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There are certain video game franchises that excel at delivering sheer spectacle. In that regard, Dynasty Warriors: Origins (out Jan. 17) is unwavering from beginning to end. Twenty five years after the release of Dynasty Warriors 2, the entry that set the blueprint that the series currently follows, Origins takes …

Elon Musk has long sought to augment his Silicon Valley celebrity with gamer cred, professing both skill and passion for a medium favored by tech geeks. A couple of years ago, he went so far as to explain why strategy video games are superior to chess. Yet his latest attempts …

The video game industry is in the middle of a crisis. Budgets for big releases are ballooning out of control with games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020) costing up to $700 million to produce. The developer workforce has also been ravaged, with dozens of studios closing, …

For most mere mortals, beating Super Mario 64 takes around 12 hours. Unless you happen to be Twitch streamer Cole “GreenSuigi.” In that same time frame, the 19-year-old player could easily clear the game a dozen times or more, in a handful of different ways. Actually, with half a day …

Since launching on Dec. 6, Marvel Rivals has quickly become one of the most popular games online. The 6v6 competitive hero shooter that pits players against each other using a variety of Marvel characters has drawn heavy comparisons to Overwatch, although its current popularity dwarfs that of Blizzard’s game with …

Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of limp, blonde hair. Positioned around the edge are a hundred bodies, Orcs and Trolls and …

The multiverse is everywhere, from the unstoppable Marvel machine to Oscar-winning films like Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — and even dozens of fan theories about My Little Pony. Every single facet of entertainment has started toying with universe-hopping storytelling, and yes, that includes video games. This year alone, …

In a year filled with massive open world RPGs and AAA live service games with ambitious season passes, it’s incredible that the title that truly captured the hearts (and free time) of players in 2024 was actually just a silly little poker riff called Balatro. Produced by a single anonymous …

PlayerUnknown‘s Battlegrounds, best known as PUBG, continues to harness hundreds of thousands of players since its 2017 release. The battle royale sold 40 million copies in its first year, and reached over 3 million concurrent players on PC via Steam in 2018 — a record that still stands to this …

There’s an increasing trend of remedial media literacy among modern audiences. People miss obvious narrative moments and thematic elements, only really engaging with media on a base level, perhaps due to sheer amount of content they’re ingesting every single day. This most recently became clear with the release of Life …