Keeping yourself alive is a major part of Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s upcoming survival MMO, but once you’ve got your water discipline under control and you’re walking without rhythm to avoid sandworms, there’s a mess of other sandbox elements to think about. One of those is combat, because while Arrakis is …

In the story Dune, Arrakis is the most dangerous planet in the universe. It’s a vast desert world where the scorching sun’s intense heat is a major hazard. Water is nearly impossible to find, and dehydration will claim an unprotected person in a matter of hours. More frightening, though, are …

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening means to put you on the sands of Arrakis, fighting to keep your water in your body–fending off both the harsh arid climate and the weapons of other players in some of its PvP gameplay. Developer Funcom is including a whole bunch of different weapons and …

Ask someone what Helldivers 2 is and what it’s like, and there’s one constant touchstone in every description: Starship Troopers. Spending a few seconds with the game makes it easy to see why the 1997 film is invoked so often, as your early experience of playing as a high-tech human …

Ever wish you could experience San Diego Comic-Con International, but with 2,000 other people on a giant floating resort on the high seas? Well, there’s good news for you, then: 2025 will see the first-ever Comic-Con Cruise, which aims to bring the experience of seeing a ton of cosplay, attending …

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2024, having released in February 1989. Whenever I watch time-travel movies, I find myself yelling at the screen a lot. You know how people shout at horror movie characters when they inexplicably head into the dark basement or wander …

Destiny 2‘s latest cosmetic collaboration is now live, allowing you to fight for the solar system with armor inspired by Commander Shepard and a couple of fan-favorite members of the Normandy’s crew. The new cosmetics are inspired by BioWare’s Mass Effect games, offering three sets of armor ornaments alongside a …

Our band of Victorian survivalists opened a portal to a swamp filled with vicious creatures, and then we went hunting. A magic spell created by one of our group pointed the way across the festering, waist-deep waters, which carried some unknown disease if you lingered in them for too long. …

One of the first things Enshrouded instructed me and my friends to do was delve into the evil blue fog that infests its lowland areas, seek out a huge, fungus-covered, axe-wielding boss, and murder him. After that, we built grapple hooks to swing over a destroyed bridge, and within the …

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth looks to be a huge game, as we found in our preview, but now we know exactly how much of the original Final Fantasy VII the new game will cover, and it’s still just the equivalent of the 1997 game’s first disc. In its recent State …