I don't know why people always mention the common trope that board games leave people bored. First of all, that's a lazy pun. Second, board games build stronger bonds, foster more communication, and drum up more laughs than most video games could. Why? Because board games are a social activity. And I adore them for […]
Right Now Is The Perfect Time To Clear A Huge Game From Your Backlog
There's a tree at the bottom of my street. I don't water it, nobody ever waters it. I don't give it nutrients, or trim the branches, or do anything to it. Nobody ever does. Nobody in the street does, not even anybody hired by the city council ever comes. Still, it grows. Nobody ever does […]
Elden Ring Players Discuss Bosses That Need To Be Buffed
Elden Ring is hard, full of tough challenges and even tougher boss fights, but not every boss is at the same level as Malenia or the Elden Beast. Some are just repurposed regular enemies that have been given a little extra health, while others are unique but maybe lacking in brute strength. Reddit user DiaMat2040 […]
Google Stadia Controllers Will Be Compatible With Other Devices Starting Next Week
Google is making good on its rumoured pledge to salvage the Stadia controller, making it compatible with other platforms starting next week. This will coincide with the closure of Google Stadia, which will go offline for good on January 18. The Stadia controller will be useable on other devices via the release of a tool […]
Pokemon Blue’s Protagonist Is The Biggest Brat In Gaming
I recently played back through Pokemon Blue, writing about my experiences each week as I tried to envision the world through a tourist's eyes. You can read about the whole journey here, but the point of it all was to understand why Pokemon Blue, and the world of Kanto, was so special to me. There […]
How I Afflicted Geralt With The Witcher 3’s Worst Curse Imaginable
The Witcher 3 is full of curses, and Geralt of Rivia faces a wide range of foes, from greedy gangsters to mythical creatures with terrifying, and deadly, designs. 20 hours into my playthrough, however, I realised that his most fearsome foe is no beast or baron, but a being capable of wreaking terrible curses upon […]
Halo’s Iconic Warthog Run Has Been Recreated With Infinite’s Forge
Halo was a trailblazer. The shooter arrived on Microsoft's debut games console in late 2001 and it knocked players over with its sense of scale. Many remember looking up at that Ring and experiencing a sense of awe, or that go-anywhere feeling when driving around in the Warthog. Now someone has recreated the iconic final […]
The Next PS5 Model Reportedly Won’t Have Any "Major Hardware Changes"
We have an update on the long-rumoured PS5 model with a detachable disc drive – and it may be disappointing news for some fans. According to industry insider Tom Henderson, the next PS5 model won't sport any "major hardware changes" from current Sony consoles, suggesting it won't be a beefier version of what's already on […]
Minecraft Player Recreates Toto’s Africa With Moving Backgrounds
Everybody knows Africa by Toto. I know it because the dive bar I worked in for years at uni had it on the jukebox, and every night someone thought it'd be funny to queue it up ten times in a row so that we were still listening to it as we closed for the night […]
Amouranth Reveals Why She Hasn’t Fully Stopped Adult Content
In October last year, we reported that Kaitlyn Siragusa, a.k.a. Amouranth, revealed that she was married, and her husband controlled her finances, her content, and verbally abused her if she didn't listen to him. She made this public by livestreaming a phone conversation with said husband who berated her without knowing he was on the […]