The best Hall effect keyboards offer the speediest switches money can buy. They turn your real-world actions into lightning fast reactions in-game, but there's more to them than just that. Faster response times are only one feature on what are highly customisable, often analog, switches, and deliver special abilities to gamers not possible on mechanical gaming keyboards.Razer, SteelSeries, Corsair and more all have options available using Hall effect switches—or in...

More details about Critical Role's next campaign have dropped. We knew it was being run by Dimension 20 mastermind Brennan Lee Mulligan, whereupon I joked that he'd be losing a lot of sleep juggling two massive D&D projects. Folks, I am now seriously concerned for the man, because the pitch for Critical Role Campaign 4, which premiers October 2, is buck wild.Critical Role's already-meaty cast is expanding to 13 permanent...

Everyone wants to be Ghibli and almost no one can pull it off. Hell, even Studio Ghibli sometimes struggles. So when I set eyes on Opus: Prism Peak—with its lush anime palette, verdant natural settings, and chatty animals—I confess I sucked air through my teeth. Sigono's previous Opus games are much-beloved, but none of them invite comparison to such famously incomparable art quite this hard.But dare I say it, the...

Square Enix is putting its foot down once again when it comes to modding in Final Fantasy 14. The creator behind Mare Synchronos—a player-made plugin for synchronizing and sharing appearance mods between FF14 players—is shutting the three-year-old project down after apparently receiving a cease and desist order from Square Enix. It's not the first mod to catch Square's ire this year, but its latest demand certainly seems like an escalation.The...

Tucked at the bottom of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition's 1.2 patch notes is the whammy I'd been waiting for: "Added support for custom campaigns (fan missions)." Balance mods were good to go from launch, but now 'Shock 2's extensive back catalogue of modded missions and campaigns is fair game too.The new "FMs" folder in the game's directory has cryptic instructions on how to install them, but the process...

I know Starfield has kind of a bad reputation these days, but I never thought it was a bad game. It's a good game, and I should know: I played over 100 hours of it when it launched.But it's not a great game, and it simply doesn't have the staying power of other Bethesda RPGs like the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. I can always find a reason to hop...

Thanks to a decade of accumulated contradictory live-service grievances, Destiny players are rarely unified in their discontent. Today, however, is a special day: Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced his departure, offering the Destiny community a chance to join together in slamming the door behind the man whose leadership has become synonymous with studio mismanagement.Appointed as CEO in 2016, Parsons' tenure brought hundreds of employee layoffs across multiple rounds of...

Diablo 4's next season has me hopeful that Blizzard understands its greatest weakness as an action RPG—and how to fix it.Every experienced player has had to learn one reality of Diablo 4: Not every skill is created equal. And by that I mean, the skill tree is full of cool abilities that don't necessarily do anything even with phenomenal gear.There are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest...

Well, it's official—in under one month, Silksanity will be over, with Silksong releasing September 4. It's been one hell of a ride, marked with long periods of silence from Team Cherry. And when the studio did speak up, it was often like, via a Discord message or something.Showcase after showcase rolled by without so much as a squeak. And now that the news is out, why'd it take so dang...

Finally, some good news for Splitgate fans: Developer 1047 Games says the original Splitgate will be moving to peer-to-peer multiplayer on August 29, meaning the game will continue to be playable online even though the servers are being taken down."Starting August 29, the original Splitgate will be moving to peer-to-peer as we focus our resources on rebuilding Splitgate," 1047 wrote in an update."We know this game means the world to...