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Diablo IV Is The Perfect Head Empty, Kill Shit Game
Diablo is one of those games you’ve definitely played — even if you haven’t. It’s so influential in its design, from its RPG mechanics to its loot and progression systems, that the franchise has its demonic horns stabbed through countless other games from Borderlands and Destiny to Hades and Phantasy Star Online. Me, I’m not a…
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No One’s Getting Laid In Starfield, Apparently
3Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios’ Skyrim-but-in-space RPG, finally has a firm September 6 release date. A June 11 presentation will give us a closer look at the game that has over 1,000 planets, but something you might not have expected to learn before then is just how sexless Starfield will be. By sexless, I mean, truly…
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Let’s Break Down Dead Island 2’s Gnarly, ‘Anatomically Correct’ Flesh System
Zombie-spotted action-adventure Dead Island 2 spent the last nine years pinballing between studios — original developer Techland, then Yager Development, then Sumo Digital, and finally Dambuster, which has ties to the TimeSplitters series in its former, ‘00s life as Free Radical Design. Recently, it gained enough speed to pick up a real release date for…
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Square Enix Is Still Making That NFT Game, In 2023
Pretty much every time we post a video game trailer on this website, it’s either because we think it’s cool, or we’re using it to illustrate some kind of gameplay or cinematic point. In this case, though, we’re doing neither.