When you rank the best Fallout games you gotta be tough. Dedicated. Observant. And you gotta be prepared to argue your point. We’ve attempted to give you a rock-solid ranking of the best Fallout games, from the Wastelands to Appalachia and beyond. The Fallout series takes post-apocalyptic worlds full of …
Read More »Steam Decks built in button mapping sets a new bar for convenience and accessibility
I haven’t had a Steam Deck long but in the time I have I’ve mostly been throwing games at it, most from the last 20 years, to see what works and what doesn’t. 2002’s Morrowind? Like a dream. 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum? Here’s an error screen I doubt the developers …
Read More »Elden Ring has set a new standard for open worlds – where does that leave linear games?
Before Elden Ring, I couldn’t have imagined comparing FromSoftware games to the Sniper Elite series. Storming a Nazi stronghold in the French countryside, murdering a captain and casing a farmhouse mansion for intel really is a million miles from wading knee-deep in Blighttown’s poisonous sludge. But, now well over 200 …
Read More »Genshin Impact events keep getting better – I just wish some of them were permanent
Genshin Impact has added dozens of characters and many regions in the 18 months or so since launch, but its pinnacle content hasn’t changed much at all. The hardest recurring challenge in the game is still the Spiral Abyss dungeon, and while it has gotten noticeably harder over time with …
Read More »The Overwatch 2 beta is fun but feels like Overwatch 1.5
It’s golden hour at Ilios, and I’ve never seen it like this before. The low-hanging sun bathes the whitewashed buildings in a soft orange hue, the ancient ruins seem to emit their own glow of light – and I’m interrupted from admiring them by an Orisa spear through my gut. …
Read More »Why the Switch needs its much-rumored official Game Boy Advance emulator
The Game Boy Advance is home to some fantastic games. In fact, many of my fondest childhood memories stem from playing the best GBA games on my indigo-colored handheld. I still remember being entirely enraptured by Pokemon Sapphire during a long drive home from a trip to France – despite …
Read More »Elden Ring is Miyazakis most successful attempt to get players out from behind their shields
Hidetaka Miyazaki has never seemed like one for sequels, which perhaps explains why his familiar gameplay template has appeared under so many different names. The Soulsborne lineage, or whatever clunky portmanteau has supplanted the label now that Elden Ring has released, has shuffled us not just between titles but styles, …
Read More »10 absurd but essential video game cliches we couldnt live without
The best video game cliches are the ones that we couldn’t live without, no matter how much they make us cringe. If you’ve spent any length of time in virtual worlds big or small, chances are you’ll have come across many, if not all, of the classic video game cliches …
Read More »Have You Tried… making friends with pigs in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in No Place Like Home?
My god, there’s so much garbage. Towering monoliths of dirt, plastic bottles, rubber ducks, carrier bags, and other disposables are almost the sole visual language of the Earth you land on in No Place Like Home. You play as Ellen, a young woman who’s returned to Earth from her spaceship …
Read More »Why Elden Ring speedrun records are being set by a new generation of FromSoftware players
Every world record Elden Ring speedrun is exhilarating. Each unfolds at breakneck speed. They are fast, and often frantic. In fact, the optimal Elden Ring speedrun route has to be meticulously mapped out, as even one single millisecond can be the difference between topping the leaderboard and hitting the slush …
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