·. Darren Nakamura
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Apex Legends Season 8's gameplay trailer hints at new legend's passive ability
Season 8 of Apex Legends is just about a week away, and as usual, we've been peppered with some teasers about what to expect with the changing times over the past few days. Moyse showed the launch trailer along with the Nintendo Switch lau... → Read More
2020 has made me reconsider what 'game of the year' means
Around this time, everybody starts reflecting on the past year and what it meant. What memories will we keep from it, and specifically for us, what games were our favorites? Top ten lists go up across Twitter, and we call the game in the nu... → Read More
Apex Legends Season 7 launch trailer shows off the beautiful new map
Welcome to Olympus Just a couple days ago, we got a new "Stories from the Outlands" video introducing the new playable character in Apex Legends for Season 7. Past that, the official site mentioned the new map that has been teased since Season 5. Today, we got our first look at a stylized representation of it. The trailer also ties into Season 6's graphic novel-told story, picking up right after… → Read More
Apex Legends Season 7's 'Stories from the Outlands' is a tearjerker
Apex Legends is gearing up for its seventh season on November 4, and at this point we know what to expect in general. Each season introduces a new playable character, and in the week before launch, we learn all of the juicy details. Today'... → Read More
Rampart is the first Apex Legends character with a specific weapon type proficiency
Apex Legends Season 6 launches in two days, and compared to the map modifications and new weapon, the biggest potential shakeup to the meta between seasons is always the new character. In a character trailer released today, Respawn has fina... → Read More
Apex Legends Season 6 gameplay trailer shows a revamped World's Edge map
One of the cool aspects of Respawn's battle royale Apex Legends is its evolving story providing the backdrop for changes and additions over the course of its life. Players can choose to ignore it completely and just go for the W, but others... → Read More
New Apex Legends 'Stories from the Outlands' video builds Rampart's back story
We are just one week away from the launch of Apex Legends Season 6, and just the other day we got our first look at the new playable character, Rampart. While that was a look at the near future with her fighting in the Apex Games, a new vid... → Read More
Apex Legends Season 6 trailer has hints about the new legend, Rampart
Apex Legends Season 5 is winding down, with this week being the last to provide challenges for those who still need to fill out their battle passes. Next week, there will be a limited-time mode wherein the ring never stops shrinking and pla... → Read More
Tomorrow's Apex Legends patch has some major legend tweaks
At last week's EA Play event, Apex Legends kicked off the festivities, probably in part because its news was so pressing: the upcoming Lost Treasures event launches tomorrow. With it come several features that were shown in the video and/or... → Read More
Apex Legends story mode has stepped it up a bit
A few weeks ago we checked in on the new story mode in Apex Legends Season 5, the → Read More
Apex Legends Season 5's first story mission is about what you'd expect
The new season of Apex Legends launched last week, and with it came the surprise addition of the → Read More
Apex Legends Season 5 is introducing a mini-campaign mode
Apex Legends is finishing up its Season 4 this week, with Season 5 launching on May 12, and we have some details now on what sounds like it could be the biggest seasonal addition the game has seen since it launched last year. There's the us... → Read More
Gloomhaven sequel hits Kickstarter funding goal in about ten minutes
You know Gloomhaven, right? It's the number one board game in the world according to BoardGameGeek, it's got a Steam Early Access game, and it's absolutely huge. It's so large, even though it released about three years ago, some groups have... → Read More
A very Animal Crossing engagement story
[Author's note: This is a community blog I wrote almost eight years ago. With only days away from the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and only a week away from our ninth wedding anniversary, it seemed fitting to revisit this story... → Read More
Gloomhaven on Early Access is a new way for veterans to play, but beginners beware
The digital adaptation of the current top-rated board game on BoardGameGeek Gloomhaven was announced about a year ago, and it is now available on Steam Early Access. For strategy gamers, it may seem like a no-brainer. If that many people li... → Read More
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is going to be a darling in the speedrunning community
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair popped up unexpectedly a couple weeks ago, and we were able to get some hands-on time with it at E3 last week. It takes the lizard-and-bat duo from 2017's crowdfunded 3D platformer and flattens the actio... → Read More
Square Enix is making Final Fantasy VII Remake as if it were a main numbered game
CJ got the early take on Final Fantasy VII Remake at E3 this year, and after having played through the same section he did, I can agree with most of his observations. But this is one of those big deals so we needed to dig deeper than just t... → Read More
Dying Light 2 lets you destroy entire areas in the city
At one point in the hands-off gameplay demo of Dying Light 2 at E3, the Techland employee making decisions for the packed room to see on-screen turned on some pumps at a dam, draining one section of the city and flooding another. That one c... → Read More
Doom Eternal doesn't let you stop to think and that's okay
I'll admit it: Doom Eternal is not the kind of game I typically play. Don't get me wrong; I play first-person shooters a ton. But I'm more used to the flavor of shooters that have you ducking behind cover to catch a breath and recover some ... → Read More
Nazi killing is better with a buddy in Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Sitting down next to my temporary sister in Bethesda's booth at E3, we shake hands. He takes control of Jess while I get to handle Soph. We're the twin daughters of legendary Nazi fighter B.J. Blazkowicz, and he's raised us right. Which is ... → Read More