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Remnant: From the Ashes is packed with hidden weapons and armor. You can find many of them by searching through your surroundings and smashing every crate and bookshelf that gets in your way. But some require you to solve actual puzzles.
Gaming Trend editor Bryan Lawver recently had three hours of hands-on time with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. You can learn the most exciting things he found out and see 20 minutes of exclusive gameplay footage above.
Overwatch was once praised for the diversity of its characters, but the longer the game goes on, the more its problems with representation appear. With the introduction of the game's latest hero, Sigma, Blizzard seems to be putting its worst foot forward, adding a character that does nothing to expand the diversity of the cast while playing on harmful tropes about mental illness.
Following harassment from players over Wolfenstein: Youngblood 's microtransactions, Mitja Roskaric, one of the game's lead level designers, has deleted his Twitter account. The move came just a few days after Roskaric was forced to lock his profile to try to escape his harassers, but evidently felt that even that wasn't enough to protect him from their vitriol.
the latest in the annual basketball franchise from publisher 2K, came out late last week and it's already getting review bombed by users on Steam and Metacritic. That makes it the third year in a row that the series' latest entry has received overwhelmingly negative user scores, with NBA 2K17 being the last release to get even a marginal rating.
I always feel some amount of fear when I start playing a game that I'm looking forward to from a fledgling developer.
Even if you haven't played Dark Souls, you know about Dark Souls. You probably know that it's near-universally acclaimed as one of the greatest games of all time.
If you're someone who thinks modern games suffer from holding the player's hand too much, Pathfinder: Kingmaker may be the game for you. With its brutal difficulty spikes and labyrinthine rules, Kingmaker is more likely to chop off an extended hand than hold it. Based on the notoriously complex Path
Starting Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner feels like tuning in halfway through a mid-season episode of an anime series you've never heard of at 3 o'clock in the morning.
The year is 1976. Rookie Noomi Kovacs is gathering intel that may lead her to a kidnapped scientist being forced to work on a world-changing technology. Somewhere in the distance, a twangy guitar plays out a Bond-esque tune. Noomi shuffles through a dossier on her contact, expertly using its content