The first thing anyone notices in Skullgirls is the hypersexualization of its all-female cast. In this 2D fighter, the skirts are short, the legs are long, and the chests are, well, you get the idea. It’s a treat for some, but for those who scoff at this most basic of carnal pleasures, take heed: behind all the eye candy rests a well-designed fighting engine that addresses several annoyances found in other contemporary fighters. Developer Reverge Labs has built a game whose pacing feels akin to Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3–with a little less overwhelming insanity. Skullgirls saves its spectacle for the characters, while keeping its combat fast and focused.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was one of the greatest games to be released for Nintendo’s 16-bit SNES. The game brought the classic NES series up to the standards of the day, adding plenty of new gameplay elements while still maintaining the same basic feel of the original action adventure game. In keeping with the recent trend of bringing such classics to the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo has released a port of the game for its handheld system, bringing a fantastic version of A Link to the Past both to new players and those interested in playing through it one more time. Additionally, a new multiplayer game, called The Four Swords, has been added for link-game players.
The story in A Link to the Past is roughly what you’d come to expect from the series. Princess Zelda has been kidnapped and, along with several other girls, is going to be used in a ritual that will give an evil wizard supreme power. It’s up to the player, as young Link, to stop the wizard’s insidio…
SPOILER WARNING: Be careful! No More Heroes 3 is a game filled with surprises, and sometimes boss fights don’t always go as expected. In other words, we recommend not reading the boss strategy until you’ve actually started fighting the boss to avoid spoiling some of the game’s best moments!
Gold Joe is your second major boss battle in No More Heroes 3. While he has some unique tricks up his sleeve, he’s not too tough once you know how to counter them. For more guides, be sure to check out our No More Heroes 3 beginner’s tips.
How to Defeat Gold Joe
Unlike Mr. Blackhole, Gold Joe is a small fighter who generally prefers to fight you at close range with his arsenal of swords. His sword strikes can be parried and dodged, giving you openings to really wail on him. However, you need to be careful when dodging around him because the arena’s edges are electrified and will cause damage. Be careful …
World of Warcraft Classic: Season of Discovery is bringing big changes to the endgame of Blizzard’s old-school MMORPG, and that includes making one of the game’s most iconic Legendary weapons stronger than ever. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
Blizzard has revealed new details about Season of Discovery’s endgame content phase, and a public test realm build with a sweeping number of class changes and item changes for players to test out recently went live. Players, of course, have wasted no time datamining the PTR build to see what else can be discovered, and as pointed out by Wowhead, it seems like one highly-sought after item in particular, Sulfuras, Hands of Ragnaros, will be even more desired than usual.
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After taking over William Hill in April, Caesars Entertainment announced it was only interested in keeping the United States assets. This leaves the European business up for grabs. Several companies have shown interest in acquiring the non-US assets with Advent International and Apollo Global Management and 888 Holdings the latest to come forward.
Prime Investment
The William Hill brand dates back to 1934 and is a well-established business. The group that takes over the European side will gain access to 1400 betting shops, along with online operations that are focused on Europe and the UK. It is expected that the auction for the business will garner at least £1.2 billion.
Reports suggest that Apollo is the favorite to win the auction. The private equity firm had tried to buy William Hill outright before Caesars Entertainment was in the mix. Analysts say that the company has completed its due diligence and will not miss out again, however, it is not certain that th…
On June 28, Wizard Games, a subsidiary of NeoGames S.A. based in Gibraltar, has released Unchain The Dragons, a dragon-themed online slot featuring captive dragons, enslaved to guard hidden treasures.
In addition, the provider’s previous similar hits are Dragons of the North Megaways, which incorporates Big Time Gaming‘s (BTG) popular Megaways game engine, and Dragons of the North Deluxe.
Mystical visual:
True to its title, the main theme of the slot is the aforementioned dragons. The game takes place in a distant land filled with volcanic mountains. Also, in the center of the interface, the reels are made of valerian steel. Thriller-like music completes the atmosphere of the game.
To win, players must find a way to free the enslaved dragons in order to gain the greatest wealth. In addition, the game is played on a 5×6 grid that offers 40 paylines and it can be played on any device.
The basic low-value symbols are poker royals such as 9…
Groove Gaming adds Philippine online casino software developer Dragon Gaming to aggregation platform
Curaçao-based Groove Gaming has added yet another new game developer to its aggregator after partnering with Philippine online casino software creator, Dragon Gaming.
The new alliance adds substantial content that is Far East-focused while also contributing an abundance of HTML5 games with universal appeal. Available in over 25 languages and more than 25 currencies, including cryptocurrencies, Dragon Games feature compelling titles such as Fortune Frog, The Bank Heist, Basketball Legends, Aztec Warrior, The Wild Show and Rise of the Titans among others.
Manila-based, the developer’s slot titles are easy to play and employ the most up-to-date technology and immersive sound. With nearly two decades of testing and experimentation by a dedicated team, the firm’s games have proven popular in eastern and western markets alike, as well as leading online casinos.
Pushing boundaries:
Commenting on the new partnership, Dragon Gaming Marketing Manager Jess…
Ubisoft will reveal “the future of Assassin’s Creed” in September, the publisher has announced. As part of its 15th anniversary announcements today, the French company strongly suggested that some kind of Assassin’s Creed announcement is on tap for then.
“The Assassin’s Creed teams hope the community will enjoy these celebrations and invite all players to join them this September as they unveil the future of Assassin’s Creed during a very special event,” Ubisoft said.
A luxury casino resort is expected to be created in Greece, at the spot of a former airport in Athens. Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment is the casino operator behind the project, a company based in the United States. This week, a company executive announced that the casino should be ready by 2026. The announcement is the first time that a time frame has been provided for the project.
Moving Forward
Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment and its partner construction group GEK Terna will be working together to see the casino come to fruition. The next step in the project is to sign a contract and clear the project with auditors and parliament.
During the Delphi Economic Forum in Athens, interim CEO for Mohegan, Ray Pineault, stated that the company anticipates that once the contract negotiation process is complete, the permitting process along with design will take one year to 18 months. The resort is expected to launch by 2025 or 2026.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy decided to provide Atlantic City with a $20 million grant. The funding is part of a $100 million initiative that will allow local municipalities to restore their boardwalks.
The money is a leftover from the American Rescue Plan and will see New Jersey take care of its signature boardwalks. Originally designed to prevent sand from getting inside nearby hotels, these boardwalks are now beloved tourist attractions.
The Atlantic City Boardwalk in particular is a historic promenade that is believed to be the oldest one in America. Spanning some 5.5 miles, it is also one of the largest boardwalks in the world. The repairs are expected to improve tourism and also bolster local casinos’ business.
The $20 million grant will allow Atlantic City to take care of deteriorating parts of the boardwalk. The repairs will see old decking and pilings…
Sicily Yacht Sinking: 4 Bodies Recovered From the Wreckage By Divers
There’s been a heartbreaking update in the Sicily yacht tragedy.
After a superyacht sank off the coast of Palermo, Italy, during a violent storm Aug. 19, divers have discovered four bodies among the ship’s wreckage, a source familiar with the rescue operations told NBC News.
The identities of the recovered bodies have not yet been determined, but the discovery comes shortly after the names of the six missing passengers were shared.
British tech mogul Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife have yet to be accounted for, the Director of Sicily’s Civil Protection Agency Salvatore Cocina told NBC News.
Per the outlet, Morvillo and Bloomer’s employers later ide…
Over the past few weeks we’ve been getting an inside look at some of the new features coming to Cities: Skylines 2, like the road and traffic tools, changes to public transportation, and more. Today, Paradox Interactive pulled back the curtain on city services, and some of the new features look impressive. Some of them are also depressingly real.
The good news first: the video above and accompanying devblog highlight improvements over the original Cities: Skylines when it comes to the services available to your growing city. For instance, rather than building additional schools and hospitals when your population outgrows them, you’ll be able to upgrade those buildings to create a wider circle of influence and cater to a larger population. That’s a relief for anyone who’s ever spammed a bunch of brand new elementary schools into a sprawling neighborhood in a desperate attempt to elicit a higher satisfaction score.
In addition to improvements on old fe…
Has this ever happened to you: You’re an up-and-coming necromancer, 100% on his grind, and you mount your noble Friesian or Clydesdale expecting to break out into a vigorous trot, only to find it hobbling along like a gotdamn bob-tail nag? Assuming this is happening to you in Diablo 4, you may just be holding your mouse too close to your filly.
“Horse speed is relevant to cursor distance from character,” declares Reddit user FloridaMan156 succinctly in a well-trafficked post on the D4 subreddit, a post that subsequently became a lightning rod for comments with variations of “wait, what the hell, I’ve been doing it wrong this entire time.”
PSA: Horse speed is relevant to cursor distance from character (PC) from r/diablo4
Basically, if you press the “spur” hotkey without having your mouse far enough away from your character, it won’t have much effect. Conversely, you can move that sucker far away from your mount and get ready to …
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I’m not generally a life-sim guy but I am very eager to dive into Nivalis. A big part of that arises from the strength of Cloudpunk, the previous game from developer Ion Lands, which I really liked, but Nivalis itself—based on the admittedly not-a-whole-lot we’ve seen of it so far—looks brilliant too.
Sadly, we’re going to have to wait a little bit longer than expected to dive in, as it’s been delayed until spring 2025.
“Ion Lands’ highest priority is to ensure that Nivalis provides the best possible experience for the player and the team appreciates the patience and support they have received from the ever-growing community as Ion Lands navigate through this creative journey,” publisher 505 Games said in a very non-specific explanation for the delay.
And fair enough, sometimes you just need more time to get things done, and I am more than happy to be patient for two reasons. One, the classic: “Suck is forever,” and I’d rather wait to …
Baldur’s Gate 3 received its fourth patch earlier this week, and while it’s added some very important features like AMD’s FSR 2.2, the ability to wash your companions with soap, and letting you erect a naked statue of yourself, it may have also done some damage to your character’s love life.
For starters, the Sex% speedrun is dead and buried—may it rest in peace—but the more astonishing, entirely accidental quirk? Astarion’s kissing sequence, for a lot of players romancing the silver-haired stallion, is uh—it’s a little broken. See for yourself.
Astarion’s Patch #4’s kiss might need some work….🥴 from r/BaldursGate3
It’s an unfortunate bug, causing Astarion to scrunch up his face like the prospect of kissing you is utterly repulsive, with zero dialogue to accompany it save a subtitled, unspoken “If you must”. The “Ah, Delicious!” seems almost cruel in that context, like he’s trying no…
New Atlantis needs a new kind of crime fighting force, one that specializes in telling people “Halt!” a lot while complaining about how hard it is to see out of their helmets. Soldiers who shoot first, and aren’t able to ask questions later because they miss all their shots and their Sith overlords force choke them out for failure. That’s right, modder kboykboy on the Starfield Nexus has turned the United Colonies’ security force into Star Wars Stormtroopers.
Within a week of Starfield’s launch we’ve already gotten bedrock, useful mods like Script Extender and a UI overhaul, but let’s be real: we’re all here for the shitposts. Kboykboy’s Stormtroopers stand tall with all those weird flashlights people are churning out as an early example of the deluge of goofs we can expect from the Starfield Nexus.
I’m not clear on where kboykboy sourced the armor model from—they just describe having created “an experimental mesh import tool” to get it in t…
What beats rock? Paper, correct! What beats paper? Scissors, correct! And what beats scissors? Yep, that’s right: Running. Or rust. Or bureaucratic inertia. Or the crushing ennui of post-industrial modernity.
Don’t look at me. I don’t make the rules. I’m just reporting the findings of What Beats Rock, the latest asteroid to impact productivity in the PC Gamer company Slack. Sorry if you guys were looking forward to articles about videogames today. We’re busy.
What Beats Rock is simple: It’s a nearly blank webpage that invites you to answer the question of, well, what beats rock? You can write anything: Paper, sure, but also erosion, or time, or a positive mental attitude, and the website’s large language model underpinnings will take a second to process your answer and decide if it wins or not. Then you decide what beats the thing you wrote, then what beats that, and so on, and so on, and so on.
So, yes, it’s an AI-powered game, with all the cav…