Author: Harvey Randall
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Helldivers 2’s latest major order promises a mech with 2 entire Autocannons strapped onto it—though there’s a small chance it could slip through players’ fingers
Throughout all the buffs and nerfs that’ve rolled through Helldivers 2 as of late, the Autocannon has remained—for the most part—beloved. It’s not the best anti-tank weapon in the world, meeting a wall against more heavily-armoured Terminids, but it can deal nicely with most enemies the Automatons have to throw at you. It also fires…
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Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days, but ‘grit, camaraderie and compassion’ saw the team through
Helldivers 2, despite having some recent growing pains, is nonetheless an overall triumph for developer Arrowhead Games. You don’t just get hundreds of thousands of concurrent players a mere smattering of months after release without, you know, being a good videogame. Helldivers 2 is a major success now that its launch is in the rear-view—with…
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Final Fantasy 14 offers returning players 4 days of free playtime on the house until late June—but you’ve gotta be real careful about when you choose to start
Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? Well, it just got another free trial for returning players—sort of. Under limited stipulations. As posted to the game’s website yesterday, a “Free Login Campaign” will be running from May 23 to June 20, wherein players without an active subscription can hop back into…
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Mighty allfather of FPS games and co-creator of Doom John Romero decrees that ‘gib’ is pronounced in the most upsetting way possible
Do you remember that debate a while back over how one pronounces “gif”? You know, those funny little moving pictures your mate on Discord sends you at 3AM to inflict psychic damage on you. Fortunately, nobody’s arguing about that at all anymore. This lie I tell myself is now being joined by a memory I…
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Goats are serious business: World of Warcraft continues to play whack-a-frog with MoP: Remix farming spots, adds new ways to buff your cloak as penance
If you told me that WoW’s Mists of Pandaria: Remix would suffer its largest controversies over frogs before it came out, I’d stare at you and ask if you needed some water and a sit-down. Turns out that’s exactly what happened this week. In case you’re completely unfamiliar—MoP: Remix is a limited-time event where players…
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‘The designer will never answer any rules questions’: Upcoming solitaire board game requires you to codebreak its rulebook, which is written in a language that does not exist
I’ve been running a Pathfinder 2e game recently, and it’s been a challenge for my little brain—but its dense, rules-heavy tomes have got nothing on the upcoming solitaire game City of Six Moons, which is written in a language that does not exist except in the mind of its creator. It’s a similar gambit to…
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Starfield player jury-rigs 100+ Star Wars mods together to make a convincing Boba Fett simulator: ‘I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus’
Starfield’s modding community is straight-up cooking, now. While we’re still a little ways out from Star Wars: Outlaws (and those overpriced editions have me a smidge nervous), don’t worry—we’ve got space gunslinging at home. Created by modder and YouTuber DeityVengy earlier this month (thanks, Kotaku), the compilation features over 100 Star Wars mods from the…
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‘We knew that was a pain point … why make that mistake again?’ World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic devs talk tinkering with the game’s first divisive expansion
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic is arriving May 20, and it’s an interesting topic because—as PC Gamer’s Andy Chalk pointed out back when it was announced—Cataclysm’s changes to the world are part of the reason why Classic exists in the first place. Granted, the infamous “you think you do, but you don’t” quote comes from…
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Healers in FF14 get that awful sinking feeling as Yoshi-P cheerily announces a major buff to an ability mainly used for resurrection
Final Fantasy 14 has had its last “live letter” before Dawntrail—live streams which clue players in on what they can expect in the next expansion. This time around, Yoshi-P revealed a ton of new info about job (class) changes that’ll be coming with its latest expansion, Dawntrail. Among a very flashy and exciting trailer showing…
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Animal Well’s solo dev casually reveals that the breakout metroidvania left ‘at least twice as many rooms that are in the game’ on the cutting room floor
Goodness, hasn’t Animal Well done… well? Launching to almost universal acclaim, the breakout metroidvania looks like it’s teed itself up to become the next Hollow Knight. The game was funded by Bigmode, an outfit created by popular YouTuber Dunkey to, quote, “publish some of the very best games out there”. At the time there was…