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You Can Now Get Destiny 2 Free On PC

From today until November 18, Destiny 2 will be free for people on PC to download through Blizzard’s Battle.net client, the company announced today at BlizzCon. The giveaway is to mark the game’s one year anniversary of first coming to PC. Obviously, this offer only applies to people who haven’t already purchased the game on…

I Can’t Stop Kicking People To Death In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

I’ve kicked so many people to death in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Off hill tops, mountain ledges, and temple roofs. I can’t help myself. In this latest entrant in the stealth series about assassinating historical figures, stealth is no longer the most important skill, and assassination attacks no longer guarantee success. So I’ve fallen back on…

I’ve Almost Finished The Quiet Man And Still Have No Idea What It Is

Since hearing about it at this year’s E3, I keep asking myself one question: what the hell is the The Quiet Man? Developed by Human Head Studios and Square Enix, every new trailer for the game was more confusing than the last. Now that the game is out, I finally have my answer. It is…

Why Reporting a Red Dead Redemption 2 Leak Cost a British Website $1.3 Million

The video games media reports on leaked information all the time. So why, when British website Trusted Reviews published details from a leaked document about Red Dead Redemption 2 in February of this year, did it end up paying out over a million dollars to charities as part of a settlement with publisher Take-Two Interactive?…

Gritty Has A Child And It’s This Diablo III Amiibo

Diablo III’s loot goblin is the latest creature to join the ranks of Nintendo’s line of Amiibo toys. He’s equal parts cute and grotesque, and while I can’t imagine ever wanting to display him on my bookshelf, his potential treasure might be too much for the diehard Diablo grinder to ignore. The little red menace…

Diablo III On Switch Is Great But Keeps One Of The Console Version’s Most Annoying Features

Diablo III is basically Gauntlet on steroids and with better menus, which both helps and hurts its newest iteration on the Switch. The much-anticipated Switch port, which will be released November 2, teases at being the go-to couch multiplayer game Diablo III was always meant to be, and in some cases, succeeds at it. Yet…

Longtime Pokémon Director Might Be Stepping Down

Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee might be the last time Junichi Masuda sits in the Pokémon director seat. Masuda has been at Game Freak, the studio behind Pokémon, since its founding. After working as a composer on Pokémon Red and Blue, the first game he directed was Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. He’s been…

Westerns To Watch After Playing Red Dead Redemption 2

While playing Red Dead Redemption 2, a handful of Westerns keep coming to mind. Many of those films are most likely explicit influences, but others simply are evocative or reminiscent. For me, at least. After each round of Red Dead Redemption 2, my list of movies I want to rewatch keeps growing. So far, it…

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This is a Doom II mod. Yes, it’s for that Doom II—the one that came out in 1994. Total Chaos is a survival horror “mod” that upgrades the game’s engine to the point that it’s basically unrecognizable. After nearly a decade of development, it’s finally been fully released

Undertale Fans Already Have Theories About What’s Going On In Deltarune

There’s a new game out with direct connections to Undertale. You know what that means: it’s time for the whole internet to turn into that one meme of Charlie Day Yesterday, Undertale creator Toby Fox surprise-released a new game called Deltarune. The free RPG is the first chapter of a new story seemingly set in…

Phoenix Point, a spiritual successor to X-Com made by the original game’s designer Julian Gollop, is looking very different to the last time we saw it

Super Mario Odyssey Is Already Playable In An Emulator

We tend to associate emulators as a means of playing old games from superseded systems, but the Yuzu emulator is different: it’s trying to run Nintendo Switch games on the PC, and it’s doing a very good job. Yuzu was only announced in January, but is already doing big things, as we can see in…

Here’s What Fallout 76’s Real-Money Store Looks Like So Far

Bethesda’s open world MMO Fallout 76 is currently in beta on console and PC for those who pre-ordered the game. While you can’t spend actual money to purchase its in-game currency, called Atoms, players can now use the currency they’ve already collected from doing various in-game tasks to buy stuff from the shop’s initial offering.…

The Switch port of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP won’t be out until sometime later this month Of course, Capybara Games is also hard at work on another little game called Below which, after many delays, the studio said would be out on Xbox One by the end of the year.

Adding Clutter To The Sims Gives The Game A Human Touch

If you want to mod The Sims 4, you can add drugs, make a pregnant teen, or even roast babies on a barbecue. One of the most popular kinds of mods, though, is something less fantastical: clutter. The Sims is like a huge dollhouse you can tell stories in. Those stories can range from setting…

Nintendo 64 Has Inspired A New Wave Of Surprisingly Sad Music

The musician Alex Lasater, who goes by A L E X, considers his happy place to be a basement shag-carpet floor, on one of those endless summer-break evenings when the humidity hangs in the air and the room is illuminated by the ghostly, fuzzy-blue glow of an old TV. I know this, because one of…

Fans Commiserate After Big Smash Bros. Leak Turns Out To Be Fake

Last week a Super Smash Bros. leak, known as the Grinch leak, sent the Smash community down a rabbit hole of rumor and speculation that ended up with fans divided into two camps, #teamreal and #teamfake, depending on whether they believed the leak would turn out to be legit. In its Direct today, Nintendo resolved…

They Made A Compact Retro Keyboard Out Of Wood

Last year keyboard maker Azio introduced the Retro Classic, a full-size luxury keyboard sporting typewriter-style keys and a real leather finish. Now the company is back with the R.C.K., a streamlined mechanical keyboard with a compact layout and Bluetooth support. There’s even a genuine walnut version. I loved the look and feel of the Retro…

I’m playing Toby Fox’s Undertale maybe prequel/maybe sequel game DeltaRune live now on Twitch Come and join the chat for monsters and great music!