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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Announced, Here Are The New Starters
27.2.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the next two games in the mainline Pokémon series, are coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, The Pokémon Company announced during today’s Pokémon Presents.Read more
Valve Open To Having Game Pass Come To Steam
26.2.2022
Game Pass is currently one of the best deals in gaming. For $15 a month you get access to a rotating list of 100s of games, from small indies like Unpacking to big blockbusters like Halo: Infinite. You can play them on Xbox or PC, or stream them just about anywhere else. Valve CEO Gabe Newell...
Nintendo Won't Allow Super Smash Bros. At Evo 2022
26.2.2022
Super Smash Bros. won’t be featured at Evo 2022, the biggest fighting game event of the year. The Sony-owned esports organization announced the loss of the platform fighter in a statement on Twitter today, and appeared to blame the decision on Nintendo, which has historically tried to tightly...
Forget Wordle And Quordle, You Should Be Playing Octordle
25.2.2022
As I continue to delight in the deranged conspiracy theories surrounding Wordle, following its purchase by the New York Times, I’m equally thrilled to discover those making increasingly difficult versions of the game. Quordle, a version where you solve four Wordles at once, has become pretty...
The Sims 4’s Wedding Expansion Is Not The DLC That Fans Boycotted For
25.2.2022
Well, this is a little bit embarrassing. After all the uproar The Sims 4 community raised over Electronic Arts not releasing the My Wedding Stories game pack in Russia, it turns out the expansion is too broken for players to enjoy. Some streamers are even advising fans to avoid buying the game pack...
Screw This Elden Ring ‘Treasure Chest’
24.2.2022
I ran into my first Elden Ring trap. It was designed to look like a treasure chest, nestled safely in a low-level area of FromSoftware’s latest action RPG, but it took me on a whirlwind journey through some of the nastier parts of the game’s crumbling world.Read more
Valorant Twitch Streamer Accused Of Dodging, Muting Women
24.2.2022
Jason “JasonR” Ruchelski, a former CS:GO player and full-time Twitch streamer, is under fire for reputedly dodging Valorant games in which women are present. He’s also defending himself in the worst way possible, saying he can’t disrespect women if he never interacts with them. It’s not a good...
Report: There Will Be No Mainline Call Of Duty Game Released In 2023
23.2.2022
The Call of Duty series, a sales juggernaut since its debut in 2003, will for the first time in decades be skipping a year in 2023, following reports that Activision has delayed next year’s mainline game.Read more
Destiny 2's Big Witch Queen PS4 Launch Hit An Unfortunate Snag
22.2.2022
Destiny 2’s long-awaited Witch Queen expansion is finally here and players are starting to dig in. Unless they’re on PS4. Thanks to a unique set of circumstances players on Sony’s last-gen console are currently waiting in line just to download a giant 72 GB update.Read more
A Wordle Math Clone Is Rapidly Becoming My Daily Favorite
21.2.2022
Like everyone else on planet Earth, I’ve been poking at all manner of Wordle-likes for the last few weeks, yet I’ve found all but one to lack the stickiness of the original. The exception? Nerdle, a game in which you have to guess the basic arithmetic that hides behind those blanks.Read more
These So-Called ‘Casual’ Gamers Are Actually Hardcore Strategists
21.2.2022
Mobile gaming is the largest segment of gaming by revenue, yet it’s also one of the most misunderstood by self-identified “gamers.” I know this first hand because for several years, I played games on my phone more frequently than I did on PC or console. I found gacha games mechanically fun,...
The Week In Games: Elden Ring Is Nearly Here
21.2.2022
Finally, after years of hype and memes, Elden Ring is coming out this week on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. I’m not even planning to play it and I’m excited. Read more
Remedy's New Shooter Is More Call Of Duty Than Control, But Not In A Good Way
18.2.2022
I really, really wanted to like Catalyst, the new campaign developed by Remedy Entertainment and released for free-to-play shooter CrossfireX earlier this month. Remedy, the developer behind great games like Control and Alan Wake, is one of my favorite out there, and while I wasn’t thrilled about...
Elden Ring’s Moody Intro Proves From Software Is Back On Its BS
17.2.2022
Dark Souls developer From Studios’ next adventure, the open-world Elden Ring, is right around the corner, which naturally means copies are leaking into the wild ahead of its official February 25 release date. And while gameplay footage is all well and good, we’ve seen a bunch of that already....
NBA Player's Pokémon Game Interrupted By All-Star Announcement
17.2.2022
For a young up-and-coming NBA player, the phone call telling them they’ve been selected for their first ever All-Star game can rank as one of the most defining experiences of their entire career. Provided, that is, they’re able to pause the Pokémon game they’re playing to take the call.Read more
Report: EA Executives Blame Halo, Covid For Battlefield 2042's Failures
17.2.2022
While the game has its fans (hi!), there’s no escaping the fact that in a wider context Battlefield 2042's launch has been a disaster for Electronic Arts. Fan reception has been hostile, playercounts have dropped like a stone and the company won’t even disclose how many copies of the game have...
Sims 4’s Queer-Friendly Wedding Expansion To Be Released In Russia After Community 'Outpouring'
17.2.2022
The Sims 4 community has been in an uproar ever since EA announced that the game’s imminent, queer-friendly wedding expansion would not be released in Russia due to the nation’s homophobic federal laws. Today, the publisher reversed its decision. My Wedding Stories will be released in Russia,...
Halo Infinite Community Goes Nuts Over Leaked Forge Mode
16.2.2022
Halo Infinite’s creation mode, Forge, isn’t supposed to come out until way later this year, but apparently leaked early footage has started making the rounds this week. It looks amazing.Read more
Pokémon Bank Will Survive Nintendo's eShop Shutdown
16.2.2022
Nintendo’s decision to shutter the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops doesn’t only impact games, but other things like Pokémon Bank. While it might become impossible to play certain games, the Pokémon app will live on—but not forever. Read more
It's 2022 And People Still Want To Make A BioShock Movie
15.2.2022
If any of you are even old enough to remember 2008, it was a time where you could read the headline “Gore Verbinski Making BioShock Movie” and it wouldn’t be a Hard Drive gag, but an actual thing.Read more