Next Why Shadow Of The Erdtree Should Win Game Of The Year The Game Awardscreated quite a stir when it decided to nominate an expansion for Game of the Year.Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtreeis absolutely fantastic, and I can see why it made the cut. In fact, every nominee offers something unique, with this year’s bunch being the most diverse we’ve ever seen. However, I think 2024 will be the year of the monkey....
Summary Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’sfirst post-launch Zombies map will release sometime ‘mid-season’, which puts it around December 12. It’s a striking change of pace, taking us to a French castle called Citadelle Des Morts… which looks an awful lot like Der Eisendrache. But the similarities go beyond mere aesthetic, at least if the rumours pan out. According to leaker @alanthethird_90, the map’s unique wonder weapon is the “Umbral Blade”, a sword that comes in four currently unknown unique variations....
Summary Extortionate microtransactions in theCall of Dutygames are nothing new, and theFortnitification of the series is almost complete. Expensive, lackluster bundles have had fans up in arms over recent years, with the recentBlack Ops 6xSquid Gamecrossover beingthe perfect example of this. For $25 you can get cosmetics that can only be used 50 percent of the time, and for an extra $8 you can get a character that might be difficult to see in dark sections of the map, deepening the claims thatthe game is, once again, going pay-to-win....
Summary Since its inception in 1996, theDead or Alivefranchisehas been just as much about its fighting game rootsas it has beenabout the huge amount of fan service and sex appeal that its cast displays. The term “jiggle physics” largely originates with the franchise,with Koei Tecmo vowing in 2018 to tone things down. If you need any further proof,then a cursory ESRB search of any Dead or Alive game will almost assuredly have “Sexual Themes” and “Partial Nudity” at the top of the list,with descriptions involving “compromising positions” and “revealing” attire....
Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguardhas been and gone, and all the story beats and revelations have gone with them. A lot of bows are tied and mysteries are solved by the game, and now that the dust has settled and people are finally done with it, it does make you wonder where exactly the story goes from here? Even though sales haven’t been amazing, Dragon Age is a big franchise for EA and BioWare, so it’s unlikely that Dragon Age: The Veilguard marks the end of the series....
Just as I was lamenting the lull inDisney Lorcanaupdates, we got hit with back-to-back doozies. Late Thursday night, news of a brand-new platform for in-store play reporting broke, along with a bunch of details about changes coming soon to the retail side of Lorcana, including new promos, changes to Set Championship prizing, and a new approach to weekly play. Then, just hours later,our first card reveal for Archazia’s Island appeared on Twitter....
Summary The Game Awards 2024nominations havebeen revealed. This means that the contenders for Game of the Year 2024 have been narrowed down to just six titles - and for the first time ever, one of them is DLC rather than a full game. As just revealed by The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley, the Game of the Year 2024 nominees are as follows: Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Is A Game Of The Year Contender For the first time in The Game Awards history, a piece of DLC is a contender for Game of the Year....
Summary Every now and again, a game releases that you simply cannot put down. We’re not talking about theFinal FantasysorElden Ringsof the world, which you can’t put down until you beat them.We’re talking about games that you literally cannot put down. For many gamers, during the 2020 pandemic, that game wasAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. People were obsessed with it. So much so thatits total tally of lifetime sales sits at nearly 47 million, which is more than any of the Nintendo Switch Pokémon titles....
If you’re a big fan of dark mysteries and/or silly concepts for visual novels, thenChicken Police: Into the Hive, the sequel to the acclaimed first game in the series Paint it Red, is an absolute must-play. But once you’ve cracked the case and rolled the credits, what happens then? If you’re craving another taste of a game like Chicken Police, a game centered on doing solid police work (or not, depending on how you’re playing) and interrogating suspects, then we’ve got a handful of other games in the same vein as the Chicken Police series for you to consider....
There was something Geoff Keighley said repeatedly while revealing the nominees forThe Game Awards, a turn of phrase that has become increasingly common inthe way Keighley has discussed the showpiece event. He said, “The Game Awards jury, which I amnota part of” with all the fervour of Gonzo saying “Tiny Tim, who didnotdie” in A Muppet Christmas Carol. So why is Keighley so keen to keep the jury at arm’s length?...
Summary Yesterday,Helldivers 2 released the first half of its surprise Killzone 2 crossover. While it has been a highly-requested collaboration since the game first launched, there was a huge amount ofbacklash from the community over the pricing. It got so bad that developer Arrowhead is now making the second part of the crossover completely free. The first half will also be available in the Superstore for ten days instead of five, and Arrowhead is “investigating solutions for how [it] can bring back these items permanently in the future....
No matter which decade you’re in,horror gamesalways shine and come with plenty of exciting experiences that will maybe make you want to sleep with the lights on. 2015 is no exception for a fantastic year in horror gaming, as you had plenty of hidden gems and some of the most masterfully suspenseful narrative-driven titles in the genre. Across the indie and Triple-A game spheres, you were witnessing incredible launches left and right....
Quick Links Crafting is a core part ofPath of Exile 2, although it has seen some major streamlining in this installment. No longer do you need to juggle nearly a dozen league mechanics and copious amounts of player trading to make the perfect item. Thanks to a smaller pool of crafting materials and stats, making a solid item is now feasible for all players. But that doesn’t mean the depth has been taken away from crafting, far from it....
