Fallout 76 isn't in a great place right now. The game is still suffering from major server instability, game breaking bugs and a number of item dupes that are trashing...
Fallout 76 Reserve Currency: Prepared for The Future
Caps have effectively very little value and eventually, they'll have no value at all. As players continue to accumulate this currency we should expect inflation to occur but a upper limit on the quantity that can be kept at any one time ensures that prices don't typically go beyond the...
Fallout 76 – The Lone Wanderer Finds A Friend
Depending on where you are in the world, you might currently be playing Fallout 76. If not, refresh this page in about 24 hours and apply the previous statement again. In Bethesda's first foray into multiplayer Fallout players have a chance to explore the post-apocalyptic West Virginia the way the wasteland was always meant to be experienced...
Diablo Immortal
The announcement of Diablo Immortal has people fired up in what many in the industry effectively refer to as a "shitstorm." The ten minute reveal gave players a glimpse into what direction Blizzard was taking the twenty year old franchise. I watched the stream live and you could feel the...
Next Generation’s Games
I've recently seen a number of videos of younger children, in the age range of eight to twelve, performing the "Fortnite Dance" in public spaces. They're not doing this in any small number either. We're talking about hundreds of kids gathered in a single place, dancing in a way that makes anyone not "in the know" scratch their heads...
Internet People
The internet is a scary place. Twenty years ago, everyone I played online games with wanted to murder me. The ones that didn't were planning on skinning me alive and adding it to their collection. A few of those people had seen Silence of the Lambs a few too many times and were just waiting for an unsuspecting youth to log into the internet so they could pull them through the monitor and force them to put the lotion in the basket.
Forge Onward
I began playing online games when I was thirteen years old. My very first MMORPG was a game called Dark Age of Camelot and it existed in a time when the genre was still new and trying to find their own way. I remember wandering past the verdant forest of some distant land, scattered with ruins and monsters. A dusty path twisted through the winding maze of...
The Political Battlefield of Games
In the past, I've been critical of political insertions into our video games and I feel I've done that with good reason. It's no secret that politics are entering the world of gaming and players are quick to call out the responsible parties for any perceived offense. Sadly, this makes it sound as if...
Cyberpunk 2077 – The Game of The Future?
During the recent Gamescom event, CD Projekt Red finally unveiled the gameplay demo for their upcoming RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. The pre-recorded and narrated gameplay demo shocked nearly everyone who saw it, myself included. “Now this, this is the future of gaming right here” I thought to myself as the neon lit scenes played out, accompanied by driving rock rhythms. I was...