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Earth. It’s a great place to live, as far as you know. You’ve never been there, but all you have to do is earn a quick 600 million bucks and you’ll be guaranteed your own little residence on that big blue marble. That’s gonna take a while because it turns out space-capitalism is even harsher…
Each of Magic’s crossover sets has adapted its source material to the rules of Magic: The Gathering in a different way. One of the ways the Final Fantasy set will do that is with double-faced cards that represent bosses and other characters becoming their final form. Cecil, Dark Knight becomes Cecil, Redeemed Paladin, for instance,…
It’s been a day of reveals for Marvel Rivals: Two new heroes, battle pass changes, baffling layoffs for US-based developers, and a tease for what players assume will be a future hero. Couched at the end of a trailer for Rivals’ new Central Park map is a four-second shot of a snarling Blade. Why is…
It’s a weird facet of Hollywood that movies are often given release dates before other important milestones have been reached, like the movies being finished, or the movies being named, or sometimes the movies having even been written. I get it—big studios want to lock down that release date real estate before someone else grabs…
There are underperforming heroes in Marvel Rivals, and then there’s Black Widow. According to NetEase’s official Hero Hot List updated for Marvel Rivals season 1, the scoped sniper is the least popular pick by a long shot and the worst hero for actually winning games. There’s no positive way for Black Widow mains to spin…
It took almost 20 years, but Team Fortress 2, the team-based FPS that changed a great many lives when it debuted in 2007, now has an SDK that Valve says will enable creators “to build completely new games based on TF2.” The Team Fortress 2 SDK is actually a “massive update” to the Source SDK…
Earth vs Mars is a new RTS in development at Relic, but unlike the studio’s big Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, this one is a “smaller indie-style” game being made under its Relic Labs label, which aims to “explore new sub-genres, experiment, get our creative juices going, and release games more frequently.”…
Avowed‘s character creator lets you lie to yourself. If you so choose, you can hide your protagonist’s chosen one magical mushroom man features, letting you embody that oh so rare fantasy of being a hot elf with weirdly dead eyes in a fantasy RPG, mushroom-free. This is no way to live, and I’m tired of…
Marvel Rivals is a big hit—the first real challenger to the long-time hero shooter big dog Overwatch. Yet amidst that success, with more than 200,000 people playing on Steam alone right now, game director Thaddeus Sasser says he and the rest of the Marvel Rivals development team in the US have been laid off. “This…
There’s a sweet spot between Dark Forces/Marathon Infinity “what the hell am I supposed to do next” level design and handholdy objective tracking that might as well just play the game for you. Avowed doesn’t nail that sweet spot out of the box, but thanks to a robust settings and accessibility menu, it can be…