Nowadays, manyFPS gamesrequire players to master a slew of skills to stand out from the crowd. Some shooters take a casual approach and aim to appease a large player base and help keep the game beginner-friendly while others embrace their difficulty and allow it to differentiate them from the saturated FPS market. The downside ofhigh-skill ceiling gamesis their barrier to entry, as new players will need to learn the game mechanics quickly....
A recent leak fromGenshin Impacthas revealed the in-game character model for Dottore of the Fatui’s Harbingers, rumored to be playable at some point in the future. With the next update for HoYoVerse’s massively popular RPG only two days away, the game has seen plenty of information coming out about future patches. Version 3.3 is heavily rumored to beadding the long-awaited Scaramoucheand a new character in Faruzan, along with the permanent TCG mode....
Game streaming is set to be the next big thing in the video game industry, with Microsoft and Sony both investing significant resources into developing cloud gaming platforms for the PlayStation 5 and Project Scarlett. However, Google has gotten the jump on its competitors, entering the triple-A video game market with itsStadiagame streaming service. Stadia launched its Founder’s Editionon November 19, complete with 22 launch games, the Stadia controller, and a Chromecast Ultra that’s currently required to play Stadia on a TV....
Actor Steven Ogg, known for his role as Trevor inGrand Theft Auto 5,recently sent a cameo video to a Rockstar fan, who was surprised by the response. The fan has described the message as both “annoyed” and “berating.” Ogg’s Trevor character inGrand Theft Auto 5is often portrayed as a loose canon, sometimes at odds with other characters in the game. The game’s developer was recently in the news following a hacking incident,which led Rockstar Games to block social media replies....
TheHarry Potterfranchise is full of magical objects that don’t exist in the real world and one of those magical objects is a time-turner. While some of the magical lore in J. K. Rowling’sHarry Potternovels and the media that has spun out of them are rooted in existing magical stories, like magic wands, time-turners are unique to Rowling’s stories. They have only appeared in a handful of chapters of theHarry Pottermedia, but when they do, the audience knows that the story is about to change in a big way....
Hearthstoneis gearing up for its upcoming Titans expansion next month introducing 145 new cards, new Keywords, and a unique Titan card for each class. Ahead of the expansion’s release, Game Rant was given a first look at the Spell School Group of cards forHearthstone’s Mage class, a set of cards that enable Mages to use normally inaccessible spells with some potentially devastating effects. Three cards from the Spell School Group were initially revealed during the expansion’s announcement: Molten Rune, Wisdom of Norgannon, and Inquisitive Creation....
Horizon Forbidden Westexpands upon the tribal inhabitants of Earth that began in the first game,Horizon Zero Dawn. InHorizon Forbidden West, humanity has returned to a tribal-like state due to the Faro Plague - the destruction of all biological life via the Chariot line of automated war robots built in the mid-21st century. The first generation of new humans born through Project Zero Dawn eventually splintered into the tribes featured across both games....
Pokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlare the next installments in the long-runningPokemonseries. The games will reintroduce the Sinnoh region to veterans for the first time in over a decade, and expose the setting to newcomers in the process. AlthoughPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlare far from being the franchise’s first remakes, they have developed an identity that makes them stand out from other mainlinePokemongames and preceding remakes.Pokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlare different because of the context of their creation, as well as how they were developed....
Quick Links Have you noticed a ton of other players around you inPokemon GOseem to have a lot of Shinies, while you barely even have a couple? If you aren’t used to the world of Shiny Hunting, there are a few tips you can use to increase the chances of running into a Shiny while playing the game regularly. While Shiny odds will always stay the same, except when there are special events, there are methods you can use to more frequently find them or discover them while adventuring around....
Loop Herois a simple looking, but deviously deep, rogue-like that innovates on the genre in some important ways. There are three classes with increasing complexity, including at least one that mustworry about summon quality. The Rogue is not that class, although it still has much to worry about.Loop Hero’s second most complicated hero, the Rogue relies on striking hard and fast, with an emphasis on killing monsters and building towards a specific gimmick to the exclusion of most others....
Quick Links MADiSONis a first-person survival horror game that sees the player guiding a helpless Luca and his possessed Polaroid camera through an abandoned house. Along the way, plenty ofintense scares and unexplained phenomena are encountered, but a full explanation is left for the player to work out themselves. Even from the start ofMADiSON’s immersive gameplay the player is given little to guide their step, leaving Luca at the mercy of Madison’s actions and his only defense being a Polaroid camera....
BringingThe Witcherto life for a Netflix series was seemingly quite the challenge, and it could have turned out differently than what fans will eventually see. According to a new interview, Ciri (Freya Allan) was originally the character with the most focus, and even served as a narrator. Netflix’sThe Witcherseries is based on the same line of books as the games, but has little to no connection with the games themselves. Even so, gamers are very excited to see what happens with the show as it tackles the source material that started it all....
Summary Though the discourse that surroundedStarfieldboth before and after its release might prove otherwise, it seems as though the console wars are mostly a thing of the past now. With the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X having pretty similar hardware, many gamers agree that it isn’t about the console that’s played on anymore, it’s about what’s played on it that matters, with much of the discussion now centered aroundconsole exclusive titlesmore so than the actual platforms themselves....
