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No Man’s Sky Is (Somehow) Coming To Switch This Summer
9.2.2022
The space exploration game No Man’s Sky is coming to Switch later this summer, Nintendo announced today during a 40-minute Nintendo Direct.Read more
Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Getting A Musou Spin-Off
9.2.2022
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is coming back, this time as the frenetic hack-and-slash game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. The Musou-style game arrives on Nintendo Switch on June 24, 2022.Read more
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Nerfs Cherrim So It Will Stop Torturing Players
9.2.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ first post-launch update is live on Switch and while very small, it does accomplish one very important thing: fixing Cherrim. Read more
Legends: Arceus Players Are Begging For Better Ways To Organize Their Pokémon
9.2.2022
Like so many Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus encourages players to catch lots and lots of Pokémon. It even incentivizes you to catch tons of the same creature, in order to obtain shinies and to fully complete its enhanced Pokédex. And this time around, instead of storing all those Pokémon...
Head Of Xbox Downplays Fears Of Game Pass Price Hike
9.2.2022
Game Pass has never been more popular, and after Microsoft revealed its plan to buy Activision Blizzard and add some of that company’s biggest games to the service, an increase in the Game Pass subscription price has never felt more inevitable. Newly minted Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer...
Report: Ubisoft Turning A Valhalla DLC Into Standalone Assassin's Creed Game
9.2.2022
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla got too big for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Following two major expansions for the open-world RPG and forthcoming third one, Ubisoft is turning a planned fourth into its own spinoff, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports.Read more
Halo Infinite Is Selling A Literal Halo
9.2.2022
First came the cat ears. Then came the Iron Man armor. But this week, one of Halo Infinite’s prime cosmetics options is a bit more on the nose: a literal halo.Read more
Jim Sterling: From 'Pathetic Edgelord' To YouTube's 'Princess Of Pansexual Pandemonium'
9.2.2022
As a child, James Stephanie Sterling often found themselves picking apart what made games good or bad, what entertained and what left them cold. Silent Hill 2 would prove their favorite game. They adored its evocatively bleak atmosphere, and years later, that mirrors how they feel about the video...
OlliOlli World Is A Very Sick Skateboard Nerd’s Fantasy
9.2.2022
It’s been seven years since OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood, Roll7's 2015 skateboarding platformer. The skateboarding genre has seen some stellar releases in that time, including the highly customizable Session, Skater XL, and the remastered bundle Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. There’s also last...
Yet Another Japanese Gaming Peripheral For The Truly Lazy
9.2.2022
That’s not a massage table! You are looking at the Lying Face Down Sleep Cushion Z. Pointed out by Gizmodo Japan and PC Watch, it was specifically created for you to place your head between the two cushions and play video games, look at your phone or tablet, and even read books. Read more
Take A Slowpoke Themed Vacation In Japan
9.2.2022
Right now, entering Japan is difficult, if not impossible, due to the country’s travel ban and quarantine requirements. If things change and the country’s Covid-19 situation improves, do I have a vacation idea for you. As pointed out by Mondo Mascots, Slowpoke is now the tourism character...
Report: IGDA Failed To Act On Internal Harassment Claims
9.2.2022
The International Game Developers Association has been an outspoken critic of the culture at companies like Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard that has led to so many lawsuits, departures and firings over the last few years. Yet a report today by GI.Biz says that the group has failed to act on its...
Ubisoft's Rabbids Join Blockchain Game, Welcome To Hell
9.2.2022
If NFTs are a scam—and they are, I’m just going through the rhetorical motions in building a sentence here—then The Sandbox is one of the biggest engines driving them in the video game space. So it makes perfect sense that it’s the location for Ubisoft’s next foray into the world of all this...
Destiny 2’s Mysterious Bridge Is Finally Finished, And Nothing Happened
9.2.2022
Destiny 2 is in a weirder spot than usual right now. Anticipation for its upcoming Witch Queen expansion is through the roof, but the game’s current seasonal story hasn’t progressed in months. Nothing highlights the gap between the growing hype and the current snooze better than the game’s latest...
Halo Infinite Tips For People Who Already Know What They’re Doing
8.2.2022
By now, Halo Infinite has been out long enough for you to get pretty good. But there comes a point in all competitive shooters—hey, no shame in this—where you hit a plateau. Your matches start playing out just as the previous 50 did. You find yourself falling back on the same tactics, to the same...
Secret Dying Light 2 Blueprint Gives Players A Lethal Finger Gun
8.2.2022
Dying Light 2 is a massive game, with tons of little nooks and crannies in which to find treasure. One such hidey-hole squirrels away a blueprint for the Left Finger of gloVa, a powerful piece of equipment that lets players kill zombies simply by pointing at them.Read more
Halo Infinite's Xbox Numbers Slip Behind Roblox
8.2.2022
Halo Infinite is slipping. As first reported by Forbes, 343 Industries’ popular shooter—the marquee Xbox game of this generation—has dropped out of the top five most-played games on Xbox, down from once upon a time holding fast in the top position.Read more
Minecraft Was Getting Too Easy, So These Players Made Their Own Galactic Challenge
8.2.2022
It’s no secret that Minecraft is a game of infinite possibilities. It is this open-endedness that allowed the game to achieve the ultimate gamer status of being, quite literally, the best-selling video game in history. In Minecraft, your imagination is the only limitation. With this in mind,...
The Problem With Critical Role’s Latest Campaign
8.2.2022
In early fall, the hugely successful Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” series Critical Role announced plans for their third campaign, set in the fictionalized world of Marquet. While the campaign would draw inspiration from real-life SWANA [Southwest Asian/North African] cultures, the group...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Players Find Glitch To Clone Shinies
8.2.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus hasn’t launched with nearly as many exploits as last year’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes, but players have still managed to discover one particular glitch with huge consequences for Shiny hunting. Want to start raking in Shinies and dish them out...