February 15, 2024

Elden Ring’s optional megaboss Malenia is one of those memetic videogame tests of skill now. Like the Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy 7 or the White Palace in Hollow Knight she represents the ultimate challenge in her game, and might just be the boss design high-water mark in FromSoftware’s notoriously boss-centric body of work. So…

Lothrik, a dataminer who previously made accurate build planners before Diablo 4 was out, has released a sheet of data that supposedly shows the likelihood you’ll find an Über Unique in the wild. Blizzard hasn’t confirmed whether the data is correct, but the numbers line up with D4 Craft’s datamined info from last year. Diablo…

To mark the fifth anniversary of the most excellent post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus, developer 4A Games announced today that it has now sold more than 10 million copies, and teased—very gently—the arrival of the next game in the series. Metro Exodus was a major departure from the first two games in the series, 2033 and…

The galactic campaign against the Terminids isn’t close to over, but Super Earth has bigger problems on its hands. As announced on social channels, Helldivers 2 is pressing pause on its bug war and pointing fleets of helldivers toward an emerging front. The Automatons, a faction of titanium death machines and Terminator wannabes, have launched…

I’ve been boating around Skull and Bones for about thirty hours now, but I probably could have achieved the same amount in twenty if I’d been smarter. Skull and Bones isn’t an especially challenging game but it demands a lot of time, and the grind can wear if you’re the kind of player who wants…

RBO looks like just the thing for a group of goofy Discord friends: a “physics-powered” heist game in which one player must protect their house and possessions while a group of unallied intruders attempt to rob it. Publisher tinyBuild officially announced RBO today, although public testing started at least a couple weeks ago judging by…

The first Activision Blizzard game to come to Game Pass will be Diablo 4, Microsoft announced today as part of its Xbox business update podcast. The action RPG will be available for anyone who is subscribed to the service starting on March 28. When Microsoft bought ZeniMax in 2021, it dropped 13 Bethesda games on…

Big news for followers of Lara Croft Unification Theory: Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has revealed a new piece of art for the character that may closely represent what she looks like in the series’ next game. This reveal has apparently been anticipated for years, as in 2021 Tomb Raider’s franchise director Will Kerslake said…