Putting players in the shoes of an engineer tasked with heading alone into a dark basement to restart an ailing generator is a tried-and-true trope in horror video games. While Still Wakes the Deep has a lot that’s very familiar to horror fans, it’s what it does with this trope …
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Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero was revealed during June’s Nintendo Direct, giving fans of the series their first look at this quirky strategy RPG from the makers of Disgaea that’s set to launch on PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch sometime in 2025. Ahead of its arrival, you can now preorder …
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The First Descendant launched today for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Given its free-to-play and multiplayer structure, The First Descendant would benefit from mechanics such as cross-play and cross-progression with different platforms. Cross-play lets players play with and against each other, regardless if they’re on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox. Cross-progression lets …
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Like everything else in Destiny 2 in the aftermath of The Final Shape, the Iron Banner has been altered. The PvP event now sports a two-week duration instead of one and is adding two weapons to its current pool of rewards–both of which are former Iron Banner weapons that now …
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Stardew Valley, the massive indie farming simulator, lets you and up to three friends run a farm together, via online play or couch co-op. However, since multiplayer was added post-launch and the majority of development is done by one person, there are a few modern features missing from the multiplayer. …
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The first Iron Banner of the post-Final Shape era has arrived in Destiny 2, bringing a fairly significant change to the formula for a PvP event Bungie has included in the game for the last 10 years. For the first time, the usually week-long event will now span two weeks. …
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PlayStation has released this month’s batch of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers: Borderlands 3, NHL 24, and Among Us. [Update: Time is running out to claim these games, as they’ll soon be replaced by the August 2024 PlayStation Plus game lineup.] A fun sequel to Gearbox’s excellent shoot-and-loot games, …
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Grand Theft Auto Online‘s new Bottom Dollar Bounties update includes loads of new content to sate one’s inner bounty hunter, but it also appears to feature something a bit more unexpected: a reference to the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6. It seems that a necklace featured in the GTA 6 …
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A new update has arrived to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone on July 2. This is a small update for both games, but the patch notes include some fixes for multiplayer modes, adjustments to conversion kits, and weapon balancing for Warzone. There are some changes made to …
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Nexon Games’ new free-to-play looter shooter, The First Descendant, is having quite the successful launch. Under 24 hours after releasing to the public, it’s already sitting at #6 on Steam’s 100 most-played games list, with over 225,000 players currently online at the time of writing. The third-person co-op game sees …
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