We may not necessarily love all the ways the success of Bungie’s Destiny has re-aligned the priorities of big-budget gaming over the last near-decade—the rise of the “games as service” model, the baseline assumption that any shooter must have a co-op multiplayer component built into it (complete with plenty of…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Although online gaming has been an important aspect of the hobby for decades, it’s rarely been more important than now, as social distancing—and please, for the love of all that’s holy, keep social distancing, folks—forces us to find ways to connect with our friends and loved ones across increasingly vast spaces.…
For Los Angeles’ Electronic Entertainment Expo (a.k.a. “E3,” a.k.a. the thing where they announce a bunch of new video game stuff), the COVID-19 pandemic came at a particularly inopportune time. The event had been desperately fighting off irrelevance for years, as video streaming technology improved right alongside…
Big news in the world of Pocket Monsters today, as The Pokémon Company announced ambitious new plans for its long-running pet-war franchise. As with, like, all video game news these days, the big announcements were largely backwards looking, albeit in an ambitious sort of way, as the partially-Nintendo-owned company…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Quick: How many games are there that are set in the world of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII universe? If you answered “Way more than VII,” well, congratulations: You’re getting right-er by the minute.
You know how it is with Dead Gods: Never content to settle into their deified dirt nap, they’re always getting up to something, usually involving cursing. Such is the central theme of Focus Home Interactive and Passtech Games’ cool new roguelike game Curse Of The Dead Gods, which sees a grizzled treasure hunter…
When the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games were remastered last year, it came at a perfect time: Hawk hadn’t released a new video game in years, and we were all stuck at home, struggling to find a way to entertain ourselves while feeling nostalgic as hell. The remaster was a great, temporary distraction from…
Sony’s plan to start putting money toward video game adaptations through the dedicated PlayStation Productions studio it launched a few years ago is working out surprisingly well, at least in the sense that the Uncharted movie really seems to be happening and won’t be stuck in development hell forever, and now another…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Every artistic medium has its iconic love stories—Harry and Sally, Cersei and Jaime, Dexy and Eileen—and now that video gaming has been around for a few decades, it has established some memorable romances of its own. Of course, while we all got misty-eyed when John Marston finally went on a real date and proposed to…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Just a few days ago, we reported that Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red was cracking down on mods that allowed you to have sex in the game with Johnny Silverhand, the character played (in both face and voice) by Keanu Reeves. The studio explained that it has no problem with that kind of mod in general, but it…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
It looks like Netflix isn’t the only development studio with a surprise up its sleeve on this rather busy Tuesday. Bethesda took a moment to make an unexpected announcement of its own via its Twitter page: The game developer will be joining forces with the newly formed Lucasfilm Games to bring an Indiana Jones video…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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