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Genshin Impact’s Sumeru Update Arrives Right As I Hit Live Service Burnout
15.8.2022
Burnout eventually comes for everyone who plays live service games. Still, I didn’t notice that my relationship with Genshin Impact was headed in that direction until I stopped logging in every day. The summer event felt bloated with lackluster puzzles. The lore revelations never reached the epic...
HD-2D, The Unique Retro-Inspired Art Style, Took Off In 2022
28.7.2022
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The World’s Most Popular Social VR Game Is In Turmoil
28.7.2022
VRChat’s had a hell of a week. On Monday, the wildly popular virtual reality social game announced that its next update would implement Epic Games’ Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) technology, prompting immediate outrage from a large portion of its playerbase. That update landed Tuesday, and since then...
The evolution of Steam tags (& why we dig 'em!)
27.7.2022
Also: Quest's price hike, Xbox's results & more
Facebook Jacks Up Price Of The One Affordable VR Headset
26.7.2022
Usually gaming hardware prices get cheaper over time. But Meta is bucking that trend and raising the price of its entry-level Quest 2 VR headset by $100. The company formerly known as Facebook says it’s to help pay for innovation, a move that comes as Mark Zuckerberg’s social media company...
Sierra Founders Ken & Roberta Williams Talk About Their Past (And Future) In Video Games
20.7.2022
In 1979 husband-and-wife team Ken & Roberta Williams founded a small company that would later become known as Sierra, and which would play an enormous role in the development of some of the most beloved video games series of all time.Read more
Po dvou letech zase všechno jinak. VR brýle Quest již nebudou vyžadovat účet na Facebooku
12.7.2022
Když Facebook v roce 2020 uváděl brýle Quest 2, zavedl i povinnost spojit všechny nově prodané VR headsety s účtem na jeho sociální síti. O ledna 2023 pak měly skončit i všechny původní účty Oculus a všichni uživatelé už by byli závislí na Facebooku. Jenže to se teď mění. Firma minulý týden
Everything Shown At Today's Nintendo Direct Mini
28.6.2022
Switch-owning JRPG fans are feasting today. The biggest standouts from today’s Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase include Persona 5 Royal and Nier: Automata ports for the Nintendo Switch, but there were also neat-looking indie titles like the beautifully handcrafted RPG Time: The Legend...
The 'Mutes' Of Virtual Reality Are Upending The Metaverse Without Saying A Thing
27.5.2022
In this virtual world, you can dance in zaps of electricity, or in the clouds.Read more
Dubai Creates Committee to Help Cement Its Position as ‘Key City in the Metaverse’
21.5.2022
The rulers of Dubai have created a committee that is mandated with tracking the latest developments in the digital economy. The committee is also expected to bolster the rulers’ quest to make Dubai a “key city in the metaverse.” Dubai Rulers’ Vision The Dubai rulers...
Genshin Impact Is Back, And The Update Was Worth Waiting For
20.5.2022
Genshin Impact just came out of its first-ever delay, and HoYoverse just announced a trove of events, quests, and features. More importantly, “Hidden Dreams in the Depths” adds the highly anticipated Yelan and Kuki Shinobu to the character gacha. And I’m excited for the new gameplay possibilities...
Let’s Talk About The Disappointing Ending To Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
6.5.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands tees up a flurry of intriguing narrative ideas, a veritable world of possibility full of fascinating concepts and mind-blowing potential outcomes. And then…it does nothing with them, culminating in an ending that fails to realize its own potential. Let’s chat about it.Read...
A heavily curated store? Meta Quest thinks it's a winner...
25.4.2022
The ambassador's reception invite, or the golden ticket in a Wonka bar?
Elden Ring Patch Patches Patches
19.4.2022
Elden Ring’s latest update includes a proper ending to Patches’ quest that sees the fan favorite NPC reward players with his iconic pose.Read more
Elden Ring's Biggest Patch Yet Nerfs Bleed, Fixes Huge Bug Quest, And Way More
19.4.2022
FromSoftware released another massive update to Elden Ring on Tuesday and players are celebrating and beamoning its long list of balance changes and bug fixes. Rather than weaken fan favorite weapons like the Moonveil katana, the game’s biggest patch yet makes a ton of other stuff stronger. Plus...
Cut Content Reveals Elden Ring’s Best Summon Used To Have Its Own Quest
18.4.2022
It seems like every day we learn about some new piece of Elden Ring content that didn’t survive to launch, but this one is a doozy. At some point in the game’s development, acquiring the potent Mimic Tear summon would have apparently required completion of a lengthy questline.Read more
Plus: new Quest charts, as Lego x Star Wars dominates elsewhere!
8.4.2022
Time to look at some VR standouts
Genshin Impact Update Makes Its Saddest Anime Boy Even Sadder
7.4.2022
The most poignant lines in Genshin Impact’s latest update came when I discovered a bouquet of white flowers laid next to the bodies of dead Hilichurls. As I surveyed the grisly scene, the wanderer Dainsleif said, “The Inteyvat [flower] is a symbol for a wanderer far from home, signifying...
Elden Ring’s Devs Really Don’t Want You To Miss This Heartbreaking Quest
5.4.2022
Unlike other role-playing games, Elden Ring’s lack of a quest log requires players to really pay attention to dialogue and the world around them to follow along with certain NPC storylines. But the beginning of one questline was so well-hidden that FromSoftware took steps to make sure folks would...
Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review
30.3.2022
Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem’s ending fails to deliver a satisfying...