Every Tuesday, the Halo Infinite store refreshes with a new stock of items and armor to help your Spartan stand out in the battlefield. For the most part, it’s the sort of borderline bro-y stuff you’d expect: ammo belts, additional visor colors, decals…
Last of Us HBO Show Casts Perfect Grump Bill With Grump Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman, actor, woodsman, and grower of immaculate beards, has officially been cast as Bill in HBO’s upcoming adaptation of The Last of Us.Read more…
Destiny 2 Gets Halo Guns For Bungie’s 30th Anniversary
Worlds sometimes collide in the most expected ways. Destiny, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first released in 2014, is getting a slew of weapons from Halo, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first relea…
Speedrunners Beat Pokémon Shining Pearl With No Fights, Only A Fishing Rod
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have been called “totally broken” by some speedrunners, and that brokenness has reached its logical conclusion: a sub-20 minute record time for the finishing game. About a week ago, that record time was 51 mi…
Halo Infinite’s Ranked Multiplayer Is Depressing Right Now
Ranked is never for the weak at heart, but usually, that’s because you have to contend with a bunch of tryhards just like you. In Halo Infinite, however, I don’t rage at my teammates or my performance nearly as much as I do the actual mode itself.Read …
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Comes With A Free Ticket For The Tom Holland Movie
The leap from one console generation to the next continues to be a puzzle worthy of Uncharted: not terribly mind-bending, but certainly more complicated than you’d expect. The latest example, in an Escherian twist, is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, the …
You Can’t Replay Campaign Missions In Halo Infinite
One of the joys of Halo is its replayability. Ask any devotee and you’ll get some story about endlessly rerunning “The Library” in Halo: Combat Evolved, or replaying Halo 2’s “Delta Halo” to get out of bounds and explore that uncannily Canada-looking m…
Dead Cells’ Constant Mutations Make It One Of The Best Games Of 2021, Too
I love Dead Cells. The side-scrolling combat and platforming are tight, the art is impeccable, and its progression system and unlock curve are among the best I’ve ever seen. It feels like a near-perfectly designed game. In the three years since its rel…
Halo Infinite’s Crystal-Clear Visual Design Puts Its Murky Competitors To Shame
I cannot believe I am praising a video game because I can see it, but hear me out. Somewhere along the line, maybe in the last decade and some change, shooters have become a visual mess. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to squint hard in games…
Halo Infinite’s Ridiculous Physics Are Just Like The Old Games
You can do a whole lot in Halo Infinite. You can get completely lost in forests on a derelict alien space station. You can mow down hordes of religious aliens with a kit of futuristic weapons and gadgets. You can also, apparently, fly halfway across th…