This past week was a huge one for reviews of big name titles over at GameSpace.com. Some of our most recent reviews include Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Awake, Destiny 2, NHL 18, as well as sneak peeks at Blood Bowl and Lost Sphear to name a few of our great articles on our sister site. If you’re looking for new games, check these out!
– Game Gear: It’s Audio Autumn in Hardware Reviews!
Welcome back to Game Gear! This month, we’re going a little off the page and giving you a peek behind the curtain into our hardware coverage, what we’ve been up to, and our plans for the coming month. It’s Audio Autumn, so let’s find out exactly what that means for our hardware content.
Kritika Online – PAX West 2017 – Hands On with the Psion
The fast-paced, frenetic action of Kritika Online’s closed beta for a while. Now, as it begins to enter its full launch this month it looks like there still a few more surprises up it sleeve. And that big surprise is a brand new playable character class known as the Psion.
– Portal, Half-Life 2 Writer Chet Faliszek Heads to Bossa
Chet Faliszek is one of the most well-known of all Valve employees, if not by name, then by product. He is the author of the stories behind both Portal games, both Half-Life 2 expansions and the Left-4-Dead games. After leaving Valve earlier this year, he has now announced that he’s headed to Bossa Studios to work on an “unannounced PC action co-op game trying to do something new in the narrative space using AI”.
Heroes of the Storm – Ana Bursts into the Nexus on PTR
Overwatch’s Ana is coming to the Nexus along with the Volskaya map and Junkrat coming along at a later time to Heroes of the Storm. She’s the first one out the gate and is headed to the PTR starting today. In this latest preview video, you get a good look at Ana’s long-range capabilities, healing abilities and more.
World of Warcraft – Demon Hunter Extraordinaire Solos Helya in Trial of Valor
World of Warcraft Demon Hunter “Mione” is a solo specialist having taken on and defeated more than a few Mythic+ dungeons. In the latest solo extravaganza, Mione has defeated none other than Helya from the Trial of Valor raid. This was done in iLevel 942 gear with a level 63 artifact.
– Dishonored: Death of the Outsider Review
Having never played any of the Dishonored series before Death of the Outsider, I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. Stealth games have never been my forte, and Death of the Outsider reminded me why that is. But by the end of the relatively short Death of the Outsider, I could teleport and set traps with the best of them. It only took me a dozen hours and hundreds of deaths to beat those lessons.
– Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition Review (PS4 Version)
Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One earlier this month to great fanfare. The isometric RPG made by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive, the biggest question going into the game was not whether or not it would be a great game – critics and fans alike agreed that PoE was stellar on PC. The question stemmed from how well the interface and controls would translate to a gamepad and television screen.
Divinity Original Sin 2 – Almost Half a Million Sold with 85,000 Concurrent Players
Divinity: Original Sin 2 proves that there is still a robust market for cRPGs. In just over four days since release, the game has sold nearly half a million copies, 180,000 of them since release day. In addition, over the weekend, over 85,000 players were online at the same time that caused a bit of stress on the servers.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – PUBG Blows by DOTA 2’s Concurrent User Record
DOTA 2 has long held the Steam record for the most players taking part in the game at the same time. At least it did through last Saturday when the juggernaut called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds blew by the old record by nearly 50,000 players. 1,342,857 players were online at the same time, easily outpacing DOTA 2’s 1,295,114. The big announcement was made on the game’s official Twitter account on Saturday.