Who doesn’t love physical game maps? Anybody own a cloth map? Those were the days. Now, instead of a cloth map, how about a 3D recreation with several monsters figurines roaming the land? Sound good? Sometime in March, Square Enix will be selling aDragon Quest 25th Anniversary Map Diorama Collection, a set of 11 segments that can be joined to form a 3D map ofAlefgard, the overworld from the originalDragon Quest....

And it’s out… right now! I do love a good surprise release. Mike Bithell ofThomas Was AloneandVolumefame has announced and launched his team’s latest game,Subsurface Circular, a “graphical twist on the classic text-based adventure.” It’s pitched as a single-sitting game and priced accordingly at $4.79 on Steam. “A detective stationed on the Subsurface Circular investigates a series of disappearances among the city’s robotic working class,” reads the summary. “Collect words and phrases, then use them in dialogue puzzles to uncover the world’s secrets and determine its future....

Form and Void and Meddler Cyberpunk is often a particularly nasty genre. It’s an evolution of noir, which is why you see conventions of noir regularly appear in cyberpunk stories. The morally ambiguous main character, the even more ambiguous romantic interest, the nigh-insurmountable conspiracy — all tropes found in both cyberpunk and noir. Whereas noir usually comes with a fedora and a smart suit, cyberpunk comes with a sick node in the back of your skull that lets you surf the internet with youreyes, man....

A Fiend Rose by any other name If you’re dipping your toes into making perfect gearsets inDiablo 4, you’ll want a lot of Fiend Roses. You’ll notably need these if you visit the Occultist to replace an affix on a piece of equipment. Considering that you may need to reroll an affix multiple times until you get an effect you want, you really can’t have enough of these devilish flowers....

There’s a coolDaredevileaster egg inSpider-Man 2if you’re looking closely enough. Strangely, it’s not in Hell’s Kitchen, despite the majority of the Netflix show taking place there. Daredevil easter egg location inSpider-Man 2 The Daredevil reference you’re looking for is located in the Upper West Side. On the map, look for the building slanting to the right. Then go north two blocks and look left. There should be an alleyway with a giant red flag on the building....

Where do you hide your pile of shame? If you’re anything like me it’s probably along some dusty, untraveled road on a moonless night, a quart of Evan Williams in your coat pocket, your trusty shovel in one hand and a newly-purchased sack of lime thrown over your shoulder. Ready to get things done. However, in the Brave New World of Digital Rights Management, where can we hide our dirty little secrets?...

Monolithsoft is at it again Nintendo and Monolithsoft are working on something for Wii U, and I want whatever it is. The team behindXenoblade Chronicleshave something beautiful lined up, but all we got this morning from this morning’s Wii U Direct broadcast were a few short snippets of gameplay. Whatever it is looks big and open, and it features parties of three going at big beasts, not unlikeMonster Hunter. When dude hopped into a mech at the edge of a cliff and flew off into the sunset I felt a rush of goosebumps come over me, starting from my knees and ending up at the very top of my head....

Delayed to Q1 2016 Stranded in space, alone, and low on oxygen. That’s the setup forAdr1ft, a nerve-wracking exploration game in development at Three One Zero. It’s now releasing in Q1 2016 for PC. As revealed alongside today’s Oculus Rift developer conference,Adr1ftwill be a day-and-date launch title for the virtual-reality headset. If you’d rather play on a console — say, PlayStation 4 or Xbox One — the latest word is that “additional SKUs and platforms will be announced in the future....

Though it’s not going to appeal to all of you, I quite likedThe Adventures of Shuggy. It sounds as if very few people played the puzzle platformer on Xbox Live Arcade, which makes me hopeful that the brand new PC version can attract a sizable audience. This certainly wouldn’t be the first time an indie game has started out on Xbox 360 only to see substantially more success on PC. Right now,Shuggyis being sold at a discounted launch-week price of $7....

Grand Theft Auto VIis riding a titanic wave of hype right into the annals of gaming history, and its release is still nearly a year away. But that’s also the cause of frequent leaks that accompany the title’s development. Luminary publisher Rockstar Games’ current project faces off against insider information, data miners, hackers, leaked documents, and more. And while a few of these leaks were a splash in the pond, others caused a tsunami of press coverage and speculation....

Don’t remap your actual arms by mistake Version 3.0 update adds button remapping functionality forArms. Motion control sensitivity can also be adjusted, but it doesn’t appear you can go so far as change the type of motions that correspond with certain attacks. Full button mapping is a feature that all games should feature. Most PC games have that figured out but consoles are slow to adapt. There is some system level mapping on at least the PlayStation 4 if you really need it, but it would be better to have it on the game level to avoid having to switch it up often....

You and me could have a bear romance Baldur’s Gate 3is just under a month away, at this point, and today Larian Studioshosteda Panel From Hell to celebrate the impending launch on PC. It featured a new Origin character with a unique playstyle, tons of gameplay details, and one very fraught scene with a Druid. One of the big reveals of the Panel was the new Origin character, teased in itsonline mystery game, who is more like an Origin archetype: the Dark Urge....

Impressions from the open beta When it comes to online FPS games, I like to cause chaos. I like to find ways to bend rules, do the unexpected, and take out enemies in bizarre “what-if” scenarios. I’m happy to say thatBattlefield 2042enables a great deal of chaos. TheBattlefieldseries has, in the past, been good at allowing moments like those to happen, whether it’s driving a buggy rigged with C4 into the Commander’s radar array or sneaking onto the enemy’s aircraft carrier and stealing their jets....