It took 81 hours crammed into a week-and-a-half for me to finish Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s main story. It is, then, hard to not feel conflicted when I tell you that somebody just beat the game in a little over 30 minutes. Onin is a speedrunner who set his sights on Original Sin 2 a…
PUBG streamer Dr Disrespect found himself playing alongside a fan who didn’t realize he was the real thing, and decided to have some fun. “What do you think of the guy?” he asked the fan. “I just love him,” the fan replied. Doc baited him a little more: “He can get on my nerves.” But…
Last week, Elite: Dangerous’ mysterious aliensfinally went on the offensive after months of poking and probing. Now, players have figured out how to fight back, but not everybody’s feeling super rah-rah-rah gung-ho about it. Over the weekend, notorious Elite player Joshua “Harry Potter” Chamberlain and his Smiling Dog Crew managed to down a Thargoid by…
It’s been nearly a year since GTAForums member RedDagger started a thread dedicated to “landmark analysis” of Red Dead Redemption 2—a game that, at the time, was still nowhere close to coming out. “The aim is to get an idea of real-world locations within the game, and hopefully recreate the in-game map, using official trailers…
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If you didn’t take your first trip to The Wasteland until Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas and want to see where it all began, now’s your chance. For the next slightly-more-than 24 hours, the original Fallout is free to download and keep forever on Steam. It’s pretty hard and kinda wonky and very weird,…
Nintendo’s absurdly anticipated SNES Classic console launched today, but somebody’s already ripped Star Fox 2 to a handful of original SNES cartridges, listed them on places like eBay and Etsy, and sold them. Star Fox 2 was completed decades ago, but not officially released until today. The seller of this homemade regular SNES version, lvretrogames,…
Where some RPGs are a little bit fiddly, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is downright daunting. It’s got systems inside of systems inside of paradox barrels, and it gleefully throws you into the deep end with a minimal amount of explanation. If ever a game begged for tips, it’s this one. We’ve got you covered. These…
In games as in life, you can’t solve all your problems with violence. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, however, you can always teleport a boss from across the map to fight a different boss, thereby solving your problems with somebody else’s violence. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that Divinity: Original Sin 2…
Steam is perhaps the most monolithic gaming platform, the PC’s biggest show in town by a long shot. It’s also a multi-layered mess of systems and ideas, a Frankenstein UI (FrankenstUIn) assembled from limbs whose purposes are dimly remembered at best. It annoys the piss out of me sometimes, is what I’m saying. Valve’s one-stop…
Why walk (and get shot) when you can drive (and get shot)? It’s a question both asked and answered by a group of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players who’ve started staging huge vehicular death races around the island. StoneMountain64 posted a video compilation of death racing antics, and they’re wild. The basic setup is as follows: squads…
Elite: Dangerous’ aliens, once prone to terrifying yet ultimately peaceful encounters, have started reducing players’ ships to space dust. Of course you know, this means war. After two years of hints and intrigue, Elite: Dangerous’ aliens, the Thargoids, revealed themselves in all their flower-shaped, fleshy glory earlier this year. First contact was peaceful, albeit tense.…
Hate to break it to you, but Half-Life really stinks. In an enlightening video, MarphitimusBlackimus digs deep into the original Half-Life’s code and discovers that characters don’t just remark on smells randomly or because of scripted events; there’s actually a whole AI system for it. In short, there are three scent categories: meat, carcass, and…
Valve has removed games from Steam before, but never this many, especially not all at once. Today, Valve yanked 173 games from the Steam store, all of which were tied to Silent Echo Studios, a company that’s become notorious among Steam users for publishing heaps of cheaply made games, typically by slapping together assets from…
I’ve put 81 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2 over the last 12 days. When I wasn’t playing, I was thinking about it, or talking about it. It’s brilliant and frustrating in turns, and occasionally both at the same time. I adore it, but for now I’m glad to be done with it. Divinity: Original…
As was foretold (by himself), Brandon “Seagull” Larned is back. But the DPS dynamo didn’t return to partially Shaq-owned team NRG Esports. In a move that surprised many, he’s jumped ship to Team EnvyUs Earlier this year, Seagull stepped away from the highest levels of pro Overwatch play to dedicate himself to streaming. At the…
Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s devs have decided to remove the infinite damage combo I wrote about yesterday. Initially, writes PC Gamer, Larian planned to leave the combo in because it applauds “creative approaches to the game,” but have since determined that it’s an “unintended bug.” The studio plans to patch it “ASAP.”
In most games, the permanent death of a player character is a big deal, a matter of pomp, circumstance, and occasionally people arguing on forums for decades about how to get her back. In Niche, I watched the progenitor of my entire species drop dead after a few minutes of play. One second he was…
A good Overwatch team composition requires balance, offense and defense, light and shadow, yin and yang. Or you can just smother your problems by throwing a bunch of meat at them. That’s what Chinese Overwatch team Miracle Team 1 decided to do against FTD Club in an Overwatch Premier Series match, and it worked shockingly…
The first hands-on impressions of Doom’s surprise Nintendo Switch version have hit the Internet, and it sounds like the demonic shooter performs quite well on Nintendo’s diminutive game slab. At a recent press event, publications not namedKotaku got to try out an early version of Doom on Switch, and they pretty much unanimously dug it. Polygon…
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