Demon’s Souls Character Creator Has Millions of Permutations and I Will Still Just Make Myself

If I were to make a list of games that I bought or even just considered buying exclusively because they feature a character creator at the beginning, that list would contain a number of video games that is not zero. So when Sony and Bluepoint Games announce that the upcoming Demon’s…

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PlayStation Survey Hints at Possible PS4 Remote Play on Switch

A lot of companies put out consumer surveys to gauge interest in possible products and services, and a lot of those surveys don’t result in any of these things ever coming to light. So take what I’m about to say as wild fantasizing of a possible future that may never…

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Happy 35th Birthday to the Sharp X68000!

In the American canon, 80s retro gaming is almost always associated with dedicated consoles like the NES and the Sega Genesis. But in Japan during that same period, home computers were huge. And if you do any digging around into the history of Japanese video games in the late 20th…

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The Terror: Infamy, “Gaman” Review

“If somebody find love here, that be something,” says Yamamoto, played by George Takei, of two young people flirting over breakfast in a Japanese internment camp. This sort of love-among-the-ruins quiet desperation permeates Infamy’s third episode, “Gaman”, helmed by Heathers and Hudson Hawk director Michael Lehmann and written by Shannon…

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REVIEWS

Destiny 2 Severing the Worm Guide – How to Finish the Exorcism Activity

Destiny 2’s next major expansion is less than a week away, and there’s a new story mission for players to complete that acts as an epilogue for this season. Titled “Severing the Worm,” this sees six players heading into something similar to the Astral Alignment activity. While there’s no unique…

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Ride Your Wave Review: A Colorful Love Story

Ride Your Wave continues a trend in recent anime films that explore the beautiful grandeur of water — flowing along with the story itself. It follows on the heels of Makoto Shinkai’s successful Weathering With You and precedes the upcoming film Children of the Sea (both released by GKIDS, which is quickly becoming a…

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REVIEWS

Baldur’s Gate 3 Teaser Appears From the Makers of Divinity: Original Sin

Baldur’s Gate 3 is looking increasingly likely, thanks to a teaser on Larian Studios’ website. The developer of Divinity: Original Sin 2 (as well as, well, older Divinity games) has replaced its usual site with a big, smokey image that shows the Roman numeral III. Dig into the page source…

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Six Months Later, Marvel’s Avengers Still Feels Lackluster

In September of last year, Square Enix finally released Marvel’s Avengers, their delayed superhero multiplayer live game based on one of the biggest properties in the entire world. It seemed like it should have been a slam dunk, considering how popular games like Destiny are and how much money you can make…

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Bodies that Matter: an interview with Robert Yang

Robert Yang on why he writes such detailed artist's statements, on his Twitch ban, and future projects

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The Gorgeous Indie Game Sable is Nothing Like I Expected

Sable, an absolutely beautiful upcoming indie game about traversing a brightly colored desert, got a surprising demo this week. I don’t just mean “surprising” in that we didn’t know it was coming. I mean it actually served the purpose of a demo — teaching me more about the game than…

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The First Episode of Life Is Strange 2 Is Forever Good and Now Forever Free

The first episode of Life is Strange 2, Dontnod Entertainment’s follow-up to the widely beloved episodic game that is the first Life is Strange, is now forever free. It’s always been extremely good, though — even better than the lovely first season. Which means you should really get it. On…

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WWE Recap: BB + DP 4Ever

Edge vs Roman, Bianca Vs Sasha. Spear takes on spear and The EST faces The Boss. Throw in a Bad Bunny concert and we’ve got the ingredients for a rocking WrestleMania. We’re hopping in the fast lane towards Fastlane, but we’ve got a few extra mid-carders to run over on…

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