With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom officially less than a month away, now is the perfect time to finally finish playing Breath of the Wild. While you can certainly move on to the sequel without finishing the first title, wouldn't it feel good to reach the conclusion …
Read More »20 Details from the Best The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Trailer Yet
Nintendo finally shared the trailer Zelda fans have been waiting for: An extended look at Tears of the Kingdom that rivals Breath of the Wild's legendary release date trailer. This was our final glimpse of the highly-anticipated sequel before its launch next month, and Nintendo didn't hold back. From the …
Read More »Diablo 4 Battle Pass Will Take Around 80 Hours to Complete
Diablo 4 will have a seasonal model much like its predecessor, and it seems like there will be a lot of content for players to tackle. In an interview with PC Gamer, associate game director Joe Piepiora revealed the length fans can expect to complete each season's battle pass. "Right …
Read More »The RE4 Merchant Exemplifies Everything Great About the Game
The Resident Evil 4 merchant is one of the most absurd parts of a game that’s already jam-packed with completely ridiculous over-the-top stuff — but he also exemplifies everything that makes that game so great. This guy first pops up in a random window like a sock puppet and then …
Read More »The PS5 Is Finally Selling In Japan, But Is It Enough?
It finally happened: I saw a PlayStation 5 on the store shelves in Tokyo. In fact, now that the console is finally in more plentiful supply, PS5 hardware managed to cross the 3 million sales mark in Japan this month – accounting for just under 10% of the total 32 …
Read More »Not Every Journey Is the Same: Why Remakes and Remasters are Great for Gamers
Hey Unlocked listeners and readers, Stella Chung here again today to talk about how great games are! Specifically, I want to talk about how great remakes are in this current game market. I recently started playing Resident Evil 4 for the first time, thanks to the remake, and I posted …
Read More »Why Doesn’t IGN Review Everything X Times and Average the Scores?
“Two heads are better than one, so wouldn’t two reviews be better than one?” This is one of the more common questions posed about reviews on IGN and other similar sites: why not have two or more reviewers tackle every game, movie, TV show, and tech product, then average out …
Read More »The Great War: Western Front Review
There are around a million games about the Second World War for every one about the First, and The Great War: Western Front serves as a pretty good illustration of some of the reasons for that. The brutal, grinding, attritional conflict spanning from 1914 to 1918, as interesting as it …
Read More »Meet Your Maker Review
As someone who’s spent a good deal of time tending to The Entity’s beloved meat hooks in Dead By Daylight, I had high expectations about what developer Behaviour Interactive would work on next. And thankfully, they’ve delivered yet another fresh idea that I can’t stop thinking about with a unique …
Read More »Live Service Games Are Exhausting
MultiVersus is closing its doors – well, early access doors – on June 25, and there’s been a lot of discourse about this move by Warner Bros. Games and Player First Games. I think the general consensus is that everyone sort of forgot MultiVersus was an Early Access game as …
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