The NPD December charts have arrived and it was the Nintendo Switch system which came out on top followed by Sony’s PlayStation 5 console. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been an incredible sales success for the Kyoto-based company in the United States and is the best-selling Nintendo game since Wii Fit Plus in 2010. Call…
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Broadband for all We tend to freak out as if the world is ending when our Internet service goes down. However, among homes that bring in less than $30,000 per year, more than a quarter — 26 percent — don’t have Internet access, compared to 3 percent of adults who make over $75,000. Google is…
In a recent interview with MrMattyPlays, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah talked about how player expectations for Dragon Age 2 as a full sequel to Dragon Age: Origins may have damaged the more experimental RPG’s reception at launch. “In terms of the project I was most proud of, in a lot of ways I would…
Marathon isn’t exactly fluent at explaining its many systems and mechanics. One such hurdle you’ll soon run into when completing some early quests is DCONs, which you’ll need to find and interact with before being formally introduced to them—often while racing the clock. Knowing the DCON locations ahead of time can save you a lot…
Co-op survival RPG Enshrouded had a killer run in October when it was the most played and wishlisted demo at Steam Next Fest. I was one of the people playing it, too: Keen Games’ voxel-based open world RPG ticks a lot of boxes with me, like exploration, building, crafting, hunting, farming, and even grappling hooks…
We are less than 100 days away from the launch of Ghost of Yōtei on PS5 on October 2! This week, we can’t wait to give you your best look yet at what to expect with a State of Play gameplay deep dive streaming on July 10. Play Video The Ghost of Yōtei State of…
Here’s some great news out of LG. The company has unveiled a new OLED panel that runs at a high refresh rate and uses an RGB Stripe subpixel layout. If you’re not familiar with subpixel layouts, here’s why that’s a very good thing. Today’s OLED gaming monitors have an issue. Not a huge one for…
On December 2, Italian game dev studio Santa Ragione will release Horses, a first-person horror adventure telling a story of “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility,” using what the studio calls “grotesque, subversive imagery” of a ranch where nude human beings in…
One of the interesting quirks of 2022’s Total War: Warhammer 3 is that it featured two major armies that never actually existed in the tabletop game Warhammer Fantasy. Both Kislev (angry, ice-themed Russia) and Grand Cathay (mystical ancient China) had long featured in the lore, but outside of a handful of models and a pamphlet…