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Fanatical's latest build-your-own bundle deal is live, with a smattering of science fiction worlds for you to explore and, for at least a few of them, shoot your way through. The more PC games you grab from the April 2024 edition of the Diamond Collection Build Your Own Bundle, the …

The second week of Destiny 2's Into the Light brings more fan-favorite weapons back to the game--including The Mountaintop, a breech-loading grenade launcher that dominated the Crucible for years after its release. While the new version of The Mountaintop isn't quite the force of terror the original was, it's still …

A new build-your-own-bundle deal is live on Fanatical, giving you the opportunity to snag as many as 10 games for as low as $0.50 each. The Build Your Own Wonder Bundle is led off by Oddworld: Soulstorm, with a selection that runs the gamut from zombie-fight tower defense to Metal …

Capturing what makes the Fallout series endearing as a TV show is a tall order. So much of the experience relies on the sense of discovery that comes from wandering the Wasteland. You may enter a subway tunnel on a whim and encounter a city made up of people who …

With Destiny 2: Into the Light, Bungie has brought back a number of fan-favorites, including 12 weapons and two of its best Exotic missions. The new content drop also brings back Superblack, one of the best shaders in the original Destiny. It was the only shader in the game that …

For the entirety of Destiny 2's life, players have had to tough out an annoying but pervasive problem: the HUD, or heads-up display. A limitation on the way Destiny 2 uses its screen real estate meant it could only show you four messages about buffs or debuffs at a time, …

Destiny 2's free Into the Light content drop is now live, and with it comes a new version of The Recluse, one of the best submachine guns the game has ever seen. Formerly a tough gun to earn that required finishing a lengthy player-vs.-player quest, The Recluse was among several …

Capturing what makes the Fallout series endearing as a TV show is a tall order. So much of the experience relies on the sense of discovery that comes from wandering the Wasteland. You may enter a subway tunnel on a whim and encounter a city made up of people who …

More than two years after its release, Elden Ring fans will finally be returning to the Lands Between later this year. Shadow of the Erdtree is a massive expansion for From Software's open-world fantasy-RPG and is set to take place in a whole new area. It also looks to expand …

Maybe the most impactful thing about returning to the world of Final Fantasy VII for me has been how much its ideas resonate in 2024--many of them even more than they did in 1997. The environmental themes and plotline of FF7 might be exceedingly blunt, but they're also continually relevant …

Destiny 2's player-vs.-player mode is getting a pretty significant refresh with the release of Into the Light, the game's free upcoming content drop, in the form of three new multiplayer maps. The new maps take place in some of the more recently added areas of the Destiny 2 universe. There's …

Destiny 2's upcoming Into the Light free content drop is getting another new activity for players to take on with their teams: a boss-rush mode called Pantheon. Bungie revealed a few details about the new mode, along with information about returning Exotic missions, during its final livestream detailing what to …

It's April Fools' Day, so of course a new store listing has appeared for the long-awaited but still ephemeral Hollow Knight: Silksong. The timing of the listing further solidifies the feeling that the game is never coming out and is actually just a cruel hoax perpetrated against all those who …

Discord will soon start incorporating ads into its free in-game chat and streaming software, despite the fact the company has long said it didn't want to rely on ads for revenue like other social media companies. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Discord is looking to integrate …

Bungie is bringing a host of fan-favorite guns back to Destiny 2 with its upcoming Into the Light free content release, updating some of the most fun and most lethal weapons to ever appear in the game with new perks and capabilities. The developer dropped a load of new details …

The collector's edition for The Final Shape, the next Destiny 2 expansion and the last in its current "Light and Darkness Saga" story arc, is more a celebration of the last 10 years of Destiny 2 than it is the upcoming new content. With the story reaching its conclusion, the …

If someone tells me a game takes several hours to "get good," my immediate feeling is that I will never play that game. Who has hours to waste waiting for the good part of anything when there are so many other games to play? But my opinion of Rise of …

Though it has a somewhat steep combat learning curve and some dated open-world ideas, Rise of the Ronin does a great job of rewarding your time in its world.

Note: This article contains major spoilers for Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. We recommend you finish Rebirth before reading further. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a haunted game. It's nearly impossible to have any awareness of the popular culture surrounding video games and …

On February 27, Sony announced it would lay off 900 people across its worldwide games business, affecting several games studios. Among them were Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games, both of which had just released big, noteworthy titles--Marvel's Spider-Man 2 launched in October to audience and critical acclaim, while The Last …

Content warning: This review includes discussion of, and 3 Body Problem includes depictions of, self-harm. Adapting Liu Cixin's science-fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, is no small feat. The sweeping story leaps across timelines and bounces between the perspectives of a number of characters. All that goes to convey big ideas …

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Just like in the original Final Fantasy VII that released in 1997, a big scene in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth gives you the chance to join one of the members of your …

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening means to put you on the sands of Arrakis, fighting to keep your water in your body--fending off both the harsh arid climate and the weapons of other players in some of its PvP gameplay. Developer Funcom is including a whole bunch of different weapons and …

Keeping yourself alive is a major part of Dune: Awakening, Funcom's upcoming survival MMO, but once you've got your water discipline under control and you're walking without rhythm to avoid sandworms, there's a mess of other sandbox elements to think about. One of those is combat, because while Arrakis is …

In the story Dune, Arrakis is the most dangerous planet in the universe. It’s a vast desert world where the scorching sun’s intense heat is a major hazard. Water is nearly impossible to find, and dehydration will claim an unprotected person in a matter of hours. More frightening, though, are …

Dune: Awakening puts a major focus on surviving on the extremely hostile desert planet Arrakis from the Dune movies and books, but that's not the only thing you'll have to survive. In addition to fighting other players, you'll also have the opportunity engage in the kinds of political machinations that …

Ask someone what Helldivers 2 is and what it's like, and there's one constant touchstone in every description: Starship Troopers. Spending a few seconds with the game makes it easy to see why the 1997 film is invoked so often, as your early experience of playing as a high-tech human …

This first line also sets the stage for the DLC with a description of Miquella: “Pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying." Lore and descriptions about Miquella describe him as being able to compel the love of other people, …

Ever wish you could experience San Diego Comic-Con International, but with 2,000 other people on a giant floating resort on the high seas? Well, there's good news for you, then: 2025 will see the first-ever Comic-Con Cruise, which aims to bring the experience of seeing a ton of cosplay, attending …

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2024, having released in February 1989. Whenever I watch time-travel movies, I find myself yelling at the screen a lot. You know how people shout at horror movie characters when they inexplicably head into the dark basement or wander …