Nioh 2 Tips Guide – 14 Things the Game Doesn’t Tell You

Our latest round of Nioh 2 tips are here to help you navigate the incredibly dense Souls-like. The over-the-shoulder action game from Koei Tecmo doesn’t hold your hand, after all! While there are plenty of paths forward for intrepid players, it’s often difficult to know which one works best, or…

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GUIDES

The Line Between Art and Carnage in Hannibal

“You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal,” says the famous cannibal’s abducted psychiatrist Bedelia du Maurier, “Only aesthetical ones.” She might as well be talking about the show. Bryan Fuller’s adaptation and expansion of author Thomas Harris’s novels Red Dragon and Hannibal is one of the most sensuously beautiful shows…

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FEATURES

Psycho-Pass Does Dystopian Storytelling Right

Fictional dystopias are, increasingly, boring and lifeless. When so many of the usual concerns of the genre — sexism (The Handmaid’s Tale), anti-intellectualism (Fahrenheit 451), and bread and circuses distraction (The Hunger Games) are so obviously woven into the fabric of everyday life, why even bother? These stories often boil…

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FEATURES

Crackdown 3 Review: Last (Generation) Action Hero

Wasted potential is the best way to sum up Crackdown 3, which simultaneously squanders its impressive destruction technology while also failing to build upon the series’ existing strengths. But despite all these flaws, there is the core of a great game here. Crackdown 3 is the archetypal power fantasy: an open-world platforming…

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REVIEWS

Everything You Missed From the February 2022 Nintendo Direct

Nintendo Directs are neither consistently scheduled nor consistently packed, but that doesn’t stop them from — and maybe even contributes to — being exciting, hype-filled affairs for an utterly gigantic audience. With the February 2022 Direct announced only one day before, the world had less time than usual to get…

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NEWS

Descent (Normal): FF14 Eden Raid Guide – Boss Strategy & Tips

Despite its name, Descent is all about you rising above the Eden’s Gate raid in a glorious display of martial might. Although there’s a very real danger of getting knocked off the side of the arena… Welcome to the second phase of the Eden raid in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers,…

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GUIDES

No, You Moron, Now is Not the Time to Imply Video Games Cause Mass Shootings

It’s impossible to articulate how angry I am today. Yesterday, 19 children and one teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas were murdered in one of the the worst and most gruesome mass shootings in United States history, less than ten days from the deadly shooting in Buffalo. The…

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FEATURES

A Squid Game Inspired Mode is Coming to PUBG Mobile

Surprising nobody after that whole Among Us mode teased earlier in the year, next week, PUBG Mobile will welcome a mode that’s clearly inspired by Netflix’s latest mega-hit show, the Korean thriller Squid Game — specifically the deadly game of Red Light, Green Light featured in its first episode. Technically…

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How to Turn Destiny Subtitles Back on (Or Off) After Shadowkeep

Whether due to a bug, a reset as the game goes free, or because of intentional choice, Destiny 2 subtitles seem to be off for a lot of players. Although that wasn’t the case before. Unfortunately, Destiny also has quite a lot of menus and tabs within tabs to navigate.…

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GUIDES

On Dead Wrestlers

Initially, this was going to be an essay about Owen Hart, an essay on the resting unease with which I’ve regarded the work (and ultimately the occupation) of one of my favorite wrestlers for the majority of my life. I haven’t seen the episode of Dark Side of the Ring…

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WRESTLING

Wild and Young: Ranking WWE NXT’s First Episodes

Everyone has their own opinions on NXT 2.0, and those opinions vary wildly depending on where you’re coming from as a wrestling fan. There’s one opinion, however, that most of us seem to share: The fact that WWE has chosen to call this latest NXT re-branding “NXT 2.0” is objectively…

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How The Division helped me better understand games

Lots of people make special room in their lives for a really important game. Until The Division, I'd never known what that felt like.

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