Street Fighter VI Devs Talk About Monetization, M. Bison, And The Series’ First-Ever Guest Fighter
It’s hard to believe that the most famous franchise in fighting game history has never had a guest character before. God of War’s Kratos has been in Mortal Kombat. Yoda was in Soul Calibur. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s roster is now home to more charac...
Red Dead Redemption 2 Dares You To Finish It Now That It’s Back On PS Plus
The selection of games rotating into PS Plus at the end of May isn’t that impressive, save for one: Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar Games’ open-world Western returns to the subscription service after a nearly two-year hiatus. Will you beat it this time...
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown
Things in the world of Helldivers 2 are going back to normal after Sony reversed course on a controversial PSN login requirement for the popular sci-fi shooter on PC. But not everyone appears to have made it out of the public relations fiasco in one pi...
A Year Later, Redfall Players Who Spent $100 Are Still Waiting For Its Promised Heroes
Players were excited at the prospect that Redfall might combine the fun co-op loot mechanics of a Borderlands with the bespoke environmental storytelling of a Dishonored. Ultimately, though, the day-one Game Pass blockbuster didn’t quite accomplish eit...
Dragon’s Dogma 2, One Month Later
Fans of the original Dragon’s Dogma never dreamed the wonky fantasy RPG might get a sequel. Over a decade later, Capcom delivered a successor that improved on the flaws of the first without shaving off the sharp edges that earned it a cult following to...
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking
After months of debate about Xbox’s future as some of its big console exclusives jumped ship to PlayStation 5, we have our clearest evidence yet of why Microsoft is experimenting with a new multiplatform approach: fewer and fewer people are buying Xbox...
LittleBigPlanet Server Apocalypse Wipes Hundreds Of Thousands Of PlayStation Players’ Creations Without Warning
Sony has indefinitely decommissioned the PlayStation 4 servers for puzzle platformer LittleBigPlanet 3, the company announced in an update to one of its support pages. The permanent shutdown comes just months after the servers were temporarily taken of...
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom And Everything Else That Blew Me Away: Ethan Gach’s Top 10 Games Of 2023
I love the idea of annual top 10 lists until it comes time to actually make one. Then my perpetually indecisive brain freaks out about whether the game I spent 100 hours playing was actually any good, the tension between an interesting game and a fun o...
Lord Of The Rings Moneyball Is the Perfect Meme To End 2023
I didn’t think it was still possible, but Twitter just served up my favorite crossover of the year: Lord of the Rings Moneyball. You see, you take the plot of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and then talk about it using Moneyball quotes. It’s simple, stu...
Steam’s Big Winter Sale Slashes Prices On A Ton Of Great Games
The winter solstice is upon us and Valve is once again celebrating the cosmological event by discounting a bunch of great PC games big and small. The Steam Winter Sale 2023 is going right now through January 4, 2024 with deals on everything from Baldur...