This Week in Destiny 2: Events, Updates, Ascendant Challenge – June 4, 2019

Welcome to the Season of Opulence in Destiny 2! The new expansion just launched with its new mode, The Menagerie, and a whole host of other changes. That’s far from all we’ve got on the...

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Heaven's Hope Review Impressions

Every year when I was a kid, my mom would buy me a new “I Spy” book, with pages filled with photographs of cluttered item search puzzles. Find five pins or find 10 owls. We would settle in my bed afte...

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Project X Zone 2 Review

Project X Zone 2 is a mess in theory. It’s crossover strategy game featuring characters from Capcom, Namco, Sega, and Nintendo that exists almost entirely as a vehicle for jokes that make up...

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Exanima Preview

At first glance, Exanima looks like virtually any other Diablo clone on the market. The dimly-lit dungeons and isometric perspective do little to combat that perception. You’ll spend...

Where is the "Authentic" LGBTQ Content in Games?

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) annually awards various types of media for outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and issues. Wh...

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Pony Island Review

Pony Island has utter contempt for games that use mechanical bells and whistles to extort something from their players. It is a seething letter to the CEOs, profiteers, and grubby busine...

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No Pineapple Left Behind Review Impressions

The Boston-based game developer has made a small name for himself in the indie game world for making political and sociological satires that have the subtlety of a hammer to the head. His first was

Tips for Playing Mordhau: 18 Things the Game Doesn't Tell You

Mordhau is bloody brilliant. Its multiplayer, medieval-style hacking and slashing is some of the most fun we’ve had in a game this year. When you finally pull off the perfect parry and counte...

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Outreach hands-on impressions

Outreach is a zero-gravity game, described by the design team as a “first-person floater.” And I have just floated off into the vacuum of space for a third consecutive time.

All of the Destiny 2 Season of Opulence Exotics and Their Perks

The Destiny 2 Season of Opulence is now live! With it comes six new exotics split evenly between weapons and armor. Below, we’ve rounded up all of the Destiny 2 S...

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Dream Daddy invites you to make your own 'Dadsona'

“I’m in art college,” explains Leighton Gray, art director and co-creator of Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. “We were talking about furry culture and Fursonas and all the different perso...

Dead by Daylight Halloween Event Guide - Withering Blight Dates & Items

With the spooky season entering its final weeks, Behavior Interactive is preparing to celebrate with a Halloween-themed event for asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight. The With...

MechWarrior 5 Borrows Great Ideas, but Can't Yet Fill BattleTech's 10-Ton Boots

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries brings first-person BattleTech shenanigans back to single-player for the first time in nearly two decades. But while it’s set in the BattleTech universe it...

Destiny 2 Eververse Changes Coming This Fall

Destiny 2 is a game as much about dressing up your robot space wizard as it is about blasting other space wizards that came from the moon. And like any game that assigns stats to differe...

We Need to Talk About the Opulent Armor Lore in Destiny 2

Destiny 2 has always had great lore. While the game’s main plot lines sometimes fall short, the stories and bits of worldbuilding we get from equipment are always fascinating. Tying this...

MTG Arena Draft Events Guide - Rewards, Entry Fee, Tips

Magic: The Gathering can be an intimidating game, especially when it comes to the Limited format. Today we take a look at MTG: Arena Drafts, both Ranked and Traditional. We’ll go ove...

Fortnite Season 9 Skins Challenges Guide - All Cosmetic Variation Unlocks

Because dedicated quests for the evolving skins wasn’t enough, Epic Games has added challenges to each and every one of the Fortnite Season 9 skins. Challenges aren’t viewable until you’ve pr...

Why Games Need Better Non-Player Characters

Of all of the various epithets hurled around by right-wing internet users, “NPC” is the least immediately obvious in its meaning. “Cuck” is pretty straightforward, as is “SJW.” But what does it mean t...

Warframe Wisp Guide: How to Farm the Ropalolyst Boss for Blueprints

The Jovian Concord update for Warframe is finally here. And with it come several major additions to the game, along with the newest Warframe, Wisp! Naturally, everyone wants to know the best...

Formal: 76 Flies In the Face of Overwatch’s Hopeful Future

Until recently, Soldier: 76 wasn’t actually a soldier. Not like the ones we’d find in our world. He was another cartoonish character in the futuristic world of Overwatch.