When I first saw Pepper Grinder, I was struck by how brash it appeared to be. It was this loud, kinetic, almost volatile game that felt like it was tapping into a kind of chaos that other, more sanitized platformers rejected. Crucially, it accomplished this by handing the player a large drill and urging them to fuck…

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When I was younger, my friends and I would play Grand Theft Auto III differently than how the developers intended. Instead of completing missions and side activities, we would use cheat codes to give ourselves all the guns, a good car, and then save the game in that state. We would then each take turns loading up that…

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Dante Unbound hit Warframe last night – just in time for the game’s 11th birthday (it soft-launched March 25th, 2013). “Defend the Leverian from the avaricious clutches of Parvos Granum and the Corpus!” Digital Extremes says in its usual opaque lore-encrusted way. “Drusus, curator and caretaker of the Leverian, requests your help to get out […]

If you’re a World of Warcraft player looking at Plunderstorm with some combination of bafflement and trepidation about the possibility that every further “experimental” bit of content will be PvP-focused, you can rest a bit easier. Holly Longdale has put out a very brief statement insisting that there are future bits of content coming which […]

Full marks to the Elves of Tarisland, they live in a place called the Misty Forest. That’s it. Most Elves, they’d be calling the place Milliulussorieth, and you’d have to look through four translation guides to realize the name translates to “forest what got some mist going on,” so it’s still basically named Misty Forest, […]

It’s been over a decade since ArenaNet’s fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2 launched. In the years since its 2021 PC debut, the team has released several expansions and updates for it, with the latest being 2023’s Secrets of the Obscure. With two more expansions still in the works set to launch this year and in 2025,…

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Depending on how your romantic life is these days, a date with a very nice mindflayer may be the swoony highlight of your spring. So why not swing into Dungeons and Dragons Online, where Update 67: Slice of Life arrived yesterday with a few unusual quests? The free adventure pack of three quests allows you […]

The dual-episode premiere of X-Men ‘97, the Disney+ sequel to the classic animated series, put its best foot forward in winning over old and new fans. That’s thanks to the show’s beautiful animation, great voice acting, and an understanding of what makes these beloved characters so great. Episode 3, which aired on…

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Players trying to complete everything in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth are running into a roadblock at the very end of the game after the recent 1.020 patch broke one of the very last side quests. And until it’s patched by Square Enix, only those who own the game physically can complete the quest, get the trophy associated…

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From the moment that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that he had finally made peace with Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida, we have all known we would be getting a crossover event. And the first video trailer made it clear we were getting FFXVI‘s goodest boy, Torgal, in both mount […]