One week after the early access launch of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian is releasing its first major patch–but more importantly, has shared some anecdotes on the choices players are making in the game. Notably, the studio has shared a player death heatmap to see where players have been dying the most. The map, below, shows which areas are […]
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EA normally releases new NHL games during the Stanley Cup playoffs when the sporting world is focused on hockey, but complications due to COVID-19 led to a delay for NHL 21. The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup weeks ago, and as a result, ice hockey has escaped the wider public sports consciousness as other […]
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Crusader Kings 3 is an intricate story-telling device weaving countless threads as long as you have the will to keep it spinning. here was a naked man in my court. On June 14, 1073 AD, my steward, vassal and knight, Earl Muiredach mac Carthach of Desmond arrived at the meeting of my small council dressed […]
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Pendragon is a fascinating but flawed experiment in procedural narrative. Legends are slippery things. One tells of Arthur, the once and future King of Britain who united the realm against the Saxon invaders. Where historical fact is elusive, literary fancy has imagined Arthur’s idyllic court of Camelot, its chambers populated with knights, wizards, and witches, […]
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Technical issues and tired tropes aside, Serious Sam 4 is a largely successful synthesis of the series’ disparate identities. In Serious Sam 4, the long-running FPS series may have finally found a workable identity. Through each entry, developer Croteam has held onto the core gameplay loop that defined Sam’s initial jaunt across Egypt. You will always […]
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It looks like one Kingdom Hearts game is all the Switch is going to get. Franchise spinoff Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory will be launching on consoles this November–including Nintendo Switch. While the rhythm-action game will be the first time a Kingdom Hearts title has been available on the Switch, it will also most likely be the […]
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PlayStation 5 pre-orders are going to be extremely limited, so if you’re in the market for a PS5 this holiday season, you’ll want to register quickly. Although the PlayStation 5 is launching this year, we’re still missing some key info about the console. Sony has revealed the console’s look, the DualSense controller, and some upcoming PS5 games, but the […]
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Here are the biggest games and trailers from the Gamescom livestream, including Ratchet & Clank, Fall Guys Season 2, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, and more. Gamescom 2020 may not be taking place as a physical event as usual, but it has been replaced with an online event that is still packed full of new game information, […]
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If you still have Fortnite installed on iOS and Android, can you still play it? What if you’ve never had it installed? Here are your options for playing Fortnite on mobile. Fortnite has been removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play it on mobile devices at all. If […]
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Fortnite has been banned from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. Lawsuits are involved. #FreeFortnite is trending. What exactly happened? Epic Games and Apple are feuding over a move the Fortnite developer made without Apple’s approval, which resulted in the removal of Fortnite from the App Store. If you’ve seen #FreeFortnite trending on social media or caught that Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite […]
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Fall Guys’ charming presentation and approachable mechanics make it the most welcoming battle royale yet, with just a few blemishes keeping it from greatness. Battle royales have only been around for a handful of years, and for the most part they’ve strictly stuck within the same genre of games. Whether you’re playing Warzone, Fortnite, or […]
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I love two types of sci-fi stories: the ones that are very dark and heavy with themes about humanity’s failures, and the ones that are corny and feel like the product of someone who thinks space is a playground for fun. Destroy All Humans is firmly in the second category, embracing its cheesy story and dialogue, creating […]
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In the 26 years since Revolution Software released Beneath A Steel Sky, the adventure game has come full circle. After the genre struggled to adapt into 3D and was briefly declared dead by pundits, the genre’s resurgence occurred on two main fronts–the simplified, story-driven 3D games of Telltale, which focused on choice and consequence over puzzles, […]
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If a youthful obsession with Japanese samurai cinema and an audiobook version of Musashi have taught me anything, it’s that if you want to be a great swordfighter, having a connection to nature is important. Skill with a weapon isn’t purely driven by physical strength and technique, but also by the acuity that comes from observing trees, […]
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The first thing you should know about Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 is that it features a playable corgi named Hachi who pilots an enchanted mecha-tank. The second thing you should know is that the classic Castlevania homage is in every way a marked improvement over the first Curse of the Moon. In fact, silly and […]
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