With the passage of the summer solstice last month, we are firmly in the hottest season. And this July, we’ve got a generous collection of compelling titles worth checking out. From some intriguing indie titles to Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion and beyond, this month is packed with games that look well worth… Read more... View the full article
With the remakes of the remasters of the reissues of the remakes, it does feel like there are always approximately 372 different Resident Evil games in development at any one time. However, brand new ones are a more rare treat, and that’s what was nonchalantly confirmed by Capcom last night. Resident Evil 9, although… Read more... View the full article
There’s a Star Wars game out there that is hard to play in 2024 because, for whatever reason, it ******** trapped on the hard-to-emulate OG Xbox without any official remakes, remasters, or backward compatibility support. That agme is Star Wars: Obi-Wan. Read more... View the full article
Highly anticipated RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S this fall. BioWare has been focusing a lot of its marketing for the sequel on the game’s party of seven heroes, each of whom embodies a different faction within the universe and will be a romance option. But where will… Read more... View the full article
Actor Dominic Monaghan wasn’t a big gamer growing up, but that all changed when he first played Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto III on PS2. The open-world ****** simulator basically blew his mind and revealed just how far games had come from Pac-Man. Read more... View the full article
The Guy Game is an infamous 2004 trivia game that featured actual women flashing their breasts in the style of ****** Gone Wild videos. It was banned from ***** in 2005 after the studio behind the game was sued for including footage of an underage girl. This weekend it showed up at a video game convention booth full of… Read more... View the full article
With the release of Final Fantasy XIV’s newest expansion, Dawntrail, many new players are sure to be interested in joining Square Enix’s long running MMORPG. But this curiosity may turn to confusion when trying to decide between the extremely generous, no-cost Free Trial and the paid Starter Edition, which will run… Read more... View the full article
Bungie has spent the past ten years exploring the depths of our solar system, but it seems like it’s finally gearing up to move on to something, or rather somewhere, else. At least that’s what it sounds like is going to happen in Destiny’s 11th year, which is tentatively titled Frontiers. Read more... View the full article
After a slow episode 4, The Acolyte turns the volume all the way up on lightsaber battles with an episode that is worth every minute of screen time and then some. Featuring perhaps the best lightsaber choreography in Star Wars history, here the action takes priority over plot and character development. Read more... View the full article
There’s a lot of pressure on Dawntrail, the newest expansion for Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV. As the first expansion after the game finished off a decades-long story with world-ending stakes in Endwalker, Dawntrail’s adventure in the tropical locale of Tural is a new start and also a… Read more... View the full article
It’s been over 6 years since Team Fortress 2 received a major update. But don’t worry, Valve hasn’t forgotten about its popular class-based FPS franchise. In fact, the Half-Life creators have approved a new TF2 DLC for Funko Fusion aka that Funko Pop-themed video game coming out later this year. Yay...? Read more... View the full article
After establishing a high bar in earlier episodes, The Acolyte’s fourth installment struggles to maintain the momentum, suffering from a mix of standard writing, camerawork, and performances. Unfortunately, it also exhibits a number of tropes that are causing the Hollywood machine distress industry wide. Read more... View the full article
In the tradition of many modern games, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance offers two different versions of the game to purchase: The base game, which costs $59.99 USD, contains the additional ****** subquest DLC packs that were made available for the original 2021 release of Shin Megami Tensei V and the Digital Deluxe… Read more... View the full article
Just because you can grab an audience with a name like Star Wars doesn’t mean you can keep their attention. With its third episode, The Acolyte introduces a theme so big and so important—religion—that if the show doesn’t take it seriously in the coming episodes, it may lose mine. Read more... View the full article
The Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword is a Colossal Sword that you can find in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. You’ll need to spend a decent amount of points on both Strength and Arcane to use this *******, but if your build benefits from what it brings to the table, you’ll likely find it worth the… Read more... View the full article
PlayStation Stars is one of Sony’s most bizarre initiatives in the PlayStation 5 era. The program lets you earn coins you can use to buy games on PSN, as well as collect virtual figurines that can only be viewed inside of the PlayStation app. And the whole thing has been broken since the beginning of June. Read more... View the full article
It’s July 1, folks. You know what that means? Pride Month is over and all the corporations who told us we were welcome to spend our money at their businesses are about to fold up their rainbow flags and forget about the gays and theys until next year. But ***** not, we have one buffer to cushion the fall as the country… Read more... View the full article
At last year’s Game Awards, ***** pulled a crazy move and announced not one, but half a dozen revivals of beloved series that have been dormant for a long time. Chief among them was a new Crazy Taxi game, and we’ve finally gotten the first details about it, namely that it’ll be a large scale multiplayer game in a vast… Read more... View the full article
It hasn’t taken long for players in Final Fantasy 14 to get attached to the new expansion Dawntrail’s most important NPC. Launching in Early Access on June 28, it takes us all to the new location of Tural, to help the adorable Hrotghar Wuk Lamat in her own adventure. While it still feels too early to read overall… Read more... View the full article
The Deadly Poison Perfume Bottle can only be obtained in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This ******* is an excellent choice for those going for a poison-focused build, but you may be locked out of getting this item if you move the DLC’s storyline too far before purchasing it from a specific NPC. Read more... View the full article
A few years on, it’s oddly hard to remember how difficult it was to get hold of the most recent generation of games consoles. On their release in November 2020, both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X were incredibly scarce, thanks to an imperfect storm of covid, global chip shortages, and supply chain issues. At the… Read more... View the full article
It was the chair heard around the world, or at least around CEO 2024. Alex ‘’Dyloch’’ Ruiz had just cemented his place in the Mortal Kombat 1 grand finals at the Florida-based fighting game tournament when he decided to get up, grab his chair, and casually fling it into the audience in what might be one of the least… Read more... View the full article
If you keep dying in Elden Ring’s new Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, we’ve got a tip that may help make you more resilient against the dangers of the Land of Shadow. We’ve also got a primer on how to explain the whole Dr Disrespect situation to the normal people in your life, explainers for Shin Megami Tensei V:… Read more... View the full article
Toys ‘R’ Us—or, more accurately, the brand’s reanimated corpse—made waves this week with the release of an AI-generated ad that inadvertently reveals so much about this era of widespread “enshittification.” Our piece on that, as well as a lament for the way expiring licenses are ******** Forza Horizon 4, a celebration… Read more... View the full article
This week’s top stories centered around Herschel “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, as Midnight Society, a gaming studio he co-founded, cut ties with him, YouTube cut off monetization on his channels, and he admitted that he had sent “inappropriate” messages to a minor, resulting in his ban from Twitch in 2020. Read on for our… Read more... View the full article
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With the passage of the summer solstice last month, we are firmly in the hottest season. And this July, we’ve got a generous collection of compelling titles worth checking out. From some intriguing indie titles to Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion and beyond, this month is packed with games that look well worth… Read more... View the full article