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Pokémon Go’s Halloween Update Adds Ghosts, Very Large Pokémon
12.10.2021
Hey, wanna hear a ghost story? It’s short, just one act. Here you go: We’re already at Halloween season. I can tell this not by the seasonal weather (my weather app clocked a high of 73 F today) or pumpkin beer (there’s a shortage this year) but because Niantic recently unveiled the details...
Genshin Impact Villain Childe Deserves All The Events And Reruns
12.10.2021
Not everyone is happy about Childe featuring heavily in the upcoming 2.2 update releasing on October 13, and I wish I could stop hearing about it. While he’s treated as a nuisance by characters in the game, it seems that the sentiment also carries over to the Genshin community. Read more
Epic Finally Admits Among Us Inspired Fortnite's Impostors Mode
12.10.2021
If it walks like Among Us, talks like Among Us, and quacks like Among Us, it was probably at the very least inspired by the runaway success of Innersloth’s murder mystery party game. Epic Games is now finally copping to that in the patch notes for a new update to Fornite’s Impostors mode.Read more
Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Mess Gets Far Messier
12.10.2021
As the legal maelstrom continues to grow in the multiple cases against Activision Blizzard, things have taken one of the most bizarre twists yet. The EEOC (with whom Activision Blizzard are attempting to settle) has accused the California DFEH (who are attempting to intervene in that settlement)...
Far Cry 6's PlayStation Save Transfers Are A Pain In The Ass
12.10.2021
We’re really gonna do this song and dance again, aren’t we? Far Cry 6 players are having trouble starting a new game file on PlayStation 4 and continuing that same save file on PlayStation 5. It’s a similar problem to the one that plagued blockbusters like Marvel’s Avengers and Final Fantasy...
Console Hackers Commandeer Switch Game’s Very Fast Sega Saturn Emulator
12.10.2021
Last week, publisher City Connection released new versions of the arcade / Sega Saturn shmups Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang, and Guardian Force for both PS4 and Switch. It wasn’t long before Switch tinkerers over on GBAtemp realized they could inject other Saturn games into City Connection’s emulator...
Squid Game’s Success Is Giving Fall Guys Some Ideas
12.10.2021
During a recent TechRadar interview, Fall Guys lead game designer Joe Walsh said the dev team at Mediatonic is currently toying with the idea of retrieving an unused minigame from the cutting-room floor. And it’s all thanks to Netflix’s latest original series, Squid Game.Read more
Hideo Kojima On Japan's Most Magical And Wonderful Trains
12.10.2021
The country of Japan is crisscrossed with trains. Many of them are memorable and great. But for me, one train stands apart as truly special—the Hankyu train. I’m not alone.In his forthcoming book The Creative Gene, Kojima has a chapter titled, “For Me, The Hankyu Railway Is A Time Machine...
Super Mario 64, Only Every Corner Is Wrong
12.10.2021
The Super Mario 64 you know and remember is the one that’s coded properly, and every surface in the game is pointing in the direction it’s supposed to be pointing.Read more
D&D Fans Want Wizards Of The Coast To Use The Metric System
12.10.2021
Dungeons & Dragons has come a hell of a long way, except in one very precise area: units of measurement.Read more
It's 2021, And Breath Of The Wild Is Finally Playable In Arabic
12.10.2021
Depending on how you count it and break down the regional differences, Arabic is the fifth most-spoken language on Earth. And yet until very recently, Arabic speakers had no way of officially playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game released in 2017, in their native tongue.Read more
I Have Seen Hell, And It Is Epic Thinking About A Fortnite Movie
11.10.2021
“Epic Games is considering launching an entertainment division focused on scripted video programming”. Funny how a sentence can feel both so absurd and yet so inevitable at the same time.Read more
Your Hard-Earned Monster Hunter Rise Progress Won’t Transfer From Switch To PC
11.10.2021
Monster Hunter Rise won’t include an option to transfer saves from Switch or play with folks on other platforms when it arrives on PC early next year, the series’ official Twitter account confirmed today.Read more
Genshin Impact’s Latest Character Announcement Is Bringing Out The Thirst
11.10.2021
The Genshin Impact community is abuzz over the upcoming arrival of Arataki Itto, a new character who hails from the game’s Inazuma nation. In an unusual move, Genshin developer miHoYo formally announced the character today, well in advance of his story quest appearance in the game itself. While...
Halo Infinite Vs. Battlefield 2042: Battle Of The Betas
11.10.2021
The holidays come a little early this year for fans of first-person shooters. On November 19, EA will publish Battlefield 2042, a game about how, in the wake of catastrophic climate change, we’ll still all shoot each other for scraps. That’s followed on December 8 by Halo Infinite, the sixth...
Everybody Deserves A SpongeBob SquarePants Xbox
11.10.2021
In celebration (read: cross-promotion) of the recent release of Nickelodeon’s All-Star Brawl, Microsoft is running a sweepstakes in which one lucky gamer can win an Xbox Series X console dressed up like SpongeBob SquarePants, complete with a matching controller. Only one lucky gamer? That’s...
Stream Star Amouranth Banned From Twitch, TikTok, And Insta (She'll Be Fine)
11.10.2021
Popular Twitch streamer Kaitlyn Siragusa, also known as “Amouranth,” was simultaneously banned from Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram on October 8th. The reasons are still unknown, but this marks the fifth time the infamous “hot tub” streamer has been banned from Twitch.Read more
Metroid Dread Players Discover Gnarly, Secret Way To Quick-Kill Kraid
11.10.2021
Kraid is a good boy. I don’t know why he’s locked up in a room full of boiling lava in Metroid Dread, which arrived on the Switch last Friday, but he doesn’t deserve it. If you’re a monster who’s willing to make his life even more terrible, however, players recently discovered a much easier way...
New World Server Transfers Delayed, Previously Promised Cross-Realm Moves ‘Not Possible’
11.10.2021
During the mad rush to play Amazon’s massively multiplayer RPG New World during launch week, its developers told players not to worry about which of the game’s crowded servers they chose to play on, as free transfers were on the way. Not only have those free server transfers been delayed,...
Microsoft Makes Tentative Moves Toward Easier-To-Repair Xboxes
11.10.2021
Last week, Microsoft acceded to pressure from an investor group which advocates for “right-to-repair” policies which, if widely adopted, would facilitate independent repair of many technological devices by making things like spare parts and repair documentation more readily attainable. Though it’s...