I did not mean to kill Xanthe in The Blood of Dawnwalker. At least, not yet. As a fledging Level 11 or 12 vampire trying to explore Svartrau Cathedral at night, stumbling right into the withered palms of the game’s highest-difficulty boss fight seemed like suicide. Yet it turned out to be the smartest move […]
2019Games Done Quick, the charitable speedrunning event that’s raised $62M for charity, broke new ground this year by hosting a live event at Gamescom 2026. Players from all over assemble to race through titles at breakneck speed, cheered on by an audience in the Koelnmesse for the first time. I’m lucky enough to be in […]
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BlizzCon 2026 is due to go live on September 12, 2026. The event returns after two years of inactivity, with Blizzard Entertainment back and ready to reveal what’s going on in the worlds of Diablo, Overwatch, StarCraft, and Warcraft. BlizzCon 2026 is going to be an opportunity to receive big reveals, hear from the creators, […]
2019There’s something deeply satisfying about switching off your brain and stomping across the battlefield with a Sons of Behemat army. OK, yes, there are still strategies to draw up unless you want to get swiftly overwhelmed by those smaller, punier factions. But this is an army all about stomping everything into submission, Godzilla style – […]
2019Saber Interactive had a breakout hit in the form of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and you can attribute at least part of its success to the fact that it was not made in North America. The company’s chief creative officer, Tim Willits, says it’s been dramatically scaling down its operations in the region. In […]
2019
Take a deep breath, because Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil came to Steam on September 9, some 24 years after its original Japanese release. In the days since, it’s amassed an impressive 2,958 user reviews sitting at 98% positive, making New Classic (as I’m calling it) one of the highest-rated […]
2019Every day, another generative AI provider discovers that pretending something you stole was always yours to begin with is an idea that is fundamentally incompatible with many copyright laws. That’s too bad for those generative AI providers, but, in this case, great news for Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse, which has just been awarded approximately $112,000 […]
2019
Since you’re already thinking about how much Marvel’s Wolverine disappointed critics, you might as well start reminiscing about the awful X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie in 2009. From there, you’ll be led to the more pleasant memory about the unprecedentedly solid PS3 game with the same name, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which we now know is partly […]
2019Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says early test audiences loved the movie, but thought it was way too funny for a straight-up horror movie. “I learned that people really liked the movie, but they thought it was too funny. So over the course of my testing, I stripped out as much of the jokes as […]
2019With Sony fielding a class action lawsuit claiming its store terms suggest ownership but convey the licensing of digital games, aptly named consumer rights group Consumer Rights Wiki has seen PlayStation fans assemble an incomplete but in-depth list of PlayStation verbiage indicating that users do, in fact, “own” the games they buy. The Consumer Rights […]
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