Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and new Warzone are coming this year

The details, scant as they are, were given in ashort blog post on the Call Of Duty site. The Call Of Duty Twitter accountalso announced the news. This announcement is light on detail, but the rest of the post details plans for Warzone season 2, including focusing on “quality of life” features. Call Of Duty publishers Activision Blizzard remain under a cloud of allegations that theyhave a culture of sexual harassment and discrimination....

February 11, 2022 · 1 min · 92 words · Adam Wright

Disgaea 6 Complete heading to Steam this summer

JRPG series' big switch to 3D Each new Disgaea game is a new opportunity to finally get into the strange, brash and thousand-layers deep JRPG series. I’ve yet to manage it, but now Disgaea 6 is making its way to PC. CalledDisgaea 6 Complete, it bundles last year’s Switch and PS4 game together with its character and cosmetic DLC. You can find the announcement trailer below. Disgaea 6’s most flashy innovation was switching the 2D isometric art for fully 3D battlefields....

February 11, 2022 · 2 min · 259 words · Gina Sandoval

Elden Ring's open world demands more focus than previous Souls games

Too much, perhaps? My lastElden Ringhands-on wasilluminating, to say the least. As I got turned to mulch by a mechanical chariot, split in two by an ulcerated lizard, and bullied by a beast man, I simply… gave up. I said to myself, “I’ll come back to this later. Yeah”, with that final “yeah” escaping from my lips like a wisp of steam from a kettle. The game boiled me alive, but itsopen worldaccommodated these feverish outbursts far better than previous Souls games....

February 11, 2022 · 4 min · 807 words · Kimberly Snow

Fallen London's dating game spin-off has a demo now

Welcome, delicious friend You might brave all sorts of horrors in the supernatural Victorian setting ofFallen Londonand Sunless Sea, but dare you face the greatest horror of all: love? Failbetter Games this week released a demo forMask Of The Rose, a dating sim set in the same wonderful world. Available nowon Steam, the demo offers “a condensed version” of the first act. You’ll go a few places, meet a few people, and meet at least one alarming… well, I suppose they could be a person, as far as our character knows?...

February 11, 2022 · 2 min · 323 words · Ryan Dorsey

Final Fantasy VI's pixel remaster arrives on Steam on Feb 23rd

One of the most beloved Final Fantasy games I’ve written about a bunch ofFinal Fantasy’s pixel remasters over the past year, and each time there are people in the comments saying thatFinal Fantasy VIis the best, they can’t wait for Final Fantasy VI, why isn’t Final Fantasy VI being remastered yet… Well, here it comes. Final Fantasy VI is getting the pixel remaster treatment on February 23rd. All of the classic 2D Final Fantasy games were previously available on Steam, but only as ports of the mobile versions which did horrible things to the original game’s pixel art....

February 11, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Sean Simpson

How does Lost Ark actually compare to Diablo II?

The answer may not surprise you Whenever a game likeLost Arkcomes out, it shows the public is still hungry for something that looks and sounds and plays even a tiny bit likeDiablo. Lost Ark does provide what is the crudest part of the appeal of something like Diablo - i.e. a thousand chittering enemies flying at you at once as you vaporise them with minimal clicking - but I wouldn’t say it’s a lovingly crafted version of it....

February 11, 2022 · 7 min · 1488 words · Sara Montgomery

Lost Ark launches, servers immediately taken offline due to missing characters

Amazon now hope to launch “in a matter of hours” Update:Atweet on the Lost Ark Twitter accountsays that “all deployment issues have now been resolved” and that Lost Ark will launch at 2:15pm PT / 10:15pm GMT. This tweet was sentat2:15pm PT. Players were still experiencing issues with missing characters after downloading the new patch, however, and soservers have been taken offline"to get this resolved." Anearlier tweet from the Lost Ark accountsaid that as compensation for the delays they “will add 3 days of Crystalline Aura to all players who log in to the game between launch and 9 AM PT [5 PM UTC] on 2/13 as a small thank you....

February 11, 2022 · 2 min · 356 words · Doris Mills

Nerdle is Wordle for people who prefer numbers to letters

Guess the sum Wordleis a puzzle game in which your vocabulary and ability to spell allow you to drill towards the solution. It’s surprising how well the same design still works when the letters are replaced by numbers, and you’re instead relying on your ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide. That’s what you’re doing inNerdle, which is Wordle for maths fans. The same genre principles remain: you have six guesses to solve one puzzle per day....

February 11, 2022 · 2 min · 415 words · Matthew Scott

Path Of Exile: Eater of Worlds boss fight guide

Pondering the orbs Need a hand with the new Eater of Worlds boss fight in Path Of Exile?Siege of the Atlas has arrived and brings four new endgame bosses toPath Of Exile. Two of these are considered pinnacle bosses;The Searing Exarchand The Eater of Worlds. While the Exarch fight is fairly straightforward, The Eater of Worlds features some unique mechanics that can doom the unprepared. If you aren’t sure how to deal with the Eater’s beam phase, we’re here to help....

February 11, 2022 · 3 min · 529 words · Joseph Cooper

Path Of Exile: Infinite Hunger boss fight guide and arena mechanics

Just keep swimming Trying not to drown against the new Infinite Hunger boss in Path Of Exile?Siege Of The Atlas has arrived, and with it four new endgame bosses forPath Of Exileplayers to take on. One of the first you’ll fight is The Infinite Hunger, an all-consuming, fleshy mass of tentacles. The Infinite Hunger fight is mostly pretty straightforward, but one particular phase can doom you if you don’t know the arena mechanics....

February 11, 2022 · 3 min · 585 words · Latoya Davis

Path Of Exile: Searing Exarch boss fight guide

Avoid incineration with these tips and tricks Gearing up for The Searing Exarch in Path Of Exile?The Siege Of The Atlas expansion is here and introduces four new bosses toPath Of Exile’svast endgame. The Searing Exarch is one of two new “pinnacle” bosses, promising a big challenge and great rewards. This fight is visually impressive and can look daunting at a glance. However, The Searing Exarch is really the most straightforward of the new bosses....

February 11, 2022 · 4 min · 770 words · Christina Wood

Some Wordle players lost streaks or stats when it moved to the NYT

The newspaper say they’re working on a solution The smash-hit daily word puzzleWordlehas moved over to the website of the New York Times, who recentlybought it for seven figures, and the transition has been a bit bumpy. While the NYT version is supposed to import stats from the original site, some players have been unlucky. The NYT say they’re working to fix it. Their version is mostly the same but players have noticed a few changes, supposedly including a few words being removed....

February 11, 2022 · 3 min · 527 words · Christopher Martinez

There's a spiritual Mirror's Edge sequel awaiting in Dying Light 2

Gravity’s runbow Just for a second, as you hit the apex of a particularly audacious jump, the bottom end ofDying Light 2’s audio drops out. It’s as if bass were a grounded concept you’d momentarily left behind - an earthy comfort for mortals. Then the tumble begins, and you’d better have already picked out a nice, safe spot to land. This is the irresistible dichotomy of the parkour game, as first defined byMirror’s Edgein 2008 - an invitation to soar, with the understanding that true freedom doesn’t come for free....

February 11, 2022 · 5 min · 1035 words · Sarah Farmer