Author: Jessica Orr

Stellar Blade has a fair bit of weirdness, but its killer tunes and vibey, flow-state combat – plus a transformative hard mode – are enough to leave you entranced. I don’t know if there’s a universal winning formula for a great action game out there, but Stellar Blade sure has tried its hardest to reverse-engineer…

Puzzles are a tricky thing to perfect in video games. They’re present in so many different genres – typically giving us some small goal to work towards between blasting enemies and searching for resources – but are also rarely as engaging as they could be, when not a game’s main focus. For more creative solutions…

Exploring Penacony in Honkai: Star Rail is like having the keys to Disneyland for a midnight soirée, but all the guests are sleazy film noir extras, and Mickey Mouse has taken the night off to let an anthropomorphic clock with the ability to manipulate people’s emotions fill in. It’s a morally dubious constructed paradise where…

Genshin Impact has been review bombed and its official Douyin (TikTok) account has lost nearly 1m followers after the recent version 4.4 livestream announced that three only dollops of Intertwined Fate material will be gifted to players during the game’s Lantern Rite event. Before the 4.4 livestream, Genshin’s official Douyin account had 9.35m followers, but…

There’s something missing from Zenless Zone Zero. Armed with a deep combat system, new urban setting, and roster of characters easy to love, it seemed like developer miHoYo was teed up for another win after recent successes Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Having spent countless hours immersed in both of these worlds, I’m…

[ad_1] As someone finally coming to terms that my Genshin Impact playtime is probably in the thousands of hours now, not hundreds, I understood Honkai: Star Rail’s systems as soon as they were introduced. Although it bears the Honkai brand (technically the fourth in the series, but this one is set in an alternate…

[ad_1] Live A Live is a short slice of the weird and wonderful world of the JRPG. When it’s wacky, oh boy does it get wacky. One of my favourite stories, set in the near future, is the best episode of the Power Rangers you’ve never seen. Spiky-haired protagonist Akira uses his psychic…

[ad_1] Multiple Genshin Impact leakers are quitting or pausing activities after the game’s publisher filed a DMCA subpoena over prominent leaker Ubatcha. Ubatcha is one of the most popular sources for Genshin Impact leaks. As well as having over 460,000 followers on Twitter, Ubatcha posts in a Discord channel called Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, which has…

[ad_1] Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has said it does not want to add further endgame content similar to the Spiral Abyss because of the “excessive anxiety” it could create for players. Spiral Abyss is the only true endgame content for players at high Adventure Ranks. In a recent Gamespot interview, a miHoYo spokesperson…

[ad_1] The creepy first-person shooter, Routine has made a comeback at Summer Game Fest, after being MIA for quite some time. We only got to see a short CGI trailer as a tease, which featured robot enemies and some of that derelict lunar research station mentioned by indie developer Lunar Software 10 years ago. After…