Where is Xur? As of March 12, 2021, you can find Xur in the Tower on the north side of the hangar. He’ll hang around until reset time on Tuesday, March 16. Be sure to see if the stat rolls on his Exotic armor pieces are better than yours, and …
Read More »Inside the most game-breaking 48 hours in Destiny 2 history
Players have been breaking Destiny 2 for nearly as long as Bungie has been making it, but the latest wave of destruction is in a league of its own. Within 48 hours, beginning February 26, players discovered unique and independent ways to completely bulldoze or circumvent the hardest PvE and …
Read More »Guns of Icarus Alliance is like steampunk Sea of Thieves… and it just landed on PS4
You can never have too much steampunk in your life. The industrial revolution inspired sci-fi aesthetic is always a delight when treated with enough care in fiction and, frankly, the sub-genre’s rarity in big budget gaming (compared to, say, cyberpunk or high fantasy) is a deeply regrettable oversight. It’s one …
Read More »Destiny is crying out for new stuff – is the April update enough?
“We didn’t want to hide the action from our players this time because they’re very eager for new things to do.” So says Bungie’s community manager, DeeJ, when I caught up with him to discuss Destiny (opens in new tab)’s latest update, which adds a whole host of stuff to …
Read More »Destiny vs. The Division: Who is the real king of the online loot shooters?
First-person or third-person? Gritty realism or Technicolor space-opera? Tactical scope, or magical long-bow? Now that it’s out, it’s time to rake The Division (opens in new tab) over the comparison coals and finally work out this whole ‘Is it better than Destiny (opens in new tab)?’ thing once and for …
Read More »Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, January 29 – 31. Thunderlord!
Destiny (opens in new tab)’s weekend merchant and noted collector of china equine minatures, Xur, is back in the Tower. He’s down by the Hangar recreation area this week, chain-smoking high quality imported cigars and practicing his mojito mixing. What’s he selling? Is any of it any good? And how …
Read More »Destiny will get an update bigger than anything since The Taken King in early 2016
Even without paid expansions (opens in new tab) like House of Wolves, Bungie plans to keep new stuff flowing into Destiny (opens in new tab) throughout the next year on a regular basis. The Halloweeny Festival of the Lost (opens in new tab) came and went and the Sparrow Racing …
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online gets a free weekend on Xbox One, and $1m prize draw
Bethesda and Zenimax Online are giving away $1 million (in the form of $50,000 per year over the course of 20 years) to one lucky Elder Scrolls Online (opens in new tab) player as part of their #MillionReasonsToPlay campaign, and all you need do is register here (opens in new …
Read More »Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location November 6-8. Helm of Inmost Light!
Xur, Destiny’s most benevolent, tentacle-faced enigma – he might charge you for the Exotic things he brings, but he once stopped for half an hour to help me fix a flat tyre at the side of the road, and it was raining – is returned to The Tower, to vend …
Read More »Why Final Fantasy 14 is secretly the best game in the series
Before I get started, and before you shoot me for not saying Final Fantasy 7 is the best, there are a few things you need to know about me. I’m a huge Final Fantasy fan. The kind of fan that has given up several pieces of furniture to an ever …
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