Alongside F-Zero, Wipeout was one of the formative sci-fi anti-gravity racing games. Developed by Psygnosis and published for PlayStation and PC in 1995, the game combined high-speed action with a flowing ambient soundtrack made by real electronic music artists including CoLD SToRAGE, Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. And now the original game's source code […]

Elden Ring is really hard. Please take a moment to digest this momentous revelation I have just bestowed upon you before I get to my actual point. Elden Ring is hard, but it’s sometimes hard in ways it doesn’t need to be. I’m all for unforgiving enemies and challenging boss encounters, but when the mere […]

Morbius is coming. Originally scheduled for January, the upcoming Marvel superhero film was delayed several months to the dubious date of April 1 thanks to the latest wave of COVID cases. Those cases seem to have subsided (for the moment), so now Sony is hoping you'll all brave the great outdoors to go see a […]

Mace Windu is a motherfuckin’ badass of a Jedi. This is a tribute to the ‘I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger’ energy Samuel L. Jackson brings to the Jedi Master in George Lucas’ prequel trilogy, but it is also recognition of a bare fact. Mace Windu is badass. Just […]

Ever since its initial mainstream conception in 1998’s Jurassic Park: Trespasser, the art of in-game ragdoll physics has undergone numerous major evolutions. The ability to make NPC’s react to impact and environmental changes has reshaped major elements in gaming, particularly in combat. Some games have even made overcoming slippery ragdoll physics the objective of the […]

Forza Horizon 5 was one of the biggest launches of last year. The game rose up the earnings charts and even made it onto several Game of the Year lists – it placed fifth on TheGamer's list. March 29 will see it receive a major update that will not only bring improvements to the multiplayer, […]

Whether you got your Steam Deck in the mail, or Gabe Newell himself delivered it to you, a new console will always require a few updates till it's in peak condition. As of now a handful of the Verified games have been giving players trouble, stemming from either the game's side or the console. With […]

Jenova Chen's indie studio thatgamecompany has gained fame for its affecting, vividly imagined games with titles such as Flower, flOw, and especially the highly acclaimed Journey making their mark on critics and the general gaming audience alike. 2019's Sky: Children of the Light has been particularly popular, earning more than 160 million downloads across mobile […]

Gacha games tend to be available on mobile and PC platforms and are often free-to-play. The in-app purchase options vary from optional speed up progressing to required unlockable aspects needed to level up. Though most people avoid gacha games – both because they dislike the in-app purchase pop-ups and because the word ‘gacha’ has such […]

Elden Ring follows in the footsteps of the prior entries to the Souls series of games with the inclusion of a luck stat, this time called Arcane. This stat governs your item discovery, which increases the drop rate of items from enemies, as well as the rate at which Bleed takes to activate. That is […]