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Halo Infinite Pro Player Fined After Cursing Out Shooter’s Rocky Second Season
9.5.2022
Whatever your opinions of Halo Infinite, you can rest assured knowing you won’t take a financial hit for airing them. The same can’t be said for one of the best Halo players on the planet, who was recently fined after he shared some pointed criticism of the game’s ballyhooed season two update.Read...
Final Fantasy XIV Mod Drama May Prompt Official HUD Upgrades, Director Says
9.5.2022
As part of a larger blog reiterating the Final Fantasy XIV team’s disapproval of mods following their prevalence in a high-profile raid event, producer and director Naoki Yoshida promised to improve the massively popular game’s HUD to match the functionality of these unofficial tools.Read more
Meet The Only Person Keeping Action RPG Babylon’s Fall Alive
9.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall, the troubled live-service action-RPG from action game luminaries Platinum Games, has seemingly hit life support. After two months on the market and a lukewarm reception at launch, Square Enix’s latest effort was reduced to just one player on PC last week. They revealed themselves...
Valve Boss Gabe Newell Didn't Want Zombies In Left 4 Dead
9.5.2022
Quick, without thinking too much, describe Left 4 Dead in only a few words. You probably came up with something like “a co-op zombie shooter.” Or perhaps “an online co-op FPS zombies game from Valve.” Point is, zombies would almost certainly be in there. Even so, back during Left 4 Dead’s...
Overwatch 2 Beta Visuals Aren't Helping Perception That It's Barely An Update
9.5.2022
The Overwatch 2 technical beta started on April 26, and players have already started mining the build for content. One player even made a side-by-side lighting comparison video of the differences between the beta and the original game, which recently took off on Twitter. The two video captures...
Bloodborne Is Scarier Than Ever In 2022
9.5.2022
Somewhere, a baby is crying. Their lonely yelps stick to the air like mist sticks to glass. The sound stretches out over the mirror of water upon which Rom, the Vacuous Spider just died as the nightmare moon descends. It trails you through every unlit building, but melts into happy giggles when...
Xbox Network Had A Rough Weekend
9.5.2022
If Xbox Live was Microsoft’s online gaming service at the height of its powers, then this past weekend was Xbox Dead. For more than 36 hours in mid May, Xbox players had trouble connecting to the Xbox network. In some cases, players say they couldn’t even play single-player games offline that they...
40K Developers Criticised Over Dumb Twitch Drops
9.5.2022
Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, have issued a statement apologising to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams.Read more
Zelda Player Kills Guardian With Anime-Ass Swordplay
9.5.2022
Is there a better argument for Breath of the Wild having one of the all-time great open worlds than the fact that, so many years after release, players are still messing around with the game’s items and physics to pull off cool shit that we’ve never seen before?Read more
Kids 'Tipping' Streamers & Watching After 10pm Is Being Banned In China
9.5.2022
On Saturday the Chinese government announced a number of changes to the way kids can access and interact with content online, with the National Radio and Television Administration saying “platforms need to step up controls to stop underage users from tipping livestreamers or becoming livestreamers...
Halo 3: ODST Reimagining Mod Expertly Enhances One Of The Series’ Best Campaigns
7.5.2022
In case you’re eager for some more Halo content but want to wait until Infinite figures itself out first, one of the best campaigns of the series just received an impressive mod that widens the sandbox, throws new enemies at you, and promises more updates around the corner. Read more
By The Way, Take-Two’s CEO Profits From All Your GTA Online, NBA 2K Microtransactions
7.5.2022
Microtransactions in games like Grand Theft Auto Online have become big business for video game publishers. And it’s likely this won’t be changing anytime soon. New details spotted in a recent contract extension for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick explain that the CEO will earn a big bonus if more...
The 10 Best Star Wars Games Ever Made
6.5.2022
Looking online it seems there have been approximately 64,534 Star Wars games released since the first film hit theaters in the ‘70s. (Editor’s note: That’s incorrect.) But, while many of them are good, some are really, really good. These are the kind of games that are so great that even non-Star...
How To Get Elden Ring's Beast-Repellent Torch ASAP
6.5.2022
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Top Twitch Streamers Are Capitalizing On Depp V. Heard Trial Trauma
6.5.2022
If you’ve visited Twitch lately, you may have noticed that the most-popular “Just Chatting” category and the front page have been dominated by one thing: the defamation trial between actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. What started on April 11 as an in-court battle recounting a toxic relationship...
Listen To A Bunch Of EVE Online Nerds Go Wild Over An Official Excel Collab
6.5.2022
During the keynote of this weekend’s EVE Fanfest convention in Reykjavik, Iceland, EVE Online creative director Bergur Finnbogason previewed an upcoming collaboration between the spacefaring MMO and Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program in front of a crowd of dedicated fans. They ate it up.Read more
Halo Infinite Devs Acknowledge Botched Season 2 Rollout, Are ‘Reviewing Options’
6.5.2022
Halo Infinite’s second season, which was supposed to be a much-needed phoenix down, is off to a rocky start. Three days after its rollout, the developer has acknowledged its pitfalls, promising to “review options.” Also: Every player is getting free stuff.Read more
Outriders, Square Enix's Answer To Destiny, Didn't Turn A Profit In Its First Year
6.5.2022
According to a recent operations report from the development studio People Can Fly, the online loot shooter Outriders didn’t make any profit by the end of 2021. Read more
Let’s Talk About The Disappointing Ending To Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
6.5.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands tees up a flurry of intriguing narrative ideas, a veritable world of possibility full of fascinating concepts and mind-blowing potential outcomes. And then…it does nothing with them, culminating in an ending that fails to realize its own potential. Let’s chat about it.Read...
Jumpstart AAPI Month With Thai Survival Horror And Five More Hidden Gems
6.5.2022
I answer the questions dutifully—“Where are your parents from?” “My dad is from Bangladesh, my mom is from Bulgaria”—but growing up in predominantly white Long Island made me embarrassed that anyone ever had to ask. I’m pale. My hair is thin and bleached blonde, and I could never grow it out to...