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Xbox Game Pass Quietly Adds Two Amazing Games
17.3.2022
Aside from a handful of hits, Xbox Game Pass has had a bit of a slow month—until yesterday. During a showcase focused on indie games, Microsoft announced two more games would hit the Game Pass library: Tunic and Paradise Killer. Better yet, they’re both already available.Read more
Xbox Game Pass Quietly Adds Two Amazing Games
17.3.2022
Aside from a handful of hits, Xbox Game Pass has had a bit of a slow month—until yesterday. During a showcase focused on indie games, Microsoft announced two more games would hit the Game Pass library: Tunic and Paradise Killer. Better yet, they’re both already available.Read more
Elden Ring Fans Mourn Nerfed OP Builds That Helped With Tough Bosses
17.3.2022
After nearly three weeks with the game, Elden Ring players had found some extremely effective ways to break it, using OP builds to smash challenging bosses like Malenia as well as other players in PVP invasions. FromSoft took notice, however, and nerfed some of the most popular builds in a massive...
Blockchain gamers see playing NFT games as a potential full-time job, says new survey
17.3.2022
NFT gaming platform Balthazar's chief executive said that “many are ready to quit their other jobs to play NFT games instead.”
Elden Ring’s First Big Patch Adds More Secrets, Quests and People To An Already Massive Game
17.3.2022
Elden Ring was just updated to v1.03, and while that humble number may not suggest anything noteworthy, the game has actually quietly gone and added (and fixed) some pretty important stuff.Read more
The Mario Bros Have Earned A Beach Holiday
17.3.2022
I know Mario games have involved the beach before, but those times—Mario Sunshine especially—were about work, or quests, and quests are work. This series of illustrations by Léo Chérel instead imagines what it would be like if the brothers (and friends) were all able to take a proper, well-deserved...
Valve Fixed Elden Ring Just For The Steam Deck
17.3.2022
While I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, with my performance having been pretty good so far, there are a lot of people out there having problems trying to play Elden Ring on the PC. Those playing on Valve’s Steam Deck are not among them.Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Changes Subtitle To ‘Heart Of Chornobyl’ Due To War In Ukraine
16.3.2022
The forthcoming first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer feature the subtitle “Heart of Chernobyl.” It’s now officially subtitled S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a representative for Ukrainian developer GSC Game World confirmed to Kotaku.Read more
The First 27 Minutes Of Tunic: Smol Fox, Big Adventure
16.3.2022
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HSBC enters The Sandbox to offer educational finance games
16.3.2022
Partnership hopes to promote financial literacy via gamified experiences within the metaverse
The Best Games Of 2022 (So Far)
16.3.2022
It’s no exaggeration to say that, in terms of video games, 2022 is off to a banner start. The first three months of the year have been flush with the sort of marquee releases that tend to clog the holiday season, when year-end shopping sprees and awards shows are on everyone’s minds. It’s not even...
Elden Ring Tricksters Are Blowing Themselves Up To Score PvP Kills
16.3.2022
A common strategy that’s emerged in Elden Ring competitive multiplayer over the last two weeks sees Tarnished sacrifice their own bodies to destroy their foes.Read more
Waluigi’s Famous Crotch Chop Celebration: Explained
16.3.2022
With Mario Strikers: Battle League on the horizon, the former director of the soccer series finally gave us the answer as to why Waluigi, Nintendo’s fan-favorite black sheep, celebrates with that distinctive crotch chop after scoring a goal. 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...
I Played The Game Elon Musk Is Obsessed With So You Don't Have To
16.3.2022
Last December, Grimes released a new song from her upcoming album “Book 1.” The track, called “Player of Games,” was speculated to be inspired by her relationship with Elon Musk. One of the lyrics, “I’m in love with the greatest gamer,” got me thinking: what kind of video games does Musk play when...
New York Times Shuts Down Wordle Archive, Bumming Everyone Out
16.3.2022
In a move that’s as unsurprising as it is disappointing, The New York Times is beginning to throw its weight around when it comes to Wordle’s former freedom. The first big sign of this, as spotted by Ars Technica, is their forcing a Wordle Archive to shut down.Read more
Elden Ring Not Hard Enough? This Mod Has You Covered
16.3.2022
Elden Ring is hard. Misjudge anything—a cliffside, a boss, a jump—and you’re likely to get sent right back to your last Site of Grace. Death is inevitable. It may even be the point. Dying is how you learn to overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenge of restoring peace to the Lands Between...
Far: Changing Tides Is Your Next Under-The-Radar Game Pass Gem
16.3.2022
The past two months have been defined by massive, sprawling adventures that sap all of your free time (and part of your soul). As a result, this week, I’ve found myself gravitating toward a tighter, more focused game, Okomotive’s Far: Changing Tides.Read more
Square Enix Apologizes For Chocobo GP Grind Following Backlash
16.3.2022
Launch week was not kind to the $50 Final Fantasy kart racer Chocobo GP. Players were furious with the game’s microtransaction nickel-and-diming and grindy season pass. Posts warning about issues blew up on Twitter and Reddit, and now, Square Enix says it’s listening to the feedback and working...
Please Enjoy This Video Of Elden Ring Bosses Fighting Each Other
16.3.2022
Modder Garden Of Eyes, whose work on games like Bloodborne has been featured here before, has now started digging around in Elden Ring’s files and playing with stuff.Read more