Sometimes I like to spend an afternoon messing up Skyrim with a Korean mod that drops an entire modern-day city into it, complete with motorbikes that replace the horses but still neigh disconcertingly when you ride them. Maybe I'll try out that banned mod that turns Skyrim into World War 2 next... Read more.View the full article
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is rife with tough decisions that can affect entire playthroughs, just like some of the other BioWare RPGs. The fragile relationship system and the emphasis on individual choices helping or breaking the world around Rook give many players a cause for pause. The consequences of the player's actions have previously been more involved in the Dragon Age franchise, as in previous games, their decisions in some cases carried over to the following game and affected the overarching story from the beginning of the playthrough. View the full article
The Resident Evil franchise has been terrifying players for over 20 years across almost 30 mainline entries, spinoffs, and remakes. As one of the first major survival horror games, by combining scares with action, developer Capcom continues to adapt to the changes in the industry. This can be noted in its shift in camera angles throughout the series, from its initial fixed perspectives, to revolutionary third-person over-the-shoulder *********, to its latest take on first-person horror. Based on recent leaks about the upcoming Resident Evil 9, the latest changes made to its franchise will concern its environmental design and map. View the full article
Recently, No Man's Sky has been inundated with incredible builds that pay homage, both overtly and covertly, to pop-culture locations. There was a Mass Effect relay base built in orbit, an underground village that looks exactly like something from Dungeons and Dragons Underdark, a working Mario Kart-style racetrack, and a huge Cyberpunk city that could have easily been in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077. View the full article
The first section of the Echoes of Vanadiel raid has been released with patch 7.1 of Final Fantasy 14. The storyline is an incredible love letter to Square Enixs original MMORPG, Final Fantasy 11. Players of the over 20-year-old game will find many Easter Eggs and nostalgia at every turn, but casual FFXIV players may be a little lost, as the rapid ***** story beats and references are quickly presented without context. View the full article
In Baldur's Gate 3, the Rogue class excels at picking off enemies while remaining obscured and out of sight. Whether it be through the use of a bow or blades, Rogues can make quick work of their enemies with multiple successive attacks. There are plenty of fantastic gear options that a Rogue can use to exploit Advantage to their benefit, as Sneak Attacks only work when the user has Advantage. View the full article
NetherRealm Studios recently dropped the gameplay trailer for Ghostface in Mortal Kombat 1's Khaos Reigns DLC. The inclusion of the iconic masked ******* from the Scream franchise took many by surprise, as he initially seemed like a rather boring character compared to the rest of the roster. Fortunately, the trailer revealed that Ghostface's gameplay is a clear standout that helps secure his place as an exciting introduction to the new characters being added in the DLC. View the full article
During an incredibly emotional reveal about Bellara's backstory in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, players are running into a distracting problem. Their Rook won't stop mewing. View the full article
Half-Life 2 just turned 20-years-old, and to celebrate Valve updated the game with some new features. They also produced a documetary in which several of its development team look back on their work on the game and its episodic expansions - including the never-released Episode 3. The documentary includes in-progress footage of the episode in action for the first time, and it shows an ice **** and a new liquid ****** type. Read more View the full article
Turns out that Sonic the Hedgehog is canonically a homeless drifter and always has been. I did not know this. I doubt you knew this? I mean I figured he just went somewhere. Hedgehogs live in little burrows, right? Or perhaps hedges? Anyway, not Sonic, he's too fast to be tied down by concepts such as "home.".. Read more.View the full article
Half-Life 2 just turned 20 years old, and to celebrate Valve have released an update for their classic first-person shooter. In brief: they've recorded developer commentary; they've added Steam Workshop support; Episodes One and Two are now part of the package; and there are some bug fixes and new graphics options. Grab it before the end of the weekend (November 18th at 6pm GMT) and it's also free to keep on Steam. Read more View the full article
The Pokémon ****** America International Championship (LAIC) is underway in Brazil this weekend (Nov. 15 to 17), and one Pokémon has clawed its way to the top of the VGC meta. As the first major international event of the 2025 Pokémon season, LAIC sets the pace for the rest of the year. And so far, we’ve seen plenty of intense matches and an exciting meta led by Regulation H superstar Sneasler. View the full article
For the first time in three years, grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi won’t play a part in the world chess championship match. Don’t worry, though, he’ll keep himself busy: for the next few days, he will occupy himself by participating in a streamer-focused Dota tournament, and he’s got quite the MOBA credentials. Eagle-eyed redditors spotted yesterday that the eighth edition of BetBoom’s Streamers Battle Dota 2 will feature a player familiar to a different clan of nerds: playing under the Goodwin Team banner is none other than the world’s eight-highest-ranked chess player and back-to-back challenger for the classical world championship title, Ian Nepomniachtchi. View the full article
Intel apparently has no plans to produce consumer desktop CPUs featuring 3D-stacked cache to compete with AMD's technology. Instead, the company is focusing on enhancing the cache configuration for its next-generation server CPUs, which it considers a more critical market segment. Read Entire Article View the full article
Xbox boss Phil Spencer explained why he's wary of producing licensed video games and outlined why Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the exception to that rule. Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be released on December 9, launching on the Xbox consoles and PC first, with a PlayStation 5 port coming later in 2025. The Great Circle is the first Indiana Jones licensed game since 2011's Indiana Jones Adventure World. View the full article
Hogwarts Legacy offered a great taste of Harry Potter's wizarding world, finally allowing players to forge their own path at the famed school of witchcraft and wizardry. However, a glaring omission held the game back from true greatness: the lack of meaningful consequences. While students could do a lot in the game, their actions rarely resulted in more than a fleeting, inconsequential remark from an NPC. This lack of impact significantly diminished the roleplaying experience, reducing player agency to a superficial level. View the full article
As you play through the Dragon Age: The Veilguard mission entitled "Sea of Blood," you'll encounter a new kind of puzzle characterized by breakable blood crystals. If you chose to go to Treviso before Dock Town, this is the first time you'll see puzzles of this sort. These crystals effectively function as a magical power source, usually serving to keep an impenetrable wall between nosy interlopers and whatever a blood mage wants to keep secure. Thankfully, the grand majority of them are pretty straightforward - until a certain point in the quest, that is. View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 is going to let fans use their legacy XP tokens. When it first launched, Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 did not let fans utilize XP tokens that they earned in previous Call of Duty games and Warzone. That changed when ****** Ops 6 Season 1 launched, though the ability to activate legacy XP tokens was quickly rescinded. View the full article
Payday 3 just wrapped up its first year, and its developer, Starbreeze Studios, says it feels comfortable investing significantly less in the title in year two. Despite getting off to a shaky start, the game largely turned things around after several rounds of updates and quality-of-life improvements. Still, the news that Payday 3 won't get the same level of attention going forward may be surprising for some fans to hear. View the full article
When ****** Stranding came out in 2019 on PlayStation 4, many gamers and critics didn’t know what to make of it. This was the first non-Metal Gear Solid game directed by Hideo Kojima since Zone of the Enders and was his first venture away from Konami. While it had familiar elements from many of his […] Source View the full article
Metaphor: ReFantazio's Necromancer Takedown and its associated dungeon, the Regalith Grand Cathedral, is the first introduction to time management for players. Players face a deadline to defeat the necromancer Zorba while gaining access to the activities available within Grand Trad. Properly timing the dungeon's completion, activities, requests, and bounties can be overwhelming initially. Still, it is a great way to make the dungeon run smoothly and create a solid foundation as the game opens up. View the full article
Aspyr has recently revealed that Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered will have Photo Mode. The previous Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Collection already had Photo Mode, so this is good news for Tomb Raider fans who were expecting the new collection to follow the same path. View the full article
Ubisoft has issued a statement regarding the recent rumors of a paid battle-pass in the upcoming Assassins Creed Shadows. This comes after leaks rapidly gained traction online, which suggested the introduction of a monetization system in exchange for rewards like outfits and weapons, and partnerships with third-party companies like Red Bull. View the full article
Taking a look at SteamDB, the hullabaloo around Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary has sent fans coming back to the single player FPS in droves: With a 24 hour peak of 52,027 players at the time of writing, that's more people playing Half-Life 2 than at any point since Steam started keeping track of concurrent players (or at least the data became available) in 2008... Read more.View the full article
Genshin Impact has revealed an official overview of Ororon, the upcoming 4-Star Electro character slated to come out in the first half of Version 5.2. While Chasca is intended to be the star of Version 5.2, Genshin Impact players have been rather excited about Ororon since his debut in Version 5.1. Hailing from the Masters of the Night-Wind, Ororon left a strong impression on fans during the Archon Quest. Not only will Version 5.2 take players to Ororon's tribe in Western Natlan, but Ororon himself will play a major role during the Flagship Event of the patch. View the full article
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Sometimes I like to spend an afternoon messing up Skyrim with a Korean mod that drops an entire modern-day city into it, complete with motorbikes that replace the horses but still neigh disconcertingly when you ride them. Maybe I'll try out that banned mod that turns Skyrim into World War 2 next... Read more.View the full article