Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024

The award is a testament to the ongoing achievements of developer Team Asobi. The studio is known for the Astro Bot series, a franchise of games that has historically been used to demonstrate PlayStation tech. The free game Astro’s Playroom showed off the unique capabilities of the PlayStation 5, and...

The biggest game announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2024

An avalanche of new game announcements hit at The Game Awards 2024, ranging from the returns of classic franchises (Okami, Turok, Virtua Fighter) to the reveals of all-new worlds (Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic, something new from Fumito Ueda). For a rundown of everything announced at The Game Awards, including the big...

Dungeons & Dragons is too big for Amazon’s Secret Level anthology

Secret Level, Amazon’s new anthology series, is a visually stunning interpretation of iconic properties, twisting classic video games to reinterpret them into brief episodes — but the Dungeons & Dragons episode misses what makes the tabletop game great. It’s not the fault of the show as a whole, made by...

How to get spirit in Path of Exile 2

Spirit is a resource in Path of Exile 2 used to apply buffs and auras to your character, and summon minions.Spirit functions a little differently than your life and mana as, once spirit is used, it is taken away from the pool — similar to buffs reserving mana in Path...

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s fourth season will be its last

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s next update will also bring with it the game’s long-promised offline mode, though Rocksteady and publisher Warner Bros. say that “all online features will continue to be available” for the cooperative shooter.Season 4 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will launch on Dec....

Fortnite OG passes 1 million active players in 20 minutes flat

Fortnite OG, a new game mode that restores the Chapter 1 Season 1 version of Fortnite, already has a staggering number of players. Within 20 minutes of its release on Friday morning, the game mode garnered more than one million concurrent players on the regular build mode of Fortnite, and...

Skeleton Crew required ‘an army’ to get this one Star Wars-y touch right

Skeleton Crew is about a lot of things: A band of kids who discover a buried starship and get lost in space when they flukily hit hyperspace. It’s a view of the post-Empire, pre-sequel-trilogy Star Wars universe, far flung from the Skywalker Saga. But in its first episode it is,...