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New Minecraft Update Fixes A Bug From 2012 (No, That’s Not A Typo)
3.5.2023
Cast your mind back to October 2012. Pokemon Black and White 2 had just been released. Resident Evil 6 launched and disappointed many. And Dishonored arrived on the scene, earning Arkane many accolades and awards. And also, a minor bug involving footsteps and blocks was introduced into Minecraft....
The Online Pokémon Trading Card Game Apocalypse Is Coming In June
3.5.2023
The Pokémon Company is officially migrating its online trading card ecosystem to its new app, Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, on June 8. This means if you’ve been playing the digital card game on Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, which has been the platform for official online play since 2011...
People Are Not Having A Great Time With Redfall
3.5.2023
Redfall, a vampire shooter out this week on Xbox and PC, was developed by Arkane Studios, the same team behind classics like Dishonored and Prey. It’s one of Microsoft’s first-party exclusives for 2023, a big release for the company’s Game Pass subscription service. And by most accounts,...
Elden Ring Meets Bloodborne In Latest Overhaul Mod
3.5.2023
While we wait for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, a troupe of modders known as Garden of Eyes is working on an overhaul mod to FromSoftware’s latest “You Died” open-world RPG, which will introduce new weapons, additional skins for Torrent, and Bloodborne-style gun parries to The Lands...
10 Of The Most Visually Stunning PlayStation 4 Games
2.5.2023
The PlayStation 4 was the graphical shot in the arm console gaming needed after the very very lengthy PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, which saw the consoles struggling to meet games’ increasing graphical demands by the early 2010s. Read more
10 Of The Best Ways Games Put Dirty Cheaters In Their Place
2.5.2023
In most games, when a cheater gets caught in the act, they receive their just desserts in the form of a swift ban. Goodbye! But sometimes developers want to have a little more fun at the loser’s expense, go an extra mile to do something a little more memorable and elaborate. Maybe they disable...
Everything We’re Learning About Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom From The Leaks
2.5.2023
The entirety of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom recently leaked online over a week ahead of the game’s May 12 release date. Now some players are making their way through it and streaming their journey for all to see while hackers comb through the game’s files for more clues. As a result...
The Advance Wars Remake Is Tactically Satisfying But Narratively Toothless
2.5.2023
I’m not a prude about war games, but real war is so horrifying that I always need some abstraction to get into it. The outlandish outfit designs in Fire Emblem and the cat ears in Arknights create a bit of cognitive distance from the harsh realities of armed conflict I learned about in school...
Worst Zelda Game Gets New Life As Fan-Made Game Boy Demake
2.5.2023
Back in the 1990s, Philips tried to break into the video game market with its doomed-to-fail, multimedia set-top box standard called CD-i. Many brands and models of CD-i players were released but all of them were flops and mostly forgotten in 2023. However, Philips did acquire the rights to develop...
Behold: GTA’s Worst Mission, Now With Thomas The Tank Engine
1.5.2023
If you’ve played Rockstar’s iconic PS2-era open-world crime simulator Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, you likely know about the infamously awful train mission. Hell, even if you haven’t played the game that mission has become popular online as a meme. And now someone has created a video showing...
Another Big Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Patch Is On The Way
1.5.2023
The march of post-launch patches for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor begins. Following a massive day-one update that still left some bugs and performance issues for its Metroidvania exploration and Souls-like combat, especially on PC, EA has released another big patch for PC players with one for PS5...
Fans Freak Out As Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Leaks Two Weeks Early
1.5.2023
Over a week ahead of schedule, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is now out in the wild. After months of dissecting every little leak they could find about the game, , some fans are now descending upon footage of how it starts in search of new information while others try to avoid spoilers...
Japanese Store Is Banning Adults From Buying Pokémon Cards
1.5.2023
In the wake of Pokémon cards totally selling out in Japan, it appears that one trading card store in the country’s Akihabara district has adopted some drastic measures: Bar adults from buying cards so kids can enjoy the hobby.Read more
ChatGPT Skyrim Mod Is A Robotic Horror Movie
1.5.2023
Proponents of modern AI tech—and this is our weekly reminder that it’s not actually artificial intelligence at all—have big plans for video games. Ubisoft is dabbling, Square Enix is dabbling, but those are just testbeds: for a more comprehensive look at what AI supporters want to see in their...
Bungie Wins $12 Million In Destiny 2 Anti-Cheat Lawsuit
28.4.2023
As Bungie continues on its warpath against Destiny 2 cheaters, the studio has won $12 million in the lawsuit against Romanian cheat seller Mihai Claudiu-Florentin that began back in 2021.Read more
Elden Ring Player Murks Malenia In 15 Seconds On Hardest Difficulty
28.4.2023
Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her might want to watch his back, as another Tarnished is out here making a name for themselves by killing Malenia, Blade of Miquella in record time. Sure, Let Me Solo Her might have beaten her over 1,000 times, but this guy has killed Malenia in roughly 15 seconds....
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Mod Is So Impressive It Could Be An Expansion
28.4.2023
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands just passed its one-year anniversary back in March, and in the time since, a team of modders has been working on what it calls an “overhaul” mod for the Borderlands spin-off called Wonderlands Redux. After months of work, the mod is now available to download on PC,...
You Should Play This Xbox Game Pass Shooter With A Great Lance Reddick Performance
28.4.2023
Quantum Break, Remedy Entertainment’s ambitious 2016 video game/TV show hybrid, is back on Xbox Game Pass after a brief removal from digital stores due to a licensing issue. This is good news, particularly if you want to see a great Lance Reddick performance.Read more
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Inundated With Bad Steam Reviews, Giant Day One Patch
28.4.2023
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out today and facing tons of issues on PC. A torrent of negative Steam reviews complain about poor performance, while even fans who pre-loaded the game are waiting to install a giant 128 GB day-one update.Read more
Please Stop Talking About Titanfall 3, It Hurts Too Much
28.4.2023
In 2014 Respawn released Titanfall, a game that combined two of the best things in video games: wall-running and giant mechs. It was great, but also multiplayer-only, so in 2016 they released a sequel, which kept the wall-running and giant mechs but also added another of the best things in video...