Gaming YouTubers have had their likenesses stolen and sold as NFTs

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  659 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Gaming YouTubers have had their likenesses stolen and turned into NFTs. The NFTs cropped up on auction site OpenSea, including an image of the content creator and a unique URL for the cards that's merely the YouTube channel address. The user StakeTheWeb appears to be making NFTs of influencers across social media, including gaming YouTubers James Stephanie Sterling and Caddicarus who tweeted their disapproval. "Shilling off a profile picture for a collection you can just make yourself on a Facebook photo album is honestly a new level of pathetic," [Read More]

Monster Hunter World's Insect Glaive: Best Insect Glaive build explained and how Kinsects work

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1556 words  |  Patria Henriques

Monster Hunter World Insect Glaives are a unique weapon for those who want to be agile in combat and have a variety of Kinsect buffs at their disposal. It is one of many Monster Hunter World weapon types available from the start of the game, and on this page we explain the very fundamentals of how it works, through to the best Insect Glaive build you can have at your disposal. [Read More]

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 adds more modes and characters today

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  248 words  |  Patria Henriques

Puyo Puyo Tetris will get a further round of additions today in a new update. Four new characters (Serilly, Rafisol, Strange Klug and Yu & Rei) will be included, alongisde three new songs and colour blind settings. Multiplayer also gets some new challenge rules to play around with, including Endless Fever, Endless Puyo, Tiny Puyo, Sprint, Marathon and Ultra. Here's a look at the update in action: Last month, Sega brought Sonic the Hedgehog to the game for the first time, along with another set of new modes, music and items. [Read More]

Resident Evil 4 remake reportedly inspired by original, spookier game pitch

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  320 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Capcom's unannounced but widely-expected Resident Evil 4 remake will have a spookier tone inspired by the company's original ideas for the game. An earlier, abandoned take on Resident Evil 4 would have seen hero Leon up against creepy living dolls and spectral figures. This has inspired Capcom's upcoming remake, a new Fanbyte report claims. The game's memorable opening, where Leon explores its iconic village location, will now be set at night to evoke its creepier mood. [Read More]

Respawn discusses Apex Legends server issues in mammoth blog post

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  898 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Server issues have always been a bit of a hot topic within the Apex Legends community, with players highlighting problems with lag, code:net errors and - more recently - DDoS attacks on ranked servers. To address all these concerns, Respawn has now published a developer deep dive aiming to "demystify" some of the problems, and explain what the team is doing to address them. You might want to put the kettle on, as this one's a long read. [Read More]

Ruby Weapon looks just as boss in Final Fantasy 14 as it did in Final Fantasy 7

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  386 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Square Enix has shown off the Ruby Weapon boss fight in Final Fantasy 14 - and appropriately enough it looks rock hard. Ruby Weapon was one of two "superbosses" that appeared in Final Fantasy 7, an incredibly powerful endgame monster created by the planet to defend itself when under threat. Ruby Weapon lived in the sand around the Gold Saucer, and you could only reach it via Highwind or chobobo. I remember it being a bastard to fight as it could simply eject one of your party members just for fun. [Read More]

Shadow of War Nemesis Forge - how to import your Nemesis and Follower from Shadow of Mordor to Shadow of War

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  1028 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

How to import your Nemesis into Shadow of War is probably one of the first questions you'll have when starting up a new game of Shadow of War, especially, of course, if you played much of its predecessor Shadow of Mordor. Here in this guide we'll explain exactly how to do that, as well as how to import your Follower into Shadow of War, and explain the Nemesis Forge and how choosing your Nemesis and Follower works, so you can prepare to import them when you get the chance. [Read More]

Shattered Horizon: the FPS that got lost in space

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1623 words  |  Trudie Dory

We're going to have to change our ways at some point. Year after year we collectively moan about the lack of innovation in first-person shooters, and then, when a game does come along that dares to be different, we shoot holes in it for not being more like those we purport to hate, but actually can't get enough of. Hence the annual updates masquerading as franchise sequels, while the more daring and interesting shooters are overlooked and promptly forgotten about. [Read More]

Super Mario Maker 2 review - whether you're building or not, this is a joy

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  9 minutes  |  1880 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

A quirky and powerful construction toy that's fun to play with even if you aren't trying to make anything. Fireballs through pipes. That was my first idea. It was inspired by a level in Super Mario Maker 2's story mode in which I spawned a fire flower and then blitzed a room of Koopas by bouncing hot death through the pipes they had been using to travel around in and mess me up. [Read More]

The big interview: EA, FIFA and loot boxes

 Posted on March 11, 2023  |  25 minutes  |  5233 words  |  Patria Henriques

FIFA 22 is out in the wild, and in gameplay terms it's going down well. But, as anyone who's read Eurogamer's review will know, we still have a few problems with how it's monetised. Specifically, the hugely-popular Ultimate Team mode and its controversial loot boxes. Ultimate Team, which drives hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for publisher and developer EA each year, revolves around the idea of building a squad of players, which you then use to play in matches, both offline and online. [Read More]