Prey isn’t afraid to ask the big questions, like what happens if you fire a Nerf crossbow into the side of a space station in zero-g?
Musician Arranges Jazz Set For Pro Smash Matches
Music student Nicholas Caleb Goss sees melodies when he watches Super Smash Bros. Melee champion Jose “Mango” Marquez flit across a stage. “He likes to style,” Goss said, describing a fight against Marquez as “energetic, surprising.” To Goss, Marquez’s playstyle is jazz, which is exactly what he turned it into.
Sources: BioWare Montreal Scaled Down, Mass Effect Put On Ice For Now
In the wake of BioWare’s polarizing Mass Effect: Andromeda, fans have wondered where the lauded sci-fi series will go next. The answer, according to people familiar with the studio, is nowhere—at least for the time being. BioWare has put Mass Effect on hiatus and turned Andromeda’s developer, BioWare Montreal, into a…
Prey Runs Remarkably Well On My Wimpy Microsoft Surface Tablet
The other day, my colleagues Kirk and Riley were having a discussion about how miraculously well Prey runs on their gaming PCs. “Good optimization?” I thought. “In a big-budget game with console versions? Obviously, I have to put this to the test.”
The Nintendo Switch version of Rime is getting a price drop, of sorts: While publisher Greybox says
The Nintendo Switch version of Rime is getting a price drop, of sorts: While publisher Greybox says it can’t lower the $40 price of the Switch cart without “selling at a loss,” it’s lowering the digital version to $30 to match other versions, and including a digital code for the game’s soundtrack inside the physical…
We Should Probably Talk About Edith Finch’s Ending
The new PS4/PC game What Remains of Edith Finch tells the tale of a doomed family living in a mansion off the coast of Washington state. It’s a cool story, but what does it all mean? Let’s discuss.
Square Enix’s Message After Nier: Automata Ending A Is Just Confusing
For the past couple of weeks I have been gradually playing through Nier: Automata, a video game about robot depression, and just a few nights ago I reached ending A. If I didn’t know any better—and if I took Square Enix’s message literally—I might just call it quits.
Board Games Are Helping My Wife Recover From Her Traumatic Brain Injury
For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon maps or dense rulebooks, a bit of fun after a strenuous week at the office. I know they’re more because they helped give me back my wife. After she was critically injured in a car crash, I watched her…
GTA V’s Police Are A Danger To Themselves And Others (But Mostly Themselves)
You thought Grand Theft Auto V’s firefighters were bad? The police would like to have a word with you.
The third-person shooter Vanquish is coming to PC on May 25, Sega announced today.
The third-person shooter Vanquish is coming to PC on May 25, Sega announced today. Last month, the publisher also released Bayonetta for PC. Is Skies of Arcadia too much to hope for?