Diablo II turns 16 this week: Praise Baal runs

How many times do you think you’ve run it? On June 09, 2025,Diablo IIwas released in the US, starting its reign of dungeon crawling terror that is still played to this day. Yep, this week the iconic title is 16 years old. Diablo IIis the gift that keeps on giving. I remember playing it with my friends at launch, and by the time the expansion hit, it wasn’t even the same game....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Amanda White

DmC has camera eyeballs and off-screen anal play

In this scene, I play the part of an eager young schoolboy while Headmaster Holmes whispers words of invigorating encouragement softly into my ear, inviting me into a world beyond any I have ever known. Or I was playingDmC: Devil May Cryand Holmes was just cracking wise. One of the two. As I mentioned at the start of the video, I haven’t played aDevil May Crygame since the PS2 original, but from what I’ve experienced with this reboot, it’s the same frantic hack-and-slash action we all know and love....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Isaac Smith

EA FC 25: How to complete Ruben Dias Track Stars SBC

The Ruben Dias Track Stars SBC is now live inEA FC 25, and you may unlock a special card of the Portuguese defender in Ultimate Team. This is the first special card of Dias in this year’s Ultimate Team, and everyone has an equal chance of playing with the item. Let’s take a look at how you can complete the challenge for cheap and make the special card yours. EA FC 25 Ruben Dias Track Stars SBC tasks Here are the conditions of all seven tasks that are part of the Ruben Dias Track Stars SBC inEA FC 25....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · David Valdez

EA FC 25: How to complete Total Rush Challenge SBC

The Total Rush Challenge SBC is live inEA FC 25,and it’s a great way to recycle the fodder that you don’t need for getting a fresh pack. At the start of the year, you’ll want to open as many packs, and it’s get better if that can be done for free. The Total Rush Challenge SBC is themed around the first season, and let’s take a look at how you can complete the latest fodder challenge to unlock the available reward....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Laura Robles

Earn three free PS1 games in PlayStation Home

Decisions, decisions If you’re one of the unfortunate souls in North America to still havePlayStation Homeinstalled or don’t mind going through that process for a few free games, listen up —Twisted Metal,Demolition Derby, andWarhawkcan be all yours. Here’s how, as detailed byredditor DrunkenNinja: “To start the quest, go on to Home, go to PS4 Experience, and then go to the giant Vita in the center of the room and follow the prompts....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Amber Smith

Everything that happened at Ubisoft’s surprisingly not cringey E3 2017 press conference

Did you like it? What do you do when you need to inject your conference with more joy? Call Nintendo. Ubisoft led their show today withMario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and it kind of set the tone. From there we got more footage of known stuff likeAssassin’s Creed: OriginsandFar Cry 5, as well as good new reveals likeThe Crew 2, and a bombshell inBeyond Good and Evil 2. It wasn’t bad!...

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · Joshua Douglas

From babyz to groupiez: Ubisoft announces Imagine Rock Star for Nintendo DS

If anyone has watched VH1’sRock of Love— a show where Poison frontman Brett Michaels tries to pick a girlfriend from a gaggle of strippers and other assorted slutty adult industry-types — one thing is clear: you probably don’t want your 8-year-old girl anywhere near the rock star lifestyle. But to each his own, and Ubisoft has announced this June that they will be addingImagine Rock Starto their successfulImagineline of Nintendo DS games....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 499 words · Megan Lewis

FTC and Microsoft approaching impasse over Activision Blizzard purchase

No ‘substantive’ settlement talks between parties The ongoing battle between The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft over the latter’s proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard rages on — And, according to recent comments by the former, it looks like neither side has been willing to give up a single yard, leading toward a clear impasse. Speakingin a telephone hearingon Tuesday, FTC attorney James Weingarten noted that there has been no “substantive” settlement talks between the trade body and the publisher, suggesting that the two parties will have no option but to pursuethe FTC’s filed suitto legal trial, which is tentatively set for August of this year....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 321 words · Sandra Walters

Games Time Forgot: Apidya

Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our “Games Time Forgot” series. Shooters, whether they scroll horizontally, vertically, or both, seem to be one of those types of games that have long been stuck in a rut. They rarely step outside of the outer space setting, only then to be constricted inside of the attack plane/chopper scenario.Parodius, a series that is loved for its classic shmup gameplay wrapped up in nonsensical environments, andGradius, the standard shooter series that the former pays tribute to/mocks, are good examples of the two ends of the shooter spectrum....

June 28, 2025 · 4 min · 729 words · William Cannon

gamescom: Here’s Crysis 3’s new Hunter mode

Crytek and EA have finally shown off some multiplayer goodness forCrysis 3and it’s not just a regular old deathmatch mode. Hunter mode supports up to 16 players, with one team playing as CELL troopers, and the other play as a small team of cloaked Hunters. The Hunters have to take down all CELL troopers before time runs out, and each CELL soldier that gets killed respawns as a cloaked Hunter. Sounds a lot like the zombie mode inHalo, yeah?...

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Brian Watson

Genshin Impact is giving out free Primogems for a quick web OST tie-in

It’s not a multi-day game, just a click There’s aGenshin Impactfree Primogems promotiongoing on now, and it involves the release of the new Chasm OST. As a reminder,the Chasm is a recent area added to the gamein a past update, and now the soundtrack for it is ready to be unleashed out into the world. It’s also tied to a semi-convoluted promotion. You have to be logged in, listen to three of the five preview tracks in the web app from the OST, and share it....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Larry Garcia

Ghost Recon Online making its way onto Steam

Apparently this was Ubisoft’s plan all along Ubisoft’s announced thatGhost Recon Online, its online, free-to-play version of theGhost Reconfranchise, which I may or may not have completely forgotten about until just now, will be making its way onto Steam’s Early Access program — for those of you in Canada, it’s actually already available. According to Ubisoft’s Corey Facteau, bringingGhost Recon Onlineto Steam has been the team’s “…goal since the game’s inception” and that it was simply a matter of “…reach[ing]a quality level that can go head to head with the best online games available today before releasing on Steam....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Olivia Flores

Ghosts could be a pretty scary modern version of Night Trap

You can only play at night, too FMV games can already range from campy to outright scary, but what about one you’re able to only play at night? That’s the pitch behindGhosts, a new FMV adventure that just launchedits Kickstarter campaign. This live-action horror game from developer Visible Games and Limited Run Games takes place in real time, and the trick is, it’s meant to feel like it’s live. So essentially, you’ll only be able to boot up and playGhostswhen it’s 10 p....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Colleen Garcia