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Tactical squad shooter Zero Hour has always prided itself in realism, reviving the intense fine-margins teamplay that was required in genre classics like SWAT and Rainbow Six. Of course it faces some fierce competition in the genre today, but over the three years since its release, Zero Hour maintains a committed player base and a…
Candela Obscura, a new system by Darrington Press (Critical Role’s publishing arm), is a game about being a group of paranormal investigators who pry into their city’s arcane and occult underbelly. “Candela Obscura stands on the shoulders of giants,” reads the core rulebook’s fifth page. Borrowing ideas in the TTRPG space isn’t new—if anything, it’s…
Grand Theft Auto 6 will be officially announced by the end of this week and a trailer will follow in December, according to a new Bloomberg report. The report cites “people familiar with [Rockstar’s] plans”. If it proves to be true—and the source is far from dubious—that means we’ll be getting the “official” GTA 6…
Keep your Wordle win streak heading in the right direction. Whether you’re looking for a quick clue to point your guesses towards today’s answer without giving the game away, or would love to have the November 8 (872) solution handed to you on a plate, you’ll find all the help you need below. I spent…
Is Nintendo finally starting to loosen up? It took the company 30 years to make another big Mario movie after the 1993 live-action flick got two thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert, but hey, it went just fine: Jack Black did a song and lots of money was made. Now Nintendo is really letting loose:…
Halo Infinite has been on a roll lately, with its latest season having the makings of an honest-to-god comeback. The game is now well stocked with fun maps and game modes, while its battle passes have evolved from terrible to tolerable. The player count has jumped significantly, and a flood of nostalgia-bait maps from Halo…
N7 Day was a bit of a letdown this year, as a multi-stage tease for the next Mass Effect game ended up delivering basically nothing except another reminder that yes, it is happening. But bigger things were happening elsewhere, as former employees of BioWare and contract workers on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf took advantage of the…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures The lasting appeal of survival games is simple to understand. Fighting to stay alive is hard-coded into our DNA, so it’s…
The Microsoft era of Blizzard has just begun, and it’s not clear yet how the studio will change under the reign of Xbox head Phil Spencer. Maybe it’ll mean more StarCraft, maybe not, but from the sounds of it we shouldn’t expect a radically different approach from Blizzard: It’s gonna keep running on the ol’…
The game industry has suffered yet another round of layoffs, as Ubisoft confirms that it has cut 124 employees worldwide as part of an ongoing restructuring effort. The bulk of that number, 98 in total, were let go from Ubisoft’s business administrative services and IT in Canada, as well as the Hybride VFX studio in…