades, is already at a crossroads. It’s less than a week old, but it’s clear even now that the decisions NetEase makes in the coming months will determine...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Latest Event Might Be Its Best So Far
9.12.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket has a very odd pattern to its “events”—there appear to be weeks when the game falls fallow with nothing extra to do, then three special challenges will happen at the same time. That’s happening again today, as the Genetic Apex SP Emblem Event 1 launches, joining the ongoing...
Suicide Squad Fans Get Hyped For Deathstroke As They Wait For MIA Offline Mode
6.12.2024
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is about to head into season 4, and the players who remain are relieved to see that the newest character joining the multiverse fray is Deathstroke, and that he actually looks cool. Whether he’ll arrive solo or alongside the live-service game’s promised...
The 10 Worst Games Of 2024 According To Metacritic
6.12.2024
2024 was a year filled with good games, especially if you looked beyond the biggest AAA releases and played some of the amazing indie titles and smaller games we got over the last 12 months. But there were some bad ones, too.Read more
11 Things To Know Before Starting Marvel Rivals
6.12.2024
Marvel Rivals is out now and free to play on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The hero shooter pretty shamelessly draws inspiration from Overwatch. As a result, NetEase’s swing at the genre feels like putting on a familiar glove to long-time players of Blizzard’s game. However, there are...
The Witcher 3's Incredible Card Game Will Now Be Playable In Real Life
6.12.2024
The Witcher 3 had a great open world, amazing quests, and excellent storytelling, but one of my favorite parts about it is still Gwent, the RPG’s in-universe card game. Now, a year after the standalone digital version was shutdown, the awesome mini-game is getting a physical tabletop release. Read...
A Pitch Video For A Lego James Bond Game Has Leaked
5.12.2024
At one point in time, TT Games—the studio behind the Lego Star Wars franchise—pitched a James Bond game to the toy block brand. That project never happened, but now a video pitch for the proposed 007-themed Lego game has leaked and it lets us look at what might have been. Read more
‘Normie degens’ go all in on sports fan crypto tokens for the rewards
5.12.2024
A growing community of sports fan crypto token holders are spending hours daily unlocking rewards and experiences no matter what the price
Failed Party Shooter Foamstars Is Ending, But Getting A Better Death Than Concord
5.12.2024
Foamstars was Final Fantasy maker Square Enix’s attempt at a live-service party game. The shooter took some inspiration from Splatoon but had its own twist on goo-based arena combat. Unfortunately, the finished game struggled to find an audience. Like Sony’s failed hero shooter Concord, it’s...
Dragon Age: Veilguard Stats Reveal You Monsters Are Ignoring The Griffon
4.12.2024
It’s December 4, and that means it’s the officially unofficial “Dragon Age Day.” Get it? D4. DA. Dragon Age. Anyway, this year, BioWare released some statistics about players’ choices in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The RPG has been out for a little over a month now, so that means more players have...
BioWare Says Old Dragon Age Choices That The Veilguard Ignored May Still Matter In The Future
4.12.2024
One of the biggest criticisms I and many other Dragon Age fans had about The Veilguard was that it failed to carry over most of our decisions from the previous games in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series. In fact, the fourth game in the franchise only imports three choices from Dragon Age: Inquisition,...
Ubisoft Shutting Down Call Of Duty Competitor After Executive Producer Swore It Wasn't Dying
4.12.2024
Ubisoft has announced that XDefiant, its multiplatform free-to-play Call of Duty-like FPS, is shutting down in June despite the game’s executive producer saying that it wasn’t dying and was “doing well” in September. Read more
Unlock Neva's Cryptic 'Memories' Achievement
3.12.2024
Neva is an emotional rollercoaster of a game. It’s easy to recommend it to anyone willing to shed a tear. Though the game seems to function primarily as an allegory for pollution and protecting the planet, it can also hit particularly hard for those of us who have lost pets, as it deals with love...