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It deserves better! With regard to events, the prefixpre-almost always indicates something is lesser-than. Are more people watching the Super Bowl or the Super Bowl Pre-Show? What’s more interesting: Pre-loading your game or playing your game? There’s exactly onepre-that’s better than the main event, and that’s pre-gaming before going out drinking. A night out is almost always less fun than the eight at-home drinks that precede it. That’s why it’s criminal to putNieR Replicant Ver....

In the history of video games, there is no shortage of all-time great games that have built memories along with the industry and gaming community itself. Sometimes, though, games begin to show their age and require a bit of a refresh or a remaster. Other times, the games are so popular that they are worthy of a full-fledged remake, built by a team that may have grown up on the original....

Patch 1.1.0 brings several fixes as well If you’ve been waiting to play the remake ofThe Last of Us Part Ion Steam Deck, you’re in luck. The latest update for the game now makes Naughty Dog’s masterpiece compatible with the Valve handheld. Update 1.1.0 for the game also comes with a ton of tweaks and changes. Looking at thepatch notes on Steamshows a healthy list of fixes. Chief among these are important optimizations for CPU and GPU performances, improvements to texture loading, as well as a number of glitch repairs and bug fixes....

A PhD in PVP Between all of the live service games amid MMOs out there, it’s tough to really keep track of all of the currencies therein. I mean, I do a pretty decent job! But when there’s currencies upon currencies, and you can’t even earn all of them at launch, things get confusing. Here’s where to get a Trophy of Strife inWoW Dragonflight. Trophies of Strife drop as seasonal rewards inWoW Dragonflight If you want to start farming Trophies of Strife, you’ll need to wait until Season 1 begins, then acquire them through weekly PVP quests....

Uh oh, yourDisney Dreamlight Valleyvillage is under attack by pirates. At least, that’s the story Peter Pan comes up during his level ten friendship quest, “The Valley Pirates,” as a way to have some fun. It’s a little childish, but that’s what he’s all about. Table of contents Buy and wear a Black and Red Top Hat Before you’re able to start thwarting the plans of these “pirates,” you’ll need to look the part by creating a Lost Boys costume....

RIP Vita, you are buried next to ‘Proprietary Memory Card’ I’m all out of beer. I’ve poured out my entire stash for the Wii U and Vita for the past few years, and in 2019, I started to preemptively pour some out for the 3DS. I need to rent a keg! Who am I kidding: I love those three systems so much (three of my favorite handhelds, Wii U included, of all time) that I’ll never stop pouring one out for them....

Laser imaging, detection, and range Steelkrill Studios, the makers of lo-fi horror gameThe Backrooms 1998, have announced that they’ll be releasingThe Voidnessinto thevoid of Early Accesson June 24, 2025. The Voidnessis a unique horror game with an experimental twist. For much of the game, you’re immersed in complete darkness and are only able to perceive your surroundings with a lidar scanner. A lidar, or laser imaging, detection, and ranging scanner, is a device that uses lasers to create a constructive image of the area it’s pointed at....

Put the storyteller’s narration on your back We’ve all seen some super text-heavy shirts out in the wild, but imagine standing in line for the self-check-out area at the grocery store and seeingthisinexplicable gem: a rareElden Ringhoodie containing theworld-defining lorefrom the game’s opening cinematic. If you’re hazy, here’s thedeliciously crypticcinematic again: The hoodie found its way onto my feed viaLance McDonald, and I was grateful to see it, having missed From Software’s original Japanese tweetback in December....

A pillar of the community SNK has dropped a trailer for the next DLC character headed to its dramatic fighting titleSamurai Shodown, and while most of theSamShoroster are adept with ruthless bladed weaponry, this next combatant is much more at home with a solid bit of garden decor. Wan-fu, who made their series debut way back in 1994’sSamurai Shodown II, is one of the franchise’s lesser-known characters, having only featured in a handful of series entries....

While the rest of the world will have to wait until May for the launch of Nintendo’s digital download WiiWare service, the Japanese and Game|Life’s Chris Kohler are basking in its glory at this very moment. The service launched in Japan today without about nine titles available, including Square Enix’sFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Kingwhich appears to have somesort of “pay-to-play” elements. Kohler also notes that the service appears to have gotten off to a rocky start, as he experience a handful of connection issues and turtle-like download speeds....

Take-Two signs five-year licensing agreement Following the collapse of THQ,it was rumoredthat Take-Two Interactive had picked up the rights to the WWE game license, and that is indeed what happened. The five-year agreement will see its first title,WWE 2K14, later this fall according toESPN. “As we look at the next-gen systems coming out, whether that’s this holiday or next holiday, we want to ensure we align our property with who we thought would be a leader going forward on these next-gen systems,” said WWE VP of consumer products Casey Collins....

Now with more shrinkage! Ant-Man’s been in the news a lot over the past few days, but it has nothing to do with his forthcoming sequel release on July 6, just over two months away. Instead, it’s owing to his conspicuous absence inAvengers: Infinity War; you may have noticed that he was the only comic book movie character ever creatednotfeatured inthe box office behemoth. To remind you of his existence, Marvel releasedAnt-Man and the Wasp‘s second trailer two days after Avengers went all Hulk on every box office opening record ever, you know, to maximize their potential marketing audience....

Horse battles, though Ordinarily, Brett would be the one to tell you about this nearly hour-longAssassin’s Creed: Syndicatevideo, but he’s out of town for a wedding. He doesn’t typically keep up with the site day to day. That means we could say things about him and he wouldn’t even know until he inevitably writes anotherAssCreedpost and looks back on prior coverage. (I know him too well.) That was my plan. Then the video actually started and: 1) that see-through hair is awesome, and 2) the character’s voices cut out almost immediately....