Christopher Robin is in trouble, and it’s up to you to save him! But it’s not the sort of trouble you might expect from A.A. Milne’s most famous tale. Something has happened to the Hundred Acre Wood—it’s been twisted by some unknown cosmic force—and now Christopher Robin is facing “a fate too terrible to imagine” in a horrifyingly familiar world.
Hundred Acre Wood is a “first-…
Read morePalworld, aka that game everyone has spent the last two years referring to as “Pokémon with guns,” is out on Friday, but streamers are already broadcasting it ahead of launch—and going off early Twitch numbers, it’s a hit. Wednesday morning (Pacific time) Palworld had around 60,000 viewers on Twitch, and that figure has climbed steadily throughout the day. At the time of writing it…
Read moreIn the pantheon of side-scrolling beat ’em ups, there are some real hitters. You’ve got the ’92 X-Men, The Simpsons, and my personal favorite, Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara. One thing we never got in the halcyon days of my childhood in the ’80s, however, was a side-scroller arcade cabinet featuring the Real American Heroes, G.I. Joe, despite them being perfect for the genre. …
Read moreYou may have forgotten about The Day Before by now. It was first announced in January 2021 as “an open-world MMO survival” game, and then in April of that year we got a 10-minute gameplay video. And that’s really been it—nothing of substance has been heard about the game since.
That situation will soon change, though, as developer Fntastic says that it will reveal “raw gameplay foot…
Read moreEarlier this week players of Nexon’s new looter-shooter The First Descendant made a wonderful discovery: The game has its own Destiny-style loot cave. Soon christened “the Valby Run”, this area features mobs that respawn infinitely and at a high rate, which can be farmed endlessly for oodles of the game’s currencies and gear. And the big surprise was that the developers didn’t seem all…
Read moreThis week’s free Epic Game Store giveaway is a small slice of gaming history: Cave Story+, an enhanced version of what the publisher calls “arguably the most well-known indie game of all time.” Cave Story comes from solo developer Daisuke Amaya, and the original game was released for free in 2004 after five years of work (and is still available). A Metroidvania about a robot trying to sa…
Read moreAfter showing off how puny Tarnished are in comparison to Armored Core 6’s maps, dataminer Dropoff has now gone in the opposite direction, demonstrating some beastly-huge mechs thrashing about in comparatively tiny Elden Ring environments.
This isn’t my personal holy grail of a mech one-shotting Malenia with the Red Shift, mind. Dropoff brought the Elden Ring map data into AC6 for a helpf…
Read moreA couple of years back, Final Fantasy 14 had a major drama involving a pizza emote, GrubHub, and a promotional campaign some unlucky souls spent over $30 dollars on. Yes, this really was a big deal. Let me explain why.
Back in December 2021, FF14 had an official promotion with GrubHub. It was meant to be a simple, cutesy little event that’d give your Warrior of Light an /eatpizza emote. O…
Read moreBack in 2011, scores of Skyrim players became master thieves overnight thanks to the discovery of a simple exploit. The bucket trick, discovered just one day after Skyrim launched, made any NPC completely oblivious to thievery simply by blocking their line-of-sight. The trick? Put a bucket on their head. You’d think an exploit that trivializes pickpocketing and stealth would’ve been removed at …
Read moreOne day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy’s Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor.
Alan Wake brings a trio of unique perks to the game, all of them specific to the character. Champion of Light grants Wake faster movem…
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