You’ve probably gotten used to all sorts of fresh character designs over the years, but people often overlook just how drab the aesthetics used to be back in the day because of the graphic limitations developers and artists had to work around. Related:Comic Book Characters That Have Appeared In The Most Games Now with consoles featuring next-gen graphics that can handle all sorts of detailed sprites and models, you get to experience a new slew of aesthetic overhauls....

Sapphics who play video games got a big W when Horizon Forbidden West’s Burning Shores DLC launched this week. Spoilers ahead! In it, Seyka says to Aloy that she wants to be with her and she hopes she feels the same way. All three dialogue options, whether you choose to accept or reject her, seem to reflect that Aloy is canonically queer. If you embrace the romance, Aloy and Seyka kiss....

The arrival ofThe Super Mario Bros. Moviein cinemas is now just a week away. Even though none of us have actually seen it yet, based on trailers and the relatively little we know about it so far, it feels like the blockbuster is going to be a big success. So much so that Charlie Day already making it known that he wants to star in aLuigi’s Mansionspin-off definitely feels like the right thing to do....

Stories transport us to strange new worlds, make us care about memorable characters, and more importantly, play with our emotions through their narrative. That’s true of stories written on pages, watched on screens, told by mouth, or played on screens, and especially true when we see a reflection of ourselves within them. ForCitizen Sleeperdeveloper Gareth Damian Martin, exploring these reflections is where storytelling becomes most powerful. “Sleeper is a questionable person, and he’s in this position of being something that we don’t know a lot about,” Damian Martin says....

Citizen Sleeper feels like it was based on a tabletop RPG. In many ways it was, albeit one in creator Gareth Damian Martin’s imagination. The cult indie hit was inspired by many TTRPG mechanics, and Damian Martin waskeen to move away from the D&D pigeonholethat video game RPGs often fall into. The result was spectacular. Like all the best science fiction,Citizen Sleepertells very real stories that reflect on modern day problems as much as they embody the far future....

Cyberpunk 2077is crammed with a whole bunch of world-building, having years of source material to draw upon. However, more than two years since the game launched, there’s a fair chance that many of us are all caught up on the various wars and feuds in the world of Cyberpunk, and would rather learn more about the people of Night City itself. That’s where this new mod,The Lives of Night City, comes in....

Diablo 4is getting another beta prior to its June release. We had a pretty good idea that Diablo 4 would hold another test weekend,given recent remarks from the higher-ups at Blizzard, but now we have a confirmation and date from Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson. Diablo 4 will host a “Blessed Mother’s Day Weekend” from May 12 to May 14. Fergusson called this a “server slam,” so the point of this beta appears to be stress-testing Diablo 4’s server capacity....

Tears of the Kingdom, like Breath of the Wild before it, is jam-packed with Easter Eggs and references to both Nintendo and Zelda history. Many of them are obvious, like the bottles of Lon Lon Milk in Hateno Village or when Link hums Saria’s song as he cooks, but others are more obscure. For instance, the Ultrahand ability is a reference to an old Nintendo toy from the ‘60s. But Tears of the Kingdom’s best reference isn’t to a Zelda or even a Nintendo game....

The Last of Usis over, and just like that, it’s ten years ago. Joel has saved Ellie, but in doing so may have doomed humanity, and it is only through violent retribution that he can get her to safety. There are major differences between television and gaming. In TV, we only witness the act, whereas in games we participate, but that might be an upper hand for television. We rarely interrogate why we do what we do in games - we just achieve the objective we’re told to do....

The Melee class inTerrariais home to a number of weapon sub-categories, as the range that the class lacks necessitates a variety of playstyles to suit different enemies and bosses you’ll encounter throughout the world. No sub-category in the Melee class’s arsenal, though, is as interesting as the flail. Related:Terraria: Best Melee Weapons Flails come in two flavors, either spinning around the player before being thrown or instantly launching out before coming back just as quickly....

Quick Links MLB The Show 23’sDiamond Dynasty is an exciting mode that combines the enthusiasm of collecting cards with the tactical nuance needed to build a winning team. You’ll utilize players from every era of baseball to dominate on the diamond. RELATED:MLB The Show 23: Beginner’s Guide To Road To The Show There are several ways to collect cards and improve your team in Diamond Dynasty, including Conquest. This game mode uses similar mechanics from the board game Risk, as you try to take control of the map....

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3is in theatres now, tearing everyone’s hearts out. This long-awaited end to theGuardianstrilogy gives all of the characters a pretty satisfying send-off, as it’s likely that this is the last film James Gunn will direct for theMCU. So, with such a huge task ahead of him going into the film’s production, Gunn took inspiration from other sci-fi greats that left a lasting impression on audiences....

Valve licensed out the Half-Life IP only twice in its entire life. First was to Gearbox, who then made the Opposing Force expansion. The second time was to Arkane Studios for what would have been Half-Life 2: Episode 4 - Return to Ravenholm. The game would have taken place in the town of Ravenholm, which you visit briefly inHalf-Life 2’s sixth chapter, “We Don’t Go To Ravenholm…”. The reason for that is that it’s full of headcrabs and zombies....