Gaming

In a candid Diablo IV developer livestream, Blizzard said it realizes the game’s controversial Season 1 update missed the mark and is vowing to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The update, which drastically reduced player power by nerfing affixes like Vulnerable damage and Critical Strike damage while also nerfing important defensive stats, has not gone over well with the …

Gosh, Hamster’s been at this for a while now, hasn’t it? About a year and a half ago, the original King of the Monsters arrived on mobile by way of the ACA NEOGEO series. I reviewed it at the time and despite the game’s iconic status I wasn’t too hot on it due to the thin amount of content and …

Earlier this month, someone created a Wikipedia page for Barbenheimer, the internet phenomenon inspired by the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, two highly anticipated movies with rave reviews that are expected to bring in millions at the box office this summer. The creation of the Wikipedia page was followed by weeks of debate about how …

On July 21, 1995, the Virtual Boy hit Japanese store shelves and took the world by storm. Wait, no, not by storm. Whatever the opposite of that would be. Took the world by a nice, comfortable day with low-humidity and a light breeze? It failed so spectacularly that it makes the Wii U look like a runaway success. Its sales …

The Electronic Entertainment Expo might be on hiatus with an unclear return, but like one of Metallica’s best songs, the memory remains. Specifically the memory of Sony’s 2006 E3 press conference, which has been uploaded in glorious HD by video game documentary makers Noclip, who recently launched a new channel dedicated to preserving the history of gaming media. Sony’s E3 …

Friday marks the theatrical release of both Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, two diametrically dissimilar films that have together drummed up an ungodly amount of what might be called organic online cross-promotion, with the mutually beneficial counter-programming clash between the blockbusters becoming known simply as Barbenheimer. Barbenheimer has quickly become its own pseudo-national holiday in that moviegoers are …

The World of Warcraft community is jubilant after brazenly tricking an AI-generated games news website into publishing an article covering a fictitious upcoming feature, known simply as ‘Glorbo’. The spread of AI-generated news has been a subject of controversy and debate in recent years, and has seen certain websites dispatch bots to scrape information from the underbelly of the internet …

Madden NFL 24 season is here, which means another full year of roster and ratings debates. Who’s the best? Who’s overrated? Which teams got snubbed? These and more conversations all stem from the team-by-team and player-by-player ratings that annually create friendly debate in the Madden world. In this guide we’re breaking down the complete Arizona Cardinals roster, including overall (OVR) …

I started regularly playing competitive online games in 2007, with the launch of Halo 3. Back then, participating in in-game voice chat was harrowing for a 17-year-old girl whose voice betrayed her gender and her youth. I was subjected to such frequent and horrific hostility (rape threats, misogynist remarks, sexually inappropriate comments, you name it) that I eventually started screaming …

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is printing a Bonsly card for the first time since the Diamond and Pearl base set launched 16 years ago. As reported by ComicBook.com, the bonsai Pokémon has only ever received one English printing but will finally receive a follow-up in the upcoming Scarlet and Violet: Obsidian Flames set that launches in August. “Bonsly finally …