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Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Was The Best Multiplayer Mode Ever, Or Maybe I Just Think That Because It’S The Only One I Was Ever Good At
It sucks when you love a multiplayer game that no one else ever wants to play. As a kid I loved the card game War, but no one would ever play it with me, probably because it's a ge...
Sega Takes A Moment Of Their Valuable Time To Remind Everyone That Sonic The Hedgehog Is Canonically A Homeless Drifter
Turns out that Sonic the Hedgehog is canonically a homeless drifter and always has been. I did not know this. I doubt you knew this? I mean I figured he just went somewhere. Hedgeh...
How Adding A Playable Dragon Race To World Of Warcraft Brought A 10-Year-Old Loot System To Its Knees
This story was originally published on the Hobby Drama subreddit. We commissioned the author to republish it here with minor edits. “Unto you is charged the great task of keeping ...
Overwatch: Classic Has Me Reckoning With The Fact That Og Overwatch Kind Of Sucks, But Also That Blizzard Could Learn A Few Lessons From It
Maybe Overwatch was bad. Maybe 2016 was a fluke and Blizzard's hero shooter wasn't worth spending the next eight years of my life sinking somewhere around 3,000 hours into it. Gett...
20 Years After Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3 Remains The Stuff Of Occult Whisperings: Here’S Every Rumor We’Ve Heard About The Sequel That May Or May Not Exist
It's now been 20 years since Valve changed the world with Half-Life 2, one of the most famous shooters of all time and, two decades later, possibly the most infamous videogame clif...
From Extensive Lore-Friendly Research To Diabolical Wordplay: All The Different Ways We Name Our Beloved Videogame Characters
Naming your protagonist in a videogame is a sacred ritual, one which can be performed in many different ways. There's the classic lore-friendly route which—if you're like me—invo...
Will These Pc Games Ever Come To Steam? We Predict The Chances Of Wow, Minecraft, And More
To paraphrase our own website: 'They all come crawlin' back to Steam.' Despite attempts to strike out alone with their own storefronts, we've watched publisher after publisher conc...
Riot Has Been Slowly Chipping Away At Build Creativity In League Of Legends, All In The Name Of Balance, But There Are Better Solutions
If you're a League of Legends veteran, you probably remember the times when Attack Damage Lulu, Ability Power Master Yi, Ability Power Warwick, and tank Diana wreaked havoc on the ...
‘We Are Dirt Cheap’: Arcane’S Showrunners Say The ‘Most Expensive’ Animated Series Ever Produced Isn’T That Expensive, If You Think About It
Arcane's second season is out and, having watched the first trio of episodes, looks to be shaping up well—both in terms of its visuals and, well, some disproportionately hype stor...
Lego Horizon Adventures Review
I’m not really sure what Sony or Guerilla saw in the crossover potential of Lego Horizon Adventures. Lego and PlayStation's post-apocalyptic dino-hunting series don’t seem opposi...
