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
Rightfully or wrongfully, Mass Effect: Andromeda was released to a sea of criticism, engulfed with complaints that ranged from being rather reasonable and constructive to embodying the very…
April 7, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
I bought Overwatch when it was on sale during the 2016 Holidays. In the three months I've had it, I've rather enjoyed the game. One thing in particular that has baffled me is the mechanic of…
March 30, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Cobbled together from the remains of various defense robots by Efi Oladele following Doomfist's temper tantrum at the Numbani airport, Orisa is the latest addition to Overwatch's roster. Taking on…
March 3, 2017 | 01:00 EST
In a world where there is an angel who can bring people back from the grave, a talking gorilla who can figure out how to make a device to tether someone to a specific timeline (or something like that…
February 10, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Almost three years ago, Ubisoft unveiled their latest tactical shooter with their usual song and dance routine. You've got a trailer with helicopters, mildly generic terrorists, special forces guys…
February 9, 2017 | 01:00 EST
In late November of 2016, Overwatch made a few changes to Symmetra. One of the greater changes in my opinion was the addition of a second ultimate ability. A Shield Generator was added as an…
February 2, 2017 | 09:00 EST
As one of the largest game development and publishing companies in the world, it is probably safe to say that most gamers are familiar with Ubisoft's products. With the imminent release of For Honor…
February 1, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Overwatch is running yet another seasonal event, the Year of the Rooster. Blizzard's implementation of Chinese New Year with the serial numbers filed off has turned out pretty alright overall. The…
January 27, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Thanks to the relative ease of implementing patches in multiplayer games, most people are familiar with the concept of rotating "metas," at least for games that do regular balancing updates. Perhaps…
January 10, 2017 | 01:00 EST
With the release of games like Overwatch, Dishonored 2, Stellaris, and DOOM (just to name a few), 2016 certainly had no shortage of (generally) well-received titles. By the time the holiday season…
January 6, 2017 | 01:00 EST
In the"good old days," when games were a fairly isolated experience and singleplayer content was essentially the only kind of content that existed, cheats were fairly basic. Typically, you just had…
December 19, 2016 | 01:00 EST
With the rise of cosmetic microtransactions in games came the rise of the loot box. As the name implies, it is essentially a bundle of (usually) random items that can be purchased with real money or…
December 10, 2016 | 11:00 EST
If you've ever played any kind of multiplayer game for more than an hour, then you're probably familiar with the concept of something feeling overpowered (or OP, as most normal people refer to it).…
December 8, 2016 | 01:00 EST
With the year coming to a close, no one can deny that 2016 has been a very memorable year for gaming, to say the least. You have the fiasco that was No Man's Sky, indie developers threatening to sue…
December 3, 2016 | 09:00 EST
With roughly 1 in 10 people "disliking" its trailer on YouTube, initial sales figures that allegedly indicate that it barely sold half as many units as its predecessor (putting it at around $275…
November 18, 2016 | 09:00 EST
One of the most fascinating genres in gaming is perhaps the stealth game; unlike the more easily marketable and widely accessible action games that basically revolve around you killing as many things…
November 16, 2016 | 09:00 EST
With Skyrim Special Edition on the horizon (tomorrow), our minds inevitably turn to mods. In fact, Nexusmods have already announced that they will be creating a dedicated new site separated from…
October 26, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
GTA Online: Bikers released on October 4th and has already had its first mini update of new content. I quite enjoyed it for the first few days and I stand by most of what I've said in my first…
October 24, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
From its unveiling at Sony's E3 2013 conference to the release of its divisive DLCs to rumors of its sequel wiping away hundreds or even thousands of hours of progress, Destiny has had a very ...…
October 6, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Continuing our series on Fallout's realism (or lack thereof), today we'll be covering radiation and mutations, because who doesn't love that? For info on the real-world version of things like Vaults…
October 1, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
The obvious answer is "oh, come on, REALLY?" But weirdly enough, while the Fallout franchise takes quite a number of liberties with reality, it has borrowed from real life as often as not. I was hit…
September 24, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
The bread and butter of any First Person Shooter are the firearms that are available to you, and in Destiny's Rise of Iron DLC, this maxim is especially true considering how many possible firearm…
September 23, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
The bread and butter of any First Person Shooter are the firearms that are available to you, and in Destiny's Rise of Iron DLC, this maxim is especially true considering how many possible firearm…
September 22, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
One of the biggest characteristics of video games that set it apart from every other form of entertainment and art is its propensity for high immersion. Immersion is something all entertainers yearn…
September 12, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
Overwatch has been riding a wave of success since its release 100 days ago (105 if you want to be that guy). While Overwatch racks up victory after victory on its way to a 15+ million playerbase, …
September 10, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
With the release of the Battlefield 1 open beta, anyone who was even mildly interested with DICE's World War One shooter had a chance to either try the game out for themselves, or at least see…
September 5, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
When success in the video game industry is often measured in increments of millions, it should come as no surprise that most high profile games are under a huge amount of scrutiny from the day that a…
August 22, 2016 | 02:00 EDT
Its pretty clear that No Man's Sky might be the most divisive game to have been released in quite some time. While it would have been easy to talk about what I personally don't like about the game…
August 17, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
It should come as no surprise that supporting roles or characters in games tend to be the least popular. You could probably attribute this to the fact that they are generally intended to be the most…
August 6, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
A somewhat new trend in modern gaming is the practice of offering free DLC. After all, it has only been a decade since people were protesting (or rather, mocking) Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC for being…
August 4, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
From Halo to Battlefield to Overwatch to Call of Duty, most multiplayer games have some kind of stat tracking feature. It could be as simple as a kill counter, or perhaps even something that just…
July 28, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
It's time to cover Overwatch's flagship hero, Tracer. Tracer is an incredibly unique offensive hero, with her ability to warp herself forward or rewind her own time backwards. Being the hero that…
July 27, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Prior to Overwatch's release, it was made abundantly clear that Blizzard would be balancing the console and PC versions of the game separately. On paper, this seemed like a reasonable course of…
July 22, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Last time we talked about the rocket launching daughter Pharah, but now it's time to talk about "Sniper-Mom" Ana. Ana Just came out, but I've played a fair amount of her, and I feel like I've found a…
July 20, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
While the phrase is bandied around a lot, the consensus among many gamers was that Street Fighter V was unfinished in its initial release state. The first thing players saw upon booting the game on…
July 12, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Welcome to part 3 of our Overwatch Character Highlight series! In this series, we're teaching you tips and tricks to Overwatch's vast character roster so you can use every character to their full…
July 11, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Welcome to part two of the Overwatch Character Highlight series. Today we're looking at Junkrat! Junkrat is one of the most difficult characters to play against—the very nature of his weapons makes…
July 9, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Welcome to the first of a series of articles regarding how to play specific characters in Overwatch. These will be not just how to play posts but also tips and tricks that one might not have…
July 8, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
It's been over a week since Battlefield 1's gameplay was first revealed to the world, with the response so far being very positive—albeit with a few caveats. While some of the more unrealistic…
June 25, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
We had the opportunity to attend a presentation of Vampyr, which was given by Philippe Moreau, Game Director over at Dontnod Entertainment, creators of Life is Strange. I was not given the…
June 15, 2016 | 01:59 EDT
We finally got to see some gameplay of Battlefield 1 at E3 today and got a good look at some of the weapons that will be in the game. Many people are worried that the pace of Battlefield 1 will slow…
June 14, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
The Battlefield name has been going through a bit of a rough patch over the last couple of years. Battlefield 4 launched with catastrophic server issues that lasted for months, and Battlefield…
June 13, 2016 | 08:45 EDT
E3 is right around the corner and its time for a few predictions! Sony has held strong as the Playstation 4 is arguably the leading game console. It's an exciting time to be a Playstation fan with so…
June 10, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
From Bastion and Torbjorn to McCree and his Fan the Hammer ability, it appears as though certain members of Overwatch's audience have a keen ability to detect what is "overpowered" in the game and…
June 10, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Regardless of the game, balancing in multiplayer has always been a fickle thing. Every weapon has to have some kind of downside and a counter to it, otherwise no one would be using anything else and…
June 3, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
At its core, E3 is the rough equivalent of having your parents tell you what you are getting for Christmas ahead of time. You've got all these big developers and publishers going on stage and…
May 30, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
With a roster of 21 heroes that all have their own powerful set of abilities, it can be hard to find any particular hero that you will always need in Overwatch. Sure, you could opt for a hero that…
May 28, 2016 | 01:30 EDT