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Returnal Feels Like An Actual PS5 Game
22.4.2021
A busted spaceship. An uncharted exoplanet teeming with hostile life. An emphasis on scanning objects, upgrading equipment, and retracing your footsteps. Those might sound like core components of a new Metroid Prime, but they’re not, at least not in this case. They’re the ingredients of...
Fans Criticize Poor Timing Of In-Person Twitch Star Uno Tournament
22.4.2021
Last night, esports and lifestyle organization 100 Thieves held an all-star streamer Uno tournament featuring Twitch and YouTube stars like Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, Ali “Myth” Kabbani, Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, Ludwig Ahgren, Hasan Piker, and the Botez sisters, whose otherworldly skill at chess...
Call Of Duty: Warzone's Nukes Finally Went Off
22.4.2021
Today, Call of Duty: Warzone’s long-teased zombies and nuke event finally kicked off. A zombie-infested map led to a full-on kaboom that not only marked the end of Season Two, but the destruction of Verdansk. But we haven’t actually seen the last of Verdansk just yet: The nuke live event was just...
Clock Tower Is Creepy As Hell For A Super Nintendo Game
21.4.2021
I had one simple reason for playing 1995 survival horror classic Clock Tower decades after its original release: I didn’t want to be a poser anymore.Read more
Never Count Out A Wario Full Of Farts
21.4.2021
Wario is, by most accounts, a pretty good character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. But facing him gets even scarier when he’s had time to fill his guts with explosive flatulence.Read more
Tales Of Arise Out September 10, Coming To Next-Gen Consoles Too
21.4.2021
Tales of Arise, the next game in Bandai Namco’s long-running spikey-haired angst series, will come out on September 10, according to the game’s official Twitter account. Previously announced for PC and last-gen consoles, the action-RPG will also come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.Read more
HOLD IT! The Great Ace Attorney Games Are Finally Getting Released Outside Japan
21.4.2021
Time to brush up on your jurisprudence, y’all, because today Capcom announced The Great Ace Attorney games are finally being released outside of Japan. Dubbed The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, the collection features both Ace Attorney spin-offs, The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great...
Xbox Free-To-Play Games Are Finally Free To Play
21.4.2021
Starting today, all Xbox players can play more than 50 free-to-play games without an Xbox Live Gold membership, Microsoft announced in a blog post. The update comes on the heels of a ballyhooed reversal of longstanding Xbox policy.Read more
Service Games Like Genshin Impact and Destiny Are A Backlog Nightmare
21.4.2021
It’s not uncommon for people to say they “need” something when they just want it, or vice versa. When it comes to games, however, you only really ever want to play them. Need, if we’re talking about it in the “Maslow’s hierarchy of” sense, does not generally enter the equation. Or at least,...
Sonic 2 Movie Set Photos Feature A Second Sonic Sidekick
21.4.2021
We know Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Sonic, and the teaser at the end of the first movie revealed Tails. Photos shot during the sequel’s filming in Vancouver show off a third anthropomorphic animal character that could be joining the cast. Potential movie spoilers but come on, we all know who...
Square Enix Launches A Photobook Service In Japan For Final Fantasy XIV
21.4.2021
If photo books are good enough to revive your digital pics, then surely the same goes for your life in Final Fantasy XIV.Read more
Japan's Fraudulent Composer Returns Years Later With New Music
21.4.2021
In 2014, it was revealed that Mamoru Samuragochi, who was called “Japan’s Beethoven,” was not actually deaf. What’s more, he also used a ghostwriter for music.Read more
Rockstar Very Quietly Adds A Bunch Of Free DLC To Max Payne 3 & LA Noire
21.4.2021
Rockstar haven’t just spent the week fucking around with their Steam listings for no reason; not long after accidentally bringing Midnight Club II back for a few minutes, folks discovered that Max Payne 3 and LA Noire’s Steam versions now include all their DLC for free.Read more
I’m Going To Miss You, Heavensward
20.4.2021
Last time on my journey Heavensward, I said it was too hard to level my fifty ‘leven jobs evenly, so I decided to focus on solo-leveling my healer. Turns out, I may have been a bit premature in that decision. See, what had happened was I belatedly realized I fit the level requirements to pick...
Handy Sticker Lets You Meme Devil May Cry’s Dante Into Any Game
20.4.2021
Ahead of Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster’s release on PlayStation 4 and Switch next month, publisher Sega has provided the internet with a beautifully high-resolution version of the “Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series” sticker from the PlayStation 2 original’s box art...
Mother 3 Gets An Updated English Patch On Its 15th Anniversary
20.4.2021
The folks behind the wonderful English translation of Mother 3 are still working on the project over a decade later. Earlier today—which also happens to be the 15th anniversary of Nintendo’s milestone RPG in Japan—they dropped a new patch that irons out some lingering bugs in the unofficial...
Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan Leaves Blizzard
20.4.2021
As of today, the man, the myth, the meme Jeff Kaplan is no longer a member of the Overwatch team—or Blizzard, for that matter.Read more
Mods Make Gaming A Better Place For Everyone
20.4.2021
Twitter is abuzz with today’s awkwardly wrong gaming take, this time focused on modding, after disparaging thoughts about a recent Witcher 3 mod led to debate over whether modders are harming the games industry. Which leads me to present the other case: modders are not harming the games...
Here's Everything Coming To And Leaving Game Pass Soon
20.4.2021
The baseball game is the big one, but that’s not the only game en route to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s everything coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service in the next few weeks:Read more
Spiritfarer Celebrates 500K Copies Sold With A Free Update
20.4.2021
Spiritfarer, the “cozy management game about dying,” has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. In celebration of this impressive milestone, developer Thunder Lotus is releasing The Lily Update, adding a new butterfly spirit to the game to help flesh out the story of main character Stella....