Gaming

Seeing Cthulhu in the title of a game will, fairly or not, stack a pile of expectations on top of it as tall as the walls of R’lyeh. The Cosmic Abyss does meet some of them, focusing heavily on not just the physical danger involved in immersing oneself in the mysteries of lost and cursed history, but the mental toll as well. It exceeds some too, placing the well worn fictional mythos in a…

It’s been almost a year since Assassin’s Creed Shadows released, and Ubisoft is not done updating its feudal Japan-set stabathon. This month brings the addition of a manual jump option, alongside two other fan-requested changes. As part of the 1.1.8 update going live today, February 17, Ubisoft will add a manual jump option to the game (if you’ve toggled on your Advanced Parkour…

Logan Paul’s bejeweled PSA 10-graded Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon trading card has been sold at auction for a staggering $16,492,000, setting a new record. The amount makes it, by far, the most expensive trading card ever sold — a record the same card also held when Paul bought it back in 2021 for $5.27 million. In this new sale, venture capitalist AJ Scaramucci placed the winning bid of…

A developer who worked on Highguard has discussed the “hate” he received after the free-to-play shooter debuted at December’s The Game Awards, saying the game, and by extension its team, “turned into a joke from minute one, largely due to false assumptions about a million-dollar ad placement.” Just two weeks after the free-to-play game’s January 26 launch…