Sorry, I don't have a hot take on Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard

Welp I just thinkthe whole situationsucks _()_/

January 19, 2022 · 1 min · 7 words · Matthew Lee

Total War: Warhammer 3's campaign is packed with new and chaotic ideas

Anyway, what Im trying to say is this: its been almost seven years since then. And Im still head over heels in love with these games even now. Somehow, impossibly, that seems to be holding true forWarhammer 3as well. Having not done a digital preview before now, this was something of a revelation to me. Eagled-eyed readers will have spotted an eighth, as-yet-unannounced faction here called the Daemons of Chaos....

January 19, 2022 · 2 min · 228 words · Whitney Mora

Microsoft are buying Activision Blizzard for $69 billion

EXCUSE ME, WHAT? Wait, hang on. They expect the deal to close in their 2023 fiscal year, so by the end of June 2023. Can’t forgot the M-word when you’re talking to investors. and once the deal is settled, Activision Blizzard will report to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. The same Bobby Kotick whose continuing presence as CEO led toan employee walkoutin protest. Hopefully Microsoft will deal with him, because it doesn’t seem Activision Blizzard will....

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · 141 words · John Miller

Monster Hunter Rise failed to save bug: how to follow Capcom's fix

What other workarounds do Capcom suggest? Finally, as per the final step of the original troubleshooting method, try rebooting your PC. Hey, sometimes you get lucky and turning it off and on again actually works. If it is set to 3 or 4, the default button is X. So see to it you’re pressing enter instead of back, basically. But it’s probably useful to be aware of this quirk nevertheless....

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · 112 words · Kevin Singleton

Nobody Saves The World review: a charming action RPG plagued by repetition

A world worth saving? Something is missing fromNobody Saves The World, a new action RPG fromGuacameleedevs DrinkBox Studios. And what a lovely world it is, despite the rampaging mutant issue. You’ve got little towns and thick jungles and arid deserts all rendered in this gorgeous, cartoony aesthetic. The game has a playful charm about it, with bizarre characters that spit funny quips. The way he switches between frantic to conniving is magnificent....

January 18, 2022 · 3 min · 497 words · Luis Davis

OlliOlli World is a good-spirited renovation of punishing skateventures

Skate or don’t To perform an ollie is to commune with gods. This one’s got a flashy third dimension, moon-faced cartoon characters, and a plucky story to match. We’re told of Skate Godz who once appointed a human representative on earth. But she’s about to retire and needs a prodigy to step forward to fill her Vans. The player is that potential new conduit between holy half-pipers and humanity. In other words, this is a quest to become Skate Pope....

January 18, 2022 · 3 min · 542 words · Michael Price

Season 2 of Netflix's Dota animated series is out now

Should’ve kept ganking him before he ate all those dragons, nerks. It’s not the Archive 81 I knew, but that’s fine.

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · 21 words · Heather Wilson

Wordle's app store namesake is donating its proceeds to charity

I didn’t find it - Wordle is insteada website, and completely free. It turns out I’m not alone. And now he’s donating the money he’s made to charity. “It didnt quite take off like my previous app,Grid, did. So after a few months and ~100k total downloads, I stopped updating and promoting the app.” He’s a class act and you should follow him." The pair have decided to donate the money toBoost!...

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · 111 words · Charles Neal

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox adds cooperative multiplayer

Co-op makes it an even nicer place to start because friends are nice, aren’t they? “Only interacting with menus and the map is restricted to player one.” It’s still full-priceon GOG, though. It has a demo so it’s possible for you to try it first.

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · 45 words · Austin Peterson DDS

Konami's Castlevania NFT collection sold for £119,000

On the other, oh god 119,000 is still so much money for basically nothing. The initialKonami Memorial NFTcollection was for 14 Castlevania doodads auctionedon OpenSea. Altogether they sold for 49.1 Etherum, which in real money was roughly 119k ($162k). People haven’t bought the videos and songs and art, only NFTs of them. “The purchaser will not, by purchasing the NFT, obtain intellectual property rights (e.g. “Thus, the purchaser may not use the data linked to the NFT (e....

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Jason Gonzales

Nvidia DLDSR tested: better visuals and better performance than DSR

Out of the .exe. And since fewer pixels need to be pushed, overall performance is higher. Is it a night-and-day difference in visual quality between this and DSR? Theres also one other addition that can soften the frame rate blow even further: DLSS. Now, this wont be available in every game, but you could use both it and DLDSR simultaneously. Thats nearly 20fps more than when using the default anti-aliasing, and less than 10fps below the all-native performance....

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · 78 words · Jessica Boyd

The Sims 4 New Year New Hustle: how to complete the New Year 2022 Scenario

After making your choices, you’ll be taken to Create-A-Sim to create the scenario household. Once you’ve finished up in CAS, you might move in your household and begin the challenge. How do you complete the New Year New Hustle scenario in The Sims 4? First, there’s money to think about. Since your scenario household is made up of a single adult Sim, their starting funds will be 20,000. This way you’ll start closer to your goal....

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · 162 words · Bradley Brown

Tumbledown Drive is a Getting Over It-style platformer in which you're a car

“Yes, I want to ruin my life,” I thought, and instantly bought it. Now just a few days later, my life ruined, I see jumps and punishing falls everywhere. As per its inspirations, falling doesn’t kill you. Death would be too easy. Instead, missing a jump sends you hurtling back down from whence you came. I love these kinds of games. While I haven’t played much of Tumbledown Drive yet, I like how it feels....

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · 87 words · Jennifer Santana