Author: Harvey Randall
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The futility of Helldivers 2’s ‘Menkent Line’ has parts of the community feeling bot fatigue: ‘We fought hard to establish a defensive line, and for what?’
The ever-marching galactic war campaign of Helldivers 2 is impressive, so much so that it’s a little difficult to follow, though the sense of FOMO is there for the right reasons, that being “I’m missing out on a cool, emergent, player-driven story”. Well, that’s the idea at least—right now, the community’s a little bummed out.…
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Fortnite’s battle royale mode was cooked up in the back of an Uber in ‘like, three hours’
Fortnite—or, specifically, Fortnite: Battle Royale—is inescapable. It is a titan with the gravitational pull of the sun, dragging in characters from dozens of IPs to brawl for their chicken dinners. It’s kind of beautiful, in a cosmic horror, grey goo sort of way—Aang can kamehameha Peter Griffin and hit the griddy, after all. Before its…
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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail’s new benchmark will get a 2.0 version after player upset over lifeless eyes, flattened faces, and cursed lalafell dolphin teeth
Final Fantasy 14—a game that itself received a complete 2.0 revamp—will get a 2.0 version of the preview benchmark tool for its upcoming expansion, Dawntrail. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Why? Well, FF14 is having a massive graphics overhaul for its 7.0 update. This isn’t just a few new shaders slapped onto…
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WoW: The War Within’s new arachnophobia filter that turns spiders into crabs was mapped out by a lone developer, but ‘she had a wonderful time—she likes spiders’
World of Warcraft: The War Within will be taking players deep, deep underground to do battle with the Nerubian empire—which, inevitably, means spiders. A lot of spiders. Dungeons full of ’em. Raids, even. Which is a nightmare for the arachnophobes among us. Luckily, The War Within will have an arachnophobia filter that’s as comprehensive as…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 speedrunner proves the game’s most powerful strat is cardio by sprinting through the game in under 2 hours wearing just his undies
The pen is mightier than the sword, but it turns out that good cardio blows them both out of the water—as proven by Infected Durian, who beat Dragon’s Dogma 2 with nothing but his bare hands, a crew of elite nudist supporters, and endurance running. “Today I thought we’d do something a little bit different…
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‘We try not to make it painful, except when it comes to skill’: Remnant 2 design leads talk adding player-driven QoL features, and the task of making a player-friendly soulslike
Despite the praise I have for it now, Remnant 2’s launch wasn’t pitch-perfect: The game released with some difficult performance issues, which have been slowly improved over time, but it also staggered out of its big red crystal with some mechanical sore spots. A somewhat stingy resource economy, expensive respec costs, and a lack of…
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Japanese indie dev tells randoms begging for keys and offering exposure to ‘buy it, you piece of garbage’
I’ll never get tired of a well-phrased “go screw yourself” from an indie dev—like when the Iron Lung dev just outright said the price ‘hike’ of $2 was, absolutely, done so he could make more money from the game. It’s a harsh industry (especially recently), after all. Another such gem has come from the developers…
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GTA 6 fans spend a week in Miami to painstakingly recreate the trailer shot-by-shot—sans a certain bikini scene that would’ve cost $4,733
Even just the trailer for GTA 6 is a landmark for gaming, hitting an obscene 60 million views on YouTube in 12 hours. Since then it’s been scrubbed through shot-by-shot by enthusiasts to try and pull out every little detail, including whether Bikini Girl is secretly Lucia or not. Personally I still think she’s Aicul,…
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Helldivers 2 hotfix takes swings at a whole hive of crash culprits, so you should be able to deploy more reliably now
It looks like the patriotic community managers of the Super Earth Ministry of Truth were bang on the money—a hotfix for Helldivers 2 crashes has been rolled out, effective immediately, ahead of the new explosive Warbond later this week. In case you haven’t gotten your boots on the ground recently—Helldivers 2 has been plagued with…
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Throne of Bone is a devilish roguelike autobattler where you play the bad guy in a skull-driven economy
As you might well know, I like a good deckbuilder—it’s part of why Balatro’s consumed a few dozen hours of my waking life. Sure, it’s a genre utterly flooded with games, but I have a pretty high tolerance for “too much of a good thing.” The latest title to draw my infernal all-seeing eye is…