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Leap from you steed and rain down icy shards Every class inDiablo 4has its own unique mount skill that you automatically unlock upon receiving your mount. All of these skills dismount you from your steed while also inflicting Area of Effect damage to nearby enemies. Originally, Freezing Wake was a pretty poor mount skill compared to the other classes. But withDiablo 4patch 1.03, Freezing Wake has been a bit reworked and therefore buffed....

Last week‘s debate offered tons of options and the votes piled in by the hundreds. Given the freedom to vote foranygame series as your favorite of all time, here were the top leaders out of the59 different seriesthat received votes: I hope you survived last week’s daunting debate, because as promised, this week’s debate will be just as huge and exhausting. Out of thehundreds of games released last year in 2009, which was your favorite?...

I really want to get my hands on anOculus Rift headsetas soon as possible; all this talk about accurate and non-vomit-inducing head tracking is leaving me really intrigued. Modder Nathan Andrews has jumped the gun and tweaked the Source Engine to support his own VR tracking mod. Nathan’s mod allows weapon and head tracking, as you can see in the video, with some homebrew hardware similar to the early Oculus Rift prototype....

You’re ready, I’m ready, we’re all ready The screenshotswere a nice start, but this is aSoulsgame we’re talking about here; one cannot have enough information to go on leading up to release, and even years after.IGN has the gameplay revealofDark Souls IIfeaturing From Software director Yui Tanimura and Namco Bandai global producer Tak Miyazoe. You will want to watch this. Besides the satisfying combat, the main draw for me has always been the detail-rich environments and their ability to tell a story organically....

Bethesda Game Studios’Starfieldis here at last, and that means there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of players all acquainting themselves with the game at once. The thing aboutStarfield, though, is that it doesn’t really hold the players’ hands all that much, and some of its key features are, in fact, locked behind perks and skill unlocks. The Boost Pack gadget, in particular, is one of these key features, and it’s strangely easy to miss it entirely while acclimatizing to the game’s many,manysystems....

It’s a surprising thing to posta ranting videoone morning and then find your inbox flooded with emails (in this case, six emails constitutes a “flood”) a few hours later. It’s even more surprising to find that several of those emails link to avideo rebuttalof your aforementioned rant. It isstillmore surprising when one realizes that the rebuttal in question was made by David Jaffe, the man behindTwisted Metal, God of War, andCalling All Cars!...

Coming September, actually looks nice I don’t likeDestiny, but this PS4 bundle for thesomewhat controversialThe Taken Kingexpansion looks alright as far as skinned consoles go. Plus, white. Wish my PS4 was white. I wouldn’t always lose the controller in my black entertainment center or on my black coffee table (I don’t see well). Aside from the 500gb PS4, the bundle includes, “a physical copy ofDestiny: The Taken King Legendary Edition, which includesDestiny, Expansions I and II, andThe Taken King....

Catching up with everyone else PC fans have been enjoying the pre-load privilege for years, but Sony and Microsoft have caught up in the past year, offering it for the PS4 and Xbox One platforms. Now Nintendo is working on updating its infrastructure with the feature, starting withSuper Smash Bros. Wii U. If you pre-order the game digitally, you’re able to download it beforehand so that when the actual midnight launch hits, it’s playable....

This was the only reasonable possibility Conor McGregor, the man who is guaranteed to sell the most copies ofEA Sports UFC 3, is the cover athlete forEA Sports UFC 3. McGregor’s highly marketable, with a wit as quick as his footwork. He’s a walking soundbite who is also very good at hitting people in the face. Earlier this week,I lobbied for Joanna Jedrzejczykto grace the cover ofEA Sports UFC 3. Many commenters (rightly) countered that Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson also deserves it....

Also, Orcs Must Die Unchained probably isn’t being revived anytime soon DidOrcs Must Die 3pass you by? Look, I get it. July 2020 was a busy and tumultuous month, and you may not have checked out Stadia yet. But even if you have no interest in Google’s platform,Orcs Must Die 3is coming to other platforms eventually(Steam is the only one that’s 100% confirmed), and it’s pretty good. Following the launch of the game’s first DLC pack, I got a chance to sit down with Patrick Hudson (CEO of Robot Entertainment) to see what the future might bring....

‘Tis the season for morePicross Jupiter is back to bring some more Picross action to the Switch.Picross S8has been announced for the Nintendo Switch, arriving on September 29 with a cool feature: four-player co-op. InPicross S8, up to four players will be able to co-op solve Picross puzzles on a single Switch. Each player will need their own controller, but you can use single Joy-Cons for each person if you’d like....

Cloud service coming in ‘early 2020’ What if there was one cloud-based service to bridge all of yourPokémongames together? There is–well, there’s going to be!–and it’s called Pokémon Home. It’s planned for iOS, Android, and Switch in 2020 with support for not only the existing Pokémon Bank on 3DS but alsoPokmon Go,Pokémon: Let’s Go, EeveeandPikachu, and this year’s upcoming Nintendo Switch titlesPokémon SwordandShield. Welcome home, Trainers. Introducing Pokémon HOME, a cloud service that will work with Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android devices, allowing you to bring over the Pokémon that you’ve shared adventures with throughout your journey....

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Just recently Sony announced the PS4 edition ofRise of the Tomb Raider, which will launch on October 11, nearly one year after it hit the Xbox One. Not only is it a GOTY package of sorts, but it’ll also sport a special VR mission in Croft manor. But it also comes with another bonus. If you pre-orderRiseon the PSN, you’ll net its predecessor,Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. Point blank if you don’t want all the physical stuff in the above release, it’s not a terrible idea to go with this, sinceDefinitiveusually runs $20 physically and $30 digitally....