Summary Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steelis often lumped in with the classicFalloutgames. However, at the time, fans of the first two Fallout entries largely rejected Tactics, since it was less focussed on story and NPC interactions than what had come before. Now, Fallout Tactics devs are recalling the game’s launch in an interview withPC gamer. Here, lead designer Ed Orman touches on the reception from fans and critics, noting that the Fallout community was particularly toxic in its criticisms of Tactics....

Summary Update 03/11:A previous version of this report incorrectly stated that no previous Dragon Age games had character limits. This has since been amended. Dragon Age: The Veilguardonly lets you have three characters, or Rooks, at a time. To create more on the same login, you’ll have to delete an entire playthrough. We’ve only been able to test this onPS5, so it remains to be seen if this is an issue on PC....

Character creators in gaming have been getting more inclusive lately. At least, that’s what they tell me.Cyberpunk 2077let you customise your genitalia,Forzahad agreater range of pronoun options, plenty of games opt for ‘body type’ instead of gender. But none of that really matters.Dragon Age: The Veilguardlets yoube trans in a way that matters. Even in the aesthetic features, you’re able to feel the influence of Corinne Busch, game director on The Veilguard who is also a trans woman....

Summary Dragon Ball: Sparking Zerofinally launched in advanced access today, bringing back the Budokai Tenkaichi series after17 years.If my colleague George Foster is anything to go by (he scored the game 4.5 stars), fans are bursting at the seams with excitement. With a roster of 182 characters, who can blame them? But the community is itching to take that even further. One fan onthe Video Game Mods forumhas put out a $500 bounty in Steam vouchers which will go to the first person who creates and uploads modding tools to the dedicated Sparking Zero Mods website....

I’m never entirely sure if it’s a weakness or a strength thatNintendorelies on the same series decade in and decade out. Right now, the biggest guns in the Nintendo arsenal areMario,Zelda, andPokemon. Just like they were in the ’90s, and ’00s, and ’10s. There’s room for shuffling -SmashandAnimal Crossinghave grown in cultural cache with each entry,Metroidis up and down,Kirbyis not the star he once was,Fire Emblemis at its peak, andStar Fox… Well, we don’t talk about Star Fox anymore....

Summary FromSoftwareis no stranger to keepingElden Ringfresh with a range of buffs and nerfs. Not too long ago, the studiobuffed the Euporia, making it the ultimate god-slaying weapon. Now, following anerf to Shadow of the Erdtree’s final boss, players have discovered that any weapon that can be used with a stance has been massively buffed with devastating effect. Stance Weapons Could Break The Elden Ring Meta Stance weapons are now broken....

The Leap Year Society inUnknown 9: Awakeningused to be a lot more than it is currently. In the past, they had far more members dedicated to investigating and discovering lost knowledge of the arcane, but times are tough for them. Lots of them seem to be dead, defected, or missing altogether. Like many secret societies, they have their way of distinguishing members or leaving a calling card for someone passing by, and these are the Leap Year Coins....

For every Final Fantasy or Mana game, there’s a Romancing Saga game that has gone under the radar. Luckily, Square Enix has decided to slowly grace RPG fans with remasters and remakes of the series. The series reintroduces itself again withRomancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven, which takes the best elements of the original game and cranks them up to 11. With so many distinct systems in the game, why not take a look at the different schools of magic you unlock after your first generation and see which school best fits your play style?...

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrailleft us on a pretty high note, wrapping up the story nicely while also teasing just enough to lead into the post-expansion patches. There were plenty of mysteries left for players to speculate about, one of which was the identity of Gulool Ja’s mother, who was rather strangely absent during the events of Dawntrail. Turns out, Patch 7.1 might tell us why. If you haven’t finished Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail’s story, then you’re going to want to duck out now....

Summary ATF2fan walks into Valve HQ; that isn’t the start of a bad joke, that’s what happened last week. After 340,000 players signed the #FixTF2 petition, the names were printed onto a book that was then hand delivered to the developer in Bellevue, Washington. The community has been calling on Valve for some time now to addressthe rampant bot problem, as getting into a match with only human opponents is exceedingly difficult....

Summary Magic: The Gatheringhas never shied away from its pop-culture inspirations. Its second-ever set was called Arabian Nights, and since then some of its most-popular settings including the Greek-flavoured Theros, the gothic horror of Innistrad, and the fairy-tale glades of Eldraine. 2024 has perhaps been the heaviest on these ‘top-down’ designs, with Murders at Karlov Manor, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Bloomburrow, and Duskmourn giving us murder mystery, the Wild West, woodland fantasy, and modern horror respectively....

Ryu Ga Gotokudoes something that feels borderline miraculous in today’s triple-A gaming landscape: it releases aLike a Dragongame pretty much every year. Since 2005, we’ve gotten an addition to the series (whether a mainline game or a spin-off) annually, with the exception of 2007, 2013, 2019, and 2022. RGG has, several times now, released two games in a year. These aren’t tiny games, either. The shortest of them, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, can be completed in just over 12 hours, but this series isn’t the kind you play if you’re rushing through the story....

TheSuper Mariogames are known for plenty of things. Engaging gameplay, silly adventures, memorable worlds, and some of the most iconic characters in gaming. What you might not think of are the various items from all the different games and how they interact with the games you love. Over the course of almost 40 years and tons of games, there have been a plethora of items released in the various games. Everything from Mushrooms to coins to even ghost-sucking vacuums like the Poltergust 3000, there is a huge number of collectibles and breakable items from across all the Mario games....