Trials Evolution: The 100 Year Easter Egg
The Trials series quickly became known for its Easter Eggs and fourth wall-breaking riddles, but Trials Evolution took things to an insane globe-trotting, century-spanning level. On par with National Treasure, it’s easily the greatest Easter Egg of all-time.
The Day Before: From Epic Hype to Unprecedented Disaster
On January 29, 2021, Fntastic announced The Day Before to the world. What followed was one of the most mismanaged developments and disastrous releases in video game history.
Most Broken Video Game Characters: Ivan Ooze
The search is over. There is no comparison. Ivan Ooze is, by far, the most broken character in video game history. Whatever argument you want to make for any other character, you're wrong.
Most Broken Video Game Characters: Akuma
Akuma in Tekken 7 is in the unique position of being both broken and overpowered. The problem with Akuma is that he's not a Tekken character, he's a Street Fighter character. He may be in Tekken, but certainly does not play by the rules of Tekken.
Most Broken Video Game Characters: Brigitte
Very few characters in the history of gaming have ever had as big an impact on their respective games as Brigitte did on Overwatch. She destroyed one meta, created her own, then changed the fundamental architecture of the game forever.
Most Broken Video Game Characters: Lion
After 2 years of rising from the ashes of a disastrous launch filled with game-breaking glitches and failed mechanics, Rainbow 6: Siege found itself crawling back out of its own grave with the release of Year 3 Season 1: Operation Chimera, and the introduction of Lion.
The Search for the Most Broken Video Game Character
Whether it be in a casual online match with friends or randoms, or at the highest level of competition in e-sports tournaments, a broken character doesn’t just ruin the game, they can fundamentally change the way the game is played.
Greatest Villains of All-Time: Eric Sparrow
By leaps and bounds, Eric Sparrow is the single most hateable villain in any game ever, and it's not even close. He is easily the most want-to-punch-in-the-face character ever.
Greatest Villains of All-Time: Handsome Jack
Borderlands 2 set a new standard of villain with Handsome Jack, quite possibly one of the most memorable characters in entertainment history.
The Bloodbath of B-R5RB
Not the biggest, not the most costly, but by far the most famous. Even those who do not play Eve Online have heard of the Bloodbath of B-R5RB. At the time, it was the greatest battle EVE Online had ever seen—that any game had ever seen.
The True Stories of Eve Online Pt. 2
Eve Online continues to be the most fascinating and intimidating game ever made.
The True Stories of Eve Online
Eve Online is simultaneously the most fascinating and intimidating game ever made. Each year the game manages to draw more and more players into it with its unique sandbox world and ongoing narrative that has become one of the most seminal pieces of science fiction of our time.
World of Warcraft Could Have Helped Fight COVID-19
In September 2005, World of Warcraft became decimated by a virtual precursor to COVID-19 known as The Corrupted Blood Incident.
Infinite Warfare could be Activision’s Mass Effect
Infinite Warfare was a great game, it's just not the game that people wanted.
Fixing Mass Effect 3
Let’s remind ourselves why Mass Effect 3 was so criticized: its ending, because your choices didn’t matter. Now let’s consider what could’ve been done.
The Problem with Threequels Pt. 2
Why do so many threequels continue to fail to live up to their predecessors?
The Problem with Threequels Pt. 1
Why do so many threequels fail to live up to their predecessors?
The Abnormal Potential of The Division Movie
Set to receive the Hollywood treatment, The Division has the benefit of not being bound by the same limitations as other video game adaptations.