features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Flying in Anthem Sucks Comparing Flight in Anthem to Starlink Made Us Hate The One Good Thing About Anthem There’s a lot that sucks about Anthem, but we all love to fly in video games. Every Anthem player agrees that zooming around in your robo-suit is the best part of the game, which is why gamers everywhere were shocked to learn flight had been removed and reinstated several times over the course of the ...
Books, Reviews, Video Games February 3, 2023 Death by Video Game: Review Simon Parkin's 2015 Book Doesn't Deliver On Its Premise Browsing for books about video games on Amazon, I didn’t find many options. Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline was easily the most sensationalist title. Its description reads, “In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 How We Learned to Stop Searching for Couch Co-op Games and Love Gamesharing Splitscreen Is a Thing of the Past, but Gamesharing on Two Systems Can Be Even Better Console games used to be designed for friends and families to play together in their living rooms. Split-screen functionality, with as many as four players using the same screen, was a standard feature. XBox Live launched in 2002, and games haven’t been the same since. Online party joining and voice chat freed game developers from ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Fallout 76 and Fortnite: Save the World Made Me Swear Off Video Game Loot Comparing video game looting to real-life pursuit of items and objects makes it clear that some games are a bad fantasy There’s a simple reason many gamers refuse to loot. It takes you out of the action and into inertia. You open a barrel, for example, and it contains an axe. You closely examine it, and then compare it with your equipped axe. Yours is better. Unsatisfied, you open another barrel. You find a gem. Hurrah! ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Never Played Video Games Before? Here’s How to Start The beginner's guide to video games, from controller clumsiness to PVP If you’re like me and you didn’t play games as a child, picking up a controller can be a daunting experience. I could find the window defogging button on a rental car faster than the L1 button on a controller. The flashing colors and explosions of light on the screen were as inscrutable as a ...
blog, Video Games January 27, 2023 Five Things We Want For Borderlands 3 Borderlands 2 was the first co-op game we played together. Before we set up two Playstations and gamesharing, the Borderlands franchise offered a split-screen sanctuary to co-op gamers such as ourselves. We enjoyed Borderlands 2 so much that we played Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and paid for Playstation Now to play the original Borderlands. The original ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 We Tested the Scuf Impact and the XBox Elite Controllers for Playstation. Here’s What We Found. Scuf was less ergonomic, responsive, and durable than Microsoft's distinguished product As of this writing, the best tool for playing complex games is a keyboard and gaming mouse. Nothing responds as quickly, accurately, and ergonomically to the human hand as a computer’s setup. Anyone who has played a console game that uses all 12 controller inputs in addition to aiming and movement longs for something better ...