Tag: games

Resurfaced Metal Gear Solid interview shows how Kojima made Yoji Shinkawa’s designs the game’s beating heart: ‘Hell yeah, a cyborg ninja!’

Resurfaced Metal Gear Solid…

While it was far from his first game as director, 1998’s Metal Gear Solid is the title that established…
Blizzard let its UI mods ‘go farther than we should have’, says game director Ion Hazzikostas, but ‘the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second-best time is today’

Blizzard let its UI…

World of Warcraft: Midnight has now officially ripped the bandaid off—as of this week, many UI mods (addons) have…
Ready or Not’s Dark Waters DLC has some cracking maps and scarily intelligent AI suspects that managed to outsmart me at almost every turn

Ready or Not’s Dark…

Ready or Not is an intense and realistic tactical FPS where mistakes usually have violent consequences. But the upcoming…
Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, December 23

Today’s Wordle answer for…

Let's get this Wordle week started. Whether you're planning on blazing through Monday's game with a quick scroll straight…
Abiotic Factor restored my faith in survival games

Abiotic Factor restored my…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of…
2024 has been one of the most fragmented years for videogames and in hindsight I actually really liked that

2024 has been one…

Something I’ve come to realise is that I can pinpoint a year by its one giant videogame (or two…
Halls of Torment feels like the brilliant lovechild of Vampire Survivors and Diablo, and the absolute pinnacle of autobattlers

Halls of Torment feels…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of…
Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud

Best Roguelike 2024: Caves…

Our favourite roguelike of the year was deeply strange and absurdly deep. It’s the impossibly inventive retrofuturist fantasy Caves…
Blizzard has teased new Overwatch survey skins, and the usual suspects aren’t shy about hogging the concept collections

Blizzard has teased new…

Every few months, Blizzard selects a few lucky players to vote on what’s called Overwatch survey skins, official concept…
WoW’s pre-patch stat squish has caused several low-level potions and food items to do literally nothing, with some even restoring ‘-0 health’, whatever that means

WoW’s pre-patch stat squish…

World of Warcraft‘s pre-patch for the Midnight expansion has introduced a stat squish—in case you’re unfamiliar, it’s basically required…