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Since the series’ 30th anniversary celebrations last year, Bandai Namco has been doling out remasters of the Tales Of games at a steady clip. Last year Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xillia both got the remaster treatment, and in February we got Tales of Berseria. The first two were welcome: both were PlayStation…
In 2018 Hideo Kojima visited Valve headquarters to talk about Death Stranding. Based on emails now public thanks to the ongoing Musk v. Altman lawsuit, Kojima and Gabe Newell seem to have hit it off, if they weren’t already buddy-buddy: after the meeting Newell promised to introduce Kojima to people at the then still-not-well-known OpenAI,…
Neverness to Everness isn’t the type of gacha where you need to keep up with the meta to clear its mid and endgame challenges, but playing with the best characters and teams still makes combat a heck of a lot easier. With so many characters with unique roles, Esper types, and annoying new gacha terminology…
The NFL has an extremely ugly history with concussions. I won’t rehash it all here, but in broad strokes, the American football organization spent years denying a link between head injuries sustained by players and the devastating long-term effects, was eventually sued by more than 4,500 players for negligence and fraudulent concealment, and settled the…
We didn’t care too much for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers when it released last year, but it was nonetheless a notable entry in what you might call the New Wave of Chinese Videogames: A game set in China, developed by a Chinese studio, that attracted global attention. It’s a bit ironic, then—and more than a bit…
Is there a word that tech companies relish more than democratize? It sounds so good, doesn’t it. Slam dunk marketing copy: Everybody loves democracy! (Billionaires, avert your eyes and whistle innocently). In our mind-numbing AI era the word is doing more heavy lifting than ever, serving as the go-to phrase to suggest that any creative…
Out of all the new things added to Diablo 4 with its new Lord of Hatred expansion, Echoing Hatred might be the most mysterious. It’s not a dungeon, nor is it a boss fight: It’s a fight to the death against relentless waves of monsters. But the only way to play it is by finding…
It’s the day after the release of S&box, the successor to the legendary sandbox game Garry’s Mod: Reviews are mixed, complaints are plentiful, player numbers are a fraction of Garry’s Mod, and Facepunch Studios says in a post-release update that everything is going “pretty much exactly as expected.” “The backend went down once or twice….
The Sims 4’s big ghost overhaul expansion turned the afterlife into an entire occult sim experience with new ghost abilities and a Soul’s Journey quest to dog your sim past the grave. This full list of Life & Death cheats can help you max out your Thanatology skills, cheat to the top of the new…
Payday studio Starbreeze has announced a new partnership with Gamefam, “the leading immersive gaming and media company for Gen Z and Alpha communities,” to develop an all-new Payday game within the realm of Roblox. The as-yet untitled game, which will “offer players a distinct new entry point into the Payday universe,” is set to debut…