The Video Games And More You Should Play This Weekend – July 31

If you are even casually familiar with anime broadly, then you know about isekai, which is a genre where a typically contemporary person gets transported to an alternate, typically magical world. The actual getting transported part doesn’t matter as the bulk of the story is about coming to terms with being in a fantasy setting…

Twitch Streamer Ludwig Appears As An NPC In A Chinese FMV Game

Streamer Ludwig Ahgren has abandoned his position as one of the top streamers on Twitch to don a blonde wig and take up his new calling as an NPC in the Chinese video game Road To Empress II. Earlier this week, the game announced that Ludwig would appear in the game posting pictures of him…

Overwatch’s 6v6 experiments continue with a new test mode and a big healing buff

A new Overwatch update has just rolled out a fresh test in the Quick Play: Hacked format, and I’m increasingly convinced that 6v6 is making a real, full-time comeback. Having dropped the ‘2’ from the name, Blizzard has been continuing to experiment with ways to reintroduce the 6v6 format of old, and its latest patch…

Xbox is officially getting 5 brand-new must-play games in August

It’s been a strange summer for Xbox players, to say the least. While July should have been a celebratory month spent reminiscing about Halo, it was overshadowed by drastic business changes that saw Xbox parting ways with many of its studios and conducting mass layoffs to the ones that remained. If you’re feeling a little…

Swinging Back To Ultimate Spider-Man | Replay

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day hitting theaters this week, we’re revisiting a well-liked but oft-forgotten entry in Spidey’s video game catalog: 2005’s Ultimate Spider-Man.  Developed by Treyarch and released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube (as well as handheld devices),  Ultimate Spider-Man served as the first video game adaptation of the critically acclaimed comic…

Splatoon Raiders guide, tips and tricks

Image: Nintendo Life Whether you’re a series veteran or still fresh around the gills, Splatoon Raiders is packed with gameplay, mechanics and upgrades to get your head around. But worry not, we’re here to lend a hand. In the following Splatoon Raiders guide, we’ll be sharing some hints and tips for surviving the Spirhalite Islands,…

Gorgeous PS5 Action RPG Gets Divisive Reviews, Out Today on PlayStation Store

A brand new, gorgeous PS5 action RPG is out today. Unfortunately, the game has been getting fairly divisive reviews now that it’s out on the PS Store. The Relic: First Guardian is out today on PlayStation, but has been divisive Project Cloud Games The Relic: First Guardian is out now on the PS Store. The…

Get more than 100 games for just $10 in a new bundle supporting laid-off game devs

Game industry hardship fund bundle live on itch – YouTube Watch On With layoffs continuing to wrack the games industry—Microsoft’s decision to cut 3,200 people and ditch four studios in July was the big attention-getter but hardly the only bad news of the month, or the past few years—the United Videogame Workers union and Necrosoft…

Nvidia And AMD Wait Until The Same Time To Raise GPU Prices

I hope you aren’t looking to build a gaming PC or upgrade your existing one for, uh, at least another two years. Prices for graphics cards were already ridiculous, and the AI arms race is sending them even higher. Earlier this week, it was reported that Nvidia was preparing to raise the prices it charges…

Terraria 1.4.5.7 is almost here, with gassy greatswords and trick projectiles

The next Terraria update is almost upon us, and yet there are still new spoilers to see. In his Terraria State of the Game for July, Head of Business Strategy Ted ‘Loki’ Morphy says the team at Re-Logic is “hard at work” on the 1.4.5.7 patch, “as well as laying the groundwork for what is…