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Baldur's Gate 3 Has Everything: Polyamory, Bear Banging, Blood Sacrifice
7.7.2023
If you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 in early access, you’ve probably met Halsin, the Druid companion who can transform into a bear that you can recruit as a party member. He’s also a romance option, and that transformation comes into play when you’re getting down and dirty with him. And I was...
Final Fantasy XVI’s Gay Romance Fails To Commit Where It Counts
29.6.2023
Back in May, it was announced Final Fantasy XVI would be banned in Saudi Arabia. Officially, it was because developer Square Enix refused to alter scenes in the game for the territory, which led to rumors and speculation that the 16th game in the long-running RPG series would have explicit gay...
The Video Game Characters That Made Us Gay
28.6.2023
Many of us started playing video games during the crucially formative years of our lives—the time when we learn a lot about ourselves, our interests, our personalities, and our gender and sexual identities. Just like how the movies and television shows we watched may have helped influence...
The Problem With Tears Of The Kingdom Clumsily Giving Sidon A Fiancée
27.6.2023
When Tears of the Kingdom finally released this past May, reactions were mostly rapturous. People marveled at all the things players could build with Link’s new Ultrahand ability, and delighted in discovering the mysteries lurking in Hyrule’s new regions. However, one aspect did have a number...
CFTC Charges Man With Fraud in ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Romance Scam
22.6.2023
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30 Minutes With That New Persona-Inspired Dating Sim
19.6.2023
I don’t know about Eternights just yet. I played the opening chapter of Studio Sai’s Persona-influenced action game/dating sim hybrid at Summer Game Fest, and on paper, a game that combines those elements should be my jam. But while what I played demonstrated good foundations and fun ideas,...
Your Cyberpunk 2077 Love Story Will Continue In Phantom Liberty
12.6.2023
If you’re anything like me, your favorite part about RPGs is the relationships you can make with characters along the way. This includes Cyberpunk 2077, because my favorite thing about doing crimes in CD Projekt Red’s open-world action RPG is knowing my trash boyfriend Kerry Eurodyne is waiting...
BioWare Is Selling That Framed Photo Of Tali From Mass Effect
17.5.2023
Remember when the gamers were upset about the OG Mass Effect 3 using a stock photo of an attractive human woman to reveal what fan-favorite Quarian Tali looks like unmasked? Well, apparently developer BioWare wants you to forget about all that because, alongside patching Tali’s portrait into...
Viz Media’s New Manga App Is The Criterion Collection Of Romance, Horror Series
9.5.2023
On Monday, Viz Media announced the launch of a new manga reading service called Viz Manga which will give users access to a wider variety of manga outside of its usual action-adventure shonen series for just $1.99 a month. To further sweeten the deal, the new manga subscription service will...
Fabledom Wants To Be The Settlers Successor You've Been Waiting For
18.4.2023
I feel like for the past 12 months I have done nothing but play city-builders. They’re everywhere on Steam right now, but to its credit Fabledom isn’t really a city-builder. It’s more of a big town.Read more
Crypto Pundits Romance the Hyperinflation and Dollar Death Narrative. Is It a Real Scare?
24.3.2023
Coinbase's former CTO, among others, has predicted that bitcoin will reach $1 million as the dollar fades, but these doomsayers are ignoring other historical precedents
Report: Hong Kong Residents Lost More Than $216 Million to Crypto Scams in 2022
9.3.2023
According to Hong Kong police, in 2022 there were 2,336 reported crypto scam-related cases in which more than $216.6 million was lost. Although losses relating to crypto scams only constituted just over 10% of the nearly 23,000 reported technology crimes, they still accounted for more than half...
Persona 5 Can’t Handle Queer Relationships
20.2.2023
They call it a crush for a reason.Read more
Crypto scammers feel the chill: Revenue drops 46% in 2022 — Chainalysis
17.2.2023
Falling crypto prices caused crypto scam revenue to plummet in 2022, though two scam types managed to persist
Dragon Ball Is Secretly Great at Romance
14.2.2023
You think Dragon Ball is just an action shonen series? You fools. You heathens. Allow me to enlighten you, to expand your mind to galactic proportions through a long series of hyperfixations that reveal what many overlook about Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball — that it’s secretly great at romance.Read...
Ranking Dragon Age Boyfriends By Whether They’d Actually Be Good Partners
14.2.2023
Since the Dragon Age series takes place in different places and times within BioWare’s fantasy universe, we have had the opportunity to hop around the universe and kiss men from different eras of the, well, Dragon Age. But while we may love our video game love interests, perhaps it’s worth...
Ranking Mass Effect Boyfriends By Whether They'd Actually Be Good Partners
10.2.2023
Hold up there, Mass Effect fan. I know you walked in here ready and eager to see where your favorite BioWare beau ranked on a list of best boyfriends, but let’s make sure we’re all clear on the criteria hereRead more
What Your Cyberpunk 2077 Romance Says About You: Brutal Callout Post Edition
10.2.2023
Gather around, chooms. Like a cross between Cupid and Cyberpunk 2077’s trash-talking anti-hero Johnny Silverhand, I’ve come to once again read gamers’ romance choices to filth. Read more
This New Romance Anime Is A Breath Of Fresh Air After Last Year's Harem Blitz
4.1.2023
Ever since I caught up on the irreverent romantic comedy anime, Kaguya Sama: Love Is War, I’ve been hellbent on finding a lovey-dovey anime to fill the heart-shaped hole it’s left on my watchlist. Just when I was beginning to lose hope that I’d ever find a romantic show, in came Tomo-Chan Is...
California regulator warns of 17 crypto websites suspected of fraud
29.12.2022
The last time the DFPI sent out such a large batch of crypto scam alerts was in June when it sounded the alarm over 26 dubious crypto platforms