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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...
Incredibly Rare Pokémon Card Auctioned Off For Record-Breaking $900,000
26.2.2022
The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $900,000. No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered...
The Can’t-Miss Side-Quests Of Horizon Forbidden West
25.2.2022
If there’s one regard wherein Horizon Forbidden West should be deemed Horizon Forbidden Best, it’s the optional stuff. Every side-quest in the game culminates with a meaningful reward. In some cases, you get a cool weapon or set of armor. In others, you’ll catch a narrative denouement richer than...
I'm Already Cheesing Elden Ring Enemies And I Feel Zero Shame
25.2.2022
When faced with an overwhelming adversary, sometimes the only option is to fight dirty. In my case, Elden Ring dev FromSoftware is a gigantic Goliath and I’m just little ol’ David loading up his sling. As such, I felt no shame adopting hit-and-run tactics against a terrifying enemy after finding...
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev CDPR And Others Condemn Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
25.2.2022
Earlier this week Russian troops, acting on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine and launched 200 missiles, some of which reportedly hit residential areas near the capital city of Kyiv. At least 50,000 Ukrainian citizens have been displaced and are fleeing the country, according...
Bandai Namco To PS5 Elden Ring Players: Don’t Trust Rest Mode ATM
25.2.2022
The moment has come. After years of anticipation, Elden Ring finally leaps from the wispy plane of imagination to the very real plane of today’s gaming consoles and PCs. Like any massive modern game, however, it has some issues. And its publisher has an unusual solution for those playing...
Elden Ring Shatters Dark Souls Records On Twitch And Steam
25.2.2022
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring has been out for less than a day, and it’s already taken over Twitch and Steam. The open world action-RPG is posting unprecedented numbers for a Souls-like.Read more
Some Of The Most Popular 'Ukraine Footage' Is Actually A Video Game
25.2.2022
ArmA III, a video game that in the right circumstances can look pretty realistic, has a long history of turning up on news broadcasts and being either confused with or intentionally used in place of actual camera footage of real-world events. That trend is continuing in the current crisis...
Elden Ring Beta's Most Notorious Jerk Has Chilled Out Now
24.2.2022
Early Elden Ring players were shocked when an NPC in the closed network test called their character a “bit player” who should “die in a ditch somewhere.” His outright and immediate hostility was seen by some as a personification of the Souls-like genre’s brutal difficulty, but I’m here to report...
BioWare Shares Small But Encouraging Dragon Age 4, Mass Effect Updates
24.2.2022
Despite the turbulent development roadmap of Dragon Age 4, BioWare announced yesterday that the RPG is in the middle of the production phase. The announcement coincided with the news that a Dragon Age executive producer was leaving the studio. As the blog post tells it, the developers’ morale...
March's PlayStation Plus Lineup Is Surprisingly Stacked
24.2.2022
While many of you are no doubt champing at the bit for the release of this totally unknown game called Elden Ring that’s coming out this week, PlayStation Plus members who don’t feel the irresistible urge to hurl themselves into the unforgiving gauntlet of a new Soulsborne game have some new games...
There’s A Surprise Pokémon News Showcase On Sunday, And Hopefully We’ll See Arceus
24.2.2022
The Pokémon Company is hosting a showcase on its YouTube channel this Sunday, February 27—the holy occasion known ‘round the world as Pokémon Day. Though the company has yet to detail the specific games the 14 minute pre-recorded video will cover, it’s a safe bet we’ll get some new info about...
Take The Day Off To Play Elden Ring, Says Japanese Game Studio
24.2.2022
This Friday, Elden Ring is released. If you’re looking forward to the game, going into work that day will suck. How will you focus? You won’t. You’ll just be counting down the minutes—no, the seconds—until you can get out of that place and starting playing From Software’s latest opus. But...
Cyberpunk 2077’s Afterlife Bar Vs. Mass Effect 2’s, The Comparison We Had To Make
23.2.2022
In the future, if some of the most popular science-fiction games are to be believed, we’ll all be drinking in a bar called Afterlife.Read more
Elden Ring's First Scary Obstacle Is A Simple Bridge
23.2.2022
A rickety, wooden bridge in many games is just that: a way to get across a gap to the next objective. But in Souls games, FromSoftware often utilizes these atmospheric flourishes for more devious ends. That’s why, when Elden Ring presented me with such an obstacle a few short moments into my...
FromSoftware's Notorious Poison Zones Appear 90 Seconds Into Elden Ring
23.2.2022
Last week, I said FromSoftware was “back on its bullshit” in response to the moody Elden Ring cinematic that introduces the game’s world and major characters. I wish I’d saved that particularly evocative phrase for today’s story instead because, if finding a way to poison the player in less than...
Destiny 2 Nightstalkers Are Having A Crisis After Witch Queen Changes
23.2.2022
Bungie’s massive Witch Queen expansion launched surprisingly smoothly and is extremely good so far. While everyone else has been celebrating, however, Destiny 2 Hunters have been going through an existential crisis of sorts as they grapple with some of the update’s low points. These include...
Elden Ring Reviews Call The Game A Challenging Open-World Masterpiece
23.2.2022
The review embargo for Elden Ring, From Software’s highly anticipated and tough-as-nails action role-playing game, has finally lifted ahead of its February 25 launch. Critics have started publishing their reviews online, giving you an opportunity to see just where the latest Soulslike stands...
Street Fighter 6 Logo Also Looks Like A Taiwanese Retailer's Old Logo
23.2.2022
Not only does Street Fighter 6's logo look like $80 clip art, but it also looks like the old logo of a Taiwanese company.Read more
Ubisoft Moves Rainbow Six Tournament After Fans Protest
23.2.2022
Until today, Ubisoft had been planning on holding a “Six Major”, a major competitive event for Rainbow Six Siege players, in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. After a massive fan protest on social media, though, the publisher has now decided to move the tournament to another...