Despite Player Outcry, Elite: Dangerous Will Remain Always Online

Elite: Dangerous is shaping up to be the best open galaxy/virtual reality space trucking game this side of the Milky Way (which it includes all of), but controversy recently blotted out its starry sky when Frontier yanked a long-promised offline mode right before release. Worse, not everybody was offered refunds. In a recent interview with…

The Best SimCity Is Now Free

Forget the bustedremake. Forget the cash-hungry mobile games. The best SimCity Maxis ever made is still available, and as of now it’s a free download on EA’s Origin store. I’m of course talking about SimCity 2000, the game that struck the perfect balance between accessibility and the finer tuning of city-management. More devoted fans might…

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’s ‘Real Murderer’ Is Unexpected

It’s easy to get caught up in the jumpscares of Five Nights at Freddy’s and leave it at that. But underneath those scares, there’s a very disturbing story hiding in the background of the series—and players are still hard at work at trying to figure out all the details. Concretely, what players know is that…

Fallout: New Vegas, As Told By Steam Reviews

What better way to make the wait for Fallout 4 news more torturous than to look back on some of what made the older games so excellent? Fallout is a series full of difficult choices, yes. But it’s also a series where you can horde a billion tiny T-Rex toys in your casino suite, if…

Dragon Age‘s New Update Took Away My Damn Scars

Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s second big patch went out today, largely focused on the RPG behemoth’s PC version. I took it for a spin and discovered a few tiny tweaks paired with a big change for the worse: my character’s scars are gone—her face pristine as fresh plastic—and I’m not alone in that. The patch, released…

Great Gaming Gifts for $60 and Over

The hints that your special gamer people have been dropping? You’ve caught them. The money required? You’ve saved it. They deserve something bigger, something cooler. And you’re going to give it to them. Here are some finer things that just might make their holiday game run a lot more more sparkly. Corsair Gaming K95 RGB…

The top-notch strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic 3 will be remade in HD for PC and tablets, publisher Ubisoft announced today. It’s out in January.

Tiny GTA V Tricks You Into Thinking Los Santos Is Cute

“Cute” is not normally a word I’d use to describe Grand Theft Auto…unless it has been miniaturized. Then GTA becomes so adorable you could just eat it up. Check out GTA Series Videos‘s take on Los Santos—they use something called tilt-shifting to get a really striking effect that miniaturizes GTA V: Neat, right? You might…

How To Unlock The New Strike In Destiny: The Dark Below

Destiny‘s new DLC is out today, and with it comes a brand new strike called The Will of Crota that also doubles as the weekly heroic. Of course, the game doesn’t do a very good job of explaining how you can unlock and play that strike. That’s what we’re here for. It’ll take you about…

Mega Man X Makes A Much Cooler Statue Than The Original

Back is September, First 4 Figures revealed thefirst in their new line of Mega Man statues. It was nice, if a bit too Astro Boy for my tastes. Now the company unveils its first Mega Man X statue. That’s more like it. Not that I have anything against the original Mega Man. He’s an adorable…

It Took Six Hours For A Team To Beat Destiny’s New Raid

Well, that didn’t take long. One group of Destiny players has already gotten through the toughest content in the new expansion pack, The Dark Below. The team, known as ‘Invigorate Gaming,’ posted the following stats for the new raid, Crota’s End: Their triumph over the new raid might not be surprising, given that they were…

Stock Up on Xbox One Games, Elgato Game Capture, Vita Discounts

Get $25 Dell gift cards with the purchase of select Xbox One games, use said gift cards to buy more Xbox One games. Sunset Overdrive plus $25 Gift Card ($40) | Dell Forza 5 – Game of the Year Edition plus $25 Gift Card ($40) | Dell Ryse: Son of Rome – Legendary Edition plus…

The Not-Particularly-Secret Origin Of Homestar Runner

From children’s book to web series to Telltale adventure game to a four-year stint as an incredibly quiet thing, Homestar Runner was one of the first really important things on the internet. Where did it come from? Atlanta, of course. Specifically Dunwoody, Georgia, where series creators Mike and Mark Chapman (the Brothers Chaps) attended school…

Yahoo! Mario is looking exceedingly triumphant in this custom Super Smash Bros. Wii U stage “Star World.” It’s made by Reddit user Rifick, a player who’s making a name for himself online thanks to his standout work in the game’s level editor. Check out more of his new stages here, and our ongoing roundup here…

That’s It, I’m Done With Facebook Games

Today Facebook announced its 2014 Games of the Year. The top winner? Cookie Jam, a Candy Crush Saga clone. If this is the best Facebook has to offer, I’m done. I realize that most of our readership was done with Facebook games from the word FarmVille. They’re bothersome, annoying, formulaic, et cetera. But I’ve seen…

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