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Dark Souls 3 Player Beats The Game Without Taking A Single Step
12.4.2022
Many of FromSoftware’s games are punishing. They require calmness, patience, and quick reflexes, as any wrong move or panicked action could—and often does—result in an unceremonious death. So, you’d think taking advantage of every tool in your arsenal when exploring FromSoft’s games would be...
Why Elden Ring's Torrent Keeps Getting You Killed
12.4.2022
Torrent, the magic horse-goat that lets you get around Elden Ring’s world at cruising speeds, is one of the highlights of the game, but that’s not to say they’re perfect.Read more
A Very Cool Idea For A New Assassin's Creed Game
12.4.2022
From the earliest days of the Assassin’s Creed series, certain elements of the fanbase have been insufferable with their ideas—and demands—for new settings and time periods for the games to take place in.Read more
Halo: Infinite Is Now Playable In Third-Person
12.4.2022
While Halo: Infinite is a first-person game by design, that doesn’t mean, like so many other games designed to be played a certain way, we can’t play it another way if we want.Read more
How Elden Ring Speedruns Beat The Game In Under 9 Minutes Without Seeing Its Final Boss
11.4.2022
Elden Ring speedrun times dropped dramatically over the last week thanks to the discovery of a new route that removes the need to fight any of the FromSoftware game’s difficult bosses. The current world record, held by high-level Souls speedrunner Distortion2, sits at just below 9 minutes. Let’s...
The Giant Gaming Leak That Keeps Getting Vindicated
11.4.2022
Last September, a massive list of potential PC games leaked through Nvidia’s GeForce Now video game streaming service and was posted online. At the time, no one quite knew what to make of it. Was it insider info or speculative placeholders? Now evidence is mounting that at least some of the leak...
Sony Goes Big On Epic Games With Whopping $1 Billion Investment
11.4.2022
Epic Games recently announced an epic new wave of fundraising, notable both for the $2 billion it’s pulled in and for an eye-raising firm present among the leading partners: Sony. The makers of PlayStation VR have invested a cool $1 billion in Epic to further “the development of new digital...
Elden Ring Fans Restore Cut Quests Where You Get Everyone Drunk, Learn Their Secrets
11.4.2022
Noted Souls YouTuber Lance McDonald has uncovered some, hm, intoxicating content that was cut from Elden Ring’s final build fairly late into development from the looks of it. By working with another YouTuber named Sekiro Dubi, the two restored a surprisingly extensive mechanic FromSoftware removed...
The Chinese Gaming Industry Is About To Start Moving Again After Devastating Nine-Month Freeze
11.4.2022
After a nine-month hiatus that put the Chinese games industry on edge, China’s culture regulators have finally started issuing new approvals for domestic games so they can be published within the country.Read more
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is On Track To Be The Biggest Video Game Movie Ever
11.4.2022
Paramount Pictures is in the green bill zone. The studio’s latest tentpole, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, had an absolutely massive weekend, bringing in $71 million at the domestic box office for a total international cume of $141 million. It’s the biggest opening ever for a movie based on a video...
The Best Dreamcast Games
11.4.2022
Here’s a terrifying fact: Sega has been out of the console business longer than they were in it. And while it was the Dreamcast that finally did the struggling giant in, for a platform that was only around for a couple of years it certainly left one hell of a legacy behind.Read more
The Week In Games: Nobody Saves The World On April 14
10.4.2022
Nobody Saves The World, which already had fans on Xbox and PC after releasing on those platforms in January, makes its way over to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch later this week. Read more
RIP Sora's Big-Ass Clown Shoes, 2002-2022
10.4.2022
Big news! Kingdom Hearts IV was just announced today. We don’t know much about the game’s plot, when it will be released, or how it connects to other games, but we do know one thing: Series protagonist Sora no longer has his big clown shoes anymore. And the internet isn’t taking it very well. Read...
Kingdom Hearts IV Has Been Announced
10.4.2022
As part of the series’ 20th anniversary celebrations, Square Enix just used a Sunday evening presentation in Japan to unveil two new Kingdom Hearts games, one of them being Kingdom Hearts IV.Read more
Seven Characters Missing From Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
9.4.2022
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a really, really big game filled with hundreds of characters, ships, planets, and weapons all pulled from every Star Wars film ever made. But, as a lifelong Star Wars nerd, I’m very skilled at nitpicking things I love and after thinking about it for some time...
Someone Has Now Beat Elden Ring In Just 12 Minutes And 32 Seconds
9.4.2022
Yesterday, YouTuber and speedrunner MitChriz beat Elden Ring in just 12 minutes and 32 seconds, setting what appears to be a new record in the “any%” speedrunning category for the game. Read more
Steam’s Top Guide For Elden Ring Is A Foot Fetishist’s Dream
8.4.2022
Elden Ring is full of hard bosses, esoteric secrets, and weird exploits, but the current top guide on the game’s Steam page isn’t about any of that. It’s about feet. The fleshy pads come in all different shapes and sizes, and Elden Ring, like the Souls games before it, is full of them. So of course...
Call Of Duty Cheating Accusations Lead To Controversial 'Hacking Exam'
8.4.2022
Before YouTuber IShowSpeed was put under the spotlight for his toxicity, Jake Lucky, an esports commentator and the person responsible for highlighting Speed’s behavior, was also under public scrutiny. Lucky, who tried to exonerate an alleged Call of Duty: Warzone hacker with a lie detector test...
Genshin Impact’s Kokomi Used To Suck, But Now She's Fun As Hell
8.4.2022
I didn’t try to recruit Kokomi, the water-element healer, during her initial, limited release. Instead, I opted to skip her for Childe, the water-based archer who can slay packs of enemies in seconds flat. I regret that now. After spending over a hundred wishes to get Childe (which would’ve cost...
After Months Of Disappointment, Halo Infinite Is About To Get A Whole Lot Better
8.4.2022
For a while now, the prevailing narrative around Halo Infinite is that interest in the game, once confidently perched at the summit of Mt. First-Person Shooter, has fallen off a precipice. But that stands poised to change when season two, “Lone Wolves,” rolls around on May 3. Folks, it sounds (and...