Paul Tamayo and I are live on Twitch streaming gothic dungeon-crawler Diablo 3‘s brand new Switch port Come watch us eviscerate the undead (and maybe explode some Grotesques, if you’re lucky) here on Twitch
Before PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds released, it had become a viral sensation on Twitch, sold 13 million copies and even got its own esports tournament complete with a $350,000 prize pool. It was in early access, a public, but incomplete version of the game sold to help publishers bankroll the game’s development and invite user feedback. It…
The Nintendo Switch is getting Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 sometime in 2019, Capcom announced today. Braiiiiiiins—Capcom’s got ‘em.
Yesterday’s episode of one of my favorite podcasts, Reply All, was all about how a 13-year-old girl brought her deceased grandmother back to life in The Sims and what that means for her mourning process. It was brilliant and touching. Give it a listen here
Twitch streamer Chris “Bognogus” Steinert was live on camera, reading an article about space exploration game No Man’s Sky on Gamepedia, online gaming’s equivalent of Wikipedia, when he discovered his own livestream playing at the very bottom of the page. Steinert was streaming his galactic wanderings to an audience of 3,183 viewers. One of them,…
Epic Games will be launching Fortnite’s free-to-play Save the World release later than expected, Epic announced today. Originally launched in paid early access July 2017, Save the World was slated for a full release sometime this year. Fans will have to wait until 2019.
In the lead-up to Red Dead Redemption 2’s October 26 release, Zach Gieg spent over $3,300 adorning his small, local chain of Pennsylvania video game stores with billboards, flyers, posters, and other displays touting the the highly-anticipated Western adventure game that his customers began preordering two years ago. It was at the store’s own expense,…
Call of Duty’s hardboiled new battle royale mode isn’t a lot like its candy-colored cousin Fortnite except for one thing: players’ gratitude for public transportation. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players have taken to “thanking the bus driver,” a custom in Fortnite, for transporting them to an island of near-inevitable death. Fortnite players have…
Pokémon Go trainers will soon be happening upon monsters from the Sinnoh region, publisher Niantic announced today. Those are the little guys from 2006’s Pokémon Pearl and Diamond and 2008’s Pokémon Platinum. They should be in-game sometime this week. [Update—11:25 am ET: Some readers are saying these Pokémon are available in-game now!] Pokémon like Turtwig, Chimchar,…
If you liked PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but couldn’t stomach its uneven gameplay, you’re going to love the polish that Call of Duty is bringing to the battle royale genre. One thing that adds that waxy shine to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode, out today, is how good the game is at letting…
Over the last few months, Overwatch has looked less like a team shooter and more like the inside of a microwave bag of popcorn. A popular and beloved crowd control mechanic called the “boop” has become so prevalent that it’s causing anguish from players who would rather compete at a first-person shooter than pop idly…
Over the last week, some of YouTube’s biggest personalities have become embroiled in a controversy surrounding an app that connects people to mental health counselors. The mental health app has sponsored top YouTubers like Philip DeFranco, Boogie2988 and Shane Dawson and reportedly offers these video makers referral fees when fans sign up to get help.…
The Overwatch League’s second season is starting a little later than expected. On February 14, the league’s 20 teams—eight of which are new—will begin facing off at Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles, Blizzard announced this morning. Last year, the season started in January. It’s going to be a weird Valentine’s Day.
Hello, Mario Partiers and haters alike. Last week, Nintendo released Super Mario Party, a four-player digital board game about playing cute mini-games and destroying your friends. I reviewed the game. I liked it a lot. It was a great take on a classic formula, in my opinion, but it’s certainly not just about me here.…
From time to time, and especially if you’re a fan of science fiction, you may have had the thought that nobody around you is actually real. That sentiment has taken root in anti-progressive parts of the internet as a dehumanizing meme, and it borrows some familiar gaming terminology. About a month ago, a meme along…
“Who are you rooting for?” I asked my housemate, a non-player heckler watching a full-up game of Super Mario Party. Without missing a beat, he responded gleefully: “Chaos!” Mario Party is a video board game series that’s all about swing. You get a star. You move a few spaces. You lose a star. You steal…
Last month, Bandai Namco revealed that Yu-Gi-Oh’s Yugi Moto will fight alongside Dragon Ball’s Goku and Light from Death Note in upcoming fighting game Jump Force. Today, we saw what Yugi’s fighting style looks like, and it looks bonkers. Yugi can summon monsters—yes, like dragons—to fight on his behalf. The real question: Can he spear…
In July, Overwatch got a group-finder, and now meeting teammates for the game’s competitive mode often feels less like teaming up with a bunch of random gamers on the internet and more like trying to sit at the popular kids’ high school lunch table. The group finder is meant to help players compose teams. In…
Club Penguin is shutting down for good. Disney, which owns the long-running franchise, confirmed the news today. On Tuesday, dozens of employees at the game’s Kelowna, British Columbia studio were informed that Club Penguin Island, the mobile continuation of the long-running browser-based children’s MMO Club Penguin, is shutting down and they would be let go.…
Magic: The Gathering pro player Gerry Thompson says he is protesting this weekend’s World Championship event, the game’s most prestigious tournament, citing complaints about how Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast is handling its pro scene. Thompson is a two-time winner of Magic’s Grand Prix and, in 2016, he earned first place at the Pro…
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