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Culture
What Are You Playing This April?
It’s April, the official month of dumb pranks, getting sick from too many Cadbury eggs, and spending an entire day smoking pot. Also, the official month of playing video games, because every month is the official month of playing video games! The days are long as hell now, and up in Portland, it has finally…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 1, 2015 -
Tips & Guides
Tips For Playing Bloodborne (Updated!)
You may have noticed a lot of people talking about the new PS4 game Bloodborne. It’s good, they say. It’s really difficult, they say. Maybe you’ve considered checking it out, but you’re worried about that difficulty. I’m here to help. Bloodborne is the latest game from visionary game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team at…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 31, 2015 -
This is cool: The Game Developers Conference has made a whole bunch of talks from this year’s GDC available to watch for free online. There’s some great stuff in there, from classic game postmortems to modern developers talking candidly about how they made their games.
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 31, 2015 -
Reminder: Nintendo Is Always Delaying Major Zelda Games
Today, Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma announced that the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U is not going to be coming out this year. That’s a bummer, but not an unprecedented one: Lots of console Zelda games have been delayed. Ocarina of Time was eventually released in November of 1998. (Via IGN) Wind Waker…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2015 -
Choose wisely.
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2015 -
Culture
Your Worst PC Gaming Stories
Yesterday, we asked you to share your worst PC gaming stories. You delivered. I’ve now read through hundreds of tales of busted hardware, online jerks, childhood heartbreak, ruinous DRM, and PCs that actually caught fire. (Thankfully, there were no submissions about dead cockroaches.) I’ve pulled out some of my favorites and collected them below. For…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2015 -
Bloodborne Players Are Killing Themselves In The Most Unlikely Place
It goes without saying that people playing Bloodborne are going to die a lot. It’s a tough game. But to die in the game’s one “safe” area? Last night as I was playing, I noticed something odd in the game’s home-base area, the Hunter’s Dream. There were red splotches on the ground, each one signifying…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 25, 2015 -
Culture
What’s Your Worst PC Gaming Story?
It’s possible to love something so much, even if it sometimes frustrates the crap out of you. Take PC gaming, for example. PC gamers have it good. The PC is easily the best single platform for playing video games; you get the cheapest, best-looking versions of the big-budget blockbusters, a vast collection of classic games,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 25, 2015 -
The Good (And Bad) Of GTA V‘s Extraordinary New Online Heists
I peer through my night vision goggles. The hall ahead seems clear. “Evan, you good?” Standing to my left, my partner indicates he is. “Let’s move up.” Just then, the building shakes from an explosion. Our support team in the helicopter above must be keeping the guards outside occupied. “Air team, you guys doing okay?”…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 19, 2015 -
Tips & Guides
One Crucial Tip For Surviving GTA Online‘s Heists
Last week, GTA Online added 4-player cooperative heists. If you’ve been waiting until now to hop in and start playing, I’ve got a tip that’ll make it much easier to survive your first big score: Pack lots of snacks. In some ways, GTA Online works just like the regular, offline GTA V. The map is…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 16, 2015 -
It’s Been A Helluva Couple Weeks For Video Game Music
Whether you want lush orchestral tracks of murderous dance-floor jams, it has been a heck of a couple of weeks for video game music. Several games that I’ve been checking out recently have sounded so, so good. I thought I’d take a second to highlight some of the best stuff. Ori and the Blind Forest…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 12, 2015 -
Far Cry 4‘s Yeti DLC Is Fun, Has Yetis
Early in Valley of the Yetis, protagonist Ajay Ghale sees one of the mythical beasts for the first time. “What the fuck is that?” he asks. It’s a yeti, Ajay. It’s a yeti. Valley of the Yetis is a new downloadable expansion for the 2014 open-world action game Far Cry 4. It came out yesterday,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 11, 2015 -
GTA Online Heists Bring About Server Issues [Update]
As has become par for the course with this sort of thing, the much-anticipated launch of GTA Online‘s multiplayer heists has resulted in some woeful server troubles. We’ve been unable to connect or play all day, and we’re definitely not alone. Rockstar Support is reporting “limited” access to servers across all four platforms: “We are…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 10, 2015 -
If you’re playing Far Cry 4‘s Valley of the Yetis DLC, you probably want to upgrade your holsters. You’ll need Malayan Tapir hides, but those animals aren’t on your map. Happily, you can find four hides in a crate near your base camp. It’s located here: I’m still playing through the DLC to write something…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 10, 2015 -
The First Five Games I Play After Upgrading My PC
First, you upgrade your PC. Then, you fire up all the games that used to give your PC a hard time and obliterate them. It’s a time-honored tradition, and the only thing that changes from year to year and GPU to GPU is which games you choose. Which games do you bring before your towering…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 9, 2015
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