A ********* man in his mid-30s has been arrested for allegedly tampering with Pokémon Violet save data to sell rare monsters online to interested buyers. Read more... View the full article
There is a lot to do in The Witcher 3, CD Projekt’s Red’s open-world RPG that released in 2015.Many players, including me, spent hundreds of hours with protagonist Geralt exploring every corner of the map, completing every quest, and ******** every monster. But it turns out that almost a decade later, The Witcher 3… Read more... View the full article
Last summer, I reported on major studios’ valiant (but still lacking) efforts to combat toxic voice chat (of which women are often the target) in popular competitive games like Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, and Apex Legends. And though Riot Games, the studio behind the 5v5 competitive hero shooter Valorant, is one of the… Read more... View the full article
Lucy’s handy-dandy silver-plated tranquilizer **** in the Fallout TV show is a mostly original creation designed for the Amazon Prime adaption. But fans move fast, and the ******* has already been brought to Fallout 4 via a talented modder. Read more... View the full article
The battle against Nintendo Switch emulation isn’t over yet. The Mario maker got the prominent emulation software Yuzu to ***** in, shut down, and pay out on March 4, and now the popular chat platform Discord is reportedly nuking the accounts and servers belonging to other Nintendo Switch emulator devs. Read more... View the full article
If it seems like Baldur’s Gate 3 can’t stop winning Game of the Year awards, you aren’t wrong. Just this week, Larian’s ambitious 2023 Dungeons & Dragons RPG took home yet another prize during the video game portion of the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). While it is impressive alone to take home a single GOTY… Read more... View the full article
If you’re paying for access to Nintendo’s Switch Online package, you too are probably perennially wondering whether you’re actually getting anything out of it, but then remembering it’s only $20 a year and it stores all your saves in the cloud. Thankfully, every so often a few more prehistoric games get added to… Read more... View the full article
A woman went viral on social media after claiming she left a Yu-Gi-Oh card game event due to how terrible many of the other players smelled. Read more... View the full article
The tenor of conversations around mobile and gacha games has shifted over the years. Though they were first met with derision for the widespread perception that they were cheap and inferior knockoff games, not to mention predatory due to their various mechanics and features often being closely tied to… Read more... View the full article
It is April, and yet we are still in award season for all your favorite 2023 video games. The video game segment of the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) were held today, April 11, and like The Game Awards before them, they awarded Larian Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 the top award for Game of the… Read more... View the full article
Our long national nightmare is over. Square Enix has updated Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and fixed, among other issues, a bugged and impossible-to-complete side quest found at the end of the game that was stopping some players from getting the platinum trophy. Read more... View the full article
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is one of the films Paramount is showcasing at Cinemacon in Las Vegas right now, and that presentation included a whole trailer of the blue blur fighting his angsty rival Shadow. Unfortunately, as of this writing, none of that footage is available to the public. But we do have a description of… Read more... View the full article
The popular board game Scrabble has gone woke, according to five grown adults who are paid way too much money to sit around and entertain grumpy boomers on Fox News. Read more... View the full article
With Amazon’s Fallout series tearing up the review charts, you might be wondering if Bethesda Softworks has any other plans to turn its properties into TV shows or movies. The publisher has quite a few IP under its belt, after all, many of which might make for a solid game-to-show adaptation—like The Elder Scrolls.… Read more... View the full article
Overwatch 2’s tenth season begins on April 16, and it will new non-binary damage hero Venture to the roster after their test phase last month. While the drill-based brawler is the headliner of season 10 (called Venture Forth), a special, limited-time event is a cool standout. The Mirrorwatch event takes place from… Read more... View the full article
If you’ve been watching Amazon’s new (and good) Fallout show and thinking, “*****, I should play one of those games,” the most polished of the bunch is about to get a new update! That’s right, remember that next-gen update that Bethesda Softworks announced for Fallout 4 around the series’ 25th anniversary? Well, it… Read more... View the full article
Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, two very good and incredibly popular open-world RPGs, are now free to play if you are an Amazon Prime member. But there’s some bad news: You can only play these Bethesda RPGs for free via Amazon’s cloud streaming service, Luna. Sorry. Read more... View the full article
Children of the Sun is one of the most disturbing games I’ve ever played. Admittedly, this sounds like a superbly tabloid opening line to an article, one that’s about to harrumph on about the terrible state of things, but worry not. I mean it as a good thing. ****, this game is dark, creepy, violent, awful, upsetting,… Read more... View the full article
Diablo 4, Blizzard’s loot-grinding RPG that launched to commercial success and critical acclaim in June 2023, is regularly getting solid updates that fix mechanics and tweak classes for improved playability The latest big update is sure to bring some lapsed players back into the fold. Loot is sounding much more… Read more... View the full article
Earlier this week, Bungie unveiled most of the major features included in Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion, The Final Shape, including a new ****** faction, an exotic class item that allows players to mix and match game-changing perks, and most importantly, a chaotic new subclass called Prismatic that similarly combines… Read more... View the full article
John Cena is probably not teasing a role in the upcoming Legend of Zelda live-action film. But after the wrestler-turned-actor posted a no-context image of Link from the original 1986 NES game on his Instagram, fans immediately started running with the mere suggestion that Cena could appear in the Miyazaki-esque film… Read more... View the full article
There are myriad side quests in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Many of them require you to channel your inner Sherlock Holmes, as Capcom’s latest high-fantasy RPG doesn’t always like showing you how to complete missions. One such quest is “Prey for the Pack,” which has an objective that demands a bit more critical thinking than… Read more... View the full article
Call of Duty players are up in arms that a new cosmetic item inspired by the new film Godzilla X Kong: New Empire costs $80, in yet another example of the monstrous costs of in-game cosmetics. Read more... View the full article
While you might not expect a Disney-themed kart racing game to be the subject of much controversy, Disney Speedstorm has implemented some changes to its progression that have upset fans so much that some are considering legal action. Developer Gameloft has framed these changes as helpful for people looking to earn… Read more... View the full article
You know what time it is, y’all. PlayStation has announced the lineup of titles coming to its subscription service PS Plus and its various tiers later this month, and the most hotly contested “indie game” is leading the pack. That’s right folks, Dave The Diver is coming to the PS Plus Game Catalog, which will be… Read more... View the full article
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A ********* man in his mid-30s has been arrested for allegedly tampering with Pokémon Violet save data to sell rare monsters online to interested buyers. Read more... View the full article