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Splatoon 3's Best New Feature Is A Shoe Store Run By A Hairy Crab-Lobster
10.8.2022
You don’t need to be a Splatoon aficionado to be able to recognise good. Mr. Coco, an enormous wife-beater-wearing crab-like who runs a shoe shop, is purest goodness. That’s just solid good. The store is called Crush Station, and that makes no sense on any level. Perfection.Read more
Everything We Learned About Splatoon 3
10.8.2022
Nintendo opened the floodgates today and unleashed a torrent of info about its upcoming party shooter, Splatoon 3. In addition to revealing 12 new maps, a Wednesday Direct also showcased new weapons, personal lockers, and shops galore. Splatfests are also confirmed, with three idols at the helm...
Splatoon 3 Has Three Hosts, Including A Big Manta Ray Named Big Man
10.8.2022
Today, in a ploddingly paced live stream, Nintendo revealed tons of details about Splatoon 3. Over the course of 30 minutes, Nintendo detailed the maps, modes, and menu minutia coming to the forthcoming multiplayer shooter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s cool and all. I’m just here for the new hosts:...
It’s Skyrim, But With Shadow Of Mordor’s Brilliant Nemesis System
9.8.2022
It’s come back with a vengeance. Yes, Shadow of Mordor’s brilliant Nemesis system has languished for half a decade. But one enterprising modder recently resurrected the tech (kinda) by adding it to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda’s decade-old fantasy RPG.Read more
Elden Ring Now Lets You Know If You Have An Illegal Item
9.8.2022
Cursed items already have a long and storied history in Elden Ring. Players have been soft-banned for collecting illicit panties hidden in the game files, for example. And some have tried to get others banned by forcing unauthorized items on one another. The whole thing has created a swirl...
Elden Ring's Big Patch Reveals Accidental Hard Mode: Wearing A Dress
9.8.2022
Everyone was shocked to learn that simply accepting a hug in Elden Ring could actually harm you without much fanfare, but it turns out that’s not the only negative thing that can happen when you’re dealing with anything related to Deathbed Companions. In what is perhaps the funniest adjustment...
Marvel's XCOM Game Delayed Once Again
9.8.2022
Midnight Suns, a turn-based tactical game set in the Marvel universe and made by the same guys behind XCOM, has been delayed once more.Read more
15 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Xenoblade Chronicles 3
8.8.2022
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has been five years in the making and it shows. Monolith Soft’s latest open-field JRPG odyssey has more systems and more to do than either previous game in the trilogy (not to mention the often overlooked Xenoblade Chronicles X). I’m enjoying it a ton so far. I’m also...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Just Got Even Bigger, Which Rules
8.8.2022
Just when you thought Assassin’s Creed Valhalla couldn’t get any bigger, it does. Last week, Ubisoft added a free roguelike mode called “the Forgotten Saga,” which is basically the size of a whole game unto itself. Even worse, it’s genuinely really good. Dammit!Read more
Diablo IV Leaks Send Blizzard Into Damage Control
8.8.2022
It’s been a week since the Diablo 4 beta test started, and players are already leaking footage of the game on the internet. What’s funny is that the screenshots have the testers’ identifying number all over them, which means that Blizzard likely already knows who these people are.Read more
This Pokémon GO 3D Billboard Is The Reason We Invented Technology
8.8.2022
All advertising is evil, obviously. But sometimes, despite this, it can be extraordinarily entertaining. This latest 3D billboard from outside of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is maybe the best use of this optical illusion tech I’ve seen, and it’s cross-promoting Pokémon GO and, er, World Cat Day.Read...
Street Fighter 6's Next Characters Are Juri And The All-New Kimberly
8.8.2022
It wouldn’t be an EVO without some character announcements, so Capcom took the opportunity this evening to show off the next two characters making up Street Fighter 6’s roster: the return of Juri, alongside Kimberly, a fighter making her series debut.Read more
Wind Waker Completely Rewritten By Fan, It's Like A Whole New Game
8.8.2022
Wind Waker is, I am very proud to say, my favourite video game of all time. I’ve played through it so many times that I like to think I’ve seen every line of dialogue the game has to offer. So I’m very excited to try this mod out that takes every one of those lines of dialogue Nintendo put in...
A New Fatal Fury Game Is In Development
8.8.2022
During the EVO 2022 festivities over the weekend publisher SNK released a short video announcing an all-new Fatal Fury game, which given the amount of time since the last one felt both like a huge surprise but also something of an inevitability.Read more
Dead By Daylight Devs’ New Game Is Fortnite Meets Doom
6.8.2022
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Someone Spent Six Years Remastering An Unreleased Warcraft Game
5.8.2022
Years ago, a never-officially-released Warcraft point-and-click adventure game developed by Blizzard in the late ‘90s was leaked online. While the game was completely playable back then, its cutscenes were low-quality, highly compressed, not perfectly synced to the audio, and a few were even just...
Activision Is Earning More Money From Mobile Than PC And Console Combined
5.8.2022
Here’s a sign of the times: Activision has confirmed via newly released financial documents that it made more money on its phone games last quarter than it did on all of its console and PC games combined. Read more
Digimon Survive Is A Painfully Boring Tactical RPG
5.8.2022
Digimon Survive, the new video game made in celebration of the anime’s 25th anniversary, attempts to juggle being both a visual novel and a tactical role-playing game. The result is a slog of a game that’s 70 percent visual novel, 20 percent tactical role-playing game, and 10 percent horror;...
New Steam Shooter Is Basically Half-Life 2 And It Rules
5.8.2022
I’ve probably written this before on this very website, but whenever someone asks me what my favorite video game is, my default answer is Half-Life 2. So any game that tries to capture Half-Life 2’s excellent mix of exploration, action, puzzle-solving, and emptiness has my attention. And if that...
Lawyer To Pay Activision For Not Playing Call Of Duty, Judge Decrees
5.8.2022
A lawsuit against Activision Blizzard was dismissed last month because, according to a judge in the Southern California District Court where the complaint was brought, the plaintiffs didn’t play enough Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to make an informed case against the maligned publisher. For once...