So far, it’s pretty fun Stop me if you’ve done this before: you’re playing your favorite card (or otherwise rank-based game), hit up your standard few matches for rewards, keep your ranking stable, then log off. It’s a problem for both the publisher and the player, as the former wants to keep you logged in as long as possible, and the latter often just wants more stuff to do in a game they love to play....

Says specialization makes it hard to see the whole picture Hideo Kojima spoke about game development now versus when he was starting out in aninterview with Toyo Keizai. He started off by saying he is grateful to Konami for letting him make the things he wanted to make. Whenever he would pitch a plan, including the budget, they would tell him it’s OK. On the other hand, excluding when he was new to the company he was never commanded to do specific things....

The A Fine Vintage challenge was added toHitman World of Assassinationwith the game’s summer 2024 roadmap that kicked off withThe Disruptor Elusive Target. It tasks you with pulling off a pretty difficult run in the game’s Mendoza location for a fairly powerful reward. To complete the A Fine Vintage challenge inHitman WoA, you must kill the two targets in Mendoza, Don Archibald Yates and Tamara Vidal, using a fiber wire melee weapon....

Weight capacities are among the most infuriating aspects of gaming, even if they do add a sense of realism.Dragon’s Dogma 2is no different, where high volumes of storage could leave your character crawling on the ground. So, to get you back on your feet, here’s how to increase weight capacity inDragon’s Dogma 2. Increasing weight capacity in Dragon’s Dogma 2, explained Players can take a load off inDragon’s Dogma 2using theGolden Trove Beetle....

Hasbro’s Allspark Animation is handling development Well this is a pretty interesting development to randomly happen on a Monday. Confirmed to Destructoid, Netflix has announced, in conjunction with Hasbro (who owns Wizards of the Coast) and their Allspark Animation studio, that they’re teaming up with Joe and Anthony Russo (ofArrested Developmentand Marvel fame) to create an animatedMagic: The Gatheringseries “for the first time in the franchise’s 25-year history.” It’ll feature an “all new storyline,” that will focus on the Planeswalkers; powerful beings in theMagicuniverse that can traverse worlds and serve as some of the most impactful cards in the game....

Monopoly GOoffers dozens of ways to get dice, from recurring events and tournaments to various premium shop items andfree dice links. One of many options you can use is the Piggy Bank, a premium feature that gives you hundreds, potentially thousands, of dice for a cost. How does the Piggy Bank work in Monopoly GO? Monopoly GO’sPiggy Bank is a limited-time special offer that allows you to get dice in exchange for real money....

Remember when Cryptic and Perfect World told you abouttheir upcoming “Season 6” update toStar Trek Online? No? Well, it’s up now, they’ve got a trailer to tell you all about it. In case you may’t load it, the update’s pretty big, and its party piece is the ability for player fleets (guilds) to build their very own starbase, an upgradeable space station that provides services and that warm feeling you get from having your very own home…in space!...

Feelin’ Foxy Publisher PQube has confirmed that thePS4 and Xbox One portsof cutesy platformerNew Super Lucky’s Talewill be launching this summer, following on from its previous release on Nintendo Switch. Playful Studios’ cheerful platforming romp is a revamped edition of the originalSuper Lucky’s Tale, which ironically first launched on PS4 and Xbox back in 2017. The plucky adventure mixes up 2D and 3D platforming gameplay, as young fox siblings Lucky and Lyra sally forth on a quest to rescue the stolen Book of Ages from cat sorcerer Jinx....

Nintendo raked it in over the four-day sales frenzy Now that the dust has settled from the madcap spending spree that is the Thanksgiving holidays, reports are coming through of the products that shifted from shelves over the course of the Black Friday to Cyber Monday warzone. It appears that Nintendo have reason to give thanks indeed. According to Adobe Analytics, not only wasLet’s Go Pokemon! PikachuandEeveethe fourth highest selling product of Black Friday (just beating out averyimpressive showing from Sony’sGod of War), but the Nintendo Switchwas the third highest-selling product of the following Cyber Monday....

If you’ve pre-orderedLeft 4 Dead 2from GameStop or via Steam, you probably already know — thedemo for the gameis available now. But if you haven’t, or for some reason haven’t gotten your Xbox 360 demo code (raise hell with GameStop corporate!), then these videos are you. The demo shows off the first two levels of one of the game’s five campaigns, “The Parish.” After getting dropped off by a ferry boat, the four survivors fight their way through a small town, then a zombie-infested park, and then through a bus station to reach the safehouse which ends this short demo....

And I’ll never skip the rooftop cutscene TheResident Evil 3remake has drawn criticism for being too short – for not making full use of its 1999 source material – and I get it. Especially through the lens of last year’s brilliantResident Evil 2revival, the gameisn’t quite what some of us had built up in our mindsover the past several months. It’s not a beat-for-beat remake. The scope isn’t as ambitious. The pack-in –a lackluster asymmetrical multiplayer game– isn’t what many fans asked for....

Tales of loss, and fire, and faith The critically acclaimed MMORPGFinal Fantasy XIV. Maybe you’ve heard of it? It’s a massive undertaking, stretching across years and expansions, containing huge comeback stories and legions of followers. It was around this time last year that Ifirst wroteaboutFinal Fantasy XIV. Friends had tried to put me on to it for ages, and I even made a character once before promptly quitting out after seeing all clutter on-screen....

Coming via $5 DLC due out next month At PAX East, Gearbox Software announced that a level cap increase isindeed on the wayforBorderlands 2, but it’s not going to be free for all. The cap will be bumped up to 61 in a newUltimate Vault Hunters PackDLC arriving on April 2 for $5. For Season Pass owners, it’s free. “We didn’t just change the numbers. We want that level cap increase to work with all of the content,” said CEO Randy Pitchford....