Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater celebrated its 25-year anniversary on September 29, 2024. Below, we look back at how it began, and its influence as an unconventional platformer. The 1990s were a wild time for skateboarding. Professionals like Tony Hawk were pushing the limits of what seemed possible by nailing unbelievable …
Read More »A Ghost Is Quietly Wandering Around In Fortnite, And It Could Hint At Next Season
There are a lot of strange things in the wastelands of Fortnite. Players and NPCs alike have been seeing a strange, ghost-like figure walking around the game’s map recently, and some fans believe it could could be a tease of what’s coming next in Chapter 5 Season 4 of the …
Read More »Fantastic Movement In Superhero Games Came Long Before Spider-Man
Infamous is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, May 26, 2024. Below, we look back at how its focus on traversal paved the way for modern AAA superhero games. Soaring over a canyon in an Iron Man-like suit of metal armor in Anthem. Swinging through the financial district as a giant …
Read More »The Magic Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom One Year Later Is In Experimentation
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, May 12, 2024. Below, we look at how its playful sense of experimentation is still leading to new discoveries. There is no single file for “wagon noise” within The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. …
Read More »Best Of 2023: Dredge And Its Mysterious Archipelago Are Peak Lovecraftian Horror
A mysterious fog-covered town, a tropical paradise covering up something deadline in the great below, and vast ocean canyons that sailors rarely make it out from. Every section of Dredge’s sizable archipelago is full of secrets that could easily sink your fishing ship as soon as you slow down to …
Read More »Super Smash Bros. Fans Have Been Tripping Over Themselves For 15 Years
Super Smash Bros. Brawl is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, March 9, 2023. Below, we take a look at how a subtle new mechanic, tripping, had a massive impact on the competitive community. Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman and Tyrell “NAKAT” Coleman sat next to each other while fighting for their lives …
Read More »Kerbal Space Program 2 Is Heading Into Deep Space
The distance between Earth and the observable edge of the universe is 46 billion light-years. That’s such a massive amount of space that it’s impossible to comprehend. Some of the greatest minds on the planet are working tirelessly to make it possible for us to get to the nearest solar …
Read More »Kerbal Space Program 2's Multiplayer Will Let You Have Full-On Space Races
Have you ever wanted to compete against your friends in a race to the moon? Maybe you’d rather work together to build a colony on Mars to help push civilization into the great beyond. Either way, Kerbal Space Program 2 may have what you’re looking for sometime after launch. Space …
Read More »Fortnite Is Prettier Than Ever–But It Seems To Be Coming At A Cost
Fortnite’s newest installment, Chapter 4, brought a number of big changes to the battle royale. The chapter’s inaugural season introduced a new Augment system, a chaotic bouncy hammer, and plenty of additional weapons. The new elements make for plenty of wacky fun, but usually only when they are working properly–something …
Read More »New Nintendo Switch "Operating System" App Turns It Into An iPad, Sort Of
The Nintendo Switch is now one step closer to being an all-in-one portable machine with the launch of the nOS. This new app may not bring a web browser or Netflix to your console, but it does give you a few new tools to use between games. The nOS, or …
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