Console video game sales will be a majority-digital marketplace when the next generation launches in a few months, and the novel coronavirus carried them over that threshold. That’s the inescapable feeling after video gaming’s major publishers touted huge surges in their installation bases and online sales — full-copy games as well as microtransactions — during […]
Alan Wake Turns 10, And Is Coming To Game Pass This Month
Remedy Entertainment’s spooky narrative action game, Alan Wake, is heading to Xbox Game Pass for Xbox One and PC. It will go live on the subscription service on May 21. The announcement was made during a stream commemorating the 10th anniversary of the game, which originally launched on Xbox 360 and PC. A small expansion, […]
Modder KawaiiStacie Turns The Sims 4 Into Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Recently, the Sims community has been overrun with Simmers turning their attention to a new game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The popular Nintendo Switch title is a sandbox life simulator, and as such, has a huge appeal for Sims fans. However, with Switch’s being expensive and in short supply, not everyone who wants to play […]
MotoGP 20 Review – Tough Turns
I’ve played many racing games, but MotoGP 20 is a new kind of challenge that I wholeheartedly embrace. The high-speed, demanding bikes require a slightly different approach from the traditional race car techniques I’m accustomed to, breeding an internal competition for understanding and mastery that leads to a heightened tension on the track. This creates […]
Level-5’s New Game Turns Yo-Kai Watch’s Jibanyan Into A Cute Anime Girl
Armored Girls returns to mobile and brings Yo-kai Watch’s Jibanyan with it. Originally a browser game that launched in 2017, Armored Girls was a spinoff of Little Battlers Experience, an action RPG franchise that first appeared on the PSP and Nintendo 3DS in the early 2010s. Like so many browser games out of Japan, Armored […]
Streamer’s PC Build Turns Into Smoking Fire Hazard
Just in case any amateurs were in doubt: no, all of that smoke is not a good sign. Commiserations, Fastaction99. There are various different types of PC gamers. Some take their rigs super seriously, ensuring that they’re always up to the specs of the most demanding games on the market. To remain on the cutting […]
xQc Turns Into Junkrat For Insane Kill In VALORANT
Famous streamer Félix “xQc” Lengyel lit the internet on fire with this insane Junkrat-like VALORANT kill. VALORANT has taken Twitch, and the gaming world, by storm as the closed beta has been slowly opening up. Gamers have been flooding into the streams of popular Twitch personalities such as Summit1G, TimTheTatman, and xQc until they were able to […]
Fortnite mechanic turns proximity mines into throwable explosives
The launch of Fortnite Season 2 saw Epic Games add a variety of weapons for players to use in combat, such as proximity mines. These explosives can be placed on a surface and deal damage to an opponent. They also mark the opponent’s location, giving players the opportunity to go finish the kill. However, since […]
Breath of the Wild turns 3, inspiring a new wave of Twitter fandom
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild turns three years old today, but fans aren’t ready to stop celebrating the game quite yet. There’s a sequel on the horizon, with a short-haired Zelda and a dehydrated Ganon, but we don’t have much in the way of details quite yet. With Breath of the Wild […]