Author: [email protected] (Wes Fenlon)

[ad_1] I’m nothing without my little tsukumo companion in Wild Hearts. I may be the big bad hunter, but my tsukumo keeps me alive, distracts the monsters I’m fighting at key moments, and refills my supply of the celestial thread I use to build Wild Hearts’ big contraptions. But to do all that my tsukumo…

[ad_1] Wild Hearts is EA & Koei Tecmo’s take on Monster Hunter: smash giant mythological beasts with giant swords, then use their body parts to make even better swords to smash their friends with. Nature’s beautiful, isn’t it?  Wild Hearts releases today, February 13—but with a catch. Only EA Play subscribers get early access, while…

[ad_1] Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Image credit: Konami) Developer: PlatinumGamesYear: 2014 The first time I played Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance I still knew fear. I was just a man with a sword and assumed, foolishly, that I needed to carefully…

[ad_1] A specific frustration has been building among PC gamers for the last couple years: despite the massive leaps in power from modern graphics cards, CPUs and SSDs, the biggest games in the world often still launch with persistent stuttering issues that faster hardware just can’t solve. It’s a game design—or game engine—problem, leading to…

[ad_1] A decade ago PC gamers started ditching their mushy, cheapo rubber dome keyboards en masse for punchy mechanical boards with Cherry Brown or Black or Red switches. That shift led to dozens and then hundreds of competing switch types, each with their own distinct feel. Buying any old mechanical keyboard was now the starting…

[ad_1] In a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, the developers of Wild Hearts stated that they already have plans for post-launch updates, and they’ll all be free. “All post launch contents will be free, including new Kemono and more! We don’t have any plans to feature MTX,” they answered in one of the AMA’s…

[ad_1] Halo’s future is Unreal, according to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier. In an article published Tuesday, Schreier wrote that “late last year, when previous studio head Bonnie Ross and engine lead David Berger departed and Pierre Hintze took over, [developer 343 Industries] finally decided to pivot to Unreal.” The change is just one detail in…

[ad_1] On Tuesday, the official Twitter account for animated comedy Rick and Morty posted tweeted that Adult Swim had “ended its association with Justin Roiland,” the show’s co-creator and primary voice actor. The announcement comes 12 days after the news broke that Roiland had been charged (opens in new tab) with felony domestic violence and…