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 ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Fortnite: Save the World Review Seamlessly creative and collaborative group play paired with astonishingly adaptable skill, build, and loot systems make for an addictive game. Highly Recommended Fortnite: Save the World is the PvE component of the cultural phenomenon known as Fortnite. As adults in our 30s, jaded and out of the loop, we wanted nothing to do with a game beloved by children and millennials. We’re all familiar with (and sick of hearing about) Fortnite’s slick building interface, addictive pickaxe-looting playstyle, ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker Review Sexy, Sophisticated Combat Can't Compensate for Punishing Game Systems and a Dearth of PVE Content. Slightly Recommended In Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, teams of four fight to the death or in missions involving the manga’s villains, heroes, and lovable tailed beasts. Ninjas jump and dodge through the air across sandy cliffs and cloud-drenched towers. They unleash fireballs, lightning attacks, and devastating special ninjutsu skills in conjunction with triangle-square weapon combos. The game ...
blog, Video Games January 27, 2023 Inside the Azurite Mine in Path of Exile Path of Exile was released for PS4 on March 26th, and we’ve been enjoying it for the last month. We can’t resist a game crawling with mobs and flashing with glorious seizure-inducing skill animations. It’s hard to believe Path of Exile is free to play—we would gladly have paid $40 for a game of this ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 ARK: Survival Evolved Review Poor menu design, shoddy combat, and a bizarre character progression concept add up to miserable gameplay. Not Recommended ARK: Survival Evolved is an open-world sandbox survival game that can be played solo, privately with friends, or on public dedicated servers. It has an enormous die-hard fan base who have sunk thousands of hours into the game on every platform available. When a game has an army of supporters that outnumbers the North Korean ...
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 ...