The Division Resurgence is an ambitious undertaking. It’s The Division as we know it – a robust action-role-player with tactical combat, looting, shooting, and the general chaos tied to urban dystopia – but for mobile devices. It’s an offshoot of the main series’ timeline, it’s free-to-play, includes microtransactions, and, according …
Read More »No game does pride like Apex Legends
Apex Legends has set a very high bar for LGBTQIA representation in modern multiplayer games – so high, in fact, that you’d be hard-pressed to find any game that comes even close to it. From a nonbinary character whose pronouns are correctly used by other Legends to two openly gay …
Read More »From Ghost of Tsushima to Stray, heres how devs design the most realistic in-game animals
There’s something magical about a well-designed video game animal. Its look may be the work of a team of artists and its behaviors the result of countless lines of code, but every time you encounter one it feels like it’s made of flesh and blood. Whether it’s the cats wandering …
Read More »Why Final Fantasy moved away from command and turn-based combat
Why did Final Fantasy move away from the turn-based battle system? It’s a question that long-time fans of the series, which is set to celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2022, may be asking themselves when looking towards games like Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. And now, we …
Read More »Batman: One Dark Knight concludes with a classic villain and (hopefully) a moral lesson
Fan-favorite Batman artist Jock has taken on a new challenge: writing and illustrating his own story, start to finish, with Batman: One Dark Knight. The three-part limited series follows the Caped Crusader as he attempts to transport a highly dangerous criminal known as E.M.P. from Arkham Asylum to a more …
Read More »Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast on the “exciting” arrival of Kirk in season 2
For those who have been able to see it, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been a throwback in the best possible way. A marriage of classic Trek – far-off adventures, a fizzing bridge, a charismatic captain – and modern-day story sensibilities, the spin-off from Star Trek Discovery has comfortably …
Read More »Genshin Impact devs talk planet-hopping with a space train in new game Honkai: Star Rail
Ready for a galactic journey aboard the Astral Express, Trailblazer? HoYoverse, the studio behind Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact, is working on a new game called Honkai: Star Rail. This turn-based space adventure is currently in its second closed beta phase, and while staying true to the studio’s signature …
Read More »How Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer is being shaped by Warzones sandboxes
Don’t be surprised if Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer feels like the offspring of Warzone and traditional Call of Duty multiplayer. After all, Infinity Ward created both, and now the team is taking all that it has learned about emergent play, sandboxes, and helicopter tricks from both the battle royale and …
Read More »How The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle crafted an unexplored corner of Tamriel
For adventurers in The Elder Scrolls Online, journeys across Tamriel have been lengthy, leaving hardly a stone on the map unturned. Set many years before the main RPG series, TESO’s given us looks at those games’ key locations in an earlier age – some still undeveloped, others at their peak. …
Read More »Joe Corallo and Rachel Pollack explore the ugly parts of Greek myth in new Comixology series
At what point does endless pleasure cross the line into endless pain? When the Greek god Dionysus comes to town, he brings the party with him, but that may not be for the best – as discovered by the characters in the new Comixology Originals series, The Never Ending Party. …
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