Contest: Win one of three Echogear monitor mounts

Get your mount on Today’s contest is for some cool Echogear monitor mounts. Check it out! I realized earlier that we’ve been very, very rude lately. We’ve been giving away all of these games, but have given you kind folks nothing on which to play them. It’s just very inconsiderate of us, and we truly apologize. Let us make it up to you by giving away some free monitor mounts from the awesome people at Echogear!...

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 311 words · Bradley Howell

Cup Noodle head for Noctis coming to FFXV, get it early for $50

Do the noodle dance I remember whenMass Effect 2was releasing, they had different downloadable items exclusive to a variety of sources. On top of typical retailer-specific pre-order bonuses, other means of getting exclusive content existed, such as codes only obtainable from buying Dr. Pepper.Final Fantasy XVis starting to remind me of that with all its extras and the weird places they come from. This time, the cup noodle head featured on Noctis in theCup Noodle collaborationvideo is being added to the game at an unknown date....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Matthew Miller

Diablo III is having a double XP weekend

Level up that new Necromancer You’ll be able to score double XP this weekend inDiablo III. So if you’re looking for a chance to level that new Necromancer, here you go! Blizzardannounced the double XPweekend as an apology for a problem with rolling out some hotfixes last week. The hotfixes mentioned above mostly pertained to set bonuses with certain items and are live now. The double XP weekend begins Friday, July 14 at 5:00pm Pacific, and will run until 10:00am Pacific on Monday....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Tiffany Johnson

Doujin shooter Wolflame hits Steam this week

Astro Port’s latest arrives April 21 Wolflameis coming to Steam this Thursday, April 21, micropublisher Nyu Media has announced. The shooter is the latest in a long line of retro-inspired STGs from Astro Port, the Japanese independent developer behind the likes ofGigantic ArmyandSupercharged Robot Vulkaiser. This one is set in an alternate 2005, where aliens have attacked a Terran space colony. Naturally, it’s up to a lone pilot and their experimental corvette to save the planet from the invaders’ armada....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Michael Willis

E3: Body slamming men in tights from space in Injustice

I never thought I’d want to play a DC superhero fighting game, but then again, I never thought I’d want to play anotherMortal Kombatafter the series’ decline in the ’00s. Once again, NetherRealm is changing my mind. Injustice: Gods Among Usstands out for its bold twists on the genre, not its cast of DC characters. After getting my hands on the game, I was pleasantly surprised by how great it looks and plays....

May 29, 2025 · 4 min · 739 words · Aaron Morrow

Endless Space 2 drifts onto Steam Early Access October 6

That’s a space verb Amplitude Studios is returning for another foray into the stars above withEndless Space 2, its next 4X strategy game. Since the developer wants to make sure it’s the best product it can be, the game comes to Steam Early Access on October 6. I played it last monthand was both overwhelmed and excited about managing civilizations through both war and prosperity (but probably mostly famine). There’ll be four out of the eight planned factions and Amplitude will be paying close attention to feedback using theGAMES2GETHERprogram....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Dr. Brian Maldonado

Face your mortality in the latest Shadowgate trailer

The point-and-click puzzler comes to PC on August 21 Playing through the NES port ofShadowgateis one of my fondest memories of gaming during the late eighties. In fact,Shadowgatewas my very first exposure to the point-and-click genre. Coming from a family of die-hard luddites and technophobes, my access to personal computers was pretty much limited to waiting in line at the public library to playZORK.So, unfortunately, I had to go without the exotic pleasures of the personal computer and settle for what was available to me on consoles at the time....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 231 words · Mr. Nicholas Novak

Fastest time-to-kill weapons in Warzone Season 3

Time-to-kill speed isn’t the be-all and end-all when ranking the best weapons inWarzone, but it’s a good benchmark to separate the contenders from the pretenders. Raven Software concentrated on slowing gunfights inWarzoneby adjustinglocational damage modifiersto be more consistent across the board. Even after doing that, there are instances where it feels like you die extremely fast. The battle royale has a relatively quick time-to-kill and there are a few weapons that are much faster than others....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Zachary Ingram

Final Fantasy VII Remake producer has a message for the fans

There ain’t no getting off of this train Today can be considered “a happening.” After many years of requests, speculation, and development,Final Fantasy VII–considered by many to be one of the greatest video games of all time – is ready to make its grand return, revisioned for a whole new generation of players and technology. As those of you who’ve been watching theInside…documentary series will know,Final Fantasy VII Remakehas been an intense and passionate labour of love for its development team, given the unenviable task of recreating its memorable characters and beautiful, beloved universe for a modern audience....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Cathy Moreno

First look at Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for iPad

When it was announced thatBaldur’s Gatewasgetting an enhanced editioncourtesy of Overhaul Games, we broke out the champagne and didn’t look back. We’re a rather excitable bunch, after all. The news of this expanded version coming to iPad slipped by undetected until now, but rest assured, we’ve got confetti. The blog post detailing this doesn’t offermuch insightoutside of a vague description of what’s included — the “Tales of the Sword Coast” expansion and never-before-seen content (a new adventure and party member) — but there are a handful of images....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Michael Jones

Grasshopper’s Lily Bergamo trademarked in North America

Lily Ber-GIMME! We learned aboutLily Bergamo, a new game from Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, last month when Suda51 took the stage at a Sony press conference in Japan. The team hopes to have the PS4 game playable by next TGS and released by 2014, according toSiliconera. It’s in the future, but not out of grasp. A North American trademark for the title wasfiled recently. The Siliconera TGS coverage of the game also revealed a bit more than the above teaser shown at that initial press conference....

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Michael Macdonald

Here’s how Hades’ faction works in God of War: Ascension

Jack of all trades, master of none Recently, we got word of howPoseidon’s crewwould roll inGod of War: Ascension, and now we have some info on Hades’ posse. Evidently, followers of Hades don’t particularly excel at offense or defense, but through spells like curse, drain life, and invisibility, they can coast into various roles. So his faction poses a challenge to players to overcome statistical deficiencies, and offers them interesting abilities?...

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Chad Jenkins

Here’s some pre-alpha gameplay of Battlefield 2042’s massive multiplayer battles

Darude’s “Sandstorm” intensifies Afterrevealing the next entry in theBattlefieldserieslast week, Electronic Arts and DICE showcased some gameplay from its 128-player battles. It looks like there’s more to watch out for than just some enemy sights. During today’s E3 Xbox & Bethesda showcase, DICE showed pre-alpha gameplay ofBattlefield 2042‘s massive multiplayer combat. Alongside some neat touches like tinkering with gun attachments on the fly and wingsuits, there’s also some giant freakin’ weather tornadoes to really spice things up....

May 29, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Jacob Mclean