Valve’s newly announced Steam Deck has instantly become one of the most intriguing bits of hardware on the market, but how does the portable, dock-enabled mini-PC compare to the latest consoles – PS5, Xbox Series X, and the competing Nintendo Switch handheld? We’ll start with the Nintendo Switch comparison because …
Read More »Your biggest Battlefield 2042 questions answered: DICE on crossplay, loadouts, playtests, tactical penguins, and more
Battlefield 2042 is making some massive changes to play. DICE and EA is bringing Battlefield’s brand of all-out-warfare to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, and last generation consoles later this year, introducing a suite of improvements and alterations to the way that previous Battlefield games have worked. Loadouts are changing, …
Read More »What is the TVA from Loki in Marvel comic books?
Loki season one is on the books and The Time Variance Authority (or TVA) from the Disney Plus’ streaming series has proven to not be what we thought it was and exactly what we thought it was. And oh yeah, it seems like it has an MCU future too and …
Read More »When does Black Widow take place on the Marvel timeline?
Black Widow has finally arrived, after a series of pandemic-induced delays – and an 11 year gap between Natasha Romanoff’s debut in Iron Man 2 and her first solo movie. While the film answers some burning questions we had about the Avenger’s past, it might leave you a little bit …
Read More »The horrors of Silent Hill are the perfect match for 2021
As rumors of a new Silent Hill game prove as enduring as the image of Pyramid Head, it’s delicious torture for fans to imagine what the horror series could look like in 2021. Just as horror films have learned to twist more modern conveniences – cell phones, social media, constant …
Read More »How to start playing D&D without ever leaving home
If you want to know how to start playing D&D, there’s really never been a better time. The one RPG that has arguably inspired the most games (and stories about games) of them all is in a wonderful spot, and people all over the world are picking up a set …
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy looks like the game Marvels Avengers could have been
As Square Enix began to unveil Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy at its E3 2021 showcase, it was difficult to avoid drawing parallels to Marvel’s Avengers. The reception of the company’s first game based on a famous comic-book ensemble had pretty lukewarm, but here was another of its studios pushing …
Read More »A Plague Tale: Requiem is about to show us the next-generation of video game rats
For much of 2020, Asobo Studio had its head in the clouds. While airports around the globe came to a standstill, the French developer was putting the finishing touches on Microsoft Flight Simulator, offering a timely invitation to bright and beautiful getaways across the real-time airspace of planet earth. But …
Read More »Super Mario 64 turns 25: Examining the impact of the N64s most revolutionary game
Nintendo has always been a company that has set its own agenda, and that has rarely been more apparent than it was with the N64. Rather than following the likes of 3DO, Sega, and Sony into the CD-ROM market, it stuck doggedly to cartridges. Instead of simply evolving the SNES …
Read More »Infinite Frontier #1 raises 8 new questions about the new DC Universe
Four months after its lead-in Infinite Frontier #0 (opens in new tab) and about six months after the game-changing events of Dark Nights: Death Metal (opens in new tab), DC’s first major Omniverse-wide event Infinite Frontier launched June 22 – and lots of questions still abound about the nature of …
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