The devs behind co-op horror game REPO have laid out a decision they’ve made after player feedback from their latest open beta update: they’re going to make the Overcharge mechanic that penalizes players grabbing onto monsters something that only kicks in after 10 levels of play. That’ll tie it into their escalating scheme of difficulty…
In an alternate 1988 where a supervolcanic eruption has devastated Earth’s surface, brave and desperate Terranaut expeditions carve out a path to a supposedly massive crude oil deposit vital to fueling the salvation of humanity’s remaining civilizations. To get that oil they’ll have to survive underground terrain, bizarre creatures of the deep earth, and each…
At its PAX East panel last week, Gearbox announced the third expansion for Risk of Rain 2. Alloyed Collective will bring new things to almost every element of the game, and the trailer shows off lots of action with survivors fighting the Solus, those weird orb-shaped robots that have been present throughout the game since…
Navigate with ease. One of the unique aspects of the Switch 2 is the fact the Joy-Con 2 can be used as mouse-like controllers to play games in a new way. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
If you missed out on the Dune: Awakening beta weekend running through May 12, you can still get a taste of spice and drama on Arrakis for a mere $1 with the Dune: Adventures TTRPG. This weekend, Fanatical is offering a huge discount on the Dune TTRPG game with the Imperium RPG bundle, which includes…
If you’ve ever found yourself stuck on the phone trying to cancel an unwanted subscription or end a “free trial,” you’re in luck because the FTC has a new rule to fix that. The only problem? They’re delaying actually enforcing it. The “Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Plans”, or more simply the “Negative…
I’ve always said that my favourite chapter in Half-Life is Office Complex. In a game all about recontextualising the FPS from abstract mazes into a realistic, coherent setting, to me Office Complex felt like the ultimate expression of that. It’s the most mundane part of Black Mesa’s clandestine research facility, swapping the hellscapes of Doom…
[Insert GameCube boot up sound here]. The Switch 2 isn’t just getting brand new games, but its online service will also be receiving a special update adding the GameCube library. While it’s set to start with only a handful of games, Nintendo has already teased some others. Still, we’re sure there are many other requests…
Thanks to the efforts of one glorious modder, there’s a whole new reason to play Dark Souls again. The Seamless co-op mod, released in April, lives up to its name just like it did for Elden Ring. No longer do you have to suffer FromSoftware’s bizarre multiplayer functionality—you can finally take an uninterrupted road trip…
All around me are familiar faces. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have…