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Many fans are excited for Blizzard’s upcomingDiablo 2: Resurrected. Theremaster of the classic dungeon crawlerhas many clamoring for access to the playable alphas. However, some fans are falling prey to fraudulent websites. RELATED:Isometric Action RPGs to Play Before Diablo 2: Resurrected Community Development Lead Adam Fletcher warned fans via Twitter on Tuesday. He noted that Blizzard is aware of multiple websites falsely claiming to have digital keys forone or both ofDiablo 2: Resurrected’s technical alphas....

Last month, it was announced thatCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Timewould be coming to Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch, with a PC port slated to debut on Battle.Net following their release. The array of console ports are available right now, withActivisionposting a trailer celebrating the game’s success and advertising the new versions. However, the promo is capped off with an announcement concerningCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time’sPC release, revealing that the upcoming port will release on Battle....

The world ofCyberpunk 2077has much to offer, and it only gets better withthePhantom LibertyDLC. There is a ton of loot to pick up and check out, some may be useful while some are not. However, there is one type of loot that adds value to the world ofCyberpunk 2077: Shards. Shards serves as a tool for world-buildingand is great for the lore, but accessing it can be difficult, especially since they are hidden....

Dead by Daylighthas removed the ability for survivors to use a flashlight to rescue teammates who have been grabbed from the locker by the killer. This change, which was revealed in theDead by DaylightDeveloper update post released at the end of October, is effective immediately. When the killer inDead by Daylightundergoes key actions, such as picking up a downed survivor or opening a locker, they are locked in an animation. During this time, players with a flashlight can blind the killer, who cannot move their character....

A perceptive player has noticed something fromDestiny 2’s Season of Dawn that the series hasn’t done since very early on in the lifetime of the firstDestiny. According to the player, Season of Dawn is the firstDestiny 2season or expansion to have no recycled exotic sinceHouse of Wolvesreleased forDestinyin 2015. This means thatevery exotic revealed during Season of Dawnso far has been a completely original weapon or armor piece, with none returning from previous installments....

Contest Mode for the first raid ofDestiny 2’sLightfallexpansion, Root of Nightmares, has officially ended. Thousands ofDestiny 2’s most dedicated players have spent the past two days striving to complete theLightfallraid. Contest mode’s additional challenge made for an achievement worth striving for. The window for completion is now up, however.Destiny 2players who have been waiting for their opportunity to dive into Root of Nightmares without the added difficulty and pressure can now join in the fun....

Destiny 2, Season of the Splicer is here and Guardians are already exploring the new seasonal content. While many Guardians will be exploring the new Seasonal Story missions inDestiny 2, Guardians should not forget about the new Stasis Aspects. Season of the Splicer takes place during the Beyond Light expansion, and as such, it has new Stasis Aspects for Guardians to unlock and change their Stasis abilities. Guardians have one new Aspect per class to unlock by visiting the vendor who is no longer a Stranger, Elsie Bray....

Destiny 2is currently conductingthe Guardian Games live event, which is a competition of the classes to see, basically, which class is the most popular by way of earning medals and grinding out the event’s Laurels currency. While the event is just a few days old at the time of this writing, it seems likely that the Hunter class will ultimately win. In the end, the class that wins Guardian Games will lock in the color of their class item to gold for the year until the next Guardian Games comes around inDestiny 2, so it is not as though the winning class is going to get much besides some cosmetic flair and bragging rights....

May 18 will see the release of the next sourcebook forDungeons and Dragons, andVan Richten’s Guide to Ravenloftis bringing more horror elements back to the game. A sort-of follow up toCurse of Strahd, the newDnDsourcebook provides many tools for DMs to set up adventures in a grim and gothic-style setting. For players, it brings new monstrous races to play and two new subclasses that help capture the spooky style of its setting....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become one of the biggest entertainment properties in the world, but the journey hasn’t been an overnight one. Beginning all the way back in 2008 with Jon Favreau’sIron Man,it took a while for the MCU to grow and become the expansive web of interconnected multiversal stories it is now, and along the way, a few tie-in video games were released. For the most part, however, thesetie-in MCU gameswere pretty awful, and unfortunately Iron Man had his fair share....

Quick Links Fallout: New Vegasis Obsidian Entertainment’s standout 2010 entry into Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic role playing universe. Like it’s high-fantasy counterpartSkyrim,New Vegas’ success can be largely attributed to its sprawling questlnes, vibrant NPCs, and an impeccably high standard of writing. Rich philosophical themes weave throughout the narrative, and player choice has an obvious and meaningful impact on the plot. WhenFallout 76was released, it received plenty of criticism around its dialogue and plot, as didFallout 4before it....

Fortniteis an online experience that is always evolving and changing. The immensely popular battle royale continues this trend through various updates as well as seasonal content including battle passes, changes to the map, new content to unlock, and much more. That pattern continued with Chapter 4, Season 3, removing the cyberpunk anime vibes and replacing them with anew Jungle theme complete with ruins to delveand gameplay mechanics like vines to slide on and mud to either slide faster or use as camouflage....

Summary Identitycan often be a very complicated subject, one that is particularly relevant to gaming. When players assume the role of another person, and perform actions as them, it’s only natural that something like identity would come up. Many video games haven’t shied away from this, and deal with notions of control, perception, and responsibility in their narratives. The idea of identity covers a lot of different topics, including behavior, free-will, morality, and purpose....