Baldur’s Gate 3 is the latest game to try and adapt the Dungeons & Dragons rules to the video game format. Baldur’s Gate 3 does a great job of staying true to most of the rules, but a few major changes were made to accommodate the shift to video game. There have been a number of D&D video […]
Aiden And Wrench Joining Watch Dogs: Legion’s Post-Launch Plans
Over the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to play in Watch Dogs: Legion’s intricate recreation of London, recruiting operatives and doing our best to take out the oppressive Albion presence. Unlike previous entries in the series, Legion introduces a new “play as anyone” philosophy, where you can recruit virtually everyone you see walking […]
Scares Await This Halloween With Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition
It’s coming up to Halloween season and rightly so, developers are starting to roll out their scary titles. Today, Bloober Team – the studio behind Layers of Fear – has announced it’ll launch Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition before the end of the month. Bloober Team and Lionsgate released Blair Witch for PlayStation 4 and […]
Regardless Of Exclusivity, The Microsoft And Bethesda Deal Has Set Xbox’s Future In Stone
Two weeks ago, Microsoft sent the video games industry into a state of utter disarray after spontaneously announcing its acquisition of ZeniMax Media, known as the corporate conglomerate presiding over iconic studios such as Arkane, id Software, and, perhaps most renownedly, Bethesda. Revered for its large-scale RPGs — predominantly those with backgrounds in high […]
Gaming Detail: Every Kid In Fire Emblem: Awakening Shares A Birthday With A Game In The Series
It’s a pretty well-known fact that Awakening was very nearly the last game in the Fire Emblem series. Knowing this, the creators filled it to the brim with loving references to those that came before. Many of these references are easy to spot — for example, weapons named after prior characters, such as Leif’s blade, are […]
The ’90s Tomb Raider Games Deserve Modern Remakes
Lara Croft is a woman who wears many masks. Sometimes, she’s a confident and sassy globetrotter. Others, she’s a violent sociopath who finds new and creative ways to murder people. Over the years, writers haven’t really known what to do with her following the original games, which results this incoherence. For a character as iconic […]
Thanks To Squadrons, I Have Forsaken The Flesh World And Ascended Into The Datasphere
Dear Meat Bags, The daily struggle of human existence has become a burden I no longer have the strength to bear, and thusly, I am now fully connected to the datasphere. There is no going back. As a former meat bag, I understand if this decision is causing you some amount of grief. This is an “emotion” […]
Star Wars: Squadrons Competitive Mode Is Currently A Disaster
Star Wars: Squadrons ranked playlist has some fantastic rewards, but unfortunately, it should be avoided right now unless you have a full squad. Anything less than five players will almost surely lead to unfair games and wasted time thanks to a quitter system that is either broken, bugged, or both. When someone leaves a ranked Fleet […]
The Biggest Stories Of The Week (September 27-October 4, 2020)
September has rolled over into October, and people all over the world are facing the prospect of spending Halloween at home and showing off their costumes on Zoom. The video game world keeps on ticking and October will receive a number of new games, including Watch Dogs: Legion and Pikmin 3 Deluxe. The biggest stories […]
Polygon tries to draw Crash Bandicoot from memory
Naturally, to celebrate the release of Crash Bandicoot 4, a chunk of the Polygon gang got together and drew the lovable bandicoot from memory. Crash is one of the iconic mascot characters from the 1990s, starring in his own horrible live-action commercials, wearing cool shorts and fingerless gloves, and eating wumpa fruit. Though many of […]