One of the most ubiquitous complaints about the first Division was that enemies were far too resistant to damage. It was all too common that normal human enemies in the endgame could ignore the…
March 28, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
The looter shooter genre is getting more and more crowded every year, especially now that almost every major publisher has a dog in the race. With the release of Ubisoft's The Division 2, the…
March 20, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
A long time ago in a console generation far far away, BioWare was a name that implied exceptional quality. For years, they were known for creating revolutionary single player RPGs. There were some…
February 26, 2019 | 02:00 EST
Apex Legends was a surprise release that no one was expecting until the teaser announcement. Since release we've seen the game take over Twitch, reach 25 million players in the span of a week, and…
February 14, 2019 | 11:00 EST
“A famous explorer once said that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are.” —Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, 2013 Since Lara Croft's first appearance in the original Tomb Raider in 1996, she has…
September 13, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Of all the announcements to come out of E3 2018, one of the more controversial of the bunch is that the next Fallout game, Fallout 76, is going to be more multiplayer-oriented than what some may be…
June 26, 2018 | 02:00 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
The rise of video games in culture and society has inevitably meant that children would get their hands on them. In an unsurprising repeat of history, influential public figures have noticed this…
May 5, 2018 | 02:00 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
There is little doubt that the vast majority of AAA game releases in 2017 were haunted by the specter of microtransactions. Star Wars Battlefront 2 took most of the flak from online communities and…
January 9, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Out of all genres that one can do a “year in review” for the hardest to probably discuss would be fighting games. It is a technical genre in many ways—an intricate understanding of inner mechanics,…
January 1, 2018 | 09:00 EST
One of the most defining key aspects of modern gaming is the ability for developers to release an update for a game at virtually any time that they want, all but guaranteeing that every person that…
December 29, 2017 | 09:00 EST
On paper, Rainbow Six Siege sounds like an average to below average game that would fizzle out after a couple months for a whole host of reasons. After all, Siege is a full price game that has no…
December 28, 2017 | 11:00 EST
With all the controversy that Star Wars Battlefront 2 stirred up, it was only a matter of time before the powers that be took notice. Sure enough, Belgium launched an investigation into games like …
November 23, 2017 | 09:00 EST
It should be no secret by now that Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been on the receiving end of one PR broadside after another, with plenty of forums and websites gleefully pouring gas onto the fire that…
November 22, 2017 | 01:00 EST
With a playerbase of some 35 million people, Overwatch is a global phenomenon that, for the time being, is more or less the poster child of what a current generation game should look like. For the…
November 14, 2017 | 09:00 EST
It is no secret that Destiny 2 has a bit of a two faced personality; it attempts to appeal to longtime fans and hardcore grinders with things like Raids and Competitive PvP playlists while at the…
October 12, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
For all intents and purposes, what you saw in Star Wars Battlefront 2's beta is what you're going to get when the game releases on November 17. In some regards, this is a great thing, as the game's…
October 11, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
One of the most unique and defining aspects of games is that you can almost guarantee that no two people will ever have the same exact experience playing the same game. Everyone plays through games…
October 9, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
On September 19, 2017, Overwatch received an update that would drastically change how two of the most popular Heroes in the game would function. To make a long story short, D.Va is now slightly less…
October 5, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
It should come as no real surprise that Destiny 2 is a game that tries to reach many kinds of demographics. From casual to hardcore, from story-aficionados to competitive multiplayer lovers, there is…
September 28, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
One of the most surprising "features" of Destiny was the fact that throughout the whole game, your protagonist was very ... quiet. For the most part, it was apparently up to your Ghost to talk to…
September 27, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
It is an unfortunate reality of online gaming (and for that matter, human nature) that there exists a certain kind of individual who seemingly has no other purpose in life than to be needlessly…
September 21, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
The developers of Overwatch announced in early August 2017 that a new Deathmatch gameplay mode was coming to the game's Arcade, and it was added to the game proper a couple of weeks later. I've been…
September 20, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
A mere decade ago, sometime just after the release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the concept of microtransactions was introduced to the general public with Horse Armor DLC. As can be expected,…
September 11, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit some pretty insane targets since it released back in March this year. It’s already crossed 10 million copies sold on PC alone, and actually at times overtaken…
September 8, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
With an average Metacritic score of 73 and similarly mediocre ratings from a vast number of other sites, including TechRaptor, Mass Effect: Andromeda was decidedly less well-received than other games…
September 7, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Bethesda seems to be headed straight for another fiasco with their Creation Club, quite similar to how the Paid Mods Workshop went years ago. It didn't help that a lot of the content available from…
September 4, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
After a tumultuous unveiling at E3 2017, Bethesda's Creation Club is finally available on Fallout 4 for the world to see and judge. Often derided as a return to paid mods, the Creation Club is a…
August 30, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
As in most team based games that revolve around multiple classes working with each other, playing as a Tank or Support Hero in Overwatch can be rather ... unsatisfying. There's glory to be had in…
August 27, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Not everyone who plays video games on the regular enjoys the treadmill that some call "the grind." It's not an easy to define feature, either. Some MMOs infamously employ "the grind" as a quest that…
August 26, 2017 | 08:03 EDT
The concept of being rewarded while playing a game is a fairly interesting one; after all, it's not like people really need incentives to play games since, well, they're games. Of course, reward…
August 21, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Throughout the decades-long history of video games, our expectations of the kinds of features that a "modern" game should possess have gradually evolved. For example, several years ago, it was…
July 22, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Within a day of its release, Destiny had shipped over half a billion dollars worth of games to stores around the world and sold another couple million copies through digital marketplaces; by the end…
July 17, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
As most people may know, game balancing can be a fickle thing. Of course, it always sounds like the easiest thing in the world, but adding an extra point of damage or taking away a couple of points…
July 6, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
With the news that Square Enix is looking at what to do with Hitman, including possibly packaging it with studio Io-Interactive for sale, one wonders who should buy it. Options include venture…
June 2, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Here we are in the midst of Overwatch Anniversary, the one-year birthday event for Blizzard's latest and greatest IP. Once again, Blizzard has ponied up a bevy of cosmetic items for players to get…
May 29, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Since Bungie's big presentation on Destiny 2 where they showed off a good chunk of gameplay, story information, and changes coming to Destiny in its sequel there have been issues raised about how…
May 22, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
For all of its faults, Destiny was an unquestionably influential game, forcing developers to examine what Bungie did right (and what they did wrong) and causing consumers to question whether or not a…
May 19, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The conclusion of Uprising (the most recent event in Overwatch) happened a bit oddly. It ended earlier than expected, and then Blizzard Entertainment subsequently brought it back online and extended…
May 9, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Thanks to China's recently implemented "Loot Box" law, which essentially mandates that every game that is sold in the country has to disclose the drop rates of purchasable reward items in said game,…
May 7, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Once seen as a competitor to the Medal of Honor series, Call of Duty has come a long way from its origins as one of the many games that were based upon the most destructive conflict in human history…
April 24, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Despite allegedly selling over 14 million copies within six months of release and offering one of the most authentic Star Wars experiences possible, Star Wars Battlefront was mildly disappointing, to…
April 19, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
To say that Destiny had a very tumultuous history is a bit of an understatement. Over the past half a decade or so, senior members of Bungie (including high-profile individuals who worked on Halo …
April 12, 2017 | 01:00 EDT