Author: Joshua Wolens

Overwatch fans are calling for the recasting of Pharah—one of the game’s lineup of DPS heroes—following comments on the current situation in Israel and Palestine made by her voice actor, Jen Cohn, in a TikTok and YouTube livestream. In response to viewers commenting “free Palestine” in the chat of one of her Ask Bird Mom…

Hey, remember how much time you spent tackling Shar’s Gauntlet in Baldur’s Gate 3? The bloodshed? The tears? The gems? It’s a real, well, gauntlet. But here’s something to make you feel even worse about it: you could have skipped the whole thing using one level 2 spell. Spotted by GamesRadar, BG3 fans are currently…

There’s a scurrilous belief that Dark Souls 2 is the runt of the Soulsborne litter, and that the fact it wasn’t directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki is black mark against its name—one that led to numerous creative decisions that just don’t fit with what Dark Souls should be. Virtuous and correct Dark Souls 2 fans have…

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor—DRG’s dwarf-themed Vampire Survivors-like—is yanking out one of its more ah, questionable voice lines. In patch notes for the game’s 0.2.146d hotfix, released Tuesday, the gang at Funday Games announced they’d be nixing the “Die like your mother did!” line that dwarves sometimes shout as they mow down enemies. “We think it’s…

Fallout 4’s mega-ambitious, DLC-sized, and indiscriminately British expansion mod Fallout: London is rapidly approaching its official release date of April 23, and to mark the occasion its creators have released its final (of many) progress videos, showcasing the mod’s state ahead of its release and revealing a few appetite-whetting tidbits to pique your interest. First…

With Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc firmly in the rear-view mirror, CD Projekt Red is now full throttle on three separate projects. We already know, more or less, what two of them are: One is a new trilogy of Witcher games codenamed Polaris, and the other is a Cyberpunk sequel codenamed Orion. But one mysterious star-themed…

If you’ve been wondering where OpenLara—an open-source engine reimplementation for the first five Tomb Raider games—has wandered off to, we now have an answer. Its creator Timur Gagiev got lassoed by Saber and Aspyr to lead their remasters of Tomb Raiders 1-3, lending them his expertise in gussying up Lara’s oldest adventures for the past…

Good news: Palworld players have found yet another way to get one over on the system by violating the laws of god and man alike. Not content with killing the game’s bosses using physics-defying staircases, they’ve got a new trick: butchering their pals without killing them thanks to a well-timed mounting. Obviously, that sentence is…

Bad news if you were looking forward to executing your friends in the name of managed democracy: Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead studio CEO Johan Pilestedt says the game will “‘never’ add a PVP mode,” and that you’d be better off looking elsewhere to get your fix of player-vs-player mayhem. For instance, maybe you’ve…

One of these days, I’m gonna get really into Destiny 2. Trust me. That’s why I constantly collect the free baubles I get for it from Twitch Prime: because I am absolutely, 100% going to figure out what the heck a Cayde-6 is any day now. Just as soon I beat Persona 3 Reload, finish…