Category: Video Games

Destiny 2’s Red War Campaign Accused of Lifting Plot Elements From Online Story in Louisiana Lawsuit

Former Halo developer Bungie is facing a new lawsuit after a Louisiana man claimed the studio stole plot elements from his story and used them for content in Destiny 2.

As first reported by The Game Post, the suit (available to see in full via Scribd) accuses the game company of copyright infringement related to Destiny 2’s 2017 storyline, The Red War. Plaintiff Kelsey Martineau, who in 2013 and 2014 created work under the pen name Caspar Cole, alleges that Bungie lifted elements from a story he published on WordPress.com.

“Defendants have deliberately and intentionally copied the characters, storyline, and other protectable expression from Martineau’s works in the Infringing Game,” claims the suit filed on October 2, 2024. “Martineau has never authorized or given consent for Defendants to use their copyrighted works in the manner complained of herein.”

Martineau’s suit is aiming to halt the distribution of all content related to the storylines in question. The plaintiff is demanding a jury trial.

The claim includes a laundry list of examples from both Martineau’s work and Destiny 2 that the plaintiff claims is proof of Bungie’s wrongdoing. Included in each story are mentions of groups known as the Red Legion, with the suit pointing to character similarities between Destiny’s Dominus Ghaul and Martineau’s Overlord Yinnerah. The document goes as far as to say that both Red Legion factions “mimic one another” and that their “goals directly overlap.” It also touches on broader narrative connections, suggesting that both works “detail the rise of a young and ambitious alien with the intent of dividing and conquering Earth in order to gain strategic asset(s).”

“The creators of Destiny 2 did not independently create their version of the Red Legion but instead of have wrongfully copied Martineau’s original creation,” the suit alleges.

Bungie has yet to comment on Martineau’s copyright infringement lawsuit. Meanwhile, the game developer continues to be surrounded by a tumultuous year of business that has seen it shed hundreds of staff in layoffs and come under fire from fans. Still, the team says it remains committed to Destiny and has a “multi-year” plan to keep its sci-fi journey chugging. In September, a former Bungie lawyer said Sony is “forcing them to get their heads out of their asses.”

The Red Legion stems back to the early days of Destiny 2, which launched in 2017. In our original 8.5/10 review of Bungie’s sequel, we said, “Destiny 2’s excellent co-op and competitive shooting, rewarding loot, and strong social elements will keep us playing.”

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog Additions for October 2024 Revealed by Sony

Sony has revealed the full line-up of PlayStation Plus Games Catalog additions for October 2024, which includes Dead Island 2, Two Point Campus, and more.

Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 14 games are joining the library, 10 on the PlayStation Plus Extra tier and four on the PlayStation Plus Premium Tier through the Classic Games Catalog and PSVR2 offerings. They’re available October 15.

Embracing spooky season ahead of Halloween, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed also arrive alongside the headlining horror title Dead Island 2.

PlayStation Plus Games Catalog Additions for October 2024

Dead Island 2 is the long awaited sequel to the zombie smashing game that finally arrived in 2023. Players rampage around a post apocalyptic version of Los Angeles in a first person action role-playing game where killing zombies as creatively as possible is encouraged. “Dead Island 2 is a hilarious gore-fest and a competent zombie-slaying adventure, but lacks creativity outside of its great sense of humor,” IGN said in our 7/10 review.

Two Point Campus is a college simulation game with an attitude, where players can build their perfect campus and hire their dream team of staff to run it. “The wacky humor might be hit or miss, but as a management sim, Two Point Campus graduates with honors,” IGN said in our 8/10 review.

The Devil In Me arrived as the final game in Season 1 of The Dark Pictures Anthology from Until Dawn and The Quarry developer Supermassive Games. While the studio is seemingly forever seeking a return to form that was Until Dawn (and even its remake has gone down poorly), The Devil in Me couldn’t quite fill its shoes. It earned just a 5/10 in IGN’s review.

Gris aims to be as much an art piece as a video game, describing itself as a “serene and evocative interactive” where players “explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score.” In our 6/10 review, IGN said: “Gris’s beautiful exterior hides a simple, at times confusing, platformer.”

Return to Monkey Island is the highly anticipated follow-up to the beloved Monkey Island series. It earned an impressive 9/10 in IGN’s review. “Return to Monkey Island expectedly comes packed full of smartly crafted puzzles, funny dialogue, and memorable characters,” we said. “But as series creator Ron Gilbert returns to the series’ director’s chair for the first time since 1991, it unexpectedly offers a lot of heart, too. It is an adventure gamer’s delight.”

A multiplayer game with as much substance as one of its ghostly adversaries, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed arrived in 2022 as another in the four versus one formula. Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is an asymmetrical multiplayer game that’s mostly enjoyable, but badly needs more content,” IGN said in our 6/10 review.

Firefighting Simulator: The Squad lets players join a major U.S. city’s firefighting team and discover over 40 diverse deployment locations in an environment inspired by the North American west coast. “Equip yourself with authentic firefighting gear such as helmets, firefighter boots, and a breathing apparatus model by well known North American firefighting equipment manufacturers,” reads the synopsis.

Off road racing game Overpass 2 has players compete in races and try to set the best time on extreme tracks behind the wheel of powerful and officially licensed ATVs and UTVs. Overpass 2 features 37 vehicles in three different categories, five environments, 31 circuits, and multiple race modes.

On yer bike. Tour de France 2023 is the video game version of, well, the Tour de France 2023. Players can pedal alongside the best cyclists, test their endurance, and show their panache to triumph on the Champs-Elysées.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the open world action game that Ubisoft released in 2017. It has been in the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog before too. “Ghost Recon: Wildlands has issues with repetition, but its co-op antics make it an entertaining military shooter,” IGN said in our 7/10 review.

Virtual reality charmer The Last Clockwinder is a whimsical puzzle game about automation, where players must repair the Clocktower: An ancient haven for the galaxy’s plants and seeds built into the trunk of a colossal tree. Special Clockwinder gloves let players turn every simple task into a looping clockwork automaton.

The headlining game in the PlayStation Plus Classic Games Catalog is beloved 1999 title Dino Crisis. With a modern attempt apparently shut down because of Monster Hunter, the original is players’ best bet for a shot in 2024. “Dino Crisis brings back the stylistic still camera angles, the multi-level labyrinthine structures, and the gallons of blood and gore with all of the shock and suspense that Resident Evil 2 delivered,” IGN said in our 9/10 review from 1999.

In the same month Silent Hill 2 remake was released, players can dip into more classic Japanese horror thanks to Siren also launching into the PlayStation Plus Classic Games Catalog. “A siren calls and a sea of red water mysteriously surrounds the mountain village Hanuda,” reads the synopsis. Originally released on PlayStation 2, Siren is now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters.

Finally, R-Type Dimensions EX is the collection of coin-op classics that has players fight through all 14 Bydo-infested stages in retro 2D graphics or shiny 3D graphics – and swap back and forth with the touch of a button on the fly.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Random: A Brand New Game Boy Cartridge Is Launching… From Green Day?

Dear mother can you hear me gaming?

Good grief, first alarm clocks and now this… Rock band Green Day has announced that it is releasing ‘Dookie Demastered’, a collection of extraordinarily unique items that play individual tracks from the band’s iconic 1994 album Dookie.

The items are available to purchase in the US, but only via a limited draw; so essentially you’re free to order however many you like, but you could very well end up with none. Items include a floppy disk (Having a Blast), a doorbell (Longview), and a Big Mouth Billie Bass (Basket Case), but what really caught our attention is a genuine Game Boy cartridge that plays the entirety of Welcome to Paradise.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Bulwark Evolves on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One Today

“There are no songbirds in the palace of the king”, it says this when you boot up Bulwark, an unconventional quote for an unconventional game and world.  Because in this world there are giant warbirds ridden by mounted warriors called Falconeers. The palaces in this world also are rarely places of beauty but bastions of violent subjugation and factional strife.  Something I as the solo developer of The Falconeer first explored in 2020 in the Series X/S launch title The Falconeer – a retro air combat game in the vein of Crimson Skies but set in this hauntingly bleak yet beautiful world called the Ursee. 

Bulwark screenshot

Bulwark : Falconeer Chronicles saw me return to this world but with a more upbeat creative city builder. Allowing anyone to design and grow a small settlement into a massive fortified palace rising into the skies.  But of course, there are no songbirds in those palaces, and this is the Ursee, so that meant inevitably I would have to expand the game to fully make use of the more violent and bleak aspects still very much party of this world and universe.  This meant evolving the game, which is what has happened with the release of Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles. 

Bulwark screenshot

Evolution is the next step in the continuing growth of Bulwark, it expands the world and adds strategy and economics that make war something more meaningful.  And this comes with two major areas of expansion.  The most obvious addition is a new game mode called “total conquest” and secondly is a complete overhaul of the game with a special focus on making combat more meaningful.

The Total Conquest game mode is the obvious new addition. Start building your empire but in a scenario where everyone is against you. Your enemies will start throwing waves of units at your settlements just about as soon as you get it up and running.  Survival means properly defending yourself before you can go on the offensive. 

Luckily the second part of Evolution is a bevy of new content to help you accomplish this. From new fortress elements that add gigantic naval batteries to being able to set different stances for your commanders, have their units defend, escort or assault based on your commands. 

Bulwark screenshot

There is also a surface flagship you can unlock as a freehouse wonder that will allow you to sail the Ursee yourself, just like you can already fly. No system has been left untouched and you’ll find a deeper economy but also a price to losing units in battle. But this doesn’t mean only combat and strategy have been improved, the actual world of the Ursee has been filled with new content to explore, new locations to acquire new commanders and captains to enlist

Bulwark screenshot ships

All in all this update has been powered by the community and feedback from players, with nearly every aspect being in some part improved from the game having been played by so many of you and the feedback it’s been lucky to receive.

In closing I’d recommend any existing player to at least once play with a clean start to experience the hopefully more balanced and meaningful growth and also use some of the new building blocks that can be found in the design of their settlements. Explore some of the mechanics you already know and you’d be surprised to find some nifty new improvements you didn’t expect but hopefully will love. Play Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles today on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.


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INTRODUCING A CREATIVE SANDBOX BUILDING GAME:

Bulwark is about designing your fortress and expanding it into an empire.
I hope you enjoy my attempts to experiment and evolve this game into something enjoyable and fresh.

Bulwark also continues to evolve with each passing update, based on your feedback.
So positive or negative comments are welcome. If it’s intended to help then it’s all appreciated!

Story:
You are in charge of the last remnants of free people on the Ursee, tasked with building a new home. Carve your path onto a world, tower by tower, wall by wall, sculpting from the daunting cliffs and perilous waters of an unforgiving landscape that refuses to be tamed.

Game goals:
Design fantastic ocean fortress settlements. Progress is simple, grow the populations of various factions and you will progress on their Soultrees. Unlocking commanders and captains that may work for you, unlocking new ships, units and abilities.

Play Your Way:
Bulwark – Explore the Great Ursee as you build your grand civilisation. Scavenge for resources,create trade routes and strike alliances with other factions scattered across the waves as you balance negotiation and conflict to grow your settlement.

Freebuild – Enjoy a cosy ‘Freebuild Mode’, devoid of the conflict and challenges present in standard play, you can sketch and experiment without the need for resources, building without limits.

Total Conquest – War has come to the Great Ursee. You start at war with every faction, diplomacy is disabled and the frequency and scale of raids is ramped up. It is no longer enough to just build – now you must survive.

Building Resources:
Wood, stone and Iron aren’t stored or tallied up, the only thing that counts is distance, not cost. You transport resources along your network of towers as well as trading routes over the sea. Towers and walls within range of the resource can be upgraded and built for free, those out of range cannot.

Splinters :
The currency that powers diplomacy, army building, buying new locations and unique buildings is separate from resources, it runs on a currency called, Splinters. You gain these through population growth, trade with other factions or as rewards from combat.

Challenge:
The game challenges you to design and grow grand fortresses, often at little cost other than setting up trade routes for resources. As you grow you may invite in populations from other factions which unlock faction unique content from their “soultree”.
But everybody hates everybody on the Ursee and doing so might lead to war or to loyal allies that merge with your empire. This sandbox builder has consequences!

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Dead Island 2, Two Point Campus, Gris, Return to Monkey Island and more

Battle zombies across Hell-A, attempt to outwit a serial killer and their trap-filled hotel, build the ultimate university campus and learn the devastating, hilarious art of riposte and more with October’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*! Dead Island 2, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, Two Point Campus, Return to Monkey Island and more games are available to play from October 15. On the same day, an awesome foursome of titles join PlayStation Plus Premium in the form of PS VR2 game The Last Clockwinder and three Classics – Capcom adventure Dino Crisis, terrifying horror Siren and iconic sci-fi shooter R-Type Dimensions EX. 

Let’s take a look at each game in turn. 

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog

Dead Island 2 | PS4, PS5

Dead Island 2 is a thrilling First-Person Action RPG, stylish, vibrant and flooded with zombie infection. Explore an iconic, gore-drenched Los Angeles. Meet larger-than-life characters. Slay countless foes in exquisitely bloody detail. And evolve to become the ultimate Zombie Slayer! There are six characters to choose from, each with their own unique personality and dialogues. You can fully customize the abilities of each Slayer, with a brand-new skill system allowing you to re-spec instantly and try out the craziest builds. The game includes an over-the-top co-op mode for up to three players. 

Two Point Campus | PS4, PS5

Take your simulation management experience to a class above with Two Point Campus, the sequel to the multi-million selling Two Point Hospital. Two Point Campus is jam-packed with new creative tools to help you build the university of your dreams. The academic year begins with a summer break, giving you enough time to get everything looking great before your students move in. Build libraries, hire the best staff, kit your campus out with the best courses and watch the academic potential of your students get unlocked. 

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me | PS4, PS5

The Dark Pictures is a  series of stand-alone branching cinematic horror games from the studio behind Until Dawn. Easy to pick-up and play in short sessions, alone or with friends. The Devil in Me is the fourth game in the series and the Season One finale. A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes’ ‘Murder Castle’. It’s an opportunity that’s too good to pass up and could be just the thing they’re looking for to win some much-needed public interest. The hotel is the perfect set for their new episode, but things aren’t quite as they seem. The crew discover they’re being watched and even manipulated, and suddenly there’s much more at stake than just their ratings! Can you outsmart the killer and checkout all your cast? All playable characters can live or die in your version of the story.

Gris | PS4, PS5

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.

Grus is a serene and evocative experience, free of danger, frustration, or death. Players will explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score. Through the game light puzzles, platforming sequences, and optional skill-based challenges will reveal themselves as more of Gris’s world becomes accessible.

Return to Monkey Island | PS5

Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Banter with old friends and new faces on familiar islands now under dangerous new leadership. Then, take to the high seas and explore the new and unknown as you work your way out of tough predicaments. Clever puzzles, bizarre situations, and devastating ripostes are all that stand between Guybrush and glory. 

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed | PS4, PS5

This fun multiplayer game is perfect for all skill levels. Four proton pack wielding Ghostbusters attempt to catch a Ghost haunting unique locations in asymmetrical  multiplayer battles (online or offline). As players progress, they will unlock cosmetics and upgrades for both Ghostbusters and Ghosts to evolve their gameplay experiences. The look and feel will deliver to fans an immersive experience in the universe, allowing them to play out their Ghostbusting fantasies. This game will allow players to enjoy the game solo or with up to four friends and includes an online and offline single-player mode in the form of bot-assisted play.

Firefighting Simulator The Squad | PS4, PS5

Become part of a major US city’s firefighting team and experience how it feels to fight fires. Discover over 40 diverse deployment locations spread across the city inspired by the North American West Coast. Equip yourself with authentic firefighting gear such as helmets, firefighter boots, and a breathing apparatus model by well-known North American firefighting equipment manufacturers. In single player mode, become the leader of an experienced firefighting team. In multiplayer co-op mode, play with up to three friends and take on whichever role suits you most. Assign tasks to your team or jump into the action yourself. 

Overpass 2 | PS5

Identify the best routes and balance of power, speed and precision to overcome obstacles at the controls of a UTV, ATV or Rock Bouncer in both solo and multiplayer modes, your talent and choices of technique will make the difference. Put your skills to the test in 5 game modes in which you have to come to grips with demanding challenges: off-road sprint, off-road circuit, hill climb, obstacle course, closed circuit. At the controls of powerful buggies and quads from major manufacturers such as Yamaha, Arctic Cat and Suzuki, you will travel across 30 routes in 5 regions: Baja Desert, East Central US, Johnson Valley, Utah Desert and Western Europe.

Tour de France 2023 | PS4, PS5

Play the mountain or flat stages and experience the intensity of the Grande Boucle. Pedal alongside the best cyclists, test your endurance and show your panache to triumph on the Champs-Elysées in the official game of the Tour de France 2023. 

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands* | PS4

Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world. In a near future, Bolivia has fallen into the hands of Santa Blanca, a merciless drug cartel who spread injustice and violence. Their objective: to create the biggest Narco-State in history. Create and fully customize your Ghost, weapons, and gear. Enjoy a total freedom of playstyle. Lead your team and take down the cartel, either solo or with up to three friends. 

*PlayStation Plus re-release.

PlayStation Premium | PS VR2 & Classics

The Last Clockwinder | PS VR2

Clone your actions into endlessly repeating loops to build assembly lines and contraptions. Harvest resources, grow plants, and restore life to an ancient tree in this award-winning VR game. Your mission is to repair the Clocktower, an ancient haven for the galaxy’s plants. Use the Clockwinder’s gloves to turn the actions you take into looping clockwork clones. They can do everything you can, from planting to cutting to throwing items through the air. Use their help to save the Clocktower!

Dino Crisis | PS4, PS5

Three years ago, a scientist researching a new source of clean energy known as Third Energy died during an experiment. Now, alarming reports arrive from an agent dispatched to a small country in the South Seas. Regina, a member of a government spy team tasked with extracting the scientist, heads for the isolated island where the military facility is located. Experience Dino Crisis, originally released on the original PlayStation, now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters.

Siren | PS4, PS5

Experience Siren, originally released on PS2, now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. Midnight. A siren calls and a sea of red water mysteriously surrounds the mountain village Hanuda. Slowly, a terrible force transforms the inhabitants into shibito, undead husks of their old selves, fueled by evil and hate.Play as one of ten characters caught in a living nightmare. You have three days to learn how their paths intersect as they try to stay alive. Survival depends on your ability to “sightjack” or the power to see through the eyes of friends and foes. There is no one hero. There is little hope.

R-Type Dimensions EX | PS4

The coin-op classics, R-Type & R-Type II, are together on PS4! Fight through all 14 Bydo-infested stages in retro 2D graphics or shiny 3D graphics – and swap back and forth with the touch of a button ‘on-the-fly’. The new 3D graphics are accompanied by fully reimagined arrangements of the timeless R-Type music tracks. The classic game-play remains untouched while the new Infinite game mode allows continuous progression from game start to final boss. Both game modes can be played as single player or local multiplayer. 

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Doesn’t Have an Arachnophobia Mode Because It’s the First Game in the Series Without Spiders

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the first game in the fantasy action role-playing game series not to feature spiders, developer BioWare has confirmed.

Fans had wondered about the lack of an arachnophobia mode after BioWare revealed The Veilguard’s accessibility options without one, but it turns out it’s not needed because there are no spiders in the game.

“No arachnophobia mode because there’s no spiders!” posted associate community manager blackhairvioleteyes in the Dragon Age subreddit.

Reaction is mixed. Dragon Age is known for its creepy spiders, which are common throughout all the games. There are even mods that turn the spiders into other animals to help those with arachnophobia. But while some players have said they’re surprised by the omission, others have welcomed it.

And as some have pointed out, this suggests that the creepy spider with human hands creature shown off as part of a behind-the-scenes trailer released in 2020 may not have made the cut. You can see this nightmarish monstrosity in the video below (skip to 3:17 if you dare).

IGN has plenty more on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including a deep-dive into its development, which is well worth a read if you want to know more about how BioWare realized the game. We’ve also got a lore deep-dive and everything you need to know about relationships and its steamiest romance.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

For £8 / $8, these Steam Deck thumbstick covers are a neat stocking stuffer to end Prime Big Deal Days with

I’m told that if I do one more Prime Big Deal Days post, they’ll take off the metal clamps holding my eyelids open, and won’t put them back on until Black Friday next month. Result! So here’s a little after-dinner mint of a PC gaming hardware bargain: JSAUX’s Steam Deck thumbstick covers, which come packaged with some stick-on decals for £8 / $8. Both 20% off, they be, leaving a price so low I have real hope you’ll forgive me using the phrase “stocking stuffer” in October.

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Best Buy’s Prime Day Counter-Sale Features an Excellent Xbox Series X Deal

October’s Prime Day has given us a wide variety of discounts to check out at Amazon, but a couple of other retailers are jumping in on the action with their own rival sales. Best Buy is one such place giving Amazon some competition. They currently have a great Xbox Series X deal running for a limited time.

At the moment, you can save $50 on an Xbox Series X console there, dropping its price to $449.99, but that’s not all. Best Buy’s also throwing in a free $25 gift card with your purchase. That’s a nice little bonus on top of the discount, and one you can use towards a game for your new console, if you wish. This deal is only running today, so you’ll have to act fast to pick it up!

Best Buy’s Offering an Xbox Series X Deal in Prime Day Counter-Sale

Best Buy isn’t the only retailer offering up some unforgettable deals right now. Target has a wide variety of LEGO sets discounted at the moment and Walmart currently has one of our favorite gaming monitor deals for Prime Day. And if you’d like to see the rest of what Amazon has in stock for today, have a look at our massive October Prime Day roundup to see the best deals across tech, film, games, and so much more.

Should You Buy Now or Wait for Black Friday?

While this October sale event ends after today, there’s still plenty more to look forward to as we near the holiday season. Mainly, Black Friday is on the horizon, which is when these retailers will really ramp up their sales. The biggest difference between Prime Day and Black Friday is that more retailers get involved, so there’s plenty more to look through. If you miss a deal during this sale event, it’s likely to pop up again later on. To learn more about these sale events and which is the best one to watch out for, have a look at our breakdown of Black Friday vs. October Prime Day.

Hannah Hoolihan is a freelance writer who works with the Guides and Commerce teams here at IGN.