There is a saying that goes ‘‘The best things in life are free’’ and recently that has been the case with games on the Nintendo eShop for the Switch. There are numerous titles that you can download and play for free! From puzzle-solving games to intense battle royales, there’s something to suit everyone’s taste. Even though Apex Legends and Fortnite are free games, they didn’t make this list as everyone knows about them....
Genshin Impact has become known for its anime-inspired approach to open-world RPG gameplay. The numerous playable characters, monsters, and bosses found throughout Teyvat each possess a unique design, often inspired by a particular Elemental “Vision,” if not a general region. Travelers arrive in the game’s Mondstadt region when starting out their Genshin Impact adventure, but it isn’t long before they’re venturing out into the Geo-aligned Liyue region in pursuit of delicious local peppers....
Stats are the backbones of most turn-based RPGs, and Pokemon is no exception. You can’t just invest all your eggs into one stat and call it a day, but being the best at something will certainly give you a nice edge in battle. That’s what most of the Pokemon on this list can claim, as they can say they are the best in particular stats. When examining them, their competition for that title and how that works in conjunction with its other stats will be looked into and taken into account....
As 2018 draws to a close, the video game industry has seen significant moments from studio closures to tragic incidents to disappointing announcements. There’s nothing like that moment when a major video game developer enthusiastically announces a new game that quickly gets booed by its core fans, or when an industry leader decides to snub one of gaming’s most prestigious conferences. To round out the year, here are the seven moments from 2018 that had a strong impact in the gaming industry as a whole....
This article contains The Boys Season 3 “Herogasm” spoilers All year, Eric Kripke and the producers of The Boys have been hyping up “Herogasm” as the most shocking episode of season three, a bold claim given the season premiere. “Herogasm” takes its title from a six-issue miniseries spinoff from The Boys comic, one that followed a Vought-sponsored orgy filled with even more nastiness than found in the mainline series. “This is my Infinity War,” gushed one user, while called it, “one of the best fight scenes in CB media....
Supermassive Games found a great deal of success with Until Dawn, whose legacy is carried on in The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of horror games with different stories and characters that all feature Until Dawn-style gameplay. The second game in the series, The Dark Pictures: Little Hope, has received its most-revealing trailer to date, letting horror game fans know exactly what they can expect when it releases later this summer....
Ubisoft is applying a hotfix for an ongoing exploit in the Falcon Lost Incursion, taking down The Division’s servers for an estimated 30-45 minutes starting at 1:45PM PDT. Update: This article initially claimed that there would be no known repercussions for The Division players that exploited this glitch. Ubisoft has issued a statement on its official forums, clarifying that “[w]e are working on fixing the exploit. Obviously it is against our Code of Conduct and the team is looking into what can be done in terms of punishment for those who have exploited....
The hollows amongst r/EldenRing have become even hollower in the wake of The Game Awards, which was rumored to show off a tantalizing new game trailer. With TGA being a bust for FromSoftware fans, aside from walking away with the Most Anticipated Game Award, many have taken it upon themselves to bring lighthearted fun and joy to the sad occasion via the TGA’s now most beloved mascot: Pokemon’s Wooper. In the form of several hysterical memes, the small blue tadpole-like creature becomes the star of the show in an ongoing Wooper war with any and all Eldern Ring news at the center of it all....
The story of Far Cry 6 takes players from the cooler Midwest climates of Far Cry 5 to a tropical island similar to the setting of the third game. While Far Cry 3 took place in the fictional Rook Islands roughly based on parts of Indonesia, the next game will be set on the island of Yara, a fictional Caribbean nation cut off from the rest of the world for years....
One week later, MGM Studios has picked up the GameStop versus Wall Street drama and plans on turning it into a blockbuster movie. Life moves pretty fast in 2021, but this particular story might have just set a world record pace in that regard. Deadline reports MGM Studios has already bought the movie rights to the GameStop versus Wall Street saga that only started to make headlines seven days ago. In fact, despite the reprieve over the weekend, the battle is almost definitely far from over....
The new Netflix film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final screen role, is a searing drama set in 1920s Chicago, based on a Tony-winning play by legendary playwright August Wilson. The 1982 show is part of Wilson’s 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle,” a series of plays mostly set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, each in a different decade, that use families in that neighborhood (where Wilson himself was born) as the lens through which Wilson examines the Black experience in America throughout the 20th century....
The original Last of Us featured a multiplayer mode that was actually fairly popular with the game’s community, and so many were disappointed when The Last of Us 2 launched without multiplayer of any kind. However, Naughty Dog has said for some time that multiplayer would be added to the game at some point after launch, and now the very first gameplay footage of The Last of Us 2 multiplayer has leaked online....
This Last of Us 2 player encountered something that would have left most people walking away from the game, probably forever. Naughty Dog introduced a permadeath mode to The Last Of Us Part 2 last August. As the mode’s name implies, if you die then you must return to the beginning of the chapter, act, or entire game, depending on how tense you want to be while playing. One player was streaming their 12th attempt at making it all the way to the end without being killed when the unthinkable happened....
In Nintendo’s quality of life video, it was unintentionally revealed that autosaving will be present in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. It has now gone into further detail about the game’s more modern system. In an 18-second clip, Nintendo showed off this new autosave feature. As highlighted during a scene in which Link is running through town, you can see “Saving…” along with an adjacent icon in the bottom right....
This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 2 Episode 12 It can’t be emphasized enough: The Magicians has become more and more magnificently unpredictable, even for those who have read the books. As each character embarks on separate, equally interesting quests, the richness of the story deepens. Of particular interest this week was the strangely powerful advice of Mayakovsky, the surprising sacrifice of Senator Gaines as well as that of Penny’s new supervisor, and the unexpected appearance of another of Fillory’s gods....
Google Stadia is about to make sharing your favorite games with your fellow gamers, friends, and viewers even more interactive. They will be launching a new feature called State Share, which will allow you to share a “playable slice” of the games you’re playing. This feature will be available starting with the Hitman - World of Assassination trilogy — on January 20. State Share is like PS4 Share, but it goes further than sharing a plain screenshot or screen recording of a level you played through....
Game Rant recently had the opportunity to speak with two senior developers for Star Trek Online: design director Al Rivera and senior environment artist Nick Duguid. Ever since its release back in 2010, Star Trek Online has been the go-to MMO game for fans of the series, and it is worth noting that this year marks the game’s 11th anniversary. To those unaware, Star Trek Online is currently hosting a huge anniversary event, which will be available on the PC until February 25....
Perhaps the best Star Wars game in over fifteen years came last year in the form of the critically and commercially successful Jedi: Fallen Order, which not only is incredibly fun to play but has a fantastic story and characters alongside it. It’s a truly brilliant effort by the team who created the game. The game is generally not too difficult, save for some sections of the story, especially on the Grandmaster difficulty....
Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard has seemingly confirmed that both its upcoming role-playing games: Starfield and The Elder Scroll 6 will be coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one. While this has been speculated before by many since the time Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Bethesda in 2021, this is the first when Howard, Creative Director and Executive Producer at Bethesda Game Studios’ has confirmed the news. Microsoft announced back in September that they are acquiring Bethesda Softworks’ parent company, ZeniMax Media, and while the deal won’t be finalized till 2021, things have already been set in motion....
It takes a lot of effort to come up with a unique idea for a video game these days since just about everything has been done to death. Yet, Flight School Studio’s newest game, Stonefly, may be one of the most unique titles that I’ve played in recent memory. While it borrows a lot of ideas from other games about mechs, the way it uses its fighting robots to battle giant insects allows for some of the strangest combat scenarios I’ve ever witnessed....
