Author: Karen M. Menke

The creator of Marvel Rivals, NetEase, has apologized to angry players who were wrongfully banned for cheating. NetEase said in a Discord post that it had unintentionally labeled certain players who were participating in compatibility layer programs as cheaters, although they were not using cheating tools. Unfortunately, NetEase does not specify the number of bogus bans that came from this. “We want to reassure you that we do not and will not ban gamers that are playing legitimately and without cheating,” NetEase stated, expressing their genuine regret for the incident. A list of the impacted gamers has been created, and…

Tower Defense Simulator’s massive 1.46.0 upgrade, also known as the Frost Invasion update, is bringing Roblox gamers a slew of winter gifts, including a new battle pass, two new event towers, the Outpost 32 map, and much more. Patch notes for today’s update indicate that Frost Invasion could have lived up to the anticipation, which developer Paradoxum Games has been building for the past week. The event’s cold battle pass offers a ton of gifts for both free and premium players. Some highlights include a Frost Legion Mercenary Base, the Dark Frost Electroshock, and a Double Chunk Chocolate Cookie emote…

Finally, the dreaded and feared Skibidi Toilet has made an appearance in Fortnite. Last night, the game’s expected update was formally released, and the Fortnite community has responded to it with skepticism, uncertainty, and excitement thus far. Let us start by discussing the crossover itself. The official Fortnite X account confirmed the existence of a toilet, plunger, and camera emoji in succession, along with the date: December 18, 2024, after we first learned about it earlier this week from leakers. Plunger pickaxes, a Plungerhead character skin, and two backpacks—one that matches the Plungerhead outfit and the other that is the…

Developer Netmarble has revealed that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a narrative-driven action-adventure role-playing game, will launch on mobile devices in 2025. Last night, during The Game Awards 2024 event, a trailer for the game—previously known only as Game of Thrones MMORPG—was unveiled. It depicts the player character encountering notable figures from the HBO series, including Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister. Dropping the previous MMO (massively multiplayer online) messaging, Netmarble stated, “Faithfully crafted under official license from HBO and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is a blockbuster story-driven action-adventure RPG that invites players to step into the immersive…

Developer Netmarble has revealed that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a narrative-driven action-adventure role-playing game, will launch on mobile devices in 2025. During The Game Awards 2024 event last night, a trailer for the game—previously known only as Game of Thrones MMORPG—was unveiled. It depicts the player character encountering notable figures from the HBO series, including Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister. Dropping the previous MMO (massively multiplayer online) messaging, Netmarble stated, “Faithfully crafted under official license from HBO and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is a blockbuster story-driven action-adventure RPG that invites players to step into the immersive…

The term “first-person shooter” is ambiguous. It can refer to anything from a sci-fi adventure like Metroid Prime to an action-horror game like F.E.A.R. to a demon-eviscerating frolic like Doom. Even reducing it to a subcategory like “military FPS” lumps in the white-knuckle extractions of Escape from Tarkov, the massive PvP battles of Battlefield, and the linear narrative of Call of Duty, among other games. With a separate extraction shooter mode and a dedicated large-scale PvP mode, Delta Force, the most recent resuscitation of a now 26-year-old shooter series last seen in 2009, may best described as a combination of…

Certain things are meant to be. Chocolate and peanut butter. Popcorn and movie theaters. Failure and the Cleveland Browns. Power Rangers and a beat-’em-up from the mid-1990s should, by all rights, be included on that list as well. It just appears to be something that a higher power willed into being, written in the book that dictates cosmic history. However, it never took place. Indeed, there were a few mediocre SNES/Genesis sidescrollers, but they were constrained by their home hardware, just like most console beat ’em-ups at the time. We never had a real, magnificent arcade cabinet that could accommodate…

The free-to-play strategy role-playing game Girls Frontline 2: Exilium, which was just released for PC and mobile devices, marks the return of the Girls Frontline franchise. Building on the foundation created by its predecessor, it adds a fresh cast of characters and completely 3D maps. This is a follow-up to the 2018 free-to-play mobile game Girls Frontline, in case you are unfamiliar with the franchise. It presented a future planet ravaged by conflict, where a large portion of humanity has perished and they now depend on androids known as Tactical Dolls, sometimes referred to as T-Dolls or Dolls, to fight…

I knew I would soon be opening an Excel spreadsheet and bidding farewell to all of my loved ones for the foreseeable future after just one hour of playing the early access edition of Path of Exile 2. With a sequel to one of my all-time favorite action role-playing games, which has already taken up a significant portion of my life since its release ten years ago, the callous madmen at Grinding Gears Games have dragged me back in just when I thought I was done. Even though it has many of the typical “early access jank” restrictions and has…

I have had my VHS copy of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade worn out for more than 30 years. The movie franchise has been in a state of escalation ever since. After discovering the actual Holy Grail, where do you go? Time machines, then aliens, presumably. The ideal remedy for all of this is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which transports us back to Indy’s heyday through its own symbolic Dial of Destiny. With meticulously detailed environments, incredibly atmospheric tomb raiding and puzzle solving, a flawless soundtrack, and perhaps the best punch sound effect in the industry, the…