Hello again. I see you’ve made it back for another GR Picks Weekly Roundup. As I mentioned last week, while we certainly spend a lot of time diligently writing about and reviewing video games, we also spend an exorbitant amount of our time staring, glass-eyed, at YouTube videos that are, in some way, vaguely related to video games. By the end of the week, we’ve typically amassed quite a stockpile of videogame-related nonsense....
The greatest thing about the Grand Theft Auto series is the escapism it offers our sheltered minds. Where else is there a place, besides Chicago, that you can take things and harm on a whim and probably get away with it? That’s not really fair to Chicago; there’s no place on Earth more dangerous than a GTA V karma server. Maybe some warzones, but that’s an entirely different story. From a bird’s eye view game to a 3D first-person adventure, Grand Theft Auto has given us over 20 years of enjoyable mayhem....
Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 are both phenomenal games. In this scenario though, there can only be one winner. What Rockstar game has proven itself to be the better experience? What gives players more bang for their buck? All of these questions and more will weigh out the possibilities in a somewhat mathematical approach to evaluating the two games. At the end of the day, it comes down to preference and again, they are both fantastic games....
GTA Online continues to prove its popularity as a record number of players logged on to play the online mode of Grand Theft Auto V, on July 23, Rockstar Games told The Hollywood Reporter. While the video game juggernaut didn’t reveal actual numbers, we do know that Grand Theft Auto V has shipped over 100 million copies worldwide, and GTA Online was pulling in around 8 million players a week back in November, 2015....
The novel Pet Sematary is about a man who buries his cat in an ancient burial ground that causes any corpses laid to rest within it to rise, carrying an evil spirit. The protagonist is warned by an old man: “Sometimes dead is better.” This is very much the case with Gungrave GORE, which is best described as the rotten carcass of a franchise that probably needed to stay buried. Most terrible games nowadays are riddled with bugs, glitches, and other issues; Gungrave has very few of those....
Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx team sat down with the internet today to answer questions about the game in a Reddit AMA. The AMA (ask me anything) covered topics ranging from horror to accessibility and enemies. We were able to confirm that, yes, headcrabs in Alyx are about as scary as you think in VR. And yes, you’ll probably ride a train at some point, because Half-Life. Apply directly to the forehead It’s one thing to deal with a headcrab through the safety of your monitor, but probably not so much in virtual reality....
Achievement junkies everywhere have been eagerly anticipating the day that Bungie would reveal the final list of achievements for the upcoming blockbuster Halo: Reach, and it has finally happened. Yesterday, Bungie published the final list of Reach’s achievements on their website. The total achievement count rings in at a decent total of 49. Surprisingly, there aren’t that many multiplayer-related achievements, and considering that Halo 3’s achievos were largely multiplayer, it seems a little odd that Reach wasn’t handled in the same manner....
The ending of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic American history musical, Hamilton, is easy enough to understand. As any product of the American education system (or anyone familiar with the SNL Digital Short “Lazy Sunday”) can tell you, the story of Alexander Hamilton ends with his death in a duel against political rival Aaron Burr. And that’s exactly what happens in Hamilton where the title character (who previously never shut up about not throwing away his shot) throws away his shot at the end in an act of mercy and pays dearly for it....
Ready to spend more time in Gilead? You’re in luck! The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 is here. Hulu’s annoucement of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 announcement came just following the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2. The drama, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name (which is getting a sequel!), is easily Hulu’s most-celebrated original drama thus far. read more: Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 & The Seismic Shift in Gilead...
Headspun is a new adventure game with an inventive FMV mechanic that takes place in a world somewhere between Osmosis Jones and Pixar’s Inside Out. Headspun is a very personal game, dealing with themes of ambition, work ethic, and following one’s dreams. Unfortunately, developer Superstring never came up with compelling gameplay to match their unique story, and ultimately the game suffers to much from a lack of meaningful interaction. Osmosis Theo The story of Headspun takes place on two distinct planes of reality....
It is that time of year when Blizzard holds its annual BlizzCon event showcasing everything its games have to offer. Obviously, the circumstances of the world have made it unsafe to meet in person, so everything this year for the event is going digital with BlizzConline 2021. Thankfully this year is entirely free for everyone to watch, so no virtual ticket shenanigans like last year. 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for Hearthstone and we got a big look into part of it at Blizzcon today....
Blizzard has announced that this year’s Hallow’s End Event for Hearthstone will be called “Doom in the Tomb”. The event will run from October 8th until the 30th and is one of the largest mid-expansion events seen to date. Players will see new Tavern Brawls, event Quests, and the highly popular Dual-Class Arena for a limited time. More importantly, Blizzard has laid out the complete list of Wild cards that will be temporarily rotating back into Standard....
Over the course of this past week, Borderlands 3 has been giving away shift codes as part of its Gifts of Mayhem event. The Gifts of Mayhem event is over, but that doesn’t mean that fans can’t sill claim the gifts. In fact, the Borderlands 3 shift codes for the Gifts of Mayhem event don’t expire until January 10 at 11:59pm PT, so fans still have a few weeks to redeem the shift codes and collect some free items....
Hideo Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding, has been fairly divisive with the community due to its unique gameplay moments. Even still, the game has managed to foster a tight knit community not only willing to help through its unique multiplayer mechanics, but on social media and websites like Reddit. One again, the community has found another interesting moment in Kojima’s expansive title. The latest discovery once again comes from the Death Stranding subreddit where one user managed to capture an event between NPC characters....
Forspoken takes you to a massive world filled with dazzling locales and great danger. While you can expect to beat up countless foes and trek all over the place, you’d still need to find ways to speed up the exploration. Here’s our Forspoken fast travel guide to help you with the city of Cipal, Refuges, and Belfries. Note: For more information, check out our Forspoken guides and features hub. Forspoken fast travel guide: Cipal, Refuges, and Belfries You won’t be able to fast travel in Forspoken right from the get-go....
While Fortnite players can get tons of XP with regular, daily playing and Supercharged XP, there’s another way to grab some XP to speed up the slow grind to level 100: XP Drops. These drops are functionally the same as the Battle Stars from Chapter 1. This event’s Drop is hidden in the map somewhere, but it won’t appear until some of the Chaos Rising’s challenges have been completed. Hints in the Loading Screen Fortnite has a long history of hiding hints for all sorts of loot and XP Drops in the loading screens in Chapter 1, and the same thing holds true of Chapter 2....
Looking to add to your Fortnite emote collection? You’re in luck! Announced yesterday, Epic Games is offering a free Fortnite emote for every player who enables Two-Factor Authentication on their account. Players will receive the Boogiedown emote in Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode for simply - and wisely - activating Two-Factor Authentication. Two-Factor Authentication is a method used for protecting players’ accounts from unauthorized access by utilizing an extra code that needs to be entered at login, in addition to their normal username and password....
If there’s one thing Fortnite is known for outside of its battle royale gameplay and constant updates, it’s the character skins. Every few weeks it seems like there’s always new looks available for players to deck their characters out in. Yet amid the flood of Batman and Marvel skins and other crossover-themed cosmetic items, some classic skins remain popular, and now one of the most popular skins has gotten a new variation....
Yes! I don’t normally open a piece like this with such a direct answer, but without a doubt the Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels expansion is easily one of the best experiences I’ve had with a racing title. The base game blew me away when it first released, and Playground has taken the momentum of Forza Horizon 5‘s stellar launch and ran with it for this first expansion. Though relatively short in terms of campaign content, Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels feels far grander than it really is thanks to its beautiful new map, which has been crafted with notable care and attention to detail....
Forza Horizon 5 is a racing game developed by Playground Games. While you can’t get bored of driving around in the game, it still ensures you have to do something when you ride. And what if that something is destruction? That’s right you can destroy the landscape with those beautiful and fast cars. But that’s not all you can destroy, you can also break the bonus boards. So in this guide let us take a look at what bonus boards are and their locations in Forza Horizon 5 (FH5)....
