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BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Hook: Here We Go Again Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Blizzard launches a flashy countdown, drops a trailer that looks like a Pixar fever dream, and promises a 'new era' of content while simultaneously checking if your credit card is still on file. The Overwatch Spotlight is the latest attempt to distract us from the fact that we’re still playing a sequel that feels more like a glorified patch notes update. If you’re sitting there with your finger over the 'Pre-order' button for whatever battle pass or skin bundle they’re about to shill, do us all a favor—put the mouse down and go outside. The sun doesn't have microtransactions. Yet. The Details: Shiny Trailers and Empty Promises So, what exactly is the Overwatch Spotlight? According to the hype machine over at Esports.gg, we’ve got a countdown ticking a...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The 'Generosity' of Our Corporate Overlords Gather 'round, children of the digital age, and let me tell you a story about a multi-billion dollar company finally giving you a feature you should have had when the Xbox One was still a VCR-sized paperweight. Microsoft has graciously announced that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can now stream select games they actually own from the cloud. I know, I know—hold back your tears of joy. It only took them years of broken promises and 'coming soon' tags to realize that if I spend $70 on a digital license for a game, I might actually want to play it on my phone while I’m hiding from my responsibilities in a Starbucks bathroom. The announcement includes 48 games to start, featuring heavy hitters like Disco Elysium , Cyberpunk 2077 , and Baldur’s Gate 3 . On paper, it sounds ...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The upcoming update is the first major milestone on their roadmap. It introduces four-player co-op , allowing you to share the misery of the game's inventory management and durability systems. They’re also promising new areas and bosses, which is the standard 'please keep playing' carrot on a stick. It’s a bold move to push co-op when the solo experience still feels like it’s held together by duct tape and prayers, but that’s the Early Access lifestyle, baby. Rogue’s Take: The 'Soulslike' Label is a Trap Can we talk about how every game is a 'Soulslike' now? If I have to manage a stamina bar to breathe, suddenly it’s 'Souls-inspired.' No Rest for the Wicked tries to marry the precision of Dark Souls with the loot-grind of Diablo , and the result is... exhausting. It’s a game that hates your time. O...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Undead Simulator Strikes Again Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Electronic Arts is asking for forty bucks to add a feature to The Sims 4 that probably should have been in the base game back when Obama was in office. It’s 2026, people. We were promised flying cars and neural-link gaming, but instead, we’re getting another expansion pack for a game engine that is currently held together by digital duct tape, prayers, and the sheer willpower of modders who haven't slept since 2014. Following the absolute circus of EA’s recent buyout—which we all knew was coming because, let’s face it, they’ve been auditioning for a sugar daddy for years—the 'new' EA has decided to kick off the year by pivot-stepping into the middle ages. Or, at least, a very sanitized, DLC-heavy version of it. Wait, Didn't We Already Have Thr...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic Let’s look at the headliners. First up, we have Palworld . You’ve seen the trailers—it’s basically Pokémon with semi-automatic weapons. It’s the kind of fever dream that only happens when developers realize that 'cute monsters' plus 'industrial slavery' equals profit. It’s entering Game Pass via Game Preview, which is a fancy way of saying 'it’s broken, but you can play it anyway.' Remember my golden rule? Don't pre-order. And frankly, don't get too attached to Early Access titles that might just vanish into the ether once the developers realize they've made enough money to retire to a private island. Then there’s Persona 3 Reload . Look, I love a good JRPG as much as the next person who enjoys staring at menus for six hours straight, but do we really need another version of this game? It’s a remake o...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Funeral Nobody Invited You To Gather 'round, children, and put down your overpriced controllers for a second. We’re here to talk about a corpse. Not the kind of corpse you find in those generic 'open-world survival' games you keep pre-ordering like a mindless lemming, but a mechanical one. I’m talking about the Divinity: Original Sin 2 armor system . You know, that thing that actually forced you to use your brain instead of just clicking 'Attack' until the shiny loot dropped? Yeah, that one. Apparently, it’s gone for good, and honestly, we probably deserve this mediocrity. Read Also: Arc Raiders: Embark Promises to Fix the Cheater Plague While Your Wallet Stays Firmly Closed Larian Studios, the current darlings of the industry because they actually finished a game before selling it (what a concept!), have moved on...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic Let’s look at the timeline here, because it’s funnier than a clown car on fire. This Switch port was announced in October 2023 . At that time, we all thought, 'Okay, cool, they’ll probably just upscale the assets, strip out the predatory gacha mechanics, and dump it on the eShop by mid-2024.' Nope. Broccoli looked at the calendar and decided that three years was the appropriate gestation period for a game that already exists . We are looking at a 2026 release window. To put that in perspective, by the time this game launches, the Nintendo Switch will be a legacy console currently being used as a paperweight in most households, and we’ll probably be on the Switch 2: Electric Boogaloo . Read Also: iBUYPOWER Returns to Counter-Strike: Because We All Forgot About 2014, Right? Original Announcement: October 2023 Mobile Shutdown: De...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The game in question is a relic from the Nintendo Entertainment System era, a time when 'difficulty' was just a code word for 'bad programming' and 'replayability' meant you had to start the whole thing over because there was no save function. Adding these titles to Game Pass is part of Microsoft’s ongoing strategy to make the service look like a bottomless pit of entertainment. And sure, it’s technically 'content,' but so is the dust under my couch, and I don’t pay $15 a month to look at that. The game features 8-bit graphics, a soundtrack that sounds like a microwave having a seizure, and controls so stiff they make a Victorian mannequin look limber. It’s a 1985 classic that helped define its genre, but let’s not pretend anyone is going to cancel their weekend plans to grind through this. It’s the kind o...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Hook: Death, Taxes, and Patch 16.1 Welcome to the future, or at least the part of it where Riot Games continues to hold our free time hostage with the 2026 League of Legends Patch Schedule . If you thought 2025 was the year you’d finally touch grass, think again. The 2026 schedule is out, and it’s exactly what you’d expect: a bi-weekly cycle of hope followed by the crushing realization that your main has been gutted to make room for a new champion with three dashes, a global execute, and a passive that requires a PhD to understand. We’ve been doing this for over fifteen years. You’d think by now we’d have learned, but here we are, marking our calendars for the next time the meta shifts from 'tank dominance' to 'assassins killing you from two screens away.' It’s the circle of life, if life was managed by a balancing t...

BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Hook: Because Your Sweat Wasn't Edgy Enough Welcome back, fellow victims of the gaming industry’s relentless pursuit of your wallet. It’s Rogue here, the guy who reminds you that your backlog is a graveyard of broken promises and unplayed 'Gold Editions.' Today, we’re looking at Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer . Yes, they made a third one. Apparently, the first two didn’t quite get us to stop eating Cheetos on the couch, so Imagineer is back for another round. But wait, there’s a 'Phantom Thief' twist. They’ve announced the Persona 5 Royal Pack DLC . Because nothing says 'rebellion against society' like paying fifteen bucks to shadowbox in your living room to jazz music while a virtual trainer judges your lack of stamina. The Details: What Are You Actually Buying? Imagineer has officially pulled...