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...

Blizzard isn't going to let Marvel Rivals have all the fun. In Overwatch 2's next season, everyone is getting swimsuit skins for a summer-themed battle pass.Plenty of other new things are coming when season 18 starts on August 26—a whole new support hero, for example—but I think we all know what the draw will be. Lifeweaver, Reinhardt, Mercy, Junker Queen, Illari, and new hero Wuyang are all getting skins that...

Just as the Asus ROG Ally is taking on a new form in the ROG Xbox Ally, so the MSI Claw 8 is taking on a new form as an, erm, ROG Ally? Nah, kidding, it's not an Ally, but it does look pretty similar to it with those jutting edges, doesn't it? Maybe it's just me.What I can say is I held the new MSI Claw A8, then the...

Time was, long ago, that you could expect gaming hardware to drop in price over the course of its lifespan. However, it appears those days have long passed for consoles, as Sony has announced that it's raising the prices on PlayStation 5 consoles across the range in the US of A."Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment", says Sony in a post on its...

After police dispersed them on Tuesday, "No Azure for Apartheid" protestors returned to Microsoft's East Campus Plaza in Redmond, Washington on Wednesday to continue protesting the tech giant's dealings with Israel, which allegedly include the use of its Azure cloud platform to surveil Palestinians and select Gaza bombing targets.This time, 18 protesters were arrested for charges including "trespassing, malicious mischief, resisting arrest, and obstruction."According to Redmond police, "a few protesters...