Off the beaten path. Ahhh, there’s nothing like taking a detour in a video game. From sprawling open-world games to turn-based RPGs, sidequests are an almost essential part of the adventure. After all, can you really say you’ve saved the world or uncovered the secrets of your friends if you haven’t collected all of the…
World of Warcraft’s latest patch brought with it many returning activities and mechanics—and yet another type of currency to throw on top of the mountain of currencies it already contains. Virtually every game has some kind of gold or coins or points that you can exchange for goods or services. But none has quite so…
We got some hands-on time with Exoborne, the new extraction shooter from Sharkmob, in August 2024, and it looked potentially very promising, particularly for more casual players interested in an experience that isn’t built to punish them at every opportunity. In February, curious shooter fans will have an opportunity to try it for themselves in…
Popular gaming-adjacent streamers including Kai Cenat And Mark Phillips have been named in musician Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), which accuses the music publisher of spreading the “false and malicious” narrative he is a pedophile via the Kedrick Lamar track Not Like Us. The Lamar song is a diss track, an established…
In case you missed it: this past weekend saw social media platform TikTok banned completely in the US, then restored about 12 hours later thanks to the personal intervention of Donald Trump. Watching the whole series of events unfold on the app itself was chaotic, revelatory, and fascinating—and now it all feels like the morning…
There are a surprising number of RTS romps knocking about these days, but few of them have managed to leave a mark. Pessimism has overtaken me, but there are some exceptions. Tempest Rising—Slipgate Ironwork’s sci-fi throwback—is one of them. If you’ve ever dreamed of a reality where EA didn’t completely wreck Westwood’s Tiberium saga, this…
Grinding Gear Games says it’s sorry for the slow response times to Path of Exile 2 customer support requests, but it’s dealing with an absolute avalanche of them—roughly 545,000 email requests since the game launched in November, far more than it was prepared to deal with. “In the lead up to the launch of Path…
Over the weekend, Marvel Rivals put on one of the first tournaments that the new hero shooter has seen in conjunction with Twitch, and while it was certainly set out to be a big success, some of the streamers involved had some not-so-nice things to say about it. Marvel Rivals tier list: Best characters for…
If a “really talented developer” has a crack at it. There was once a time when Banjo-Kazooie was rightly considered to be a close rival to the Super Mario franchise when Rare launched two outstanding entries on N64 in the form of the self-titled debut and its sequel, Banjo-Tooie. That was a long time ago,…
Before there was Discord, there was TeamSpeak. I never partook in it myself, but I remember my college boyfriend being a die-hard TeamSpeak loyalist before reluctantly jumping ship to the newer, shinier, and crucially more user-friendly gamer platform. But TeamSpeak never went away, and it looks like 2025 may be the year of its triumphant…