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Left Alive Is A Fascinating Concept, But A Crappy Game
Left Alive, the new game by Square Enix, sounds amazing. It mixes intense sneaking and massive robot battles, and if that doesn’t sound familiar enough, it even has art from Metal Gear’s Yoji Shinkawa to drive the point home. But the reality is less impressive than the concept. Left Alive is a clunky disaster whose…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 6, 2019 -
In case you missed it, Heather and I streamed Left Alive earlier and talked about mechs, vodka, and bad haircuts. Follow us on Twitch for more streams!
Paul Tamayo & Heather Alexandra Published March 6, 2019 -
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Bloodline Expansion Is A Solid End To A Divisive Saga
As I battled the final boss in the new and final chapter of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s first big episodic expansion, a chapter that happens to be all about parenting, I heard my two-year-old daughter cry out for me and her mom. It was half past midnight. She was down the hallway, three rooms away, wide…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 6, 2019 -
Anthem‘s Level-One Weapons Are Stronger Than Endgame Ones, Thanks To An Apparent Bug
An apparent bug in the new loot shooter Anthem has made beginner weapons just as powerful as the ones you’ll get in the final levels. In fact, players have discovered, the level-1 rifle might currently be the strongest gun in the game. Earlier today, a player by the name of YeetLordSupreme shared a major discovery…
By Ethan Gach Published March 6, 2019 -
20 Minutes Of Devil May Cry 5’s Excellent Combat
Devil May Cry 5 doesn’t release until Friday, but I’ve played it and had a veritable ass-load of fun. Each of its three protagonists plays differently, with neat quirks and flashy moves. Tim Rogers and I played as all of them, in order to break down their smokin’ sexy styles. Oh, yeah. If you want…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 6, 2019 -
Here’s A Wooden Cheeseburger That Plays Nintendo Games
Swedish artist Love Hulten combines technology with natural wood to create outstanding works of functional art. He’s made gorgeous retro gaming PCs and an ingenious retro console disguised as a wooden boom box. And now he’s made a wooden cheeseburger than plays NES games. He calls it the Game Burger Advance. Tiny PCs and LED…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2019 -
Nintendo Is Reportedly Toning Down Micro-Transactions In Its Mobile Games
Developers behind some of the free-to-play mobile games Nintendo has published in recent years say the company has told them not to be too aggressive with the microtransactions that these games tend to rely on to make money, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Where individual studios Nintendo partners with are looking…
By Ethan Gach Published March 6, 2019 -
Red Dead Redemption 2’s Vaudeville Shows Are More Than Just An Impressive Diversion
Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of distractions. There’s poker, blackjack, and dominos to play. There are animals to hunt and collectibles to find. Many of these activities seem like ways to take your mind off the main story, and you can easily ignore them to focus on the game’s more pressing matters. But one…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 6, 2019 -
Heather and I are playing the very strange Left Alive on our Twitch channel. Join us in the chat!
Paul Tamayo & Heather Alexandra Published March 6, 2019 -
‘Voice Skins’ Could Let Gamers Customize Their Voices Online
Online, we can be whoever we want—a bulked-up soldier, a freakish banana, Sonic the Hedgehog—only until we start speaking. Over any online game’s built-in chat or Discord, our voices have the power to immediately reveal information about our geographic region, our gender, even our ethnicity. Now, a company that makes “voice skins” is trying to…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 6, 2019 -
Rainbow Six Siege’s first expansion of the year, Operation Burnt Horizon, is live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC It adds two new operators, Gridlock and Mozzie, a new map called Outback, and a Newcomer Playlist for people just getting started with the game so they don’t get shredded by veteran players.
By Ethan Gach Published March 6, 2019 -
Black Desert for the Xbox One is three years behind the PC version, but it’s got plans for catching up. Developer Pearl Abyss haslaid out a road map for the first half of 2019 that will add four new classes, three regions, world bosses and more to the massively multiplayer console RPG.
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2019 -
Hideo Kojima said that lots of studios fall behind their games’ original release dates in a recent J-Wave interview (via ResetEra). Kojima added, “Death Stranding is slightly off its original schedule but this isn’t a major delay.” Better late and good than on time and bad!
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 6, 2019 -
New Doom Map Recreates A Famously Terrible Bathroom
Once upon a time, a Something Awful user decided to renovate his bathroom, and did it in about the worst way possible. Not only was it a garish mess—it looks like a Helghast home improvement show—but he violated a bunch of building codes with some reckless DIY along the way As bad as all that…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2019 -
Gaming Monitor Stops A Bullet, Still Works Great
At 4 a.m. last Sunday morning, Fresno County, California resident Eric Gan heard a loud banging noise in his house. He lay awake in panic for an hour before falling back asleep, figuring he’d observe the damage in the morning. He didn’t expect to find five bullet holes in his home hours later. What he…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 5, 2019 -
Destiny 2 Now Lets You Level Up Super Fast
If you, like me, haven’t had the time or patience to keep up with the Destiny 2 grind, here’s some good news on this day full of new Gambit modes: You can now get all the way to 640 power in just an hour or two, as long as you have the game’s year two…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2019
