Of all the Disney+ MCU shows so far, Loki has really blown things wide open for the franchise. Major spoilers will follow, so please stop reading now and bookmark this page until you’re all caught up with the show. The show picked up from the moment in Avengers: Endgame where …
Read More »The oral history of DCs original Suicide Squad
Three decades ago in the DC comic book series Legends (opens in new tab), readers were introduced to a government official named Amanda Waller, a.k.a. ‘The Wall.’ The Wall had a plan to deal with problems that needed to stay out of the public eye and that regular superheroes wouldn’t …
Read More »Tom Clancys XDefiant looks set to fill the space between Counter-Strike and Overwatch
Tom Clancy’s XDefiant is a free-to-play, class-based arena shooter that falls somewhere between Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and simultaneously pulls from other recognizable Tom Clancy games. That may sound like a strange position for the Tom Clancy brand to be slotting itself into, but our first look at XDefiant …
Read More »Aliens: Fireteam preview: Play your own Aliens movie on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X this summer
Aliens: Fireteam has been a long time coming, both in the Aliens game universe sense and for Cold Iron Studios, the developer that’s been working on the title since 2016. That’s why the excitement during our preview event was palpable and spread equally amongst the members of the dev team …
Read More »The Steam Deck might look like a Switch, but its a true miniature PC with so much room for customization
Valve surprised the world when it announced that it was making a handheld of its own, the Steam Deck. A powerful little machine that’s capable of playing the hundreds of games sat in your Steam library that you’ve never gotten around to playing. Because of its form factor and hybrid …
Read More »The ultimate guide to The Legend of Zelda games
One of Nintendo’s greatest legends was born on February 21, 1986. That’s the day The Legend of Zelda launched for the Famicom in Japan. Nintendo is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the series with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, a game that takes players back …
Read More »Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance forgets whats fun about D&D
To understand why Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a frustrating take on the legendary tabletop role-playing franchise, you need to know what it’s like to be really up against it in Dungeons & Dragons. When your character is wading through problems of their own making, responding to ever-evolving situations, …
Read More »The best tattoos in games
Whether you’re tatted IRL or not, you have to admit you’ve pondered the best tattoos in games. Tattoos are a great way to add realism to a world, or give a character an interesting backstory, or just make it very clear that they’re a badass. With the updated graphics of …
Read More »Dying Light 2 devs on the different stages of infection and enemy types youll encounter
It would be charitable to suggest that Dying Light 2 is going to drag you into a hell on Earth. If anything, the chaos contained within the towering walls of The City is something far worse – insidious, really. The cure Kyle Crane spent so much of the first game …
Read More »Inside the podcast-turned-graphic novel Bubble where monster-hunting apps are made real
What if Pokemon Go was real – and more vicious? That’s the conceit of the upcoming graphic novel Bubble (opens in new tab), which centers on a new app called Huntr which allows users to post monster sightings and then track them down for money. (Image credit: Tony Cliff/Natalie Riess …
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