Hard Games Haven’t Gotten Easier, But They Did Get Nicer

In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them into atomic dust and make them insert a quarter to reassemble themselves back into a humanoid shape. Hard games never stopped coming out. What has changed about them, especially in recent years, is in…

How An Overwatch Skin Left Some Of D.Va’s Biggest Fans Feeling Betrayed

Overwatch hero D.va has been considered a symbol of empowerment by a lot of feminists in the Korean Overwatch community, representing how women could be lauded for their talent instead of their looks. Long before Mei graced protest memes for Hong Kong, a group called FAMERZ, then called National D.va Association, attended rallies and protests…

Now this (isn’t) podracing! I’m playing Jedi: Fallen Order with my bud Paul right now on Twitch. Come join chat to talk about movies, lightsabers, and the droids you’re looking for.

Highlight Reel returns to tomorrow for the first episode of 2020. As always, send your great gaming moments to [email protected] and we might feature them on the show. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone has been up to over the winter break.

The Sexiness Of Control

When I guide Jesse Faden through the Federal Bureau of Control, I summon a slab of concrete the size of a small desk, hovering it effortlessly over my right shoulder as I shoot, dodge, fly. I feel the crackle of the energy she can unleash on every object around her. The weighty rock yields to…

Wargroove’s free Double Trouble DLC is coming to Switch, Xbox One, and PC on February 6, with the PS4 version to follow later. In addition to a new coop story campaign and units, the update will also add competitive quick play maps and more mission editor tools.

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Modern Warfare Players Glitching Under The Floors Are Becoming A Major Problem

Players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s large-scale “Ground War” mode have discovered several ways to get underneath the floors or inside the walls of the game’s maps, letting them kill other players with impunity before raining down nukes. Before this influx of cheaters, the 32-versus-32 Battlefield-style mode was once a great place to level…

Hold onto your guns: Exit the Gungeon is coming to PC and consoles sometime in early 2020. The Enter the Gungeon spin-off, a side-scrolling twist on the main game’s roguelike bullet hell, was originally released on Apple Arcade last fall. It’s fun on mobile but is better with a controller.