Ethan Gach

The Good And The Bad Of Destiny 2’s Season Of Arrivals

I’m enjoying the little things in Destiny 2’s latest season. A giant bow that looks like you could windsurf on it. An ominous black pyramid hogging the horizon on Io. Another overpowered exotic whose exploding projectiles bathe enemies in a pool of fluorescent liquid. I’m not sure they can redeem the game’s extremely uneven third…

Everything Bungie Announced During Today’s Destiny 2 Livestream

After weeks of relative silence about what’s in store for the future of Destiny 2, Bungie opened the floodgates today announcing the titles for the game’s next three expansions, its plans for cross-generational play, and a whole lot more. Players were expecting to see what’s ahead in Season of Arrivals, which is launching today, as…

Bungie Just Announced Destiny 2‘s Next Three Expansions

Destiny 2’s next annual expansion, Beyond Light, will arrive on September 22. Revealed during Bungie’s Destiny 2 livestream today, the upcoming expansion will focus on the Jupiter’s icy moon of Europa, the birthplace of the game’s Exo race. It’s main antagonist will be Eramis, a Kell Baroness of the House of Devils trying to rally…

Bungie Starts Off Destiny 2 Livestream Reveal With Black Lives Matter Call To Action

Today, before revealing the upcoming content planned for Destiny 2 later this year, Bungie paid tribute to George Floyd, killed just over two weeks ago while in custody of the Minneapolis police. “8 minutes 46 seconds,” began Bungie’s livestream. “This marks the time in which George Floyd was killed.” The studio proceeded to have 8…

The lovely indie JRPG CrossCode is finally coming to consoles on July 9. That means if you, like I, have been waiting for the Switch version to finally dig into the game about playing MMOs, there’s only one more month to go. 

New Twitter Account Lists Games That Let You Dethrone God

Suddenly feeling a strong urge to rebel against the current divine order of things and destroy your creator? Some good internet samaritan has taken it upon themselves to create a running list of all the games in which you can fight god. Though fighting god is a common enough trope in certain parts of gaming,…

Post-apocalyptic action platformer Steel Assault has a new trailer up showing off some gorgeous pixel animation. The game was Kickstarted back in 2015 and while it’s now 2020 and the game’s still not out (it’s planned for PC by the end of the year) it’s come a long way.

Need For Speed Heat Becomes The First EA Game To Get Cross-Play

Need for Speed Heat is getting cross-play starting June 9, making it the first EA game to let people from different platforms finally play together. The feature is getting added in the game’s final update, due out tomorrow. Once it’s live, players will be able to opt into cross-play from the game’s settings and race…

Giant Space Ship Blows Up Very Slowly In Destiny 2‘s First Major Live Event

Destiny 2 had it’s first big Fortnite-style live event today with players crowding around to watch as the Almighty space ship that had been hurtling toward Earth all season was finally shot down. The only problem was it took forever. The live event kicked off at 1:00 p.m. ET with an in-game alert telling players…

It looks like the giant spaceship currently hurtling toward Earth in Destiny 2 will get blown up tomorrow. Saturday, June 6 at 1:00 p.m. ET “we take aim at the Almighty,” Bungie tweeted today. It’s not clear what that means exactly, but it sounds similar to a Fortnite-style live event.

Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Cancelled, New Update Still Delayed

Final Fantasy XIV’s annual Fan Festival in North America has been cancelled, and the game’s upcoming patch 5.3 has been delayed again, due to the ongoing outbreak of covid-19. “The North American Fan Festival was scheduled to be held in San Diego half a year from now in November, but after much deliberation we have…

Sony Fined $2.4 Million By Australian Court For Misleading PlayStation Players About Game Refunds

Australia’s Federal Court announced today that it’s ordering Sony to pay $3.5 million in fines (approximately $2,445,00 in U.S. dollars) for breaking the country’s consumer law by misleading people about video game refunds. “Between October 2017 and May 2019, Sony Europe’s Terms of Service implied that users did not have consumer guarantee rights regarding the…

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Adds Black Lives Matter Message

Infinity War has added a message about Black Lives Matter and racism in its Call of Duty community to Modern Warfare and Warzone, in a new update following the ongoing nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd and police brutality. When players start either game after installing the update they’ll encounter a message saying…

Here’s the opening 22 minutes of The Outer Worlds on Switch running in handheld mode It’s…not pretty. While the game plays mostly fine, the vibrant visuals of the original have been lost in a blurry haze of down-scaling.

The excellent roguelike card game Slay the Spire is coming to iOS later this month, according to a new post on Steam by Mega Crit Games. An Android port is also in the works, but further out the studio said. 

The Outer Worlds Looks Terrible On Switch

The Outer Worlds looks so bad on Switch I’m tempted to tell even people who have no other means of playing it to stay away. The Switch port of Obsidian’s sci-fi role-playing game by Virtuos Games comes out June 5, and it’s clear the journey to Nintendo’s handheld home-console hybrid has been anything but smooth.…

Kingdoms Of Amalur Is Getting Remastered As Re-Reckoning

A new listing on the Microsoft store has revealed a remaster of the 2012 action-RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning coming August 18. According to the listing, the remaster will have “improved graphical fidelity” and “refined gameplay.” It’ll also come with all the DLC from the original release. It’s also getting a ridiculous new title: Kingdoms…

In A Unionization Breakthrough, Paradox Interactive Signs Labor Agreement With Trade Unions

The effort to unionize game development took another step forward today, as the workers at strategy game publisher Paradox Interactive publicly announced that they’re securing a collective bargaining agreement with their company. The deal is expected to safeguard their existing benefits and make it easier to advocate for improved working conditions. In a sign that…

It looks like Bungie is moving ahead with its Destiny 2 reveal after all. Originally leaked on Instagram, Bungie today confirmed it’ll show details of what’s to come in the game on June 9 at 12:00 p.m. ET. Other gaming events have recently been delayed following the ongoing protests

Game Companies Say They’re Supporting Black Lives Matter, But Few Are Offering Specifics

As protests over the killing of George Floyd by police spread throughout the country last weekend, some of the gaming industry’s biggest companies put out statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. But while a few have shared some specifics about what they’re doing to help fight systemic racism, almost none of them…