Xur’s back in the Solar System in Destiny 2 , offering a slate of new Exotics and Legendary weapons and armor for your perusal. We’re nearing the end of both the Solstice event and Season of the Haunted in Destiny 2, which means it’s time to gear up for a new season and a new …
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The ‘micro-RPGs’ offering new perspectives on the genre’s overstuffed epics
In what crumbling, dragon-leather tome was it written that role-playing games have to be so incredibly long? It’s certainly not a convention that rings true for Sraëka Lillian, whose RPG Maker-based ‘OI’ games clock in at a few hours apiece. Each is a focused exploration of one of “a thousand little questions” an RPG developer …
EVE Online’s most notorious scam took 16 months of commitment
Whether you’re one of the players striving to get rich in the open economy of EVE Online, or one of the many who would rather read stories about the MMO of spaceships and spreadsheets, you’ve heard about all kinds of scams perpetrated within it. This one was something special, however. Not because of the money …
The ‘lost’ Warcraft adventure game can now be played the way it was meant to be
Audio player loading… Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a point-and-click adventure game cancelled by Blizzard in 1998, and how time flies. The game was lost for most of its history, only existing in a few old screenshots and videos that floated around the internet, but in 2016 the full game suddenly appeared as …
The classes of Two Point Campus take their silliness very seriously
In 2018, developer Two Point Studios brought silliness back into simulation with Two Point Hospital. In the spirit of Bullfrog classics like Theme Park and Theme Hospital, they infused the game with an irreverent cartoon quality that means that you were playing with a smile on your face even as everything was falling apart and …
One of the best roguelikes ever is getting a 3D remake with a rewind function
Audio player loading… Desktop Dungeons (opens in new tab) originally came out in 2011, and was a game I instantly fell in love with. And not in some genteel, courtly manner either: our passionate dungeon-crawling sessions would stretch long into the wee hours, as I suffered little deaths innumerable and grasped modifiers untold. Sorry. It’s …
Nvidia RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 rumours suggest we’re still a while away from a genuine launch
Audio player loading… Proving that Nvidia’s RTX 40-series graphics cards are seemingly no nearer an actual release, the rumoured specs for the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 have changed. Again. Now, obviously these aren’t final, confirmed GPU specifications, just rumoured chip numbers, but the fact that the specs for two of the most important graphics …
Someone finally beat the $20,000 Halo 2 challenge
Audio player loading… Earlier this year, Charlie ‘Cr1TiKal’ White issued a challenge. He offered $5,000 to anyone who could complete a full solo playthrough of Halo 2 on legendary difficulty with 13 of the difficulty-modifying skulls activated. (The 14th skull, called Envy, gives you active camouflage in place of your flashlight.) Three weeks later, with …
MultiVersus season 1 has been delayed
Audio player loading… The first season of the popular platform fighter MultiVersus has been delayed past its original August 9 release date, and there’s no word yet on when it will actually launch. The official MultiVersus Twitter account made the announcement, offering no clear reason for the delay. Since a playable Morty was promised for …
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation is a form of cyberattack
Audio player loading… The music video embedded above has the power to crash computers. Back in the hazy days of Windows XP, a major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ would crash some models of laptops. And not just its own laptops in some quirky coding error: it …