Elden Ring’s Volcano Manor is unique in the legacy of Soulsborne games. It’s a combination of NPC quest hub and Legacy Dungeon. You’ll get missions from the non-hostile characters there while simultaneously busting through illusory walls and fighting bosses in the basement. It can also be incredibly confusing, so don’t dive in without our guide […]

A brand new Magic: The Gathering release comes out later this month, set in a previously unexplored world called New Capenna. Inspired by art deco and America’s roaring ’20s, The Streets of New Capenna combines a high-concept artistic vision with a diverse mix of familiar Magic characters meeting one another for the first time. To […]

I wake from my bed in the middle of the night, startled by noises outside. Resting next to me on the bedside table is an old oil lamp. I pick it up, hoping to shed some light on the situation, but I miss-click, and suddenly my avatar hurls the lamp against the wall. It shatters, […]

Many people who play Final Fantasy 7 become obsessed with a version of the game that does not really exist. [Ed. note: This story contains full spoilers for Final Fantasy 7.] The game itself is a story about an arrogant and talented mercenary named Cloud who journeys through a fantasy world to stop Sephiroth, his […]

Ghostwire Tokyo was meant to be another must-buy killler exclusive for the PS5. But the developers have fallen short on this one. And instead what we get is a competent fighting game, with great visuals but one that doesn’t reach the lofty heights of fellow PS5 hits like Horizon: Forbidden West. This Bethesda title is […]

Since the pandemic began, tabletop role-playing games have been having a moment, and actual-play performances of TTRPGs are having their moment within that. By good timing alone, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, the Borderlands spinoff set in an off-the-rails, fourth-wall-crumbling D&D-style campaign, has bullseyed two pop culture trends in one shot. It’s lucky, sure. It’s also pretty […]

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is an excellent idea for a video game. It takes Borderlands 2’s Tiny Tina DLC (the best DLC Gearbox has ever made, and one of the greatest across all of gaming), and turns it into a fully-fledged idea: what if Borderlands, but Dungeons & Dragons? I think it’s the best idea gaming […]

Tunic says very little about itself. Even when it does, you can barely comprehend its words; after all, its script is made up of characters that resemble phonetic writing or even ciphers that, at least on your first few hours, would likely be indecipherable. Instead, it broadly gestures at its intentions and motivations through the […]

The Steam Deck is a great console wrapped within a puzzle inside an enigma. It has great capabilities, but doesn’t explain them well, and locks many of its best features behind unintelligible barriers. Some people like this – the same kind of people who thrive in the BIOS and tweak every possible setting for fun. […]

Remember that whole thing about the Quest 2 requiring a Facebook account “in good standing”? Oculus made a deal with the devil when it sold out to Facebook, and now VR enthusiasts like myself have no choice but to maintain a Facebook account. The “good standing” part should only come into effect if you get […]