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Nearly a week after a major hack forced it offline, the notorious imageboard 4chan remains inaccessible, and there’s a growing feeling that it’s going to stay that way—and that maybe it’s not so bad. Founded in 2003, 4chan is—or was—something of a waypoint for a particular part of online subculture: Basic, unrefined, unmoderated, and almost…
We know a lot more about Bungie’s Marathon reboot now than we did a week ago. We learned that it’s a hero-based extraction shooter with abilities, economy, and a handful of maps in the vein of Escape From Tarkov. We know it’s got weapon mods that should tickle the brains of Destiny buildcrafters, and Bungie…
Overwatch 2 Stadium is one of the biggest shakeups for the game since the sequel launched in 2023. Hero perks in standard Quickplay and Competitive let you tweak hero abilities through a handful of upgrade choices. Stadium, a new mode separate from standard play, lets you completely change how abilities function and even adds new…
We’re in a golden age of ARPGs if you haven’t been paying attention, but that doesn’t make them any easier to balance. Since its launch, Diablo 4 has been criticized for its awfully gentle take on the Burning Hells; and though smacking loot pinatas until they stop moving doesn’t have to be all that hard…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Sometimes I buy obscure old games for what I like to imagine are grand, noble reasons. A niche developer makes an unusual puzzley twist on the RPG,…
Even in early access, RuneScape: Dragonwilds has a pretty large map so it can take a while to choose the best base location in Dragonwilds. As in all survival crafting games, living close to the resources you’re collecting most is a big consideration—water and food in particular for Dragonwilds. Death is common in Dragonwilds—not only…
In a new vlog on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG designer and Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain shared one of those great “told you so” anecdotes of gaming history: Interplay’s marketing department apparently hounded Cain to rebuild Fallout to be more like Diablo, rather than the turn-based RPG we got. A viewer asked Cain what…
Some Steam sales are wide open things: Any game can take part in one of the big four seasonal sales, for instance, as long as they’re on sale during the relevant season. There are also more specific sales, like the third-person shooter fest, or the political sim fest. Few, though, are as narrowly defined as…
Naming things is hard. Ask anyone in a creative line of work, and they’ll tell you as much. And according to the developers of Diablo 4, it’s particularly challenging to come up with new, morbid names for devilish challenges when the series you’re working on has been burning through death metal-adjacent material for almost 30…
What’s better than a heaping serving of premium crab? A second round, entirely free. Aggro Crab’s seafloor Sekiro-like Another Crab’s Treasure was a pleasure to play when it rolled out last year, with our deep-diver Abbie Stone giving it a very positive 80% review last April. It might be worth mentally adding a few points…