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Illustration by: Angelica Alzona Most players attempting Fallout 4’s Survival mode will just get their ass kicked. One player, however, has already managed to beat the entire thing on a single life. Funnily enough, the toughest challenge Kyle Hinckley faced along the way wasn’t something like starvation or damage, but rather a nearly catastrophic glitch….
The Russian government is not known for being particularly straightforward with facts. Russia is currently backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his brutal, 5-year-long war to regain control of his country from rebels. As part of that effort, Russia’s government and state-owned media want to discredit the people fighting against Assad. Those people include the…
Statement on the Reception of IGN’s Recent Stellaris Review We very rarely (if at all) comment on individual reviews. We feel that we should be involved only up to the point of showing/providing our game to reviewers and then allowing them to have a free hand with their articles from there. However, unfortunately in this…
Even among MOBAs, Heroes of the Storm has a reputation for delivering mechanically weird characters. When Blizzard announced Cho’gall at BlizzCon, or The Lost Vikings before him, it was pretty clear that playing them would be different than your average HotS hero. But the newly announced Medivh could be stranger than both. A Magus whose…
Two weekends ago, Magic: the Gathering’s Pro Tour, the seasonal capstone of its organized-play system, kicked off in Madrid. The decks were creative and diverse, the matches were strategically interesting, and the new cards were sweet—at least to people that already really, really like Magic cards. When the climactic last round before the playoffs went…
Yesterday, Riot introduced the world to Taliyah, League of Legends’ next playable champion. For the most part, people responded very positively toward Taliyah. Champion designer Daniel Klein responded to the vocal minority against Taliyah, however, by stating that “Restricting body types is limiting to us as creators.” Taliyah, for those that don’t know, looks like…
Overwatch was announced at BlizzCon in 2014. It rose from the ashes of a longtime Blizzard MMO project called Titan, which had been in development for years and years only to meet the reaping scythe of cancellation. But Overwatch character Soldier 76 even predates that. Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s trusty Shoot Man. He’s a gruff…
Bless Fallout 4 players who are truly making the most out of the Wasteland Workshop DLC. The screenshot above comes to us via Twitter user Pipbois, a Fallout 4 player desperate for Nick Valentine’s attention. As you might already know, the Wasteland Workshop DLC lets players make neon signs, and it’s leading to all sorts…
Why don’t “booth babes” get considered to be Women In Games? I am not the first person to ask this question. Model View Culture’s “Feminists in Tech: Please Stop Treating Sex Work as a Contagion” serves as a concise introduction to the topic. That article is a year old. This topic, and variations upon it,…
Image: Playdek Of all the modern board games that constitute the current golden age of tabletop gaming—your Settlers of Catans, your Ticket to Rides, your Pandemics—one looms larger than all the others, like a mythical icon made of dice and cardboard. That game is Twilight Struggle, a behemoth of a board game famous for…