One of the first areas you visit in Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion is the tropical island of Thavnair. The locals of Thavnair paint their buildings in bright colors, combinations of blues, reds, yellows, and purples. It’s some of the prettiest…
Ubisoft’s NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company kn…
Hilarious Halo Infinite Glitch Turns Warthogs Into Go-Karts
Despite its trappings as a jingoistic space opera, the Halo franchise often finds itself straddling the line between serious and humorous. The latest example of this phenomenon is a glitch that sees the series’ ubiquitous Warthog jeeps shrunk down to c…
Halo Infinite Is Harder Than You’d Expect, And That’s By Design
You may want to be a hero, you may even want to be a legend, but know that sometimes it’s totally fine to be normal. Case in point here is Halo Infinite, a first-person shooter out today for Xbox and PC. If you’re just starting out the campaign, be sur…
27 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Halo Infinite’s Campaign
You may have spent the past month playing Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, but the campaign, out now for Xbox and PC, is a wholly different beast. As in previous Halo games, your ostensible goal is to aim your gun and shoot at a zealous battalion of a…
Destiny 2 Debuts Gjallarhorn With Powerful New Perk
Destiny 2’s massive mid-season update went live yesterday, and while there are a million aspects to discuss about it, the first thing a lot of returning players will want to know is how to get Gjallarhorn, the overpowered Exotic rocket launcher from De…
GTA Online Gets First Actual Story Expansion In Years, Starring Franklin and Dr. Dre
Rockstar Games just announced a new major content drop for Grand Theft Auto Online. The series of missions titled The Contract will feature Franklin, one of GTA V’s protagonists, and rapper Dr. Dre. In addition to Dr. Dre’s music, Rockstar promised swe…
Genshin Impact Event’s Ninja Dogs Are Even Tougher Than Bosses
Step aside, Can You Pet the Dog, Genshin Impact players have discovered that it’s possible to kill the guarding ninja dogs in the stealth phase of the latest event. Previously assumed to be invincible, it’s an act that, gruesomely, takes millions of po…
Destiny’s New Space Horse Is Stealing The Show
There is so much to talk about in Destiny 2’s Bungie 30th Anniversary mini-expansion. There’s a fantastic new dungeon, tons of interesting new guns, and sweeping balance changes to the sandbox. Fuck all of that. For now we are talking about the horse b…
The Game Developers Who Enable Speedrunners To Break Their Games
It was a few days after Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had launched on PS5, and Insomniac Games had a problem. Using a glitch known as the swingboost to gain phenomenal amounts of forward momentum, a small group of players had found a method of tearin…