DTOID Extra: LEAP’s motion-control makes Kinect look dumb

The LEAP is essentially a precision Kinect that senses various types of gestures in a 3D space, and can be used for a whole ton of stuff besidesFruit Ninjaand dance games. The video on theLEAP’s websitemakes it look like something straight out of a science fiction movie, so going in, I was skeptical. After getting my hands on a prototype device, and fooling around in a couple different applications and demos, I’m really excited about the trouble I could get into with a LEAP....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 103 words · Dr. Kristy Taylor

Dynasty Warriors implicated in school shooting

Camp hack n’ slash can feed your ‘Darkest Thoughts’ As if the circular blame game surrounding violent crime wasn’t bad enough, one particular British tabloid has decided to implicateDynasty Warriorsin the Adam Lanza school shooting. Yes, we’ve moved on fromMass Effectand are onto a game that doesn’t even featureguns. “Chillingly, his favourite video game was said to be a shockingly violent fantasy war game calledDynasty Warriors,” writesThe Express, “which is thought to have given him inspiration to act on his darkest thoughts....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Richard Baker

E3: Fable: The Journey is not on-rails, kind of

Lionhead Studios is no stranger to making spin-offs forFable. The first was an Xbox Live Arcade tie-in withFable IIcalledPub Games, which was a collection of mini-games that appeared in the game and would allow you to carry over the gold to your character that you had won inPub Games. Next up was last month’sFable Heroes: a family-friendly entry into the series that didn’t exactly impress us. WithFable: The Journey, Lionhead is crafting their most ambitiousFableyet....

July 25, 2025 · 6 min · 1110 words · James Wilson

EA FC 25 Title Update 8 patch notes: Major gameplay changes announced

Title Update 8 could witness one of the biggest set of changes being made toEA FC 25, and a massive gameplay refresh update is being coming soon. While the official patch notes is yet to be released as of writing, but we have a got a hint of what’s to come. The upcoming patch, if implemented right, could be absolutely huge. In fact, it could completely change how the general gameplay feels, and eradicate many complaints the community has had so far....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Heather Hamilton

EA FC 25: How to complete Phizin SBC

The Phizin SBC is a really interesting release inEA FC 25Ultimate Team, and you shouldn’t sleep on it by any chance. This fodder challenge has been released as part of the FC Pro Live promo. Phizin is one of the several esports pros taking part in the upcoming FC Pro Open, and you can complete a simple SBC to obtain some valuable rewards. The SBC itself will reward you with a bonus pack, and it’s necessary to complete an additional objective set as well....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Timothy Mcgee

EA Sports has one big focus for Madden, FIFA, and NHL this year

EA Sports round-up! EA Sports is in a good position with its athletic franchises. The demand for annual iterations in each series is high enough to warrant frequent releases, but sports don’t really change. This allows the developers to focus on nothing but improvements and making the games as realistic as possible — something that any fan of sports games desperately wants. And, realism is exactly what EA Sports strives for....

July 25, 2025 · 5 min · 1002 words · Ryan Silva

Elite: Dangerous player goes full Arrival, invents method to communicate with alien race

A cunning linguist I love it when community members of a game really dive into the lore and fluff, and that’s exactly what happened with this story here. Elite: Dangerous player Benjamin “Heisenberg6626” Bahr has been working tirelessly for the last year (!) for a way to communicate with a seemingly hostile alien race called the Thargoids. While players all across the globe have given up on them, Bahr collaborated with a real group called Canonn Interstellar Research to study the Thargoid’s vocal patterns, and created this own “message” to send to them in response....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · William Montgomery

Final Fantasy XIV Windows 11 support is now live

It took a while but it’s here Final Fantasy XIVWindows 11 was promised at some point in the future last year, and now, at the tail-end of February 2022, we just got it. Announced on the game’s official blog, “Final Fantasy XIVhas been verified to operate on Microsoft’s Windows 11, and support for Windows 11 has begun.” Windows 11 is now part of the game’s system requirement page, alongside of Windows 8....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 235 words · Jeffrey Perez

Firewatch’s PS4 patch is live, makes things much better

Just not for me PlayingFirewatchlast week was quite the polarizing experience for me. I loved a lot of individual components — specifically theinteractions between Hank and Delilah— but I really didn’t like the game as a whole. Something about it just didn’t jell for me. And that’s before it broke to the point of keeping me from being able to finish. Yes, approximately 85 percent of the way through, the objective refused to update....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 216 words · Joshua Pearson

GC 09: Bad Company 2 trailer will tide us over until March

At EA’s gamescom press conference,Modern Warfare 2was acknowledged as being the utter mutliplayer beast that it is, butBattlefield: Bad Company 2executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson is sticking to his guns regardless. He thinks the game “will deliver the best online multiplayer experience ever” when it hits stores on March 2nd and 5th for North America and Europe respectively. Even though it was completely out of character for me, I missed out onBattlefield: Bad Company....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Glenn Estrada

Genshin Impact 5.6 Spiral Abyss enemy lineup leaked

The Spiral Abyss is an endgame content inGenshin Impact, and its upcoming enemy lineup in version 5.6 was recently leaked. Floor 12 of the Abyss is expected to feature some annoying enemies, like the Abyssal creatures from Natlan. This article will cover the complete Spiral Abyss Floor 12 lineup for the version 5.6 update and list the buffs on each half. Genshin Impact 5.6 Spiral Abyss Floor 12 enemies A notable leaker namedHomDGCathas allegedly revealed the entire enemy lineup for the Spiral Abyss in the upcomingGenshin Impact5....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Jay Turner

Giveaway: The Swindle (Switch – NA/EU)

Win one of two copies! Hello ladies and gents. This one is special to my heart, asThe Swindleis one of my favorite games ever (I also am keen on all the stuff Dan Marshall touches). I absolutely adore this game. The sneaking, the upgrades, the new levels all the time. Nothing like a good heist. It sits proudly on myPC,Vita, and soon on mySwitchas well. To celebrate the Switch release today, the fine folks atSize Five Games, have given us two copies to hand out to you fine folks....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Craig Williams

GOG.com adds DRM-free movies

Bonus site redesign GOG.com isn’t just that last ‘G’ anymore. They’ve now added DRM-free movies to their lineup. The lineup now is mostly focused on gaming and internet culture films, available for streaming and download for one price — $5.99. Among the current selection you’ll findIndie Game: The Movie,Gamer Age,The King of Arcades, andPixel Poetry. They’ve thrown in two free movies —Art of PlayingandTPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard— to show you how the whole thing works....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Rachael Sparks