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New Marvel Game Coming From XCOM Creators
25.8.2021
Are you waiting with bated breath for XCOM 3? Are you, specifically, me? Well, you/me are gonna have to wait a while longer, because the next big turn-based strategy game from Firaxis stars a bunch of Marvel superheroes, not a ragtag band of permadeath-prone alien fighters.Read more
Your First Look At The New Saints Row In Action
25.8.2021
The long-teased forthcoming Saints Row game isn’t a remake. It isn’t a remaster. It’s a totally different “re”—a re...boot. Developer Volition announced the news today at the Gamescom Opening Night Live stream. It’s called, simply, Saints Row, and it’s coming out for all platforms next February....
How To Unlock All Six Hidden Weapon Aspects In Hades
25.8.2021
Hades, the Greek mythology-themed action-roguelike from Supergiant Games, ostensibly gives you six weapons to play with. Beyond that, each one has four “aspects,” or weapon-altering forms. But you’ll only have access to three for each at the start.Read more
The 14 Best Games For The Xbox One
25.8.2021
The Xbox Series X is more or less a suped-up Xbox One, so if you’ve had trouble getting your hands on the newer machine, don’t fret. In fact, given the absence of next-gen launch exclusives, most of the best games you could play on the thing are Xbox One games, anyway. Over its seven years...
Broken Roads Looks Like A Thrilling Mad Max RPG
25.8.2021
Every now and again, Australian developers throw up a neat surprise. One indie that arrived out of nowhere was Broken Roads, a traditional cRPG set in the outback with echoes of Wasteland and Mad Max. The game isn’t due out until 2022, but I touched base with Broken Roads’ game director to find...
Halo Infinite Release Date Leaks, Out In December
25.8.2021
After one metric infinity of waiting, Halo Infinite finally has a release date. The next chapter in Master Chief’s saga will come out on December 8 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, according to a since taken-down listing on the Microsoft store, as spotted by the Italian site Aggiornamenti...
How Psychonauts 2 Approaches Trauma, Therapy And Empathy
25.8.2021
Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited sequel to Psychonauts, is a bright, frothy, wholesome game about deep, dark, unspeakable things. Trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, loneliness… beneath the squeaky-clean formica and bakelite of Psychonauts HQ lies a world humming with energy, and a story laced with...
Hahaha Crusader Kings III Is Coming To Consoles
25.8.2021
Crusader Kings III, a game entirely about buttons and menus and likely the last thing you’d ever expect to make the jump from the PC to consoles is doing just that, with a version announced earlier today for Xbox Series X|S and PS5.Read more
California Accuses Activision Blizzard Of Shredding Abuse Evidence
25.8.2021
The state of California recently expanded its discrimination lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Axios reports. In addition to suing the massive gaming conglomerate over its culture of harassment and abuse toward female employees, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is now also looking...
The Best Gamescom Surprise So Far Is This Spell-Casting Shooter
24.8.2021
Fans of fast-paced first-person shooters that send you beyond the earthly plane to murder demons while heavy metal plays in the background should have their interest piqued by a certain upcoming release. No, no, not another Doom. We’re talking about an indie game called Into the Pit, which looks...
Is This The Real Life Or Is It Just A Sims Stream?
24.8.2021
Life imitates. Or art imitates life. Or the two imitate each other enough that we can’t tell which is which. And if we can’t tell which is which, then how can we know if we exist in life or in art? How are we to know that this life isn’t just a giant Sims playthrough?Read more
The Best Strategy Games On PC
24.8.2021
The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially PC as strategy games.Read more
Modders Finally Add Wall-Running To Apex Legends
24.8.2021
Know what the coolest thing about Titanfall was? Piloting spritely, giant robots. Know what the second coolest thing was? Being able to run along the walls. So it has long been very strange that Apex Legends, a game set in the same universe as Titanfall, has allowed you to do neither of those...
Twelve Minutes Might Have The Worst Video Game Ending Of The Year
23.8.2021
Twelve Minutes is, or at least should be, a game about trauma. It is, but it isn’t.Read more
When Your Fallout Mod Is So Good Bethesda Hires You Before It Comes Out
23.8.2021
Stephanie Zachariadis, head writer of the highly anticipated Fallout: London mod, is leaving the development team after being hired as an associate quest designer at Bethesda Game Studios, project lead Dean Carter announced recently.Read more
Battlefield 2042 Cheats Advertised Months Before Release
23.8.2021
Officially announced on June 9 and slated for release on October 22, Battlefield 2042 left a very narrow window for the international cheat machine to spring into action, but spring they have with at least one website already advertising aimbots and ESP-style player location sensing to ruin Dice’s...
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Isn’t A Great Aliens Game
23.8.2021
I’ve had many friends wish they were in my position—or offer their assistance—when it comes to reviewing video games. Much rarer is the opposite reaction, where friends demanded beers as compensation for forcing them to play a video game.Read more
Stardew Valley Creator Holding $40,000 Tournament To Separate Wheat From Chaff
23.8.2021
Every game gets at least 15 minutes of esport fame. Stardew Valley’s competitive time to shine just happens to be coming five years after it was initially released. In a tribute to the game’s biggest speedrunners and content creators, and the passionate farming sim community they’ve helped create...
Psychonauts 2: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2021
People are complicated. Nobody is simply selfish or sad. No one is born bad or heroic. We are a collection of memories and experiences, some good and some…not so good. These messes of thoughts and emotions can be hard to handle sometimes, but they’re also what makes us unique. It’s what makes...
Cyberpunk, The Witcher Look Fantastic Tilt-Shifted
23.8.2021
Flurdeh is a YouTube channel that takes video games and applies a “tilt-shift” effect to them, turning their bristling 3D worlds into cute little dioramas.Read more