Tag: Action

Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion’s explosive anime mech battles are surprisingly improved by an open world with nothing in it but odd jobs and vibes

Daemon X Machina: Titanic…

The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but…
Crimson Desert’s soundtrack is criminally inoffensive but that hasn’t stopped one song from driving me insane

Crimson Desert’s soundtrack is…

There is so much about Crimson Desert that enthralls and deeply frustrates me—you can read about all that in…
Crimson Desert’s soundtrack is criminally inoffensive but that hasn’t stopped one song from driving me insane

Crimson Desert’s soundtrack is…

There is so much about Crimson Desert that enthralls and deeply frustrates me—you can read about all that in…
From a ‘single save-passing exercise’ to an ‘international community’: How GTA’s world-hopping Chain Game has endured through hundreds of rounds—and how it’s preparing for its biggest test yet with GTA 6

From a ‘single save-passing…

‘Community-based relay game’ isn’t something I’d immediately associate with Grand Theft Auto. It’s just not very gangster, is it?…
Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to ‘rebuild our core systems from the ground up’

Blight: Survival offers a…

Blight: Survival, the third person hack ‘n’ slash where you carve up zombies in brutal medieval combat, is one…
Death Stranding 2 devs thought ‘Brutal’ mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to ‘the upper limit’ with its new difficulty option on PC

Death Stranding 2 devs…

Death Stranding 2‘s PC launch on Thursday may have been overshadowed just a bit by Crimson Desert, but as…
Silksong player tracks down a secret version of its act 1 boss and immediately discovers why Team Cherry probably cut it

Silksong player tracks down…

Silksong contains remnants of all sorts of cut content, unfinished fragments of a game that never was. One of…
With over 10,500 posts and 3 years of research, this GTA 6 map thread is a hivemind of hot speculation, educated guesses and meticulous analysis on the potential size and scale of Vice City

With over 10,500 posts…

For most open-world enthusiasts, few moments rival those first tentative steps into a new and unexplored sandbox. Everything is…
Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert

Here are 9 incredibly…

Crimson Desert is a monster of a game. A labyrinth of cool ideas communicated in frustratingly obtuse ways. It…
Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to ‘work to make improvements quickly’

Pearl Abyss announces Crimson…

Crimson Desert’s launch hasn’t been met with universal acclaim, as frustrations with the hypermanic open world’s bizarre control scheme…