I would say I did my time, several tours of duty on the front lines of "blockchain is bullshit, please stop emailing me press releases about NFT MMO Kickstarters." I remain a skeptic and a luddite, about both crypto and its new tech fabulist little brother, generative AI.I want to establish my hater bona fides straight up before I say that EVE Frontier is the lone crypto-associated game that has...

Turns out there are bosses everywhere in Elden Ring Nightreign, including the top of the castle that is normally a pain to clear out. Reddit user Aphod posted a clip showing how to scale its walls and reach the boss sitting on top, bypassing tons of enemies on the way. I hopped into a solo run to test it and, yeah, it totally works.The castle is always located in the...

What do Re-Logic, Eric Barone, and CD Projekt have in common? They won't quit screwing around with (read: improving) their old games: Less than a week after announcing that The Witcher 3 is getting "one more patch" to add cross-platform mod support, the studio revealed today that Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a new update, too.Word of the forthcoming patch was delivered near the end of today's developer stream, which was...

I've got a few dozen Elden Ring Nightreign expeditions on the books, and it shouldn't surprise anyone when I say they haven't all been successes. Many of those failures have come agonizingly close to victory, where my team's Nightlord target survived by only a sliver of health—a sliver it probably wouldn't have had if we'd entered the arena with one or two more levels.Luckily, Nightreign players on Reddit have found...

It has been almost a year since Fallen Aces arrived on the early access scene, bringing impeccable Dick Tracy gangster comic vibes to the immersive sim genre. While there's still a little ways to go until the second episode launches, the game was updated just a few days ago with a powerful level editor, Steam Workshop support, and a handful of great example levels set in some familiar places.You can...

Unlike most sandbox survival games, Dune: Awakening gives you a great deal of character customisation beyond just the appearance of your poor little survivor. After deciding on their look, you'll have an intense…discussion (read: interrogation) with the reverend mother, where you'll need to pick your homeworld, caste, and mentor.Each of these three character customisation options has an impact on your survivor's abilities in gameplay, whether it's during combat or conversation....

Russia has come down hard on Lesta Games (via Meduza), the domestic company that inherited local rights to World of Tanks (or Mir Tankov, as it's known locally) after its original dev, Wargaming, exited Belarus and Russia in protest of the latter's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Wargaming, which has a studio in Kyiv, has since gone on to launch more than a few charitable initiatives in support of Ukraine. Most notably,...

Like all good survival games, once you've got the "living" part under control, it's time to move on to the finer things in life—base building—and the Dune: Awakening Twitch Drops are here to help. All you need to do is watch a participating streamer for up to two hours, and you don't even have to actually watch the stream if you don't want to—tab out and let it play in...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that gaming headset audio has reached something of a standstill. After all, tear apart most models and you'll find a pair of traditional do-it-all drivers, which are essentially two small speakers pointed directly at your lugholes. Expensive planar magnetic units (like those used in the magnificent Audeze Maxwell) are the hot thing, but other than that it's mostly been variations on that one particular theme.However,...

Until 2020, Diamond Comic Distributors held a near-monopoly on getting comic books to retailers in the US. Publishers like Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Viz, Boom, and Udon all sold their comics exclusively through Diamond, though hearing retailers grumble about them—often claiming books arrived damaged, late, or not at all, especially in small-town shops—was common.When Diamond announced it would cease shipments during the Covid-19 pandemic in March of 2020, DC...