Games for Impact is back forThe Game Awardsin 2023, and like every other year, it’s acting as a locker to stuff all the diverse games into. Filled with LGBTQ+ characters? Impact! Got a focus on a particular disability or social issue? Impact! Are you designed to explore unique cultures or make the player cry a bunch? Impact! It doesn’t feel like the category has matured much in the years since it was introduced....
It takes a lot of talent to create a game likeTales of Arise. Along with the stunt actors that help designers style the look of the game, multiple voice actors are used for each role to create the Japanese and Western versions of the game. Dialogue plays a big role in Tales of Arise and many actors with long resumes were used to create the sound of the game. You will recognize some of the names on the voice cast list, or at least you will recognize their voices....
The Simpsons: Hit & Runis an odd title, as it’s a game that seemingly everyone has fond memories of playing back in the day, but no developer or publisher that is willing to capitalize on that strong nostalgia. Every game is getting a remaster these days, eventhose that are only three years old, so it’s strange that publishers are ignoring the goldmine that is The Simpsons: Hit & Run, which even had a sequel scrapped due to publisher Vivendi Games not being able to retain The Simpsons license....
As a non-American, I don’t have a ton of respect for the US of A. Sure, it’s historically considered the hub of Western contemporary popular culture, and mainstream English media has largely centred it as the site of ‘real life’, as it were. But any misstep or bad luck could land you in massive amounts of debt and housing precarity, which makes it a pretty bad place to live unless you’re already rich....
Quick Links When preparing the backstory of your campaign inDungeons & Dragons, you can go in one of two ways: you either take the canon lore, or make up your own. While creating your own world is great fun, sometimes you need a solid base like the one written in the official canon. If you’re exploring the stories of the past, then there’s no moment in time more crucial than the Time of Troubles....
Starfieldfulfills the conventional Bethesda Game Studios promise of offering a diversity of content. Whether you dive directly into faction quests, prefer to tackle conventional side quests, or even focus on creating and maintaining space outposts, you’re sure to find your niche. There are also starships, of course. Oh, everything spaceship-related is vast enough to be worth its own article. We’ve been covering as many bases as we can think of - and now we’re going to talk about space habs, one of the most important components for you to install inside your galaxy-hopping ride....
Quick Links Coral Islandis much more expansive than it seems at first glance. You may find yourself peeking at the map more often than you might with other farming simulator games. The lack of quest markers makes finding certain things even more challenging, so exploring is a crucial part of the game. There’s usually at least one person who needs assistance finding lost things, and in this game, that person is the mayor....
As you progress throughThe Last Faith, you’ll have various interactions with different characters, some acting as merchants and some seeking your help to complete quests. One of the initial NPCs you’ll meet during the game is Lady Helenya. you’re able to find Lady Helenya outside the entrance of Oxneveylle’s Manor. She serves as the character you turn to when you want to level up your character stats. When you first interact with her, she’ll request you to retrieve a special teacup for her....
Quick Links In the vast land of Hydaelyn, the political turmoil that envelopes the region of Eorzea is a constant issue that its denizens trifle with in everyday life. To bring peace to Eorzea and unite its people under a single banner, the Scions Of The Seventh Dawn were formed in the face of threats such as the secretive Ascians and the ruling Garlean Empire forever at their heels. Final Fantasy 14offers its players many gripping stories and characters, and if you have played the game, you are familiar with some of your most trusted allies in the Scions....
Quick Links When playing the first Act ofBaldur’s Gate 3, you’ll come across a refugee camp of Tieflings led by Zevlor. While they’ll tell you all about their current troubles with Druids and Goblins, they won’t immediately share what happened that made them lose their homes. Engage them in conversation, and you’ll soon realize that all these Tieflings haven’t been a group for long, and Zevlor leads them because he’s the only one with military experience....
Yakuzatook a huge turn withLike a Dragon, the soft reboot staring the equally as soft (and loveable) Ichiban Kasuga. The brawler combatrooted in fighting gameswas no more, swapped out for a traditional, turn-based system. Most loved it, but there were, of course, detractors. Three years later, the naysayers finally have a solution - Like a Brawler, a mod that guts the turn-based combat in favour of the old-style fisticuffs. you may download the mod byclicking here....
More than 90 years after it first made a splash in the toy market, you can turn just about anything you like intoLego. That includes a number of elements from the video game world as Mario has his very own Lego Mushroom Kingdom, and even Horizon’s Tallneck has its own set. There’s still a lot more from the video game world that can be turned into elaborate Lego sets, andGuide Stratshas created some models in an attempt to find out what some of gaming’s most famous buildings might look like if they were shrunk down and made of Lego....
Quick Links Reimagined with Unreal Engine 5,Ark: Survival Ascendedis an open-world dragon-taming game where you start as a weak human. The first order of business is to ensure your survival by making weapons and other tools that can help you farm materials to craft the essential structures in the game. Once you learn how to stay alive in this cruel world, you can start making some friends using the taming process....
