In 2014, the launch of Destiny promised the start of an epic ten-year story. It was a promise echoed by other live-service games that rose (and fell) in its wake. With Destiny 2: The Final Shape,…
June 12, 2024 | 08:30 EDT
Video-game adaptations are mostly bad, so bad they’re good, or lucked into some cult following. Thankfully, we’ve now had the amazing The Last of Us release, and Fallout just knocked it out of the…
April 11, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
With the release of Destiny 2 Lightfall, the community has tucked into its newest content with zeal. Part of this was due to the emotional climax of the most recent season, setting high expectations…
March 6, 2023 | 11:00 EST
With the final story mission live and its ending cutscene revealed, the Destiny 2 community has been rocked to its core by the events of Season of the Seraph. What started as a solid continuation of…
February 20, 2023 | 12:32 EST
Looking back on Destiny 2 Season of Plunder, there wasn't a lot that stuck in my mind. The content that propelled this season was exciting, continuing Bungie's push towards fun rewarding PvE seasonal…
November 17, 2022 | 11:00 EST
When Halo Infinite was first released to the public a year ago, there was some genuine belief that the game would shake up the FPS genre by making Halo a top contender again. After all, Battlefield…
November 16, 2022 | 11:00 EST
In 1996, Quake was released on PC, permanently establishing Texan developer id Software as a powerhouse in the industry. It would be the third in a series of milestone releases fronted by the two…
October 8, 2022 | 01:00 EDT
2012 turned out to be a turning point for maturity in video-game storytelling. Games like Hotline Miami and The Walking Dead approached the age-old ultra-violence in video games debate with a certain…
June 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
The first month of Destiny 2 Season of the Haunted has been an emotional rollercoaster both in terms of gameplay and story content. Major characters have become the focus for some insightful…
June 21, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
After nine episodes, the Halo TV show's first season has come to an end. It was definitely a wild ride that can best be summed up as an ambitious re-imagining of the tale of the Master Chief. Like…
May 21, 2022 | 12:35 EDT
When Halo Infinite was officially released in December 2021, it seemed like 343 Industries basically caught a unicorn. Halo Infinite's solid gameplay mechanics combined with a free to play…
May 7, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
Last week, Destiny 2's latest premium expansion, The Witch Queen went live. While there was understandable hype for the features and mechanics the expansion would introduce, such as the heavily…
March 4, 2022 | 12:00 EST
Eyes up, Guardians. The final mission event has dropped for Destiny 2's Season of the Lost, setting the stage for the newest premium expansion: The Witch Queen. While I would love to say that there…
February 19, 2022 | 11:00 EST
While Season of the Lost is still on hiatus, Destiny 2's players have been waiting for the Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack. Not only is it a celebration of the developer's long history in the industry,…
December 28, 2021 | 12:00 EST
After the release of two somewhat mediocre Halo games, 343 Industries seems to have finally rediscovered the formula to turn bits of code into gold with Halo Infinite. The latest entry to the Halo …
December 11, 2021 | 12:00 EST
There's much that can be said about Battlefield 2042's multiplayer gameplay, yet it's clear that the game must've had a rather interesting development cycle for DICE to have made some of the…
November 19, 2021 | 12:00 EST
If you haven't noticed from my output on this site by now, I am quite invested in Destiny 2. I was there for the doldrums of its launch in 2017 and its bevy of mediocre support. I was there when it…
November 9, 2021 | 12:00 EST
If you've been paying attention to recent developments of the ongoing space fantasy action MMO, Destiny 2, you'll know that new details have been coming out regarding its upcoming premium expansion.…
October 21, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
With the gaming industry gearing up to take advantage of the new generation of consoles, it's almost inevitable that developers will want to take risks. After all, it's the start of a new era of…
October 12, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
I've always managed to be patient and understanding with Destiny 2. As an ongoing experience, it has made some stumbles as well as genuine strides when it comes to being a sci-fi action MMO everyone…
October 9, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
The world of Destiny has been active in the gaming landscape for well over seven years now. Bungie's big sweeping space opera has come a long way since then, going from a game criticized for having…
July 3, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
After a surprisingly stellar outing with Season of the Chosen, expectations for the next stage of Destiny 2 were high. Season of the Splicer starts by introducing new characters and ideas teased in…
May 21, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
With the closing ceremony of this year's Guardian Games, Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen is now wrapping up. While we have concerns regarding changes to come, it is also important to look back at…
May 10, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
As Season of the Chosen wraps up for Destiny 2, Bungie revealed in one of their weekly update posts details for a long-requested feature: an armor transmog system. As people combed over this new…
May 6, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Recently, I wrapped up the final DLC for Doom Eternal, The Ancient Gods – Part 2. Overall, I thought it was fine, but it held all the telltale signs of id Software finally hitting the breaking point…
March 25, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the first of what will certainly be many upcoming next-gen Call of Duty games, has recently given the world a quick look at its multiplayer gameplay. For the most…
September 16, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
In a stunning blow to the Xbox Series X launch lineup, Microsoft announced yesterday that Halo Infinite will be delayed to 2021. The general consensus among industry insiders and fans alike is that…
August 13, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Ever since modern multiplayer games took off, developers have been trying to come up with new and exciting game modes for players to kill each other in. There's the tried and true Team Deathmatch,…
May 1, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
In this day and age, even the most beloved gameplay formula needs some spicing up every now and then. In Overwatch’s case, Blizzard is rather enthusiastically embracing this idea by introducing an…
March 10, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that the Overwatch League has proven there is a sizable audience that is interested in competitive gaming. Even if the OWL were to completely disband tomorrow,…
February 24, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Of all the games that were revealed in 2019, Overwatch 2 was likely one of the least surprising of the bunch. Rumors of the game’s existence were floating around the internet for weeks, if not months…
January 17, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Look, I know video game movies are awful, OK? There are so very few I can think of that are worth watching. Detective Pikachu, I guess. The first Resident Evil movie is pretty good, too. I liked the…
January 13, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Of all the things that have shaped the world of gaming, none have had a greater impact than post-release monetization. The mere existence of such a concept has made it so that a game’s quality is no…
December 17, 2019 | 11:30 EST
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Battle Pass Season kicked off with the promise of a huge content drop. According to Infinity Ward's advertisements for the Battle Pass, the game will be receiving up to…
December 9, 2019 | 11:00 EST
After what seemed like an eternity, EA and DICE's commitment to the games as a service model for Battlefield V has finally bore fruit. The island-hopping conflict between the United States and Japan …
November 18, 2019 | 12:00 EST
One of the few constants in life is that nothing is ever perfect for everyone, and gaming is no exception. The latest Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, may have an excellent single-player…
November 18, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Overwatch 2 just made its official debut at BlizzCon 2019, making a grand appearance with yet another excellent animated short. Based on what can be told so far, it's essentially a PvE expansion to…
November 5, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Two years ago, Star Wars Battlefront 2 was released to a storm of controversy. For the first time in recent memory, a AAA game had microtransactions that directly affected gameplay. You could buy…
September 3, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Overwatch’s latest grand experiment in balancing and matchmaking is now live for everyone. From now on, all core playlists will require you to queue up for a certain role before finding a match. By…
August 19, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Of all the updates to ever grace Overwatch, the 2/2/2 role queue patch may be the most impactful to date. While it is currently only live on the PTR, the update should be active on all platforms by…
July 22, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
For the past year, the 3/3 team composition (or GOATS) has been the talk of the town in Overwatch. While there have been a few variations of the 3/3 comp since its inception, the basic idea of the…
July 8, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
When I started writing this piece, I wanted to push it out quickly because I was feeling frustrated. But I decided to wait because Treyarch had announced a new update coming on June 25. This update…
July 2, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
For the longest time, games with the Battlefield logo slapped on the box art were often considered to be the most realistic FPS multiplayer games that you could buy. While this was almost certainly…
June 6, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
As you no doubt may have heard by now, Battlefield 5's debut trailer has stirred up quite an amount of reasonable and rational discussion. Or at least that would be the case in another reality. In…
May 29, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
About a month ago, Overwatch's latest Hero, Brigitte, was formally introduced into the game. Interestingly enough, she was not activated in Competitive mode until the start of season 10, ostensibly…
May 3, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
When Rainbow Six Siege was first shown off at E3 2014, it seemed like another run of the mill modern day military shooter from Ubisoft, at least from a thematic standpoint. Yet, almost half a decade…
March 7, 2018 | 09:00 EST
In early 2016 the Call of Duty community received one of the greatest zombies maps of all time: "Der Eisendrache." This DLC brought intensity to the overall narrative, four wonder weapon variants,…
February 12, 2018 | 11:00 EST
From a conceptual standpoint, the Overwatch League is a natural and presumably inevitable progression of Esports as it, like the general direction that gaming is heading in, represents the…
January 30, 2018 | 01:00 EST