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Baldur's Gate 3 Shows RPG Romance Can Always Get Weirder
4.8.2023
I’m about 20 hours into Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’ve picked the most basic-ass romance for a person attracted to men: Gale. He’s a human wizard who is sassy and kind of annoying but also sweet and tragic in a way that tickles the part of my brain that writes fanfiction. With Gale as my chosen romance...
Destiny 2 Promises It Won’t Drip Feed Upcoming Expansion’s 'Climatic Conclusion'
3.8.2023
Destiny 2 players have spent a long time waiting for answers to some of the loot shooter’s biggest questions. Bungie claims they’re coming in 2024’s The Final Shape expansion, and they won’t be dragged out across four seasonal story updates like some of the most important parts of Lightfall...
14 Things To Know Before Starting Baldur’s Gate 3
3.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a dense game, sometimes overwhelmingly so. The long, long-awaited continuation of the classic role-playing series has a lot of moving parts and if you’re new to CRPGs or the Dungeons & Dragons universe, it can be a lot to take in. But fear not adventurer, we’ve gathered up...
All The Big Changes Coming To Destiny 2 Later This Year
3.8.2023
It’s been a messy time for Destiny 2 as players burn out on existing content and revolt against some of the game’s increasingly pricey microtransactions. Five months after Lightfall’s troubled launch, Bungie took the opportunity to update players on the state of the game and what’s to come...
A Resident Evil Remake Is Now The Best-Selling Game In The Series
3.8.2023
Quick! What did you think was the best-selling Resident Evil game in the franchise before you read the headline above? I assumed it was 2005’s Resident Evil 4, I mean, I’ve bought that game enough times at this point. But it actually was 2017’s Resident Evil 7—until just recently, when Resident...
Hideo Kojima Says Death Stranding 2 Will Redefine 'Strand'
3.8.2023
In a recent interview with Japanese publication Music Natalie, Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima revealed that his upcoming sequel, Death Stranding 2, will revisit the meaning of the word “strand” because of the covid pandemic. Read more
Jedi: Survivor Fan Ruins Permadeath Run In Worst Way After Maxing Out Skills
3.8.2023
A Twitch streamer ended his Star Wars Jedi: Survivor permadeath run somewhat controversially after taking fall damage. The streamer, GoodGame_Ethan, already went through the (time-consuming, grind-heavy) trouble of acquiring every skill point in the first level. And though the fall isn’t what...
Nintendo Is Absolutely Killing It Right Now
3.8.2023
Nintendo dropped its first quarter financial results on August 3, with the company revealing that it’s having a record-breaking year so far thanks to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Super Marios Bros. Movie.Read more
Call of Duty Now Flags Cheaters In The Kill Feed, In Real Time
3.8.2023
Call of Duty now alerts players when a cheater has been removed from their lobbies. The change comes as part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0’s season five content expansion, which released August 2, and as a new part of developer Infinity Ward’s Ricochet initiative to limit...
Big-Name Gaming YouTuber Is Happy To Have His AI Take Over
3.8.2023
Jordi “Kwebbelkop” Van Den Bussche, a massive gaming YouTuber with over 15 million subscribers on the platform, has been working for some time to create his own AI replacement, modeled to look, sound, and act like the creator himself. As he told Wired in a recent interview, he has plenty of reasons...
Street Fighter 6 Cheat Turns Commentators Into Animals
2.8.2023
Street Fighter 6 players have uncovered a hidden code in the game that transforms its commentators into shout-casting animals. Read more
When Is Baldur’s Gate III Coming To Xbox? It’s Complicated
2.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate III arrives on PC on August 3 and is right around the corner on PlayStation 5. But what about Xbox Series X/S? The sprawling role-playing game still doesn’t have a release date on Microsoft’s console, and developer Larian Studios still isn’t sure if that version of the game will...
The Great Wii U Server Outage Of 2023 Is Over
2.8.2023
The Wii U isn’t dead, it’s just resting. Nintendo finally brought the console’s servers for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 back online after a mysterious five month outage. “Please accept our sincere apologies for the extended waiting period,” the company wrote in an update, though it’s not making...
15 Character Revelations We Learned In Street Fighter 6
2.8.2023
Street Fighter 6 characterizes its fighters in odder, more specific ways than prior games in the franchise. The broad strokes—the character archetypes—are still the same. Ryu is a stoic warrior. Dhalsim is a serene yoga master. E. Honda is a prideful sumo fighter. But Street Fighter 6 grounds these...
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is Coming To PS4, Xbox One
2.8.2023
Respawn and Electronic Arts’ popular single-player Star Wars sequel, Jedi: Survivor, is making the leap from current-gen to the older PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.Read more
Anita Sarkeesian Shutters Feminist Frequency, Operations To Cease In Early 2024
1.8.2023
After nearly 15 years, feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s non-profit organization Feminist Frequency will cease operations in early 2024. The news was delivered via official press release with Sarkeesian citing endless burnout and exhaustion from growing the site over the years, which she says...
Don’t Miss This Moving, Mouthwatering Cooking Game Now On Game Pass
1.8.2023
On the surface, Venba, a charming cooking puzzle game in which you restore a family’s cookbook, is just that. It’s a colorful, AMSR-esque cooking game that’ll light a fire in your belly to stop ordering takeout and get busy making dishes in your own kitchen. However, after rolling the credits...
This Perfect Cozy Game (And Much More) Is Coming To Game Pass
1.8.2023
Xbox announced its first wave of August Game Pass titles in an August 1 blog post, and it looks like players have some great under-the-radar games to look forward to, including the cozy fan-favorite A Short Hike.Read more
August Is An Epic Month For Game Releases
1.8.2023
If you thought August was gonna be a snoozefest for gaming, I’m here to wake you the hell up because this month looks like it’ll have something for everyone—and that’s not just BS boilerplate. Read more
Cult PSP Game Gets Spiritual Successor That’s Already Blowing Up Kickstarter
31.7.2023
Dozens of PlayStation fans have spent years dreaming about a new Patapon game, the rhythm-based strategy series for the Playstation Portable that mixed shades of Pikmin and Guitar Hero. That’s probably never happening, but creator Hiroyuki Kotani is back with the next best thing: a spiritual...