The pandemic has put the kibosh on hanging out in person, so the more games with multiplayer modes, the better. And if you’ve been itching to grab your board and hit the streets or skatepark with your friends, there’s now another option. Skater XL is the latest game to let you spend time with your …
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Outriders is out now and while the servers are more stable now, that wasn’t exactly the case at launch. With the arrival of the game as an Xbox Game Pass day one title and the interest surrounding what the latest adventure from People Can Fly has to offer, the servers buckled under pressure. The studio …
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An island littered with dead bears doesn’t sound like it’d be a cozy place, but it mostly is. I’ve spent some time with Cozy Grove today, an Animal Crossing-ish life-sim where you play a scout camping on an island where a horrifying bear massacre took place at some point in the past. (That’s not canon …
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Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139 has gone gold! What does that mean? It means that, according to Toylogic and Square Enix, the game is ready for prime time when it launches April 23. If you haven’t been keeping up with the game, Nier Replicant is the Western release of the Japanese-exclusive version of 2010’s Nier. The story …
Generally, when games come to Steam after exclusive stints on other storefronts, it’s a cause for celebration. In the case of Titanfall, however, the opposite was largely true. Despite being very well regarded—our 86% review from 2014 called it “the most exciting multiplayer shooter in recent years”—user reviews on Steam are “mixed,” and “very negative” …
Monster Hunter Rise continues to find unprecedented success, but no game is without its selection of technical issues. A few days after launch, a major bug was discovered after players realized that they couldn’t access their save files. If you were to activate the Action or Hurt Pose from your action bar and quit the …
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Even if your PC has the best possible hardware, your online gaming experience could be impacted by an underpowered router. That’s why many companies are producing high-end routers specifically designed to improve network performance while gaming, and now one of Netgear’s options is only $299.99 at multiple stores. That’s a savings of $50 from the …
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Hitman developer IO Interactive announced last November their next project is a James Bond title that will serve as an origin story for the iconic spy. In a recent interview with IGN, IO shed more light on how they’re building the game’s narrative and, most importantly, how it’s shaping its own take on 007. In an …
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There are a lot of different keyboards out there. Some are lit with rolling waves of color, others have an abundance of extra buttons—or, in some cases, a conspicuous lack of them. In 2019 Microsoft brought back its famously curved Ergonomic Keyboard; my personal weapon of choice is the classic Model M, a massive beige …
Five months after release, Torchlight 3 has a new class on the way, with the Cursed Captain on the way to join the ranks of such hallowed archetypes as steampunk robot, tortured crystal wizard, and train summoner. The Cursed Captain, announced via a Steam post, brings a real summoner, minion-master, or necromancer archetype to Torchlight …
Torchlight 3’s new class is a pirate captain ghost Read More »