Summary In this post, we explore a day in the life of Luisa, what challenges she might face on her adventures and who she could meet. We show what a typical day of adventuring holds for Luisa and some of the challenges she might face. We also explain how the social side of the game works and…
Summary Teyon has worked tremendously to stay true to the source material and offer the best RoboCop game possible.RoboCop: Rogue City let players impersonate the famous hero and experience his complex identity.RoboCop: Rogue City will launch November 2, 2023, for Xbox Series X|S and is now available for pre-order on the Xbox Store. Behind every…
Still Wakes the Deep doesn’t feel like how we expect games to feel. Fresh from seeing brand new gameplay during the Xbox Partner Preview show, this game is somehow simultaneously a panicky horror experience, a ‘70s period piece, a deeply British, deeply personal character study, and perhaps even an oil rig explorer. It’s increasingly rare…
Summary Xbox Partner Preview featured the first exclusive look at new island activity, Dondoko Island.We talk with RGG Studio Chief Producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto to get some new info on Ichiban Kasuga’s upcoming adventure, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth launches January 26, 2024, for Xbox Series X|S and Windows. Like a Dragon:…
For Return to Moria, a new Lord of the Rings survival game all about dwarves, a strong beard selection was a must. Indeed, the deep-mountain mining adventure includes 16 beard options in its character creator. Some are commonplace, others are fantastical. Over a decade in games media has given me an insatiable urge to rank…
Bethesda’s games are complicated beasts, filled with all sorts of cheese wheels and sweetrolls and duct tape for you to pick up and do physics crimes with. It’s not a surprise, then, that the games have their fair share of bugs that evade the notice of Bethesda’s official patches. That’s why we have community patches—Morrowind’s…
A few days before the launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive issued a warning about the game’s performance—specifically, that it might be a little less than ideal, especially on lower-end hardware. Sure enough, this was our experience: “random fps dips, slowdowns and hitches, and sometimes complete freezes that lasted a few seconds,” along with…
In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing…
A legend returns. For Nintendo fans, the Metal Gear franchise has long been just out of reach, with Konami dangling the metaphorical carrot with one-off releases such as Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on GameCube, Ghost Babel on Game Boy Color, and Snake Eater 3D on the 3DS. After decades of neglect, however, Switch…
You really have to feel for AMD’s graphics engineers. Every time it looks like they’re catching up with Nvidia—boom!—Team Green rolls out some new technowizardry and it’s back to playing catch up. And if market analysis and Steam survey data is anything to go by, what effort AMD does put in is for nought. Nvidia…