You died. Strangely. Now plz rate the experience. Game over screens — as a professional gamer, you understand — aren’t something that I personally have a lot of firsthand experience with. Not through a lack of in-game skill, that’s for sure. However, as I’m also a highly learned and incredibly hirsute scholar of the interactive…
Five unions representing Ubisoft employees in France have called for a “massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees” in response to the company’s recently-announced restructuring and return to office mandate. Ubisoft announced the overhaul of its studio structure last week, a process that includes the cancellation of six games in development (including the repeatedly-delayed Prince…
I’ll confess that when Capcom announced its multi-patch performance improvement plan for Monster Hunter Wilds, I was skeptical about just how much it would accomplish—especially when the first of the regimen’s updates delivered the same mixed results as Capcom’s previous attempts to address Wilds’ technical woes. The early details for this month’s PC-specific follow-up patch,…
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is a good game. I said it and I stand by it. Its biggest problem, as PC Gamer’s Toreador-in-the-streets, Venture-in-the-sheets Joshua Wolens so accurately put it, is the title: Calling it Bloodlines 2, rather than anything else that would safely distance it from the legendary original, was a massive self-inflicted…
I couldn’t have a higher opinion of the Fatal Frame games, but I wouldn’t say I have a tremendous amount of fun playing them. I enjoy and endure, I suppose, while occasionally yelping like a puppy and noping out of entering a particularly creepy room or opening a creaky door. These games can be as…
I’ve never felt more kinship with a silent protagonist than in Code Vein 2. Just like being stuck with someone rambling all about the Definitely Interesting details of their job, there my little make-a-me was in the early hours of the game, listening to a giant goth mom monologue a string of proper nouns—something like…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. While the internet reckons with another premature hate campaign against a hero shooter that’s just…
The software developer ran-j, also known as Ranieri, has been making rapid progress on their new project to recompile Playstation 2 games. The project, which not so recently ago may have seemed fanciful, has taken on exciting connotations for retro gaming hobbyists due to the recent spate of other high-quality recompilations. Last year saw…
For anyone who used to own a Nintendo Wii, it might be discomforting to think of it as a genuine retro console nowadays, as it probably only feels like yesterday that you were joyfully swinging around its Wiimote, but it’s actually been almost sixteen years since it launched. When it was released in November 2006,…
Digital Eclipse yet to confirm. One of the strangest omissions from the Switch’s library in our eyes is the Disney Afternoon Collection, which launched on every platform but Nintendo’s console in 2017. But after an ESRB rating was spotted recently, a listing has now appeared on the Japanese eShop for both Switch 1 and Switch…