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Play This Short But Stylish Atlus RPG Before It Leaves Game Pass Next Week
20.2.2024
As much as I love Persona and have gladly sunk hundreds of hours into the many entries in Atlus’ series of RPGs, a lot of other people actually respect their time. That means they likely haven’t played or finished a Persona game. Thankfully, Atlus made 2022’s Soul Hackers 2 for people who want...
How To Watch Tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct—And What To Expect
20.2.2024
Nintendo has just sprung a Nintendo Direct on everybody, and as is custom, it’s just around the corner. And by that I mean it’s tomorrow morning. The next Direct airs on February 21 at 6:00 a.m. PT / 9:00 a.m. ET. At 25 minutes, this Direct won’t be the longest ever, but it is sizable enough that...
What To Expect From This Year's Pokémon Presents Stream
20.2.2024
It’s that time of year again, Pokémon fans. The Pokémon Company is hosting its annual Pokémon Day showcase, which will offer a glimpse into what fans can expect throughout 2024.Read more
Bethesda Drops A Nuke... Full Of Fallout Games
20.2.2024
Things are going to get pretty Fallout-y this April. With Amazon Prime’s promising-looking TV adaptation due to hit the streamer April 12, Bethesda is leaping on its own bandwagon and releasing seven Fallout games, in one handy nuclear bomb.Read more
Are These The Cutest Pokémon Plushes Ever Made?
19.2.2024
If you, like me, are a child, you’ll regularly refresh the new releases on the official Pokémon store to see what madcap paraphernalia its selling today. With almost daily drops, these additions can be anything from a statue of Ditto eating Pewter Crunchies, to an entire range of wildly overpriced...
All Of Our Best Palworld Tips, In One Handy Place
16.2.2024
We’re just six weeks in to 2024, and we’ve already seen the release of some absolulte bangers, including Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload. But the year’s biggest surprise so far has been a game most observers wrote off as a Pokémon-knockoff—until millions of people realized there...
Baldur's Gate 3's Best New Romance Tweak Was Inspired By Fan Art
16.2.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3’s sixth patch is out, and it brings a slew of new kiss animations for its various love interests. While everyone can kiss their better half at camp, one of the best parts of the patch is for us Gale lovers, as a new touch animation has made one of his romantic storyline’s most...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Devs Finally Got To Talk On Stage, And They Did Not Hold Back
16.2.2024
One of the biggest complaints about last year’s Game Awards was that the show did not let winners talk. Even when folks from Larian Studios got on the stage to accept the Game of the Year award for Baldur’s Gate 3, they were told to “wrap it up” and weren’t even able to make the announcement that...
Diablo IV Will Be The First Activision Blizzard Title On Game Pass
15.2.2024
After weeks of rumors and leaks about what the future holds for Xbox, the company finally shared some official news via a special episode of the Official Xbox Podcast. One lingering question that Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt Booty addressed during the episode was just when Activision Blizzard...
Unicorn Overlord’s Opening Hours Are Bursting With Style And Substance
15.2.2024
Ahead of my hands-on preview with Unicorn Overlord, the new tactics RPG from developer Vanillaware and published by Atlus, I was told that nobody had beaten the demo yet. So I made it my mission to see if I could change that. Cut to two-and-a-half hours later, and I can see why people were having...
Everything We Know About Baldur’s Gate 3’s Sixth Big Patch
14.2.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3’s patches are still rolling out six months after Larian’s fantasy RPG launched in August. The game’s sixth big update is on the horizon, and the studio has been teasing details about what fans can expect when it goes live. Here’s everything we know so far about Baldur’s Gate...
New Destiny 2 Bundle Contains 5 Years Of Content For Just $40
14.2.2024
Destiny 2 ain’t no spring chicken. Bungie’s popular intergalactic looter shooter has been around since 2017, and in that time, the game has received numerous updates and expansions. Now, a new deal collects almost all of those expansions and updates into one $40 Steam bundle making it easy...
The Industry Is Divided On How To Write Video Game Romance
14.2.2024
In 2011, BioWare’s Dragon Age II portrayed its four main romantic conquests as bisexual, allowing them to be pursued by either the male or female version of main character Hawke. At the time, I was a young, mostly-but-not-completely out gay high school student, and I spent hours each week on...
Diablo 4’s New Fast-Travel Portal Colors Cost $30
13.2.2024
You know those portals that appear in Diablo IV when you teleport or fast-travel somewhere? Wouldn’t it be neat if you could change how they look? Maybe alter their colors? Yeah. Well, you’ll need to pay Blizzard $30 to do so.Read more
Six Months On, Starfield's Player Count Shouldn't Matter
13.2.2024
2023 was a year of amazing games, but Starfield was not one of them. The spacefaring role-playing game from Bethesda was supposed to be the next Skyrim, but bigger. Garnering mixed reviews and player reactions, it quickly became clear that Starfield would not reach the heights of Bethesda’s best...
Deus Ex Owners To Adam Jensen Actor: Stop Talking About The Character
13.2.2024
Actor Elias Toufexis is probably most famous for his role as the gravelly-voiced cyborg Adam Jensen, the protagonist in Eidos Montreal’s Deux Ex prequel games. He loves to talk about the character and his possible future, but according to Toufexis, the studio that owns the franchise would rather...
PSA: FF7 Rebirth Spoilers Leak On Tiktok, Reddit, And Twitter
12.2.2024
Watch out, Final Fantasy VII fans. It looks like clips and details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are starting to leak out onto the internet. If you’re looking forward to the game and want to go in without any spoilers beyond the incredibly spoiler-filled trailer Square put outat its PlayStation...
25 Years Later, Final Fantasy VIII Is Still The Series' Best Love Story
12.2.2024
From the moment protagonist Squall Leonhart is dragged onto the dance floor by a headstrong girl in the opening hours of Final Fantasy VIII, I knew it was love. I would grow to adore this game and appreciate it despite its flaws, and much of that was because of the central story of Squall...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Director Teases An Unexpected Ending
12.2.2024
If you’ve played the original Final Fantasy VII, you know the game ends on a bittersweet note. Sure, the day is saved by the remnants of the revolutionary group Avalanche, but as illustrated in the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the gang is left to deal with a lot of residual trauma from...
FF7 Rebirth, Xbox Drama, And More Of This Week's Hottest Takes
11.2.2024
Hey, remember Foamstars? The Square Enix shooter from Summer Game Fest last year that everyone joked was a Splatoon clone? Well, it’s out now, and it turns out that “Splatoon clone” may have been a smidge too optimistic. Also, Team Green is going through it as we all wait on pins and needles...