Put Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Hades and Risk of Rain in a blender and you get Helskate, plus a whole lot of jank

Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined with the roguelite progression and drip-feed of supernatural drama that Hades redefined the genre with, topped off with a dash of Risk of Rain’s escalating combat challenge and frantic character-building. It sounds too good to be…

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Split Fiction’s latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds ‘completely different’ from the main adventure

Hazelight Studios’ upcoming adventure Split Fiction does more than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative action of It Takes Two. A newly released trailer shows that the follow-up to Josef Fares’ wildly successful third-person platformer isn’t a strictly linear affair. According to Fares, who provides the trailer’s voiceover, players will be able to embark…

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DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse

DeTechtive 2112 feels like a gorgeous set of environments looking for a game, if my casual run through the first half of its story missions is any indication. Developed by Turkish indie outfit M11 Studio, it’s a stealthy isometric shooter about a depressed noir detective in a very snazzy jacket, solving crimes in post-WW3 England….

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I’ve navigated Marvel Rivals’ chaotic ranked play and dragged myself out of Plat hell, which means it’s time to start preparing to do it all over again next season

At the beginning of every season in Marvel Rivals, each player will get a rank reset and will be demoted around seven tiers (unless they’re already floating around the bottom), meaning they’ll all just get grouped in Bronze 3. This reset has meant that the first half of Season 1 has—what I can only imagine—felt…

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Nightdive’s remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors

Nightdive’s remaster of Doom + Doom 2 has given me hours of sweet demon-blasting joy since it launched in the middle of last year. I dropped in only yesterday to clarify a hazy memory of a particular level, and lost a good forty minutes to disemboweling imps with a shotgun in glorious 4K, Andrew Hushult’s…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, February 1

Let us help you win your weekend puzzles. Use our clue for the February 1 (1323) Wordle alongside our general tips to make Saturday’s game go smoothly, turning all those grey and yellow spaces into something nice and green. Or skip to today’s answer if you like—we’re just happy to help. Today’s Wordle was filled…

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Turns out the guy who hit a firefighting plane with a drone in LA was Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann

As firefighters struggled to contain the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in early January, someone wanted a bird’s eye view—and ended up hitting a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft with their remote-controlled drone. That person has now been identified as Peter Akemann, co-founder of Treyarch, the game developer best known as the every-other-year Call of…

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YouTube’s explanation for why Dr Disrespect can start making money on his channel again doesn’t add up

Seven months after demonetizing Dr Disrespect’s channel over his admission of inappropriate communications with a minor, YouTube has decided that Guy Beahm, better known as the streamer Dr Disrespect, has served his penance and can start monetizing his videos again. After multiple sources reported the change in direction, Beahm himself triumphantly announced the remonetization in…

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