The best players of Deadlock have jumped the turnstile and started organizing their own competitive scene, and I think you should join me in my jealousy of their improvised format. It’s been just over a month since Valve added a ranked mode—and just a few days since ranked became the only mode in Deadlock. The…
It’s that time again. Steam Sale time. The 2024 Steam Autumn Sale is live and there are loads of heavily discounted games to browse through, including some of our favorites from this year—Palworld is on the list and so is Helldivers 2. Meanwhile, some of our older favorites are discounted to within an inch of…
Cyberpunk 2077 is often held up as the greatest redemption arc in videogame history, but I think No Man’s Sky has a legitimate claim on the crown too. More than eight years after it landed with an ugly thud on Steam—a “supernova of negative backlash and disappointment,” as we put it at the time—Hello Games’…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? The latest in virtual aviation that includes the highest-fidelity recreation of our planet in any videogame to dateExpect to pay: $70/£70Developer: Asobo StudioPublisher: Xbox Game StudiosReviewed on: Ryzen 7 3700X, GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 32 GB RAM, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro JoystickSteam Deck: UnsupportedMultiplayer? LeaderboardsLink: Official site Presenting the…
X owner Elon Musk has taken a brief break from posting racism, transphobia, and conspiracy theory nonsense to say that gaming has become too “woke” because the industry is dominated by massive corporations, and so he is going to use his own massive corporation to start a new game studio powered by AI “to make…
Last week, we all learned that Grammy-nominated songwriter Post Malone’s favorite FPS is Hunt: Showdown 1896, telling Crytek in an interview that he’s logged 400 hours in the extraction shooter since he discovered the game this year. Now we know what Malone and Crytek’s new friendship was building to: a new season of Hunt called…
Minecraft is cramming in one more game update before closing out the year, Mojang announced today. The next Minecraft update, called The Garden Awakens, is coming next Tuesday, December 3. The update’s main feature is the new Pale Garden biome where the creepy new “creaking” enemy lives among the spooky greyish trees. “Venture into the…
RIKI 8Bit GAME Collection Arrives on Nintendo® Switch™ This December! Take a Blast from The Past with a Collection of Five Retro Inspired Games and Music Albums by Legendary Manga Artist RIKI! Karlstad, Sweden – Clear River Games, a video game publisher specialising in classic and retro games, in conjunction with Japanese publisher City Connection, announced today that RIKI 8Bit GAME…
Introduction Gaming has always been a way to show off skill and dedication, different games have different ways to test a player’s limits and speedrunning has always been the ultimate test of gaming skills. It started with platformers like: Super Mario 64, Sonic series or Adventure games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time….
I spent all of Diablo 4’s second season melting through monsters as a sorceress standing inside rotating orbs of lightning. Instead of casting spells at a safe distance, Ball Lightning sorcerers brought the magic with them. All it took was a little setup time to get the orbs flowing and then you could carve through…