Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has deployed a new update, one that makes sweeping changes to virtually every aspect of the game. In the hefty patch notes, Arrowhead describes how it aims to make the game feel intense but less frustrating to play. The patch is part of Arrowhead’s 60-day action plan to whip Helldivers 2 back into shape, and overall, players should feel more empowered whenever t…

The opening cutscene of Loot Rascals, largely narrated by a teapot-headed British spaceman, establishes the game’s strange tone well. Instead of arriving at a holiday-resort planet to restore a medical unit’s antenna as intended, you crash on an alien moon and find yourself battling against the game’s eponymous “rascals” that have stolen the medical unit. To get it back, you�…

In Episode One of Batman: The Enemy Within, the tragic loss of a friend and stalwart ally threatened to undermine Batman’s crusade for justice, while also throwing Bruce Wayne’s personal life into disarray. As someone that loves to see the duality of DC’s Dark Knight used to unravel him I was eager for Telltale Games to pull at this narrative thread, but Episode Two allows i…

How Ubisoft’s Rabbids become intertwined with Nintendo’s Mushroom Kingdom, featuring Mario and friends, is unimportant. Ambivalence towards Rabbid-style toilet humor might cause you to question this dubious marriage, but there’s an admirable and wholehearted commitment in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle that triumphs in creating a magical game world that is undeniably delightful, and within it,…

Psychological horror is often predicated on a delicate balance of danger, atmosphere, and the willingness of the audience to buy into the premise. Montague’s Mount is some special kind of hell, because it succeeds in crafting such an uneasy atmosphere that despite its problems with the rest of that formula, it compels you to keep playing, thus making you complicit in your own torture.

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Sharing much of the style of Punchdrunk’s 2011 play Sleep No More, The Invisible Hours is more immersive theater than it is interactive fiction. You exist as a ghost in each scene, and you can follow any of the characters at any time, rewinding, fast-forwarding, and pausing as you please. But you don’t act on anything; you just observe, gathering pieces of a larger story along the way…

Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a number of changes to how players could make use of in-game advertisements and the game’s Party Finder tool in an effort to stop accounts participating in real-money trading (RMT) Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Now, a week later, Square Enix is announcing more than 7,000 accounts have been…

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is a mobile game released in 2016 (2015 in Japan) where players collect Final Fantasy characters by playing a simplified turn-based RPG. War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is a different mobile game that spun off from Brave Exvius that released in 2020 (2019 in Japan) that plays closer to Final Fantasy Tactics, but also allows players to collect Final Fant…

There hasn’t been a Star Wars movie in theaters since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, but it looks like The Mandalorian and Grogu will be the first film in the franchise to get back to the big screen. While it seems likely that some familiar faces from The Mandalorian will return for the film, we can rule out one cast member: Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett.

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Diablo might be best known as a series of action RPGs, but there’s an entire universe of books and graphic novels out there that explore the dark fantasy world’s expansive lore Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Soon, fans will learn the origins of the popular Necromancer character class thanks to an all-new comic, Diablo: Legends …