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January 27, 2023

We’re Hating on Stadia: Google Turns a Blind Eye to Bandwidth Caps and U.S. Internet Infrastructure

This is the year 2019. We stream movies and TV shows in 4k, back up photographs to the cloud, take part in video conferences when we work from home, and live-stream video updates about our lives. Oh, and we play video games. We play them online with the help of clunky antiquated hardware—an Xbox, a ...

Stadia bandwidth

Reviews, Video Games

February 17, 2023

Fear and Loathing in Tamriel: Elder Scrolls Online Review

BETHESDA AND ZENIMAX PROVED THEIR ANTIPATHY TOWARD PLAYERS WITH ESO LONG BEFORE FALLOUT 76 FLOPPED. NOT RECOMMENDED

It’s hard to believe that many gamers today—especially console gamers—have never experienced a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. The labyrinthine systems and infinite grind at the core of The Elder Scrolls Online are familiar to anyone who cruised the pixelated forests of Everquest or World of Warcraft on a PC. These and other MMORPG arrangements—the ...

ESO Review

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 ...

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 ...

Ark Survival Evolved Review

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 ...

Xbox Elite & Scuf Impact Review
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