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When I Stopped Playing Mission Stories In Hitman, I Discovered What A Great Stealth Game It Is
I spent about 35 hours in Hitman World of Assassination this past weekend—interrupted mostly by the non-optional need to sleep and occasional concerns over the health of my GPU running for so long in a non-air conditioned apartment room in New York City in the summer. But I was determined to find out if the…
25 Assassin’s Creed Shadows Tips To Check Out Before Playing
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out now, is a very good entry in Ubisoft’s long-running franchise. But it’s also a big, complicated game with a lot of different mechanics, systems, features, and options. And Shadows doesn’t always do a great job of explaining how all of this stuff works. The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond…
14 Things To Know Before You Start Playing Monster Hunter Wilds
Monster Hunter Wilds is the most streamlined game in Capcom’s long-running action-RPG series. Worried that juggling menus and harvesting laundry lists of arcane animal parts sounds too overwhelming and boring? Fear not! Monster Hunter Wilds lets you (mostly) make the experience as simple or as complicated as you want. Dive in deep and get your…
15 Things To Know Before You Start Playing Avowed
Avowed, the newest RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is out now on Xbox and PC, and it’s very good! But before you hop into this next big Game Pass RPG, here are 14 tips and tricks to keep in mind. And don’t worry, there are no spoilers below. This Narrative Adventure About Doomed Teenage Dinosaurs Feels…
When Toronto Sceptres goalie Carly Jackson isn’t stopping pucks, they’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3
It was a big deal when Electronic Arts added the Professional Women’s Hockey League to NHL 25. Though the game launched without the newly formed women’s hockey league, EA added the league and its players to NHL 25 in November 2024, coinciding with the start of the PWHL’s second season. Though women’s teams have been…
There’s A VR Game All The Kids Are Playing, And They’re Convinced It’s Haunted
There is a game that you’ve likely never heard of, yet it’s by far one of the most popular VR games ever made. What is ostensibly a simple game of multiplayer tag for pre-adolescent children is also, I have recently discovered, a wild hotbed of ludicrous in-universe conspiracies fuelling a genuine belief among its players…