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I have a love/hate relationship with survival crafting games. In theory, they all sound great; I get to build whatever I want using nothing but my noggin and the resources around me. What usually happens, though, is I deforest half the map, then forget where I put my wood, and it turns from cozy household to manic scavenger hunt. There are also usually monsters. Windrose is a game that also sounded pretty great in theory – it’s a survival crafting adventure thing, but with a pirate twist – what’s not to like? I did worry, however, that it would be…
The surprise release of Diablo 2’s first new class since the medieval ages has mostly gone down very well, with initial impressions being generally positive. That said, now that players have had a week playing as, playing alongside, and battling Warlocks, there’s a heated debate fracturing the D2 community: are they overpowered?The emerging consensus seems to be, yes, absolutely, 100%, without a shadow of doubt. But then the argument evolves into a broader discussion about whether overpowered classes and builds should be nerfed at all. Like Diablo 4’s Spiritborn problem from a little while back, Blizzard needs to decide whether…
As someone who writes a lot about VPNs and online privacy, it’s not often that I have something nice to say about the huge tech corporations of the world. However, ol’ Google actually did something to help give people a little more privacy on the internet this time. The new feature, the results about you page, essentially allows people to locate instances where identifiable data about them is publicly available online so that they can have it removed. Considering that stalkers and other predators can and will use the internet to accumulate as much information about those they’ve fixated on…
Last year, rumors began to circulate of behind-closed-doors meetings between Bethesda and influencers over a major, mysterious update for Starfield – a patch which was quickly dubbed “Starfield 2.0” by the community. Today, Todd Howard has confirmed both that those meetings and the update are real, but warns players who bounced off the RPG the first time around that this won’t be a massive overhaul.Speaking with Greg Miller of Kinda Funny – one of those who saw the update last year – Howard acknowledges that Bethesda has “been working on a lot of Starfield content.” The studio decided not to…
Rubbing shoulders with factions is a big part of the Fallout: New Vegas charm, even if it often devolves into you doing a bunch of favours if you don’t want to risk ending up on the vilified naughty list for one too many accidental grenade pickpocktings. You do get some nice perks for keeping the likes of the NCR or Legion on side, but a new mod aims to take that to a new level, letting you send faction cronies out on handy odd jobs while you kick your feet up.
Want to play Overwatch crossplay? When Overwatch originally launched in 2016, the idea of supporting crossplay, let alone cross-platform progression, was almost unheard of. Fortunately, things have changed considerably across the gaming landscape, making it easier than ever to play with your friends across a variety of platforms. With players flooding back to Overwatch, it’s important to know about some of the changes made to crossplay and cross-progression since these features were first introduced. No matter how you’d prefer to utilize the Overwatch crossplay and cross-progression features in the free PC game, here’s everything you need to know to get it…
The Elder Scrolls 6 is a return to that “classic” Bethesda RPG style, says studio head Todd Howard.Appearing on today’s Kinda Funny Gamescast, Howard gave a surprisingly meaty, although fairly vague, update on The Elder Scrolls 6. While he admitted the game won’t be out “for a while yet,” he gave fans of beloved Bethesda RPGs something to chew on while they wait. Apparently, The Elder Scrolls 6 will be a return to form following the “creative detour” Bethesda took with Fallout 76 and then Starfield.”If you look at our games, we’ve always evolved. We do have a certain style…
Avowed now has a bunch more possibilities when it comes to one of the most important fantasy RPG build archetypes, thanks to the deployment of its anniversary update. Three new character races are on offer alongside the established humans and elves, and you can arm them with a quarterstaff which caters to mages who think puny wands and books aren’t quite showy enough. As you might recall, some of the stuff included in this anniversary update was orignally supposed to arrive in Avowed late last year, but ended up being delayed by Obsidian.
Since it dropped at the tail end of October, Arc Raiders has shrugged off any potential threats to its firm grip on my gaming time. New seasons of Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 have led to brief dabbles with both games, but little more than that. Destiny 2’s Star Wars-themed Renegades expansion is still sitting in my library, waiting to be played. Even the addictive nature of cursed slot machine sim Cloverpit couldn’t keep me away from Embark’s extraction shooter for long. However, over the last week or so, I’ve started to show signs of Arc Raiders fatigue, which…
I have a confession to make: my favorite Studio Ghibli movie is almost certainly not your favorite Studio Ghibli movie.The house that Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata helped build may have launched itself into anime superstardom with sprawling fantasy epics Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke but, after rewatching the entirety of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre not long after turning 30, it’s the restrained slice of life dramas that resonate me with most today.As much as I adore the pitch-perfect whimsy of My Neighbor Totoro or the overflowing imagination found in Howl’s Moving Castle, From Up on Poppy Hill – 15 years…