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If you’ve been spending all your time over the holidays playing the early access release of Path of Exile 2, you may be eagerly awaiting some substantial patch notes. We’ve all got our own gripes with the game, which despite an excellent skeleton still needs a lot of work. Thankfully, after weeks of radio silence…
The finale of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided wasn’t much-loved by fans, which was surprising because you’d think Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have lowered expectations. But it’s like the classic bad restaurant joke, where the food’s terrible and what’s worse, the portions are small. Mankind Divided’s climax wasn’t just an underwhelming battle against a guy…
There may be no better use case for the reaction guys than the 2015 E3 announcement of Final Fantasy 7 Remake—screams, meltdowns, tears of joy—and the 2021 release of the stuttery PC version of that same game: screams, meltdowns, tears of bitter disappointment. It was a shamefully barebones release of what should have been a…
Yakuza in Hawaii launches next month, and I for one am excited to punch up “suspicious men” on the streets of Hawaii as Goro Majima. Today Sega and Ryu Gotoku Studio published a 15-minute presentation outlining everything from on-foot combat through to naval scraps, while confirming that new game plus will feature at launch (and…
When Remedy announces a new game, I expect three things: A protagonist wearing street clothes, third-person shooting, and a pistol. FBC: Firebreak, a first-person co-op Control spinoff, has none of that, and that’s incredibly exciting. We haven’t heard much about Firebreak other than its 2025 release window, but in a recent interview with GamesRadar, Remedy…
Hear me out. Let’s say instead of violent nerd Gordon Freeman wasting alien invaders in City 17, Half-Life 2 was actually about a gritty hardboiled detective fighting corruption in prohibition-era Chicago. That’s the concept behind The Burton Equation, a Half-Life 2 mod you may have missed because it came out on Steam between Christmas and…
As we’ve reported previously, despite holding executive roles in multiple major corporations and undertaking the busy work of burrowing himself in incoming political regimes, Elon Musk manages to find time to boast some impressive gaming laurels, claiming to hold high placements in Diablo 4 leaderboards and Path of Exile 2 hardcore league rankings. This week,…
Alan Emrich, a designer and writer of board games and videogames credited with coming up with the term “4X” to describe sprawling, empire-building strategy games, has died. Emrich’s death was reported by friends in a forum post on the wargaming community website ConsimWorld. Emrich was a notable figure in the world of boardgaming: His bio…
There are a couple distinct vibes in the demo for Locator, a mystery puzzle game from developer Empty Exhibit. It’s got some DNA from Geoguessr, as you look at photos taken at ground level and try to suss out the locations they correspond to on a top-down zoomable map. It also gave me a big…
Every time an Old School RuneScape story crops up, there’s a period of acclimatisation where I struggle to work out exactly what the players are doing and why. I’m not unfamiliar with the game, having played it way back in the day, but RuneScape at the extremes can be a pretty wild place, a world…