Videogames

The lost art of video game hacks, plus articles, videos, and podcasts I’ve been enjoying or creating in May 2023. — When’s the last time the game you played had a glitch or a hack? For me, it’s in the order of years. The lost art of video game hacks If you haven’t heard (for some strange reason), the new Zelda came out for the Switch this past May. Within days, videos surfaced online with players’ contraptions —…

Relic of a bygone age or right time for reinvention? — I recently started playing Return to Monkey Island. When release was announced last year, I know I wasn’t the only one feeling the excitement of an upcoming new Monkey Island game. In fact, I was so excited that I set up a Steam account specifically to buy the entire current…

Significant workforce reduction expected at Firemonkeys, EA’s racing game studio. — So, in some of my previous posts, I’ve talked about various EA games. If you want to check those out, I’ll drop the links at the end of this post, no worries. But today, let’s focus on Firemonkeys, you know, that excellent studio that’s all about racing games. Unfortunately, there’s…

Pokémon is the highest-grossing franchise. Its appealing and colorful universe has captivated children, teenagers, and adults alike since the middle 90s. Many have fantasized about a real Pokémon world ever since. Needless to say, such a place would be wonderful, and there are motives to spare. Here there are 12…

Imagine a world where the realm of gaming is no longer a battlefield of ideas, innovation and creativity. Instead, it becomes a world where a single entity reigns supreme, unchallenged and unchecked. Let’s examine, then, a hypothetical scenario where the Sony PlayStation, a titan in the gaming industry, transcends its…

The last couple of months have been a veritable whirlwind. With the Multiplayer Preview in the books, we had a lot of data of all kinds to sift through — netcode, graphics and server performance, the works. That led to a lot of internal analysis and experimentation, the results of…

This blog post is for gamers and comic book fans! In it, we’ll explore two of pop culture’s most iconic franchises: Diablo and Spider-Man. Discover the decades of philosophical themes in the Diablo 4 and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse franchises. Diablo immerses players in a dark fantasy action role-playing game…

Join Aloy in her travels beyond the Forbidden West to save the world once more. Burning Shores is a DLC expansion for Horizon Forbidden West. It takes Aloy to the volcanic archipelago, located within the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. …

It is 3rd of June. And even though I know that I’m not going to write here a lot, still I’m going to do it. So, without further ado. Let’s go! The House of the Dead 3 is a weird game. It is a strange mix between the first and…