Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is launching in just a few short weeks, putting players back into the shoes of the first game’s protagonist, Max Caulfield, on a new adventure that moves her from one US coast to the other. We recently played a 45-minute demo of one of the …
Read More »How Long Is Star Wars Outlaws? Campaign Length And Mission List Revealed
Star Wars Outlaws has arrived, unofficially kicking off this year’s busy autumn and holiday gaming season. As a major studio’s semi-open-world action-adventure Star Wars game, it’s likely going to be a big deal, even as early opinions are somewhat mixed on Massive Entertainment’s post-Division effort. In this guide, we’ll explain …
Read More »Madden's Concussion-Free Fantasy World Will Look Even Stranger This NFL Season
Content warning: This article mentions self-harm. Longtime players of EA Sports games may recall how the publisher’s famous slogan, “It’s in the game,” is actually a shortened version of the full sentiment one would hear upon booting up any of its many sports games across several decades: “If it’s in …
Read More »Star Wars Outlaws Cleverly Reinvents Wordle, Then Squanders It
Remember Wordle? The daily word puzzle mobile game was a massive hit in 2021 and 2022, dominating Twitter feeds with players’ viral scorecards and inviting the whole world to try to guess the same word of the day, every day. The game grew so big it was eventually purchased by …
Read More »Star Wars Outlaws: How To Get Your Ultimate Edition And Preorder Bonus Items
Star Wars Outlaws is Ubisoft’s big swing at an open-world (open-ish, anyway) Star Wars game from the studio behind The Division. If you were among those who preordered Star Wars Outlaws or bought the game’s Gold or Ultimate editions, you’re granted a pile of extra goodies, but it can be …
Read More »An Exciting Twist Makes Lost Records: Bloom And Rage More Than A Life Is Strange Imitator
When Life Is Strange came out in 2015, it was following in the footsteps of many games before it, but the most apparent were those from Telltale, which at that time was on a hot streak of making adventure games with branching narratives and lots of dialogue choices. Don’t Nod …
Read More »Little Nightmares Studio Reveals A New Co-Op Horror Game With Nightmarish Animals
Tarsier Studios, the team behind Little Nightmares and its sequel, has revealed Reanimal during Gamescom Opening Night Live. With Little Nightmares 3 coming from Supermassive, the series’ original creators have shifted into a new, but similarly macabre, horror universe. Reanimal is designed for two-player co-op, and can be played online …
Read More »Cozy Anime Game Infinity Nikki Is Getting A Closed Beta Soon
Infinity Nikki, the latest game in the Nikki series, was revealed earlier this year. Now, it’s giving players a chance to try it out on their own soon, and before it officially launches. As revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live, The closed beta test for Infinity Nikki is now taking …
Read More »The Next Dark Pictures Horror Game, Directive 8020, Will Change How The Series Plays
The Dark Pictures Anthology, Supermassive’s long-running horror franchise of games that tend to play like interactive movies, is getting some major overhauls to its gameplay mechanics with Directive 8020, as revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The next game in the series will be the first to be set in …
Read More »Funko Fusion Looks To Claim The Space Vacated By Traditional Lego Games
The way traditional Lego games have seemingly vanished has come as a surprise to me. We recently saw the launch of Lego Fortnite from Epic, and Lego Horizon Adventures is on the way this fall from Guerrilla, but Traveler’s Tales made more than 30 Lego games between 2005 and 2022. …
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