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Monster Hunter Wilds 1.041 Anniversary Update Hits Hard

MHW Turning Up the Heat With Anniversary Update 1.041 Anniversary events are usually pretty chill. Log in, grab yourself some freebies, maybe craft a funderful seasonal armor set and then just call it a day... That’s not what’s happening here. Update 1.041 drops tomorrow, February 18, and while Capcom is absolutely still handing out login bonuses and rotating Festivals of Accord, the real headline is much simpler: 10★ Arch-tempered monsters are here, and they are permanent. The party balloons are up, but so is the difficulty ceiling. https://youtu.be/i78PJfed9Mo Video: Monster Hunter Wilds - February 2026 Update | Monster Hunter 10★ Arch-Tempered Arkveld Other 10★ Arch-Tempered New Player-Designed Drip Monster Hunter Stories Collab What to Prioritize Expansion Setup? If you’ve been coasting through endgame thinking your build is untouchable, this update might be the reality check that you've been waiting to […]

Ayefkay February 17, 2026

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Monster Hunter Wilds Anniversary February Update
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Monster Hunter Wilds 1.041 Anniversary Update Hits Hard

MHW Turning Up the Heat With Anniversary Update 1.041 Anniversary events are usually pretty chill. Log in, grab yourself some freebies, maybe craft a funderful seasonal armor set and then just call it a day... That’s not what’s happening here. Update 1.041 drops tomorrow, February 18, and while Capcom is absolutely still handing out login bonuses and rotating Festivals of Accord, the real headline is much simpler: 10★ Arch-tempered monsters are here, and they are permanent. The party balloons are up, but so is the difficulty ceiling. https://youtu.be/i78PJfed9Mo Video: Monster Hunter Wilds - February 2026 Update | Monster Hunter 10★ Arch-Tempered Arkveld Other 10★ Arch-Tempered New Player-Designed Drip Monster Hunter Stories Collab What to Prioritize Expansion Setup? If you’ve been coasting through endgame thinking your build is untouchable, this update might be the reality check that you've been waiting to […]

Ayefkay February 17, 2026

Quarantine Zone Last Check Zombie Checkpoint Review
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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check Full Game Release Review

A Zombie Game That’s One Big Idea Away From Greatness When I played the beta for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, I enjoyed it...but I also spent a seemingly dumb amount of time pushing a dolly around my base wondering why I suddenly had a part-time job working in an Amazon warehouse. The full release thankfully fixes that. The unnecessary fluff has been stripped out, the pacing feels a lot better, and what remains is a more focused, zombie inspection simulator that clearly draws inspiration from games like Papers, Please and Contraband Police (except now you’re scanning for zombie symptoms instead of visa stuff). It’s good. Genuinely good. And it’s frustrating in the best way, because in my opinion - it’s sitting right on the edge of something even better. Gameplay Beta Cleanup Zombie Defense Mini Game Missing Potential Idea Example […]

Ayefkay February 12, 2026

Nose Ring Echo Chamber Critique of Gaming Media
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Nose Ring Echo Chamber by Design: Critique of Gaming Media

Why Modern Gaming Media Can’t Take a Hint If you’ve watched the new "Nose Ring Echo Chamber by Design" music video I just dropped and thought, “Damn, well that was pretty aggressive” ...good. That was the point! The song is a critiquing satire aimed squarely at modern gaming journalism, an industry that seemingly managed to forget why it exists while insisting that it somehow still knows better than the people who actually play games. https://youtu.be/MeiTldTPdb8 Nose Ring Echo Chamber by Design | Report AFK Somewhere along the way, reviews stopped being about performance, gameplay, mechanics, or fun - and started becoming more about moral lectures and games and their developers having the "correct" politics. And if it doesn’t... Well, they're going to let you know with 52 1/2 articles blasting every teensy thing they can find to complain about. Same Takes, Different […]

Ayefkay February 3, 2026

Aftermath Journalist Connections Just More of the Same
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Aftermath Isn’t New Games Media – It’s Rebranded Irrelevance

Every few years, games journalism announces its own rebirth. A new website or publication launches. Some generic mission statement promises readers independence. Subscriptions replace ads. Corporate influence is supposedly left behind. And we're told that this time will finally be different, more honest, more authentic, and more connected to the people who actually play games. And then you look at the bylines. Aftermath Collection of Recent Ideological Bylines Aftermath, the latest “independent” games media startup, is trying to position itself as some sort of "clean break" from the failures of legacy outlets like Kotaku, Polygon, Vice, and The Verge...but scratch the surface for about five seconds and you might find that a different picture starts to emerge. This is not a revolution. It's more like a reunion tour. Same rejected writers. Same cringeworthy worldviews. Same self-aggrandizing echo-chamber social circles. Same […]

Ayefkay January 29, 2026

Highguard Release When Free is Still Too Expensive
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Highguard Flops: When Free to Play is Still Too Expensive

There’s hype. Then there’s Highguard...the game that somehow closed out The Game Awards 2025 in the best reveal slot only to deliver one of the most unhyped receptions in recent gaming memory. What could have been a triumphant showcase for basically any other game became a collective eyeroll, meme fodder, and (hilariously) a “Concord 2: Electric Boogaloo” moment for the already oversaturated hero shooter genre. But let’s start with the basics: Highguard is yet another free-to-play hero shooter born from a questionable team with credits on games like Titanfall and Apex Legends, landing what they really really wanted to be the industry’s “next big thing” moment,  only to be greeted with blank stares and memes questioning why this game was even the finale. I mean, you had a new Mega Man game announcement...and if you showed Mega Man Dual Override in Highguard's spot […]

Ayefkay January 27, 2026

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