Boss battles are often the most memorable part of a video game. That’s usually because, when they’re good, they’re a sudden break from repetitive action, a huge change in pace that nonetheless puts all the skills you’ve been honing to the test. But sometimes they’re memorable because that test seems borderline…
Welcome to the second installment of our Game In Progress review for Destiny 2. Over the next several weeks, internet culture editor Clayton Purdom will be shooting his way through Bungie’s massive sequel and sharing his impressions. As always, we invite you to play and comment along as he makes his way toward the…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Welcome to the first installment of our Game In Progress review for Destiny 2. Over the next several weeks, internet culture editor Clayton Purdom will be shooting his way through Bungie’s massive sequel and sharing his impressions. As always, we invite you to play and comment along as he makes his way toward the…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
A sequel to Destiny, Bungie and Activision’s hit online shooter, has never been formally announced, but its existence and impending release is one of the worst kept secrets in the game industry. That story got even more concrete earlier today when a photo of what appears to be a promotional poster for the unannounced…
It took a single day for David Brevik, Diablo’s foremost creator, to realize he was wrong about the game that would turn out to be his studio’s big break. As it was originally conceived, players marched their warriors through the game’s dungeons one step at a time, taking turns with the creatures around them to move…
There’s a quest in Destiny’s new Rise Of Iron expansion that feels like a date with Destiny—and yes, that’s meant literally. Near the end of a meandering interplanetary excursion to find pieces of an exotic automatic rifle, your Guardian is prompted to “enjoy the view,” immediately after you’ve vanquished a host of…
Deep in the bowels of a massive spaceship lodged in Saturn’s rings, I’m on the hunt for a dark alien race. Well, sort of. I certainly planned on hunting them, but now I can’t seem to pull myself away from the galaxy’s least likely slot machine.
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown). Every day for 30 days, Alex will play the Xbox One edition of Destiny in hopes of becoming—at the very least—an adequate…
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown). Every day for 30 days, Alex will play the Xbox One edition of Destiny in hopes of becoming—at the very least—an adequate…
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown). Every day for 30 days, Alex will play the Xbox One edition of Destiny in hopes of becoming—at the very least—an adequate…
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown). Every day for 30 days, Alex will play the Xbox One edition of Destiny in hopes of becoming—at the very least—an adequate…
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown). Every day for 30 days, Alex will play the Xbox One edition of Destiny in hopes of becoming—at the very least—an adequate…
Game Informer reports that Bungie plans to purge the voice work of Peter Dinklage from its popular shooter Destiny in a future update to the game. The Game Of Thrones star originally provided dialogue for Ghost, a hovering origami fortune teller who peppers the player with supposedly helpful lines of exposition. But…
Preview events offer only brief glimpses at very big games. Who knows how any given game will pan out in its final form? The most we can say is This Could Be Good.
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through individual perspectives. These are the staffers’ personal takes on a few games that have stuck in their minds for whatever reason—big or small—and does not represent any sort of institutional expression.…
Ever curious what the Patron Saint of the Internet, Nicolas Cage, thinks of games, but preferably in less time than needed to warm up a Hot Pocket? Game In 60 Seconds arrives from #mashed as a Cage impersonator becomes unbridled id to review Destiny (which seems in keeping with The A.V. Club’s own review). Over all he…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Since its initial introduction to the world, the makers of Destiny have cloaked their game in enough mystery and marketing obfuscation to make P.T. Barnum beam with pride. “It’s a new genre, a ‘shared-world’ shooter,” Activision’s CEO Eric Hirshberg announced during last year’s “reveal event” at Bungie Studios’…
