Smash Bros. Fans Think They Have Figured Out Where The Trail Of Dead...
Like any good murder mystery, people watch as investigators make connections they hadn't considered, but seem to make total sense as soon as our minds make the connection. Since Super Smash Bros....
View ArticleGrab Both Your Pistols, Tomb Raider Legend And Anniversary Are Now Backwards...
In their unceasing march towards total backwards compatibility, Microsoft announced today that both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversary are now playable on Xbox One. Tomb Raider: Legend and...
View ArticlePhantom Doctrine Launch Trailer Shows Gameplay Systems And Cold War Style
Phantom Doctrine, fittingly enough, really snuck up on us. The turn-based strategy game has complex stealth systems, base management, and a good helping of cold war flair. In a recent New Gameplay...
View ArticleI Played All Of Shrek In Beat Saber, And It Nearly Killed Me
Beat Saber, the Early Access VR rhythm game about slicing through colored blocks with lightsabers, has quickly grown a huge modding community that is making custom tracks for the game. Most of these...
View ArticleYakuza Was Brought To Microsoft And Nintendo Originally, Both Refused
When Yakuza was first released in Japan under the title of Ryu ga Gotoku in 2005, the gaming industry was a very different place. The PlayStation 2 was so far ahead in terms of install base that...
View ArticleInsurgency Is Free To Own On Steam
Insurgency, a shooter with roots as far back as the days of Half-Life 2 mods, is free for a limited time on Steam. If you download and play the game now, which costs you nothing, you own it forever.The...
View ArticleRumor: New Xbox Elite Controller Launches In October
Rumors have been circulating for a few months about Microsoft introducing a new version of the Xbox Elite Controller, their premium controller with swappable parts. Now, a tweet from The Verge senior...
View ArticleArkane Says Dishonored Series Is Taking A Break For Now
Arkane's Dishonored series is considered one of the stronger immersive sims released this generation by a lot of people, but it seems like last year's Death of the Outsider standalone expansion might...
View ArticleTHQ Nordic Acquires The Timesplitters And Second Sight Properties
THQ Nordic has announced that they have picked up the Timesplitters property and released trilogy, as well as the rights to Free Radical's Second Sight. This puts THQ Nordic in a position to not only...
View ArticleFive Big Changes Coming To NBA 2K19's MyTeam
Card collection modes are one of the most visited destinations across sports games, and it's no different for NBA 2K. The thrill of building a super team out of cards you either earn or purchase has...
View ArticleNew Study Determines Real-Life Value For Video Game Housing
Have you ever wondered how much a rupee is really worth, or whether your job in retail would ever allow you buy a house in Whiterun? Well wonder no longer, because a London mortgage broker crunched...
View ArticleGone Home Coming To Switch After Five Years
It has been half a decade since Gone Home came out, but that hasn't stopped Fullbright from releasing it one more time now that the Nintendo Switch is a port machine.Gone Home originally released to...
View ArticleReal Stop-Motion Gets Gamified in Vokabulantis
Although games that use a stop-motion art style have been attempted before, they're exceptionally rare. Every minuscule detail of animation has to be posed and captured in real life and then somehow...
View ArticleToronto Gets Its Own Overwatch League Team
According to a number of sources connected to ESPN, Activision Blizzard is finalizing a deal to sell a new slot in its professional Overwatch esports league. The new team is expected to sell for $35...
View ArticleBuilding Your Crew By Force In Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Our exclusive coverage of Assassin's Creed Odyssey continues with a look at one of the game's most intriguing new features: enemy recruitment. In a first for the franchise, nearly any foe in the game...
View ArticleIce-T Completes Destiny 2 The Solstice Of Heroes Grind
Rapper, actor, producer, and author Ice-T is now all decked out in Resplendent Solstice of Heroes gear, which means he wastes just as much time on Destiny 2 as the rest of us. Ice-T recently announced...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Why Gaming Rituals Are Important
Getting a job in games journalism was an interesting experience in that it meant that one of my biggest hobbies, timesinks, and forms of escapism had suddenly become a 9-to-5 job. I had worked as a...
View ArticleReport: Diablo III Is Hacking Its Way Over To The Nintendo Switch
Rumors of Diablo III coming to Nintendo Switch have been circulating since Blizzard tweeted a light switch connected to a Diablo nightlight that was being flicked up and down.Finally, it seems those...
View ArticleExploring The Art Behind The Super Nintendo's Music
Did you know that an average song on iTunes is about 100 times bigger than the audio capacity of a full SNES game? Nerdwriter1 put togehter this ode to the SNES's sound system, which is more impressive...
View ArticleNew Survival Sim Sends Resource-Gathering To The High Seas
The survival management subgenre generally isn't a cheery place. Recent sims like Frostpunk and This War of Mine drive that home, even with the most effective resource-gathering, some things are simply...
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