Even if you’re not that into word games, crossword puzzles are still a pretty fun and useful game people should get into the habit of playing. They’re great for testing your general knowledge, as well as helping you learn cool and useful new facts about the world around you. They can get pretty challenging and obtuse at times, though, so if you’re struggling with cracking the crossword clue for today, have no fear....
Dying Light came in second, no doubt as players prepared for its original January 28 release, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in third. Tom Clancy’s The Division and Halo 5: Guardians followed in fourth and fifth, with The Order: 1886, GTA 5 PC, Battlefield Hardline, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and Uncharted 4 rounding out the top 10. Despite last month’s beta, however, Evolve failed to crack the top 10, placing just outside at No....
In the gloaming of the 21st Century’s second decade, the pop-cultural narrative has been dominated by superhero mash-ups and the idea of shared universes. From the MCU to the DCEU, from Ready Player One to Wreck-It Ralph, audiences have favoured combination over innovation. Whether you deride it as the end of culture, or forgive it as a collective grasp for familiarity in a world too mad to comprehend, it’s hard to deny that it is, for better or worse, what people want....
Battalion 1944 has officially joined Steam early access, developer Bulkhead Interactive has announced. The game will retail for £11.99 and those of you who supported the title during its Kickstarter days will receive some extra goodies in the form of skins and cosmetic loot crates. ‘It’s no exaggeration that Battalion 1944 is the game I’ve always wanted to make,’ commented Bulkhead Interactive’s Studio Lead, Joe Brammer. ‘We’ve enjoyed success at Bulkhead before, but we’re all gamers who grew up playing the best FPS games, so the idea of making one that stripped things back to the competitive nature of the shooters of old has been a dream come true....
Skribbl.io is a drawing and guessing game that is super popular because of how easy and fun it is to play. You can create private rooms to play with friends and there’s support for various languages too. All you have to do is type in your username and hit Play! Now, in case you want to play Skribbl.io unblocked games while you are at school or work, there are different ways to do it....
Randomly yesterday Bethesda’s Twitch started broadcasting a monitor in the style of Fallout “Please Stand By” messages and a Vault Boy bobblehead standing in front of it, with the Fallout twitter account following suit. As the stream went on all day yesterday and into this morning, random happenings kept people guessing what was going on (someones helpfully compiled a list of things that happened here on Reddit) till at last Bethesda spilled the beans....
Revolution Software and Microids have announced Beyond A Steel Sky will launch for consoles on November 30 alongside next-gen versions of the game. The sequel to the 1994 adventure sees players hunting for a missing child as Robert Foster. Returning to Union City, he’ll soon find out the idyllic utopia is not all it seems. Naturally, he’ll find himself wound up in another web of intrigue and mystery. You’ll get to explore a dynamic post-cyberpunk world with an eclectic cast....
Blizzard has pulled back from its requirement that players add their mobile phone number to their Battle.net account in order to play Overwatch 2. It was previously mandatory for players to enroll in the “SMS Protect” system to access the game. Players who declined would be unable to login to the game’s servers. Blizzard argued that SMS Protect was necessary as the game transitioned to a live service free-to-play model, in order to combat “disruptive behaviour” and stop banned users simply creating a new account....
Borderlands 3 is the newest addition to the Borderlands franchise. The fans of this series are no strangers to adding challenges to the games to make them more difficult. This is seen from the multitude of players of Borderlands 2 who tried melee only runs. One fan of the franchise and YouTuber, Senza, decided to try and beat the game using only Tediore reloads and has succeeded. Tediore is a weapons manufacturer in the Borderlands universe with a particular function that makes them different than everyone else....
In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can mix and match any and all ingredients to come up with some sort of delectable meal that will fill Link up and restore his hearts. If you choose to cook up monster parts, you’ll be left with an elixir that will benefit Link in some sort of way. Today we’re going to be taking a look at five elixirs that you should check out, along with five you can skip....
If you’re dying to change your Bungie ID name, you now have your chance. The creators of Destiny announced today that starting after a hotfix that is going to go live tomorrow at 9:00 am PT, account holders will have the option by logging onto Bungie.net. To be honest, I didn’t even realize Bungie IDs were a thing. I just assumed everything was tied to our platform IDs. But hey, if you’re on the Bungie forums, and are dying to change your name up, then tomorrow is the big day....
There are now rumors that AMD is ramping down the production volume for its Zen 4 CPU lineup. This comes via WCCFTech, which got hold of an internal report from AMD that reportedly confirms the reduced production of Zen 4 CPUs. This is emblematic of a wider problem in the PC market of companies producing too much stock. AMD’s decision isn’t too surprising when you consider the factors of the wider market....
If you don’t think where you land in the Apex Legends arena is important, you might change your mind when you find out that the game’s highest-ranked players almost always land in one of just three spots. We know this because a player has taken the time to create a heatmap using a tracking program to analyze data from over 120,000 matches. Reddit user ZYy9oQ posted his findings in the form of an informative illustration to show us the most popular drop zones in the free-to-play shooter....
Today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, a new turn-based strategy game was revealed. It’s called Ara: History Untold. This new game comes from Oxide Games, the studio behind the real-time strategy game Ashes of the Singularity, which was released back in 2016. In the trailer for Ara: History Untold, we get a short look at what the game will have in store for us. It takes us through moments of greatness in innovative history, such as the building of the pyramids in Egypt, ancient Greek architecture, Benjamin Franklin flying a kite in a lightning storm, the mapping of the solar system, and beyond....
Atelier Ryza brings with it a large number of different game systems that can be a little overwhelming at first. Not to worry, though! We’re here to provide you with some quick tips to help you get started on your adventure. Go wild with harvesting In Atelier Ryza, there are harvesting spots everywhere. While you may want to only grab what you need, you have thousands of spots of storage space available....
Viewers decided to take action against an Australian Twitch streamer after they heard what sounded like him beating his wife during a stream. While the alleged incident happened off-camera, disturbing sounds were enough to convince some that the streamer had slapped his apparently pregnant wife. The viewers called the police, and sources say the streamer was arrested and will appear in court today. The stream in question happened on Sunday, reports Motherboard....
Nearly everyone who has ever put on a costume in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie will return in Avengers: Endgame. Yes, even the dead ones. Marvel Studios has assembled one huge roster of heroes. But during the history of the comic book Avengers, even more great champions have joined the team’s ever swelling ranks. You have heroes She-Hulk, Hercules, Wonder Man, the obscure fan favorite Quasar, the Black Knight, and you even have some of Marvel’s mightiest mutants like the Beast, Wolverine, and Storm....
We’re just a couple of weeks away from Back 4 Blood‘s zombie-slaying shenanigans and the specs for the PC release have now been revealed. As there was a beta that I’m sure most interested folks got to try out, many of us already have a great idea as to how the game will run. This info definitely makes it clear just how easy Turtle Rock Studios has made it to run the game....
Asmodee Digital, the video game subsidiary of board game publisher Asmodee, has announced Munchkin: Quacked Quest, a game based on the popular Munchkin card game series. It is set to come out this fall on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Munchkin: Quacked Quest brings the irreverent genre-parody humor from the tabletop to the screen. The game lets you embody the spirit of a munchkin, the type of min-maxing murder hobo who doesn’t want to deal with any of that pesky roleplaying....
Batman: The Enemy Within Episode 4 will be launching on January 23 for PS4, PC, Xbox One, and mobile, developer Telltale Games announced today. The penultimate chapter in the graphic adventure series is titled ‘What Ails You’ and sees Bruce Wayne having to deal with his identity being exposed. Gamers will be presented with a number of questions as a result of these startling developments , including how and when the Pact will regroup, as well as what’s motivating Amanda Waller and the mysterious Agency....
