Firewatch puts story first and delivers a compelling mystery that sends players into the Wyoming wilderness with nothing but a map, a walkie-talkie, and a lot of questions. It’s hard for indie games to compete for attention at events like E3 when major announcements are being made about Fallout 4, Mass Effect, and Halo; but the short E3 teaser trailer for Campo Santo’s Firewatch managed to catch our attention and stick with us last summer....
2021 is off to an incredible start in terms of Pokemon Cards at auction, as a new lot of a complete first edition set of 103 cards from 1999 is hitting Goldin Auctions. It’s expected this could sell for as much as $750,000. Since Pokemon TCG hit shelves, an incredible 30 billion cards have been traded, and it continues to be the top-selling card game. Yes, for those wondering, this latest auction does include the coveted Charizard card....
It has been eons since we’ve heard anything about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a spin-off title set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s incredibly popular fantasy world. Putting players into the loincloth of the titular deformed hobbit, we now have an idea of what the game will look like. I’m sorry to make this cheesy reference, but these screens are anything but precious. Publication GameStar.de has gotten an exclusive interview with developer Daedalic Entertainment (that’s behind a paywall) and shared a ton of screenshots for what is presumably the PS5/Xbox Series X versions of the game....
As of today, players can finally dive into Fortnite’s Week 5 challenges, but some of them are actually rather difficult to complete. Of the nine challenges available for players to tackle this week, there’s a good variety of combat and exploration based options, as well as a wealth of Season 4 Battle Pass XP to be earned. Each week, Fortnite releases new challenges to keep things fresh and provide players with new ways to earn XP....
Deadpool might have left Fortnite (for now) but parts of him remain on the island, including a few floaties he left behind. The flooding of Fortnite’s island to mark the transition from Season 2 into Season 3 has changed it drastically. Perhaps even more so than when players were introduced to a whole new island at the start of Chapter 2. Some of Season 2’s points-of-interest have managed to survive the onslaught of water though, including The Yacht....
Fortnite is around a month into its massive Marvel event, with the game seeing new themes heroes, villains, locations, and challenges added regularly. The Daywalker himself has also arrived within Fortnite, as Blade is now purchasable within the shop. While Fortnite fans make memes about Avengers: Endgame, the cosmetic designers at Epic Games have been hard at work on a skin for the anti-hero. Blade’s storied comic history of vampire slaying was translated to the screen through the cult-classic movie trilogy in the early 2000s, and with the hero set to get an MCU movie in a few years, now is a great time to add him to Fortnite....
Fortnite season 4 is here and has given fans plenty of reasons to get excited for the game all over again. Epic kicked-off the season by destroying Dusty Depot, and introducing a host of smaller map changes and new items. Players have been having a grand ole time scouring the game for new secrets, and one Reddit user may have found a new hint at what’s to come later on in the season....
The Fortnite phenomenon is unlikely to come to an end anytime soon, as Epic Games has confirmed that the Galactus event was its biggest ever. With millions of Fortnite fans watching and even more playing, the finale to Season 4 was record-breaking. While Fortnite Season 5 is bringing back Tilted Towers and continuing the story regarding Agent Jonesy, Season 4 ended with a massive bang. After setting up the arrival of Galactus for months, the world-eater arrived in Fortnite, decimating the helicarrier and starting a fight with the player and some of Marvel’s biggest heroes....
Microsoft’s Xbox One may currently be trailing Sony’s PlayStation 4 in worldwide sales at the moment, but the company is taking big steps in an attempt to close the gap, starting with the release of strong exclusive titles over the next 12 months. While more exclusives are undoubtedly an exciting prospect, it is Microsoft’s new Xbox One system update that could swing things in its favor due its reported ability to save hard drive space and cut download times....
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Games have the ability to captivate us and engross us into a story like no other medium can. But what if there was more to a game than what was just presented? What if there were things added simply to mess with the player’s mind, to expand it, or fill it with countless possibilities of what the truth can be. Kind of the like the glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction, most gaming mysteries never get solved....
It’s the kind of heart-felt sentiment that warms the soul, though we wish it could’ve happened under better circumstances: Gearbox Software is placing a fan of the game into the upcoming Borderlands 2 game as one of the NPC characters, but he won’t be able to see it - the NPC is being made in his memory. The studio has also prepared a eulogy for him, via the antics of the much beloved ClapTrap....
Gears of War developer The Coalition has been very quick to squash rumors circling that the studio is currently working on a new Star Wars game for Microsoft. GamesBeat reporter Jeff Grubb recently revealed on his weekly gaming news show that Lucasfilm Games is allegedly licensing out the Star Wars franchise to a number of different developers besides EA. One name thrown out by Grubb was Microsoft, a decision that naturally ended up inspiring a number of seemingly baseless rumors from excited fans....
The new year has already been an exciting one for Genshin Impact fans, as Version 1.2 of the game introduced not only Albedo, the alchemical swordsman, but also the entire Dragonspine region, and more recently, five-star character Ganyu. The latest update added Ganyu as the featured five-star summon, while also introducing several new events. Travelers have been assisting a Treasure-Seeking Seelie lately, and while that event approaches its end, Genshin Impact has introduced yet another special in-game challenge....
Many Genshin Impact players are still working their ways through some of the tail-ends of Version 1.2 of the game. Although Albedo’s special event has concluded, and players have since gotten to meet the five-star Ganyu as well, there are still several events, like Marvelous Merchandise (Part 2) for Travelers to enjoy. Travelers can currently still partake in two main events, Hypostatic Symphony, and Marvelous Merchandise, however, it seems that by the time those two Genshin Impact extravaganzas wrap up, players will already have new material lined up for release....
Fans have long speculated over if and win Hu Tao would ever show up in Genshin impact, but it looks like it’s finally happening. Mihoyo has announced it will bring the 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor to its gacha hit this week on March 2. According to Mihoyo, Hu Tao takes her operations of the funeral parlor seriously, even if she does come across as the type that’s all work and no play....
Earl T. Kim provided the voice acting and motion capture work for Ghost of Tsushima’s warrior monk Norio. The character makes his first in-game appearance at the beginning of Ghost of Tsushima’s Act 2 and, by the end of the story, becomes one of Jin Sakai’s most trusted friends and allies. Over on his Twitch channel, earlofsammitch, Earl Kim has been doing a playthrough of Ghost of Tsushima, and he recently reached the point where Norio first shows up on-screen....
The soft reboot of Santa Monica Studio’s God of War, regarded by some as the best game in the series, came out in 2018. Those who enjoy a good action-adventure game found this one stupefyingly good. God of War is beloved not only for its incredible gameplay and performance but also for its story. One aspect that will make a story really work is the characters. The characters in God of War are very well-written, which is why the story works so well....
With the release of God Of War less than a month away, fan anticipation couldn’t be higher. With new trailers and news coming every day, both Sony and Santa Monica Studios aren’t about to let that hype fade, today deciding to show off just how detailed and immersive of an experience the game is going to be. In a video released by Sony, the Director of Cinematography on God of War, Dori Arazi, discusses the game’s visuals and design, specifically what is described as the “Single-Shot Effect,” where the game comes across as a completely immersive experience, void of cuts, errors or load screens....
The release of God of War is almost upon us and fan anticipation couldn’t be higher. Promising to deliver a robust and interesting new world, the latest entry in the successful PlayStation franchise sees an aged and weary Kratos on a journey through the world of Norse mythology with his son Atreus to fulfill the final wish of his deceased wife. While the the game isn’t a total reset, God of War is going to be a very different experience from past games....
It would be impossible to talk about some of the most popular and legendary gaming franchises around without mentioning Final Fantasy, a franchise that has been running strong ever since a struggling Square released the first game in this series way back in 1987. The series has shown no signs of stopping anytime since, rekindling the fires of a dying company and helping them achieve immense success, to the point where Square Enix has now become one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry....
