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What year is it? The ninja behind early 2000s internet video series Ask a Ninja clearly anticipated the reflexive reaction to his first new video in nine years, leading off with an instant parry. “What year isn’t it?” he says within the first three seconds. “If you’re still believing in time, my friend, I don’t…
Quick story about the most nightmarish death I’ve ever experienced in a videogame: I was playing Barotrauma, the submarine survival simulator where you explore oceans on alien worlds. I’d left the sub and was swimming around in the inky black waters to investigate some sunken ruins, when I noticed I was out of air. Frantically,…
I love being a sneaky, thiefy guy in an RPG, but Rogues have always been in a really weird spot in Baldur’s Gate 3. Thief and Assassin are two of the strongest three or four-level multiclass components in the game, but there’s basically been no reason to stick with them beyond that. Thief’s extra bonus…
I was a little surprised when Sloclap, the maker of fighting games Absolver and Sifu, announced in 2024 that its next project was a multiplayer soccer game called Rematch. It’s not what I’d call an obvious fit, but it does look to be shaping up to be a very good game, and this weekend you’ll…
Rivals Hover League is a new vehicular combat game where you laugh in the face of gravity and compete to become the galaxy’s top pilot. If you like Rocket League but occasionally think your opponents could use a rocket up their exhaust pipe, this is the fast-paced new contender for you. Rivals Hover League (RHL)…
There’s something about taking long-running MMOs back to their roots that fans really seem to like. Old School Runescape, a version of the venerable Jagex MMO that recreates the game as it was in 2007, is enduringly popular, and when Blizzard announced World of Warcraft Classic in 2018, that was a big deal. Now MapleStory…
The marquee additions in Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 are probably photo mode, the Hexblade subclass, and the Booming Blade cantrip, but there’s also a new sicko combo that’s taken the BG3 Builds subreddit by storm: Shadow Blade plus Resonance Stone. Neither of these are fully new, but Patch 8 did a complete revamp on…
When Path of Exile 2 first hit early access last December, its endgame was a bit… sparse. Despite delaying development on acts 4-6 to ship the game with more systems in place, the Atlas of Worlds felt like navigating an endless sea of stuff I didn’t really want to do in order to get to…
We had a tough call last year awarding our GOTY for best survival game—it ultimately went to single-player driving survival game Pacific Drive, but only by a razor thin margin because of these two words: Abiotic Factor. Abiotic Factor is basically what would happen if all those unfortunate science nerds Gordon Freeman left behind in…
Some Discord users are now being asked to scan their faces or IDs to verify their age group when they attempt to view sensitive content. While some might call this a chilling advancement of the global surveillance apparatus, Discord says these new “features” are “an experiment” that only applies to users in the United Kingdom…