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The grapple hook is a legit game changer Yeeeeeeeeehooooooooooo! Yeah yeah, sure, Arc Raiders is getting some new guns, but the real star of my session was the grapple hook. Embark made an honest-to-god grapple hook: Not the kind that zips you straight to where you aim it (that already exists), but a simulated rope…
Last week, I said that I wasn’t entirely sure who would make it out of Critical Role’s next episode. Well, the next episode has happened, and let me tell you—I was absolutely, concretely right in that assumption. Spoilers for Critical Role episode 37, if you’ve not watched it yet. The episode opened with the attempted…
Friends, we are doing important work—the work of determining, through democracy and science (maybe), what RTS unit deserves to be held aloft and named the greatest RTS unit of all time. It’s a lot of responsibility. Last week, the war began. 16 units entered, 8 units survived. There were close battles. Dawn of War’s unstable…
We’re back on the hunt for PC gaming deals this fall Prime Day, and we’ve spotted a bunch of products with at least a 25% or greater discount. We’re curating all the best Prime Day PC gaming deals here There are some great products among those most heavily discounted, like the Omen 35L with a…
Legion Go S: was $849.99 now $730.75It may not be OLED but this handheld pairs a lovely bright screen with a comfortable design and strong battery life. And it’s not that far off its launch price, which is a surprise given the memory crisis. Key specs: AMD Ryzen Z2 Go | 8 inch 120 Hz…
A lot of the 3D games I consider touchstones of thoughtful player movement are a decade or more old: Mirror’s Edge, of course, Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, Doom Eternal or ARMA 3. That’s by no means a comprehensive list, but these are the games that come to mind when I think about in-game movement that…
The multiplayer tour mode in Galactic Racer lets you upgrade a speeder over the course of six races while other players manically shunt you into the wall on every track. It’s a best-of-both-worlds mode that adds a little of the campaign’s run-based progression to a multiplayer tournament. But since you only get one race on…
Final Fantasy music is presumably so profitable for Square Enix that there are always new ways to slice the pie, whether we’re talking piano covers, guitar versions, or expensive anniversary vinyl releases of its classic RPG soundtracks. Final Fantasy 10 is getting one of the latter next month to mark its 25th anniversary. And as…
What happened? Early access survival game Novus Inceptio got a major update this week It’s the game’s first update since 2018 The game entered early access in October 2015 (and is still in early access) The solo dev says “the energy and the will to finish the project are back” The map has gone from…
“Golden Tee ’99, hole seven, Aspen Lake: There’s a dead body about 180 yards out, a little bit to the right in the woods there,” says Keith of Keith’s Arcade, a YouTube channel not typically devoted to cold case homicides. But as they say in golf, you’ve got to play it as it lies, and…