A Game About Making A Socialist Society

Post Capitalism by Colestia is a short city-building and puzzle game about finding the weak links in capitalism and replacing them with alternatives in order to create a functional socialist society. It’s this week’s Indie Pick. Games like Sim City allow players to build block upon block of city streets and utilities to form a…

GTA Fans Find Hidden Red Dead Redemption 2 Mission, Solve Years-Long Grave Mystery 

GTA Online’s latest update, The Doomsday Heist, is all about big new weapons and high-tech vehicles. According to players who have dug into the game’s files, however, there’s also a mysterious new scavenger hunt that is directly tied into the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2. Earlier this week GTA Online data miners, The Guru Team,…

Episode Ignis Fills In More Of Final Fantasy XV‘s Blanks

Like Final Fantasy XV’s previous two pieces of downloadable content, Episode Ignis is short, action-packed, and exists to explain an unresolved plot point from the main game. This time, we get to learn how our boy Iggy got… changed. Episode Ignis, which takes place right in the middle of Final Fantasy XV’s Chapter 9, is…

Never Stop Sneakin’ Is A Stealth Game For People Who Hate Stealth

Never Stop Sneakin’, the new game from the creator of Dust: An Elysian Tail, opens with a time-travelling madman kidnapping every president of the United States throughout history. It’s ridiculous. It’s also an excellent little top-down stealth game, and I don’t even like stealth games. Original published 12/8/17—Re-upped for release day. Normally I’m far too…

Hyper Light Drifter Keycap Set Shouldn’t Be Too Hard To Type On

Players who figured out the blocky glyph language of Hyper Light Drifter should have no problem typing on this officially-licensed set of keycaps. Don’t worry, they come with actual letters as well. Designed by Redditor Atakoshi and licensed by developer Heart Machine, DSA Drifter is a special set of low-profile keyboard keycaps based around the…

Mods Turn Zelda’s Dirt Bike Into Sonic, GTA

Remember: people playing Breath of the Wild on Wii U and PC (via emulation) can play the game with mods. Like ones that modify the game’s new dirtbike. Here’s one that will make you thankful Zelda doesn’t have a giant train: And here’s a slightly terrifying take on Road Runner: These are all courtesy of…

Battlefield 1’s New DLC Blends Conquest and Assault, And It’s Great

With all of the games that 2017 has offered up so far, 2016’s Battlefield 1 continues to give me new stuff to play. The third DLC pack, titled “Turning Tides,” is being split into two releases. The second half is slated for a January 2018 release window, but the first half came out this week…

When A Classroom Learns About Pokémon

My daughter is seven, and a few weeks ago her class spent the week choosing a subject to “investigate” (basically write reports on). The teacher might have been hoping they chose something like “nature”, or “factories”, or “history”, but the room of seven-year-old kids did the seven-year-old thing and chose “Pokémon”. Each kid was tasked…

New Clam Blitz Mode Highlights The Best and Worst of Splatoon 2

While Clam Blitz is very fun, it’s hampered by Splatoon 2‘s glaring flaws. Clam Blitz, which was added to Splatoon 2 today, isn’t complicated to play, but is confusing to explain. In this game mode, you have to pick up golden clams that are scattered across the map and put them in the enemy’s basket.…

Battlefront II DLC Tries To Close Story Cliffhanger, Disappoints 

Star Wars Battlefront II’s latest DLC features an expanded story and new worlds from The Last Jedi. It does its best to reinvigorate the game, but it ultimately falls short. Spoilers Ahead Battlefront II’s latest collection of DLC continues the story of stormtrooper Iden Versio in an additional campaign called Resurrection. At the end of Battlefront…

The Division’s latest global event changes the rules yet again for Ubisoft’s shooter. In Strike, which runs for five more days, a downed enemy drops an exploding grenade that hurts nearby enemies. A more advanced Strike setting applies similar detonation chain reactions to players who take lots of damage. A fun tweak!

Crytek Sues Star Citizen Makers For Breaching Contract

German game publisher Crytek is suing Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) for breaching contract and infringing its copyright, asking for a jury trial to determine the value of damages. The two companies had originally partnered on Star Citizen, which still has no release date but has raised nearly $200 million in crowdfunding since…

Top Symmetra Player’s Overwatch Bans Won’t Stop Him From Picking His Favorite Hero

“Report him,” an Overwatch playersaid over team chat last week, referencing a Twitch streamer who goes by Stevooo. It was right after Stevooo hastily locked down the hero Symmetra. In text, the player then politely asked all 12 of the match’s players to report Stevooo “for poor teamwork.” Another player responded: “I did 5 times…

Ghost Recon Wildlands Is Getting The Predator For A Few Weeks

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting invaded by Hollywood’s decades-old slayer of Aliens, Predator, starting tomorrow, December 14, and running through the beginning of January. And you thought the politics of the game were complicated already. The alien hunter will be part of a special challenge where players, either alone or as groups of…