Not everyone has years, weeks or even hours to commit to demon slaughter. Not all of us can be Coincident, fighting through the armies of hell for six hours solid. Sometimes you've not even got a minute to spare, and if that's the case, I recommend seeking better work-life balance. Also to check out madcap Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time, a collection of 32 maps, each with a 30...
It's Sunday, so let's make sure you can take today's Wordle at your own pace. Refresh your general guessing with our handy tips if you want to keep things simple, and then take a look at our hint for today's game if you find yourself in need of something more direct. Still not enough? Don't worry about it. There's only a click between you and the May 4 (1415) answer.What...
In October of 2024 science-fiction writer Matthew Kelsey Martineau accused Bungie of lifting ideas for its first Destiny 2 campaign from a story published on his blog under the pseudonym Caspar Cole. While some of the ideas in question are fairly generic sci-fi elements, like consciousness transfer and the use of emergency failsafes to prevent disasters, both storylines involve groups called the "Red Legion" who use flamethrowers and trained hounds...
Tim Cain, lead developer of the original Fallout, recently lamented the loss of Fallout's earliest development materials. When he left Interplay he was told to delete his copies of early builds and even his notes from development meetings, and apparently Interplay has since lost not only the source code but also the original Fallout artwork and the clay models that were scanned to make the 3D talking heads some of...
At the close of this year's EVE Fanfest, CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson took the stage to announce a surprising new commemoration of the long-running sci-fi MMO: An epic poem in the style of the ancient Icelandic sagas, written on genuine vellum in—and here's the kicker—the blood of EVE Online fans. Did I mention they'd be giving it freely?"We're obsessing about this 'foreverness,'" said Pétursson. "It turns out, to...
When asked to explain why Valve never made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 for the recent 20th anniversary documentary, Gabe Newell said that he "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."For the Valve founder, the Half-Life games can't just push Gordon Freeman's story forward. They have to push videogames forward in one way or another. So, if Half-Life 3 ever happens (or Episode 3, but that ship...
It wouldn't be a new Diablo 4 season without someone figuring out how to deal so much damage the game can't compute it anymore. A couple of lucky players looted a pair of placeholder gloves and proceeded to go god mode with them, crushing the action RPG's hardest dungeons before Blizzard disabled them in an emergency patch.At first glance, it doesn't look like Bilibili user Alaimo was doing anything new...
The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe offering, Thunderbolts*, takes a different path than the rest of the franchise, assembling a misfit team of villains and former villains from the MCU’s roster to fight against overwhelming odds to save the world. That may seem reminiscent of Suicide Squad (because it is), but superhero movies boast a long history of quirky antiheroes, rogues, and ne’er-do-wells joining forces for an unexpected team-up. It’s an...
Nintendo recently started taking pre-orders for Switch 2 games through its online store, coinciding with the opening of Switch 2 console pre-orders. Out of habit, I immediately scrolled to the “Game file size” section on each page to see how much storage each game will require. Some Switch 2 game file sizes are bigger than I expected, closer in size to Windows PC counterparts than original Switch ports were. This...
Thunderbolts*, the newest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has a lot of elements that align it with the Avengers movies. (That’s a good thing, in my opinion.) Some of them are broader strokes, like the kinds of storytelling beats that made the Avengers so appealing: It’s a team-up tale about heroes with different styles and interests coming together, learning to get along, and fighting together in a worthy shared...