Author: Jody Macgregor

Hades 2 feels kind of like the original Hades seen through a mirror, darkly. You liked killing your dad? Get ready to kill your granddad next, only this time you’ll be descending into the underworld rather than escaping up through it. The god who oversees the hub you return to between runs will now be…

I enjoy Any Austin’s Skyrim videos, many of which involve calculating the unemployment rate of Skyrim’s settlements. He’s a chill presence in the Skyrim scene, finding mundane threads and pulling them to see what unravels. His recent video was a perfect example of this, starting on a bridge over the White River in Riverwood and…

Russ Nickel, former lead writer of Helldivers 2, was recently interviewed by Inverse, where he explained that developers Arrowhead didn’t decide it was going to be a service game until well after beginning work on it. Its popularity sure suggests it was the right call to make. “This feels like what live service was born…

Plenty of things in Hades 2 are similar to things from the original. Your hangout pals still include a dominatrix-coded rival who gets in your way, a fit sadboy, and a ghost whose nickname starts with D and turns out to be a significant character from myth. Mechanically there’s plenty that feels familiar too. You…

To get a roleplaying game going you have to make it past as many hassles as any party of adventurers ever faced in a dungeon—only instead of traps that sever your hand if you put it in a statue’s mouth they’re more like scheduling issues and the difficulty of finding a group you vibe with. …

Last year the Dungeons & Dragons community imploded over a leaked draft of a licence change that suggested Wizards of the Coast was planning to restrict how the D&D rules could be used by anyone publishing third-party supplements, or separate games derived from D&D’s 5th edition ruleset. At the peak of the outrage, Wizards of…

The hub area of Hades 2 is the Crossroads, a junction between the surface and the underworld. While cosmetic upgrades are coming later in early access, you can buy some useful additions to the Crossroads, like a garden where you can plant all the nightshade you’ll need for various concoctions.  You can also buy a…

A few days ago, Sony posted a message to Steam noting that, “Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That grace period will now expire.” That went down well with PC players, who were delighted…

A video uploaded to YouTube by prdalien0 showing a flick-through of The Art and Making of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 seems to have confirmed Saber Interactive’s sequel will have a PvP mode. A two-page spread shows the armor of Chaos Space Marines who will apparently be playable in the mode, from the chapters of…

There have been plenty of Magic: The Gathering comics released in the west, including a free digital manga tie-in for the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty set, but frustratingly the series that’s been serialized in Monthly Shōnen Ace since 2018 has remained Japan-exclusive—until now. Viz Media, the manga publisher who also release those lush Magic: The Gathering…