Warning: spoilers for Westworld Season 1! Attention PlayStation Vue subscribers! Westworld, one of my favorite HBO series, returns on April 22. That’s this Sunday! Before the character-driven drama and twisting mysteries continue, we wanted to refresh you on the happenings of the extraordinary first season. In the Loop We begin with the story of Dolores…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is excellent. Historically excellent, in fact, but it’s not without its flaws. The first of these, of course, is that Astarion was not voiced with Neil Newbon’s original Brummie accent, but the game’s awkward inventory system is a close-run second. I don’t know about you, but I probably spent at least a…
Over the last few years, Sony has been trying to get lift-off on its big live service plans, with ambitions to release 12 live service games by 2025. But after the twin bombs of Concord and Marathon (which,to be fair, is still in development) , it’s now been spending the last year or so going…
Microsoft’s Skype team stated on Thursday that Skype Translator has come out of beta and is now rolling out to the Skype for Windows desktop app. Skype Translator aims to break down the walls of communication starting with six voice languages – English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish – and 50 messaging languages. “Since…
Easily the biggest influence on how I’ve run tabletop RPG campaigns over the last few years has been the OSR movement. Short for Old School Renaissance (or Old School Revival, depending on who you ask), it’s a subgenre of games that look back on the origins of D&D and bring forward ideas that had become…
You know how it goes: sometimes you aim for Spyro and land on Boss Baby. At least, that’s how I assume Riot arrived at the initial design for Smolder, League of Legends’ newest champion. Announced last week, Smolder is an “audacious dragon cutie” whose design was intended to evoke a kind of mascot-ish, Pixar/Dreamworks-style cuteness…
Few careers in the last 15 years have evolved as drastically as game streaming. From grainy webcams as teenagers shrieked over jump-scares in indie horror games, to full-on studios with high-end recording equipment and meticulously curated backgrounds, streaming has become a competitive job that you need to invest a bit into if you’re to get…
Well, we’ve made it. Another year has gone by and it’s been as busy as ever, with constant changes in the world of PC hardware and software. So much has happened that it wouldn’t make sense to try and cover it all in a single article, but we don’t need to. That’s because it’s our…
There’s a starman. After being announced just over a week ago during the Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast, Capcom has shared an updated trailer and a few new details about the upcoming Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection. The trailer was shown during Capcom’s TGS 2025 Online Program and, as you’d expect from this compilation of…
Minecraft is cramming in one more game update before closing out the year, Mojang announced today. The next Minecraft update, called The Garden Awakens, is coming next Tuesday, December 3. The update’s main feature is the new Pale Garden biome where the creepy new “creaking” enemy lives among the spooky greyish trees. “Venture into the…