Up front disclosure: I'm a sucker for 34-inch ultrawide monitors, I reckon they're still the sweetspot for sensible-money gaming. With that in mind, you'd think Alienware's newly updated 34-inch ultrawide OLED monitor, the Alienware 34 AW3425DW, is odds on for a very high score.After all, we loved the OG Alienware 34-inch ultrawide, the Alienware 34 AW3423DW. Its lower priced sibling, the Alienware 34 AW3423DWF, was even better thanks to a...
Coraline, the debut feature of the stop-motion studio Laika, was a modest hit in 2009, earning just over $75 million in the U.S.. But over the years, the macabre coming-of-age tale earned cult status, and when Fathom Events put it back in theaters last summer, it made another $33 million — a total that’s basically unheard of for most modern re-releases. So it’s no surprise that Laika is hoping a...
Under the leadership of the late, great Satoru Iwata, Nintendo shunned the technology arms race of Sony, Microsoft, and the rest of the video game business, and pursued a series of wild experiments that worked out brilliantly (Wii, DS) more often than not (Wii U). Iwata’s final innovation, realized after his untimely death, was to combine the company’s handheld and home console businesses into a single device — 2017’s Switch....
It's great that so many PlayStation games have come to PC in the last few years, letting me stack a heap of extra big-budget videogame junk food on my pile of shame. Welcome to the backlog, Horizon Zero Dawn. These games haven't always set the Steam top sellers list on fire, however, sometimes thanks to a marketing budget you'd have to squint to see. How many people even knew Marvel's...
There's a clue for today's Wordle waiting below, here to help you win. Take a peek whenever you like—it's designed to give you great ideas and set you on the right path, not instantly give the game away, so make sure you use it if you feel yourself struggling. And of course the Jun 13 (1455) answer's here too, ready whenever you are.That definitely wasn't my fastest Wordle clear of...
Back in April, Valve announced the Steam store would start highlighting accessibility features on games' store pages. And now, it has. Not only can you see them in the sidebar beneath the controller support section for selected games, you can also search the store by individual accessibility features."This update comes after gathering valuable feedback from developers as well as players with disabilities," Valve says in its blog post announcing the...
Dune: Awakening has a comprehensive base-building policy that goes something like this:Build a base wherever you want.That's pretty much the entire policy.There are restrictions, of course: build too far out on the sand and a sandworm will show up and eat a hunk of your base—with you in it, if you're not careful. And you can't build within a certain radius of an established location like a tradepost or faction...
In typical FromSoftware fashion, it teased an Elden Ring Nightreign update coming this month that will add "enhanced" boss fights with zero clues as to what that actually means. Well, it turns out, those clues have been sitting in the game files since it came out, and there's already a mod that will let you fight each boss in what seems to be those "enhanced" versions.The first thing that tipped...
Eve’s outfits in Stellar Blade comprise a truly massive wardrobe. Following the release of the game’s complete edition, there are now more than 100 outfits in the game. You’re bound to stumble upon at least one outfit that’ll make you look stellar. You’ll start with one default outfit (two if you’re playing the deluxe or complete edition). You can unlock 37 additional outfits during your first playthrough, and many of...
There are no shortage of reasons why The Last of Us season 2 has proven controversial, but many of those criticisms have a common root: the script. As dissatisfied fans tell it, the protagonist of the show is an immature and incompetent interpretation of Ellie, the character portrayed in the Naughty Dog games. There’s one moment in the show in particular that was so emblematic of that tonal discrepancy, fans...