Gaming

In 1984, a game was released for the Apple II that was totally unlike anything that had come before. Casting you as a martial artist who must infiltrate a warlord’s castle fortress, Karateka had breathtaking animation that was far more lifelike than anything that had preceded it. It also set new standards for martial arts combat and dramatic, movie-like presentation …

Modern video game libraries require an astonishing amount of space these days, and between your Call of Duties and Red Dead Redemptions, it’s easy to run out of storage on your PS5. For Prime Day 2023, you can give your PS5 a quick upgrade in this department with the Crucial P5 Plus, a Gen 4 NVMe solid-state drive that’s available …

Photo: Anadolu Agency (Getty Images) Microsoft’s deal to buy Activision Blizzard for $69 billion is closer than ever to becoming a reality after the companies defeated the Federal Trade Commission in court this week. While the FTC can still appeal, all eyes now turn back to regulators in the UK, that last thorn in the tech giant’s side as it …

At its core, Diablo 4 is a game about math. Specifically, the eternal grind to hurl bigger numbers of damage at the enemies around you before they can do the same to you. One Diablo 4 player has just set a ridiculous benchmark when it comes to dealing damage, as they’ve managed to use a broken build to deal over …

Baldur’s Gate 3 is less than a month away for PC players now that developer Larian Studios has pushed its release date up a few weeks. On August 3, players will head to the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms (or Faerûn) where they’ll face their imminent demise at the hands of a mind-controlling parasite. But what makes this game …

One of the major pillars of Assassin’s Creed’s gameplay is parkour. Or at least it used to be before taking a bit of a back seat with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. All three games feature huge open worlds where buildings are often far apart instead of the more condensed and intricate city settings the Assassin’s Creed series was known for, …

If you’ve so much as booted up a Remedy game in the last 20 years, you’ll know there’s one thing that all of its projects has. No, I’m not talking about a Poets of the Fall/Old Gods of Asgard song (not this time, anyway). I’m talking about live-action. Think about it: the most obvious implementation of live-action in Remedy games …

Link’s challenge in Tears of the Kingdom is to take down a grand evil threat to save the world of Hyrule. But while many players choose to take on the game’s final boss, Ganon, with a traditional means of sword fighting, others have taken to finding more clever, rather humiliating forms of foiling Ganon’s plans. The Yakuza Devs Should Cast …

In the year and a half since Xbox announced its intentions to acquire Activision-Blizzard for $68.7 billion way back in January of 2022, it’s felt at times like we’re all just kids in the backseat of a car asking, “Are we there yet?.” Everyone’s a little sick of hearing about it by now, but every few weeks it seems like …

Since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II launched in 2022, people have made their feelings known about the Santa Sena Border Crossing multiplayer map, and not everyone likes it. The map features a lane in the middle filled with vehicles, and they can explode in chain reactions. Players caught in the damage area can get wiped out without ever seeing …