It’s all too easy to succumb to Steam’s brilliant sales tactics. Forget the fact that you already have plenty of entertainment options available with a few mouse clicks — this stuff is so cheap, you’d be a foolnotto partake. As a result, your backlog grows to frightening new heights over the months. What is your response? “Eh, there’s nothing I want to play.Team Fortress 2it is!” You were warned, and are likely to have warned others....
Welcome back to Hogwarts WithHogwarts Legacydelivered into players’ hands like an owl delivering a parcel, now seems as good a time as any to cover an important last-minute question on many players’ minds. Developer Avalanche Software and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have made it clear that player immersion is the real magic that powers the game. Once you’ve decked out your customized Hogwarts student in fitting robes and gone through the tedious process of finding the right wand (because of course, the wand chooses the wizard), your next great hurdle is the sorting ceremony....
NeoGAFstumbled upon a rather interesting little slice of history that may very well be Nintendo’s first ever mention in North America. It’s a section of theNew York Timesfrom 1955, way back when Nintendo was still making playing cards. It talks about Nintendo using a trademark for a word meaning “happiness, fortune or wealth.” The report also delves into the meaning of the name Nintendo, stating that the three characters making up its name are a “fanciful” expression roughly meaning “a company whose fortune or prosperity should be left to the mercy of Heaven....
Infiltrate to sabotage weapons of mass destruction The first thing you’ll notice aboutCounterSpyis its unique art style. Really, you may say that about a lot of the indie titles Sony has been picking up lately, but there’s something extra special about this one. That probably has to do with the fact that the ten-man team at Dynamighty is comprised of ex-LucasArts and Pixar folks. As you can probably tell from the title,CounterSpyhas you playing as a spy tasked with infiltrating two opposing superpowers in order to sabotage their weapons of mass destruction....
Guardians who playedDestiny 2duringThe Witch Queenwill remember how deadly Scorn crossbows were at the time, thanks to a bug. With Edge of Fate, Guardians can return the favor by wielding a Legendary crossbow, one of the new archetypes coming in next month’s expansion. The new weapon class goes on your heavy slot and may have some great ammo economy, Bungie revealedin a livestream today. The massive bolts can deal tremendous damage to enemies, but they also stick inside foes or attach to the environment....
Par for the course The Iron Banner (a week-long PVP event) is set to close later today inDestiny, and like its first appearance in Year One, it was a complete waste of time. For starters, the rewards weren’t all that great, and some of the promises Bungie made in regards to the new and improved loot system didn’t actually pan out. Users all over the web (including my own group of friends I play with)are reportingthat even after earning rank five in the Iron Banner faction, very few items dropped, and they were complete garbage....
It’s quick, readable, and comes with tons of modes and options It’s been a tough decade for arena shooters with grand plans to break into the mainstream, but there will seemingly always be a dedicated community of hardcore players to rally around the best of the best.Diabotical– a free-to-play arena shooter with silly-faced Eggbots – is the latest standout. The game has over 15 modes including 5v5 Instagib, time trials to run, an in-game aim trainer, and 30 maps....
You’ll have to wait a bit longer to play this Skylanders inspired property After retailers updated their placeholders for August, the New York Times has confirmed that Disney has officially delayedDisney Infinityinto the “more favorable” launch window of August. Allegedly, it’s not due to quality control reasons, as John Pleasants, co-president of Disney Interactive, states, “We could deliver in June if we wanted to. Will a two-month timing change help us?...
The World Tour Argentina Upgrade SBC is now available inEA FC 25, and it offers a host of different rewards, including two special items. The World Tour Argentina Upgrade SBC is pretty similar to the French version that was available earlier in Ultimate Team. While that SBC set featured the Tel World Tour item, this one helps you get the Di Maria World Tour and Tagliafico Globetrotters items, along with a host of different packs....
Hot on the heels of its 7th anniversary,EverQuest IIhas announced that it will be making changes to the way it handles free-to-play this December. According to producerDave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson, “We believe the key to meeting your expectations is to provide more flexibility and to deliver what you want when you want it, whether it’s basic game content, full subscription access to the game, or something in-between.” Georgeson goes on to explain that thesubscription modelwill be changing in a few significant ways....
Here comes the San(ta) Oh sure, another month means yet anotherFate/Grand Orderevent to grind, but this one’s a biggie! Indeed, it’s time for the third of FGO’s Christmas special grindfests. This one is titledMerry Christmas in the Underworld, and sends Masters to the land down underground to see what, besides climate change, is making Chaldea’s Christmas revelries scorching instead of snowy. To that end they’ll farm, farm, farm, tons of tokens to trade for draws from a goody-filled Christmas lottery box....
Simple puzzle game to play slyly at work For Apple Watch owners looking to pass the time playing games rather than paying attention to school or their jobs, choices so far have been limited to browsing social media. Thankfully, the first game has finally been approved for theApple Watch. Rules!is a cute animal tapping puzzle game that has been available on iPhone and iPad since August 2014, but the newest update to the game makes it playable on Apple’s smart watch as a stripped down “brain workout mini game....
We need one for the Destructoid office Who needs virtual reality when you can have life-sized dolls? Oh wait, that’s a thing that exists…Anyways! If you have fallen in love withSummer Lesson’sHikari Miyamoto, you can get anordinary figureof her for 9,500 yen (~$83 US) just like any ordinary game. But your love isn’t ordinary, your love is pure. You want the “human size”statue that costs nearly $23,000. Hikari stands at 5’3 (165cm), can be posed in multiple ways, and has realistic hair, clothing, skin texture....
