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Anthem Glitches Can Make Your Javelin Even Cooler
While its day-one patch fixed a number of issues, BioWare’s sci-fi epic Anthem still has bugs. Not all of them are bad though, and players have recently discovered a few glitches that make the game’s Javelin exo suits even cooler than before. There are four types of Javelins in Anthem, each with unique abilities: Ranger,…
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Trials Rising Switch eShop Screenshots Look Way Better Than The Real Thing [Update]
Video games rarely look as beautifully composed as promotional screenshots, but the Switch version of Trials Rising does not look anything like the screenshots on its Nintendo store page. In fact, it seems like those screens are from another version of the game entirely. Trials Rising came out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC,…
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Anthem’s Loot Is Not In A Good Place
Anthem has a lot of problems, and while some run deep, others feel like avoidable missteps. How the game handles its loot falls into that second category. As we get farther into the game’s post-launch life, a lot of its end-game feels like reliving the dark days immediately following Destiny 1’s release. For a brief…
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ReviewsMultiplatform
Anthem: The Kotaku Review
Every once in a while, a game comes along that that does something surprising, different, memorable. Anthem is not one of those games. Much of this PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC game feels incomplete, while other portions are borrowed from games that did it better. The things that make Anthem special, like flying through…
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Esports
Up-And-Coming Squad Looks To Break Out At This Weekend’s Big Dota 2 Tournament
Gambit Esports, a Russian esports organization based in the UK, has never been known for its prowess in Valve’s strategy game Dota 2, but this weekend that might change as the newcomers continue continues marching toward the finals at ESL One Katowice 2019 in Poland. Led by relative veteran Artsiom “fng” Barshack from Belarus, the…
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Fallout 76 Gets A Full Roadmap For 2019
Three months after the game’s disappointing launch, Bethesda has announced its plans for Fallout 76 throughout the rest of 2019, including new modes, story quests, and vault raids. The new updates, all of which will be free, are broken up by season. Spring will mark the beginning of “Wild Appalachia” on March 12. It’ll add…
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Tips & Guides
Tips For Playing Anthem
BioWare’s new multiplayer loot shooter Anthem can be fun but it’s also hard to get the hang of, since so little about how it works is explained. Knowing some basics before you start will go a long way to making it more enjoyable. There are three main pieces to Anthem: walking around Fort Tarsis, going…
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Anthem‘s ‘Day-One’ Update Fixes Some Things And Breaks Others
Anthem’s “day-one” patch dropped last night, and while it addresses a host of performance issues, bugs, and other frustrating problems, the update has also broken the game’s frame rate for many players on PC. One of the most prevalent criticisms of BioWare’s new loot shooter during its early release period has beenits grueling loading times.…
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Apex Legends Needs An Option For Reporting People
It’s a cold truth that some people in this world are just assholes. That’s why every online game game should have an option for reporting jerks. It’s a feature that’s become pretty standard, especially in competitive shooters. So it’s weird that Apex Legends released without it. Instead of being able to directly report someone you…
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Every Big Game Coming Out In Winter 2019
Winter begins today, which means it’s officially time to forget about all the games that came out this year and start preparing for all of the new ones. It used to be that you could ease into the new year by quietly plugging away at all the games you missed months prior. But now the…
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In Anthem, Falling Is Faster Than Flying
BioWare’s new loot shooter Anthem really nails the feeling of flying around in Iron Man-style exosuits, except when dive-bombing. As players have learned, it turns out the fastest way to get around in the game’s world is by simply falling. While it’s nice to pause every once in a while and take in the beautiful…
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Anthem‘s Day-One Patch Promises To Fix The Game’s Biggest Issues [Update]
Anthem will get a patch on February 22 to fix a number of issues both big and small that players have had with the game since it entered early access on February 15 for PC and Xbox One players with paid EA subscriptions. Chief among the changes will be improvements to some truly soul-crushing loading…
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OpinionImpressions
Six Hours In, Anthem Has A Lot To Love
I’ve played about six hours of Anthem, a game where players fly around in mechanical suits blowing stuff up in search of ever more rare loot, and while I’m still getting my bearings I already feel a lot better about the game than I did back during its two demos. The game launched earlier today…
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Esports
Esports Will Be Your Valentine
Don’t have a special someone with whom to share foot rubs and chocolate-covered strawberries tonight? No worries, esports is here for you. Have a special someone but don’t feel like trying to make-up last minute plans to impress them? Esports has you covered there, too. In esports this is called a double-kill, otherwise known as…
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The Roblox Company announced in a forum post that it has reinstated YouTuber PewDiePie’s account in Roblox and that it had previously been deactivated as part of a larger effort to block mentions of “pewdie” which it claimed become part of a meme last December that violated its community standards.
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Tips & Guides
Tetris 99 Has No Tutorial, So Here’s What You Need To Know
Yesterday Nintendo announced and released Tetris 99, a battle royale-style multiplayer Tetris game for the Switch in which you play against, wait for it, 98 other players in a merciless puzzle-off. It’s out now and free to download. There’s just one problem: the game doesn’t tell you how it works. If you’ve ever played any…
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Deadmau5 Says He’s Quitting Twitch After Getting Suspended For Using A Homophobic Slur [Update]
Joel Zimmerman, better known by his stage name Deadmau5, announced in a now deleted Reddit post that he’s quitting Twitch after the streaming platform temporarily suspended his account because of a homophobic slur the DJ used while playing PUBG over the weekend. As first reported by the music outlet EDM.com, Deadmau5 was being shot at…
By Ethan Gach