Ethan Gach

What You Need To Know To Get Started With Destiny 2’s Trials Of Osiris

Destiny’s elite competitive end-game mode, Trials of Osiris, makes its triumphant return today. The last time anyone got to play it was back in August 2017. If you play Destiny 2, you should give it a shot, since while challenging, it’s also historically been one of the best things in the series. Here’s how to…

Speedrunners Can’t Stop Playing The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has only been out for a week, but already speedrunners have played through it dozens of times trying to master it as if it were a standalone game. The demo, which went live last Monday, runs barely an hour, only showing off the first mission of what promises to…

The Prince Of Persia Is Coming To For Honor

Ubisoft’s medieval fighter For Honor is getting a new limited-time mode featuring the Prince of Persia, starting today. The new game mode, called Ruler of Time, is a variation on Dominion, the game’s traditional capture-the-zone mode. Ruler of Time features a tornado that whips around the map and occasionally spawns the Prince of Persia, the…

Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft Respond To The News Of E3’s Cancellation

Earlier today, the Entertainment Software Association said it will cancel the video game trade show E3 this year amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, aka coronavirus. Since the announcement, major game publishers have said they still plan to share news about upcoming games, but in a different format. Despite Sony pulling out of…

Destiny 2’s Latest Season Is Off To A Rough Start

I’ve spent around seven hours with Season of the Worthy. That’s not nearly enough time to pass judgment on the changes and new content that will be reverberating throughout Destiny 2 over the next few months. But I can say that those seven hours have been some of the most underwhelming I’ve spent getting to…

Destiny 2 Players Can No Longer Show Off Some Of Their Favorite Stats [Update]

Today, Bungie improved the emblems Destiny 2 players use to express themselves to offer more customization options, but in the process wiped out some of players’ most coveted stats. Destiny 2 recieved a massive update today alongside the start of Season of the Worthy. It changed a lot of things, ranging from how the quest…

The Remastered Ports Of Langrisser I & II Remind Me Why These Games Rule

Originally released in the early ’90s for the Sega Genesis, Langrisser I & II have now been ported to the PS4, Switch, and PC, bringing back classic turn-based strategy and lifting it up with updated graphics and a life-saving fast-forward button. I fell in love with the genre the first time I laid hands on…

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection hits PC on June 5. It wil include Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert, as well as both games’ expansion packs. A new trailer shows the collection in action, including improvements to the UI and controls. Hopefully it plays as well as it looks.

Fan-Made Browser Game Lets You Plan Out Your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will give players more options and freedom to customize their island than any previous game in the series. Thanks to a browser game called Happy Island Designer, eager fans can get a head start on planning out their new village before New Horizons even comes out. Created by Github user Eugeneration,…

Japan is getting a Panzer Dragoon game tentatively titled Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record sometime in the next year Interestingly, it’ll be a VR game that retells the story of the original three Panzer Dragoon games from the Sega Saturn. It’ll be separate from the remakes that are coming to the Switch.

2K Will Make NFL Games Again For The First Time In 16 Years

2K Games announced a deal with the NFL today to release a number of new football games in the coming years, with the first slated to launch sometime next year. It’s not at all clear what these new NFL games will consist of. “The games will be non-simulation football game experiences,” 2K stated in its…

What’s Going On With GeForce Now

Ever since it officially launched last month, game publishers have been abandoning Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform in droves. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, meanwhile, has defended the service, arguing it’s the most developer-friendly option out there right now. “Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles…

Free Call Of Duty Battle Royale Launches Tomorrow

Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a free-to-play battle royale add-on called Warzone featuring 150-player matches, two modes, and cross-play PS4, Xbox One, and PC. To clarify, you don’t have to own a copy of Modern Warfare in order to play Warzone. Details of the mode have been leaking out…

Players Finally Figure Out Two-Year-Old Destiny 2 Puzzle Clue

Destiny 2‘s Rasputin Chamber Puzzle alternate reality game (ARG) was discovered back in 2018, and one part of it stumped players so much they had to brute force the solution, solving the puzzle in just a few days but without fully understanding all the pieces. That is, until last week. The puzzle was introduced in…

Spawn Has A Lot Of Weapons In Mortal Kombat 11

NetherRealm Studios gave us our first real look at Mortal Kombat 11‘s sixth DLC character during last night’s tournament and one thing’s clear: everything Spawn does will hurt you. The trailer shows Spawn shredding through Mortal Kombat mainstays with an arsenal of guns, swords, and axes. And of course his cape isn’t just there to…

The Original Creators Of Burnout Are Making A New Open-World Racer

Dangerous Driving 2 is the fourth arcade racing game that veteran developer Alex Ward has worked on in as many years. He and just over half of Three Fields Entertainment’s seven-person staff flew out from the UK to show it off at PAX East ahead of its holiday 2020 release on Xbox One, PS4, PC,…

The Emerald City Comic Con taking place next week in Seattle, Washington has been postponed until the summer, the event’s organizers announced today. This news comes just five days after the company behind the convention, Reedpop, had previously said the event would take place as scheduled

Sludge Life Feels Like Playing Hooky From Late Capitalism

One of my favorite Onion articles of all time is titled “Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back.” It was published five years ago, back when I still worked at an office job I hated where I frequently daydreamed of doing exactly as the Onion health experts advised. But where…

The Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show

Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…

The Outer Worlds’ Font Size Is About To Get Even Bigger

Yesterday the developers at Obsidian announced that even though The Outer Worlds came out nearly five months ago, they’re still hard at work on improving its font sizes This is great news since the original text in The Outer Worlds was too damn small, and while Obsidian added a large font option shortly after release,…