The brains behind Jimquisition and Zero Punctuation get lyrical You remember last week when I said I’ve given up and I’ll just start getting weird with my poems? So, that’s happened now. This week, Yahtzee pays tribute to Rogue Legacy, while I pay a different sort of tribute to a different sort of rogue. Because that’s what I’m doing from now on, and I choose to blame everybody else.

Steam Workshop is in effect Saints Row IVis a wacky game as is. Each entry in the series pushed the absurdity further, and in this one, you are a gang boss turned democratically-elected President of the United States that fends off aliens using superpowers becausewhy the hell not? Now imagine that baseline, but with mods. Deep Silver Volition has added Steam Workshop support to the Windows version ofSaints Row IV, and also pushed the price down to a mere $3....

Sekirois one of those games where you never feel overpowered. Even if you make smart skill-tree choices and prioritize unlocking high-impact abilities (bless you,Shadowrush), it can still be a struggle to make tangible upgrade progress unless you grind in familiar areas or tread new ground with extreme caution. Players have had five years to narrow down the best farming spots for XP and Sen, and I’ve played the game enough times to toss my own two cents into the debate....

Elianora, who also goes by Emmi Junkkari, is a prominent modder in theSkyrimcommunity. They have created some of the most downloadedFallout 4andSkyrimmods that have evencaught the attention of Todd Howardwho has complimented the mods. Bethesda went beyond distant admiration, as Elianora has revealed that they worked as a lighting and clutter artist forStarfield. https://twitter.com/Elianora/status/1697398867195482500 As Elianora explains in her Twitter post, they had only been pretending to not know much aboutStarfield, and their surprise at the world’s detail was feigned, as they had actually helped place a lot of the clutter that you see aroundStarfield‘s world....

Because everyone should have a Chupacabra in their party Over the past week or so, I decided to go on a strange journey down theShin Megamihole. It’s dark, full of demons, and everyone down there speaks Japanese. But,Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Reduxis easily some of the best dungeon crawling you’ll do down in said hole. Now that I’m back above ground, I’ve decided to share a bunch of demon passwords from the many fusion accidents I’ve had....

For Sparta! Or Athens It’s mid-March, the weather is finally taking a turn for the better, and everyone has that spring fever where they’re itching to spend their weekends out and about. Bad news, and I don’t even have to explain what thebad newsis. While you’re stuck at home, maybe playAssassin’s Creed Odysseyif you haven’t already? It might be the bestAssassin’s Creeddespite being the game that’s the leastAssassin’s Creed. It’s probably moreThe Witcher 3thanAssassin’s Creed....

Get to know the people that make great videogames This week on Sup Holmes we welcome Nels Anderson, lead designer onMark of the Ninja. 2D stealth action games about ninjas are not exactly what’s hot with the kids right now, but that didn’t stop Nels and his team atKlei entertainment(Shank, N+, Sugar Rush, Don’t Starve) from creating one of the most critically acclaimed and compelling games of 2012. True to its name, the game struck silently from the shadows, and before we all knew it, all our throats were cut (metaphorically speaking)....

A recent in-game dispatch inHelldivers 2informed players that the Automaton faction had advanced its war efforts to include malicious messages to players. While I’m sure this was meant a bit of a joke, players have ended up taking these sci-fi phishing efforts quite seriously. We’re used to seeing in-game messages aboutsaving childrenor fighting for ourprocreation permitsinHelldivers 2. With this latest tactic, the Automatons are attempting to breach Super Each security systems and, presumably, figure out where we’re being deployed next so they can flank us and take more galactic territory....

Oh, and there’s a Pokemon that looks like aMega Mancharacter As promised,the latestPokemontrailer is live, and it deals withPokemon ScarletandViolettreasure hunting: a thematic aspect of the upcoming generation. In this voice-overview-less trailer, we get to see how some of the overarching factions will play out, and we get a brief overview of a few gym leaders, as well as some upcoming creatures. According to Game Freak, “inPokemon ScarletandPokemon Violet, the school you’ve enrolled in hosts a special independent study project....

They also handled Wolfenstein Panic Button has been busy recently because of the Nintendo’s latest device. Although the studio has done contract work here and there for a variety of different clients they’ve made the Switch their home this year, and have become the go-to authority for Bethesda on all matters Nintendo — on top of providing aRocket Leagueport for Psyonix. They’re not done yet either, as apparently they’ve been making noise around the development circuit with their AAA Switch ports....

Betrayal! Losing! How not to be a dick! Video games (single-player ones, at least) teach you that you are the best, you are the only one who matters, you will always get more powerful, that your hand will be held, that you don’t need to actually care about other human beings. Board games teach you the opposite: you probably won’t win, other people matter so you should probably be civil to them, you may have to do some work and think a little, you may have to be patient....

Those of you who followed the 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship this past weekend saw amasterful comebackby the game’s top player, Tiger Woods. He forced an eighteen-hole playoff with a 12-foot birdie putt on Sunday, and then came from behind once more to finally finish off Rocco Mediate in Monday’s playoff — although even then, a nineteenth sudden-death hole was necessary.The victory was made even more impressive by the post-championship reveal that Tiger had been playing for at least ten months with a tornACLin his left knee, as well as a double stress fracture in his left tibia that he suffered two weeks before the U....

The monkey’s paw strikes again! After our glowing review ofSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatefrom Chris Carter — which primarily focused on the single-player components — I decided in today’s episode of Impulse we’d discuss our impressions from the online multiplayer! So, I sat down once again with Associate Editor Peter Glagowski to discuss our time spent wrapping our heads around it. And boy oh boy, maybe they should have taken a note from Rockstar and slapped the word “beta” on this thing — because it’s arguably the worst online multiplayer the series has had on offer to date....