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Grand Theft Auto V Immortalizes Lost Titanic Submarine With Fan Mod
23.6.2023
One of the biggest slow motion tragedies in recent memory appears to have wrapped up with a bad if not altogether shocking ending. The lost OceanGate Expeditions Titan submersible is now believed to have imploded on its way to the Titanic wreck, and in fact the U.S. Navy apparently knew this...
Final Fantasy XVI’s Cid Is The Game’s Breakout Star
23.6.2023
Characters named Cid are a Final Fantasy mainstay, but I wasn’t prepared for Final Fantasy XVI’s iteration, and neither were many people playing the action RPG this week.Read more
Nintendo Shareholder Meeting Disrupted By Fan Who Spent $3.5K To Complain About Splatoon
23.6.2023
There’s no other video game company quite like Nintendo, and the same thing appears to be true about its fans. One reportedly spent roughly $3,500 on company stock to interrupt the most recent shareholders meeting and seemingly rant about the lack of male hairstyle customization options in Splatoon...
Ubisoft’s Call of Duty Clone Is Actually Pretty Good
23.6.2023
Ubisoft’s big, crossover first-person shooter XDefiant isn’t out until later this year. However, a short open beta is currently being held until June 23. And after playing a few hours of Ubisoft’s new Call of Duty-like shooter, I’m surprised by just how much I like it. But I’m also concerned that...
Final Fantasy XVI's RPG Elements Are Barely There
23.6.2023
For three decades the Final Fantasy franchise has been known for reinventing itself, whether it’s the cyberpunk-esque stylings of Final Fantasy VII or the push into online multiplayer with Final Fantasy XI. The next watershed moment for the franchise is here, with Final Fantasy XVI trying to push...
Your Summer 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
23.6.2023
Congratulations, you survived watching (and/or backlogging) last season’s whopping 50 new anime shows. Your reward: a helpful guide to yet another wave of new and returning anime shows and movies coming to your favorite 2D streaming service.Read more
Tears of the Kingdom Is Another Zelda That's Low Key A Horror Game
23.6.2023
Though The Legend of Zelda franchise often dips into the eerie and the occult, its dominant mode is one of high adventure. Rather than associating the Japanese series with horror, we imagine a blonde boy swinging his sword in service of rescuing the princess against a backdrop of soaring music....
Our Favorite Cosplay From Dreamhack Melbourne 2023
23.6.2023
From Comic-Con to C2E2, the vast majority of cosplay coverage you see on this website comes from American conventions. Which is fine! This is an American website, many of the world’s biggest shows are in the US and our intrepid cosplay photographer Mineralblu is also American.Read more
Fortnite: Chapter 4 Season 3 Week 3 Quests And NPC Locations
22.6.2023
We’re three weeks into Fortnite’s latest season and hopefully you’ve been able to cross off the weekly quests without much trouble thus far. This week, however, you might’ve come across a few challenges that aren’t as familiar, including one involving one of the new mechanics: Mud. Insert joke...
Microsoft Says Xbox Has Been Losing The Console Wars Since 2001
22.6.2023
As Microsoft dukes it out with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the Xbox maker has admitted something everyone probably already knew by now: It’s lost the console wars.Read more
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Final Fantasy
22.6.2023
The Final Fantasy series’ charm is that, because every game is so different from the others, they each have their own strengths and faults. Some games excel in aspects others crash and burn trying to emulate, and it makes the series fascinating to compare and contrast. We even tried to rank these...
The Upcoming Indiana Jones Game Will Be Xbox Only, Intensifying The Console Wars
22.6.2023
During Thursday’s big Xbox vs Federal Trade Commission court hearing, Pete Hines of Bethesda (Fallout, Starfield) confirmed that the upcoming Indiana Jones game from MachineGames was originally planned to be a multiplatform release, meaning available to more people. But after Xbox bought...
Players Angry That OG Call of Duty: Warzone Will Shut Down This Fall
22.6.2023
It’s official: Warzone Caldera, formerly known as the original Call of Duty: Warzone, is shutting down later this year so developers can focus on the battle royale’s sequel and players are angry. The announcement came in a Call of Duty blog post titled “An update on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera”...
Nightmare Submarine Game Gets Popular As Search For Titanic Sub Continues
22.6.2023
As you likely are aware, five people are currently missing onboard a tourist sub that was heading down to the remains of the HMS Titanic. We don’t yet know what went wrong and if those onboard are still alive—it seems unlikely at this point—but a large-scale search for the Titan and its crew...
Pokimane Says Moving From Twitch To Kick Isn't Worth Compromising Morals, Is 'Cringe'
22.6.2023
Imane “Pokimane” Anys, would never stream on rising platform Kick, which already lured big names xQc and Amouranth away from Twitch with high profile contracts. Read more
Is PlayStation Really Worried About Losing Call of Duty To Microsoft? Private Emails Say No
22.6.2023
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has been fighting Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard tooth-and-nail, claiming it jeopardizes Call of Duty on PlayStation 5. But in a private email when the deal was first announced, Ryan apparently wrote that he didn’t think it was an “exclusivity play” to take...
Tears Of The Kingdom: 10 Surprising Ways Fans Are Using Recall
22.6.2023
In Tears of the Kingdom, Link gets a whole new suite of abilities granting him mastery over the physical world around him as well as control over time itself. With Recall, Link can stop time, select an object previously in motion, and send it backwards. It’s an essential tool for getting around...
Starfield Director Todd Howard Explains What You’ll Find On Its 1,000 Planets
22.6.2023
When Bethesda revealed that Starfield would have over 1,000 planets, it sounded both impressive and like a potential nightmare. What if instead of a dozen bespoke locations, the open world sci-fi RPG was scattered across hundreds of lifeless rocks filled with the same old stuff. Director Todd...
Children's Game Roblox Now Lets You Make Games For Players Aged 17 And Up
22.6.2023
Roblox, the online game creation system once populated mostly by kids under 13, is adding a new 17+ category to account for its recent growth in adult players. Read more
Oh No, Diablo IV Will Make You Create A New Character For Every Season
22.6.2023
I have yet to dive into Diablo IV, even as my coworkers are raving about it, but I’m starting to think I never will now that I know you apparently have to create a new character each season to take part in its battle passes.Read more