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Vermintide 2‘s Pack-RatĀ Villain Is A Master At Creating Suspense
Killing the player is easy. Games do this all the time, often by surprising them with something unexpected and lethal or by simply ramping up the difficulty and pummeling them into submission. Vermintide 2 offers a third option, taunting your four-player squads without outright destroying them: the Packmaster. Vermintide 2 is a first-person action game…
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For Honor‘s Creation Ended With A Behind-The-Scenes Break-Up
The most interesting moment from a new documentary about the making of For Honor comes just over 70 minutes in when the team at Ubisoft Montreal is celebrating the game getting certified on Xbox One and PS4. Speeches have been made and the champagne is flowing freely when the gameās then creative director Jason VandenBerghe…
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CultureI Still Enjoy Watching People Play Quest 64
Quest 64 is the first game I ever watched someone speedrun. I didnāt know thatās what I was doing at the time. It was the late ā90s, and the term was not yet in common use. My younger brother managed to beat the game in a single sitting, something Iād never previously imagined being possible…
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Now’s A Good Time To Clean Up Your PS4’s Hard DriveĀ
Weāre weeks into spring and finally free of the cold, damp reach of late winter. Itās time to clean out your closets, mow your lawn or at least get your PS4 running faster by rebuilding the systemās database. I did, and it made my console run faster. I tend to close a browser tab the…
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FTC Warns Nintendo, Microsoft, And Sony To Review Warranty Terms
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony a 30-day window in to change their console warranty language to let consumers know they can make repairs or use third-party replacement products without voiding them. The FTC said in a press release on April 10 that various companies, including some in the video game…
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Far Cry 5 Has A Shovel Gun Now, Because Of Course
Far Cry 5 has been out for just over a month now, and while there still hasnāt been any word on when its story-based DLC will arrive, the game has been getting weekly events and new online multiplayer maps. With the addition of this weekās event, āWhite Collar Job,ā Far Cry 5 now has its…
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Capcom Is Re-Releasing Two Classic Mega Man Games On NES, SNES Cartridges
Capcom will release cartridge versions of Mega Man 2 and Mega Man X as limited runs costing $100 a piece alongside production house iam8bit, the two companies said today. As with Street Fighter II, the first of these legacy cartridge collections that was announced last August, both games will appear in cartridge form, Mega Man…
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Rainbow Six Siegeās latest patch goes live today on PC and May 2 on consoles. Version Y3S1.2 introduces a number of tweaks, especially to the drone operator Lion, whose scan ability has been significantly weakened. Light machine guns, on the other hand, have had their damage output boosted.
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The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ got its final booster pack update today. Live on Steam and set to come to PS4 sometime in the future, Booster Pack #5 adds items, enemies, and a boss as well as a completely new character. Thereās also an extensive list of bug fixes and other small teaks. Ā
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Far Cry 5 gets its next patch tomorrow when the game goes down for maintenance at 9:00pm EDT. Title Update 5 fixes a number of bugs, including several weāve written about including the never-ending credits loop and Mary May not spawning in the truck. It also mentions re-balancing some of the weapons.
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You Should Be Playing The Brutal City Builder Frostpunk
If you had told me months ago that a city builder about the remnants of 19th century England trying to survive the next ice age would sell hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week on Steam, Iād have guessed you were hallucinating from hypothermia. But thatās exactly what Frostpunk did, and after spending…
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Slay The Spire’s New Character Is Great
Months after it first hit Steam Early Access I still enjoy dropping into Slay the Spire to see what cards Iām dealt in its procedurally generated dungeon runs. With the addition of its newest character, The Defect, I can see myself returning a lot more often. Developer Mega Crit Games has been working on Slay…
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Far Cry 5, One Month Later
Far Cry 5 has been out for a month. Its big open world based in a fictional Montana has been picked clean by millions of people. Collectively theyāve caught lots of fish, thrown millions of sticks of dynamite, and been sprayed by a lot of sneaky skunks. Publisher Ubisoft has been contributing weekly live events,…
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What Someone Who Spent 1,800 Hours In The Witcher 3 Actually Did
The Witcher 3 is a sprawling single-player RPG with so much to do it can be overwhelming. The game world is huge. Points of interest litter the map. Dialogue trees mean you can play through pivotal scenes in different ways. I can think of far worse games to be stuck on a desert island with…
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Someone recreated Super Mario Odysseyās New Donk City in Minecraft. They built it using the base version and the whole thing took about three weeks. While the scale and scope is impressive, the pixel art-adorned buildings are the best part. You can see the whole thing in more detail over on Imgur.Ā
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