It’s been a rough year for the games industry. An estimated 9,000 people have been laid off in the industry this year, affecting employees at companies like Embracer Group, Epic Games, Amazon Games, Ubisoft, Activision, Bungie, Frontier, Codemasters, BioWare, Paradox, and many more. We’ve also seen the shuttering of numerous studios, including Volition, Free Radical,…
Make me a superstar. Hello and welcome to our guide on Sonic Superstars, Sega’s latest entry in the long-running platforming franchise. Here, we’ll be running you through where to locate each Chaos Emerald and explain each Emerald Power. We also explain how to get coins the easy way, how to turn into Super Sonic, and…
World of Warcraft’s next expansion has sweeping changes that make all of its classes easier to pick up and play. Blizzard has repeatedly said it wants to make the game more approachable, but some players have speculated that it’s all being done so the MMO can be played on a console with a controller. The…
The Hidden One’s Challenge is one of the more complicated odd jobs that you’ll undertake for the Akame Network in Like a Dragon Gaiden. This one sees you challenging a small child to a long-winded game of hide ‘n seek, as you use his riddles to suss out his location in the winding streets of…
Think of all your weapons and superpowers in Rage 2 as ingredients in a zesty recipe. You’ve assembled all the fixings you need for a kickass cake (or pie, if you’re a pie person), and now it’s time to blend them together into some beautiful and devastating combos. These little combo cakes (or pies) will…
Four is better than two, right? Back in 1995, Cave – best known today for its bullet hell shmups – released a 3D racing game on the Sega Saturn entitled Touge King: The Spirits in Japan. It was released in North America the following year under the name High Velocity – Mountain Racing Challenge and…
Yum! Once upon a time, Sony wasn’t the video game behemoth it is today – it was simply an electronics giant which eyed the video game industry with interest. To that end, it launched its own game publishing label – CSG Imagesoft, later Sony Imagesoft – in the late ’80s and planned to release three…
The first Monster Train had great timing: It pulled into Steam a few months after Slay the Spire left early access, which was right when I was ready for a break from spire slaying, but was still in the mood for roguelike deckbuilding. And it was a lot of fun. Five years later, history might…
I’m an explorer at heart. Give me a big open world map and yes, I’ll harvest resources and craft gear and build a base—but what I really want to do is get out and see the world. I’m about 10 hours into survival MMO Dune: Awakening, I’ve got a snug little base, a couple flasks…