Despite StarRupture‘s admittedly thorough base-building tutorial, you’re oddly not introduced to blueprints—collectable crafting recipes hidden around the planet. Given that these restricted items periodically block progress, it’s certainly an odd oversight. You’re in luck, though; the Stabilizer blueprint location isn’t all that far away. Just like the Rotor and Tube blueprints to the northwest and…
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined just got a demo—a generous one at that, spanning about three whole hours of the game and letting you carry your save over to your primary save. But Square Enix giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other, because if you happen to get the game early—say, via its…
The second part of the Rune Worth trilogy is available on Switch today. Despite running into a few issues of its own making last year, the Japanese company D4 Enterprise is seeking to continue its run of reissuing old games for classic Japanese computers on the Nintendo Switch in 2026. Over on its website, it…
If there’s one great thing about this year’s CES, it’s that it’s been a nice distraction from all the memory crisis-induced hardware pricing doom and gloom. Admittedly, it’s given us its own share of mild gloom with its own expensive products and relentless focus on AI, but that’s by-the-by. Now the main excitement is out…
“I hate when people get tricked into doing stupid stuff like this”. Video games, like any physical item, can become very valuable on the secondary market. Many retro games are now worth thousands of dollars, and this increased value predictably leads people to treasure and hoard them in the same way comic book collectors do…
With the 2025 cycle of drops out of the way, Minecraft has already revealed a feature of its next update—and let me tell you, it’s simply adorable. In fact, it’s probably going to stop me from creating tiny little animal farms as a food source as a whole, which is a pretty dramatic statement given…
Arc Raiders was one of last year’s nicest surprises, a chilled PvEvP extraction shooter that’s constantly surprising, challenging, and… well, OK, it’s got one problem for me. It’s on the crafting and upgrades side. I hate inventory management and Arc Raiders is particularly bad at it: You’re constantly bottlenecked on upgrades by a shortage of…
When I’m playing Arc Raiders, one of the things I’m most struck by is just how cinematic it is. I’m creeping through sand-swept streets at night as gunshots ring out in the distance and flares start flying, then all of a sudden a Rocketeer starts hounding me in and out of houses, and I narrowly…
If you ask a gamer to name some popular shooter titles, they will tell you games like Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Grand Theft Auto and Goldeneye. Before all of these hit the shelves, Nintendo had a vision of providing a shooter game with the new Nintendo Entertainment System launch in 1985. One of the…
I’m a fan of extraction shooters, sure, but I’ve never liked one as much as Arc Raiders. Now, Embark Studios has made the notoriously difficult sub-genre slightly easier with more forgiving death penalties, plentiful loot, and nicer lobbies, but the standout feature for me is undoubtedly the social element. I’ve encountered bloodthirsty raiders who’d fit…