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Teamfight Tactics TFT Positioning Guide - Updated for Patch 9.16

Looking to get the drop on your opponents in Teamfight Tactics? You’ll want to think more about unit placement! Placing your champions on the field may not seem as important as team comp...

SARAZANMAI Imagines a Better Future for Queer Love Stories

“Is it love or desire?” This question winds its way through SARAZANMAI, the most recent work of famed anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena). On its most basic level,...

Hasbro's Crowdfunded Unicron Transformer Is over Two Feet Tall

The biggest Transformer in the series’ history is about to become the biggest Transformers toy ever made, provided that Hasbro can convince 8,000 people to part with a significant chunk of cash. For t...

FF14 Leveling Guide: Tips to Reach the Level Cap Fast

Final Fantasy XIV is chock full of things to do, places to see, and Jobs to level up. There are so many different classes, in fact, that you’re probably going to want to see them all. An...

Innocence (Normal): FF14 Crown of the Immaculate Trial Guide - Strategy & Tips

Square Enix kept pretty tight lipped about Innocence in FF14: Shadowbringers. All we knew about this Trial boss going in was that they had an angelic look and would be the second Trial i...

Teamfight Tactics Champions List - Kai'Sa Release

While there are 144 champions in League of Legends, not all of them have made the jump to Teamfight Tactics. In fact, there are only 56 Teamfight Tactics champions avai...

FF14 Crafting Guide - Beast Tribe Quests, High Quality Items, & Skills

If you’ve ever played an MMO before, you know that they usually have professions — or non-combat classes. These typically specialize purely in gathering, building, or otherwise creating items. Cr...

Every Fighting Game Movie Ever Made, Ranked From Worst to Best

The story portion of fighting games has rapidly evolved over the years. What started with a simple framing device — often a tournament of the world’s finest — has grown into c...

Qitana Ravel: FF14 Dungeon Guide - Bosses, Strategy, & Tips

Qitana Ravel is the third dungeon in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers. It’s also one of the easiest, with neither the complicated bosses of Dohn Mheg or the massive damage of Holmin...

Judgment Review Impressions: This Is Not a Yakuza Game

Between attending E3 and the game’s massive runtime (more than 70 hours in some cases), we just haven’t had time to complete Judgment yet. But we still wanted to write up our initial impr...

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Conarium is lore-heavy Lovecraft

If Conarium can claim anything, it can claim that it’s accurate to the HP Lovecraft Experience. It’s got accurate Elder Things! References to mythology and the occult! Language patterns and foibles dr...

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Ex-Halo developers get real about hiring and firing in the game industry

Speaking alongside fellow Bungie alumnus Marty O’Donnell in a recent interview with Playboy, veteran Halo and Destiny designer Jaime Griesemer says many large studios suffer fro...

Dohn Mheg: FF14 Dungeon Guide - Bosses, Strategy, & Tips

Dohn Mheg is the second — and very slippery — dungeon in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers. It’s a bit less intense than Holminster Switch, but still gets to be pretty dicey in...

Hades (Normal): FF14 The Dying Gasp Trial Guide - Strategy & Tips

We did it. We’ve finally arrived at the last boss of Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers. Well… It’s the last Trial of the patch 5.0 main story anyway. There will be plenty more to do and see be...

How to Get Arbalest: The First Exotic Kinetic Fusion Rifle in Destiny 2

It always feels like a holiday whenever a new Exotic gets added to Destiny 2. And the newest addition to the stable of rare weapons is no different. Arbalest is finally available with the Des...

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Tired game tropes that Zelda: Breath of the Wild made me love again

A quick note first: I feel very differently about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild than the site’s official review by Willie Clark, which I nevertheless enjoyed reading. Dissenting voi...

Destiny 2: Forsaken Ascendant Challenge Guide

There’s a lot to discover in Forsaken, the new major expansion for Destiny 2. One of the most mysterious of these new activities is the Ascendant Challen...

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Klaus Review Impressions

Imagine slowly drifting back into consciousness, faint red light flooding your closed eyelids. As you come to, you gradually realize you have no recollection of how you ended up in this place. In fact...

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The Flame in the Flood Review

I’m beginning to suspect that I’m not very good at surviving

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Even the Ocean Preview

“If you’re trying to make a really accessible game,” Joni Kittaka laughs, “then action platformer with walljumping is really not what you should do.”