With tons of games vying for your attention nowadays, taking a trip down memory lane might be a tough thing to schedule for. Despite how vividly you remember something, your mind has a funny way of forgetting the exact length or something as the years go by. Halo 2 might have seemed like the absolute largest game you’ve ever played when you were 15, but now it’s kind of quaint compared to open-world fodder....
Relationships in any media, not just video games, require plenty of nuance and care implemented in crafting relatable romance. Social Links in Persona have always had a selection of characters that players could romance. In many ways, Persona 5 was full of weighty and emotional connections between the protagonist and various confidants. Most characters had intelligently written interactions with the main character, and in most cases justified the forming of their relationships....
I was living in North Carolina when Marvel’s The Avengers opened in theaters. That feels noteworthy because at least in May 2012, and certainly during a Saturday matinee, North Carolinian audiences were generally not the type to stand up and cheer fictional characters through a screen. But that’s exactly what happened one sunny afternoon when, in a darkened room, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Robert Downey Jr.’s wily Iron Man stood shoulder to shoulder in a dizzying, rotating dolly shot during the climax of the Joss Whedon superhero event....
Destiny 2 players can continue the Season of the Chosen storyline with the Week 2 Seasonal Challenges. Like Week 1, these Seasonal Challenges are designed to give Destiny 2 players some direction while they play the game each week, giving players some bonus rewards to earn by completing some extra objectives. For the Destiny 2 Week 2 Seasonal Challenges, players have to complete some of the same objectives that they did in Week 1....
So, you want to feel like a rootin’ tootin’ gunslinging outlaw but you just can’t quite shoot straight? Well, Dead Eye is here to fix that. This mechanic allows you to see enemies and their weak spots highlighted. It also tightens your reticle to make your shots more accurate. But, it takes quite a while to level the skill up in Red Dead Online. Stamina goes up just from running around and many activities increase Health, but Dead Eye just seems to lag behind the rest....
Online multiplayer just got patched into Super Mario Party! Yes, as unlikely as it might seem, Super Mario Party has had a big update patch that allows you to play online with friends or strangers. Seems a bit odd that this comes out just as people I know are actually getting vaccinated - a bit late - but we shall not complain about a free update. In this guide we’re going to break down exactly what you need to know so you can play online in Super Mario Party, whether you’re looking to make a lobby exclusively with pals, or you wish to complete minigames and shame strangers....
Get yourself prepared Make a presentation Prepare your computer and network Prepare your answers Consider what everyone is seeing and hearing Use the power of Zoom Setting up a Zoom meeting Dealing with that 40-minute time limit Share your presentation and off you go Turn off annotations Use the power of mute Welcome to the music round! The easy way to share music on Zoom The more complicated way to share music on Zoom Hit the “share screen” option in the Zoom toolbar....
Just last week, the Xbox Store held a sale on some of the biggest action games right now, which included Borderlands 3’s Super Deluxe Edition. Now, players who may have missed the sale would be happy to know that Walmart is currently offering Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe Edition for cheaper for both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. Players can now purchase Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe Edition for $39.99, which is 60% cheaper than its original list price of $99....
Yesterday it was announced that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity will be launching for Nintendo Switch on November 20. Set 100 years prior to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity will explore the catastrophe that devastated that game’s world, shrouding Hyrule Castle in perpetual darkness. There’s something special about this setup. While it’s pretty well known that the Zelda series is split into three distinct timelines, and the chronological order of each is relatively easy to map out, it’s rare that we’re offered an insight into the events preceding each individual entry....
For years it has been impossible to detach IO Interactive from the Hitman franchise. The bald, barcode-laden assassin is an iconic character, and one the studio has dedicated itself to for several decades now. Sure, it has also worked on the likes of Kane and Lynch and Mini Ninjas, but those are projects that were eventually lost to time, holding far less water than the suave, silent murderer. With the climax of the recent trilogy, IO Interactive is moving onto pastures anew, and now rumours are beginning to emerge on exactly what that might entail beyond its confirmed Bond project....
The beloved comedic actor Fred Willard, whose career has spanned 50 years, passed away on Friday at age 86. The news was revealed by the late actor’s daughter, Hope, who tweeted out the news, saying that her father has died peacefully on Friday evening. Willard’s final project was with Netflix’s upcoming show Space Force, where he played the role of Fred Naird. The actor is known for his various iconic roles in films such as Best in Show and The Mighty Wind....
Back in the year 2000 (or 2001 if you weren’t in Japan), Nintendo released a quirky RPG Mario game for the Nintendo 64. Paper Mario told a very typical story of Bowser kidnapping Peach and Mario racing to her rescue, but with many twists. It was an RPG, so there were turn-based battles and lovable party members. There was self-aware humor and surprising heart in the script. Oh yeah, everything was also made out of paper....
After launching to monster sales numbers this past May, NeatherRealm Studios has managed to keep Injustice 2 fans happy through monthly releases of brand new content. Not only have new fighters like Red Hood, Starfire, and others were added to the already large roster, but bug fixes and daily multiverse events manage to keep the game feeling fresh. While many fans were ultimately disappointed by the inclusion of a second Mortal Kombat character in this latest DLC pack, NeatherRealm is making up for it by giving players something else alongside Raiden which helps make this upcoming character update the best of both worlds....
This INSIDE NO. 9 review contains spoilers. Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 6 Review: The Stakeout There are limits. Whatever Time Lord technology Inside No. 9 uses to pack its 30-minute episodes fuller than a foie gras goose, there isn’t always room for everything. Take ‘The Stakeout’. It managed to cram police procedural, car chase, meta-commentary, comedy, poignancy and a supernatural rug-pull into the precise amount of time it used to take Mad Men’s Don Draper to light and smoke a single cigarette, but that left no space to explain why and how the application and training process to become a volunteer Special Constable might be undertaken by… a vampire....
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is being touted as an amazing follow-up to Marvel’s Spider-Man as well as one of the PlayStation 5’s best launch games by Sony, as we head into the next generation of console gaming. It’s certainly true that a blockbuster first-party exclusive like Miles Morales could help Sony’s next-gen console beat out the powerful Xbox Series X this holiday. While Miles Morales isn’t a “full” sequel to Marvel’s Spider-Man but more of a next-gen expansion starring the fan-favorite Spidey in training, everything that we’ve seen of the game thus far suggests it feature the same brilliant open-world gameplay and developer Insomniac Games’ undeniable sense of style....
Any quick poll of FPS gamers out there will tell you that the Call of Duty fan base is dwindling. Yet, the franchise is still a perennial top-seller, and continues to move millions of units in a very short span. But this year, things are a little different — the franchise’s latest iteration, Call of Duty: Ghosts, didn’t hit quite the same marks as its predecessors. Moreover, publisher Activision hasn’t been actively trumpeting the various records their newest game broke....
This week The Sims 4 community finally feels heard as Lyndsay Pearson, General Manager of The Sims 4 franchise, has addressed the issue of skin tones in the game. A statement released on social media and the Sims forum states that the team “recognize that we have not done enough to address the variety of skin tones and hairstyles that you expect to find in The Sims 4” and has promised to address the issue this fall....
Grand Theft Auto 6 is a tough nut to crack. The game has supposedly been in development for a long time now, but Rockstar Games hasn’t had much to say. However, one of the best clues as to the progress in this game’s development comes from a patent recently filed by Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two. While it’s not confirmed that the patent has anything to do with Grand Theft Auto 6, its contents seem highly applicable to the franchise....
October 22 brought the return of the annual Halloween update to Grand Theft Auto Online, and with it various new cars, cosmetics, and limited-time game modes featuring triple cash and RP payouts. Unexpectedly, this recent update has also seen the return of the hallucination inducing peyote plants that crafty players are discovering can be used to generate lots of RP utilizing an exploit, thus skipping past much of GTA Online’s content grinding....
Just as promised when previously detailing some of Grand Theft Auto Online’s upcoming special races, Rockstar Games has now officially announced the forthcoming inclusion of a new mode called Tiny Racers with an official trailer. The new game mode for the open world title’s multiplayer component, which is set to release for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on April 25, 2017, hearkens back to the original GTA and GTA 2 by shifting the camera into a top-down perspective, making the vehicles appear as small cars in the vein of Micro Machines....
