have huge ramifications. There aren’t many games where the addition of volumetric smoke grenades would be a headline feature. But in CS2’s hyper tense battles, true 3D smoke cover has game changing consequences. Now, with the advent of Season 5, Valve has made another tiny-yet-huge change. Put simply, it’s changed how the bomb works, giving…
NSO newbie. We are back with another edition of Box Art Brawl! We celebrated the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove last week by matching up the three regional covers for its Fever Wii predecessor, and it wasn’t even close. The North American design walked away with a staggering win, taking 72% of the vote and…
And Brysko, a Sentient Warframe. The free-to-play co-op third-person looter shooter Warframe, which made its debut on the Switch 2 in March, held its 11th TennoCon Celebration this week, sharing multiple announcements. Developer Digital Extremes unveiled the next major narrative chapter ‘Warframe: Tau‘, a new Warframe, Brysko, Warframe’s first card mini-game, new enemy faction &…
With a release date of 2015, Life Is Strange is another one of those games that’s kind of pushing it in terms of the “retro” designation, although if you’ve ever seen the game in action, graphics aren’t the strong suit and Life Is Strange certainly looks like it could come from an earlier era….
It’s already sold over four million copies. The social sim Pokémon Pokopia has been a surprise hit for the Switch 2, but it apparently wasn’t forecast by Koei Tecmo to be as successful as it’s been in terms of sales. Company president and CEO Hisashi Koinuma recently spoke to Famitsu about the game, claiming “there…
After Traffic and Breaking Bad used it for scenes set there it became know as “the Mexican filter”, though it’s sometimes used for scenes set in South Asia or anywhere a bit tropical. You may recognize it as “the piss filter” that stained the original incarnation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s the yellow gradient…
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced “the most significant restructure in Xbox history”, which is what you call it when you lay off thousands of people and cut four game studios loose. Double Fine and Compulsion Games returned to their indie roots; Ninja Theory and Undead Labs were sold off. While it seemed at first like…
A pirate’s life for Rayman. Edward Kenway this week returned in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and alongside this release, Ubisoft has confirmed this character skin will also be revived in the upcoming release Rayman Legends Retold. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Xi Rao is a research assistant and PhD student in Technology and Humanities at Illinois Tech. She is interested in social media analysis, information design, as well as fan study. She studies and curates Twitter discussions on games such as #1ReasonWhy and #1ReasonToBe Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private, Ph.D.-granting…
I’ve developed a bit of a reputation among my coworkers for loving niche, lo-fi indie games that make you feel bad and gross and weird on the inside. I’m flattered to stand out in such a way, but I also don’t ever want to be typecast. Anyway, Brno Transit is a game about being trapped…