Ethan Gach

2K’s New NFL Games Will Feature Real-Life Players

2K Games announced today that it’s struck a deal to be able to include the names, numbers, and likenesses of actual NFL pros in its upcoming football games. “We’re thrilled to be working with the NFLPA and OneTeam to bring the biggest and best stars in football to the games we’re working on,” the company’s…

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Basically Sounds Like A New Game

When Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis was announced during yesterday’s Xbox Game Showcase, it wasn’t immediately clear what it was. An update? A new expansion? Something more? Based on a new trailer with a lot more information than yesterday’s reveal, New Genesis seems like it will be a huge overhaul of the original 2012…

Microsoft Sends Mixed Signals About Cross-Gen Exclusives

Microsoft showed off a number of first-party games during today’s big Xbox showcase, but contrary to previous statements by the company, it’s not clear how many of them will be coming coming to Xbox One in addition to next-gen’s Xbox Series X. Many games shown were listed just for Xbox Series X, not for Xbox…

Everything Microsoft Showed During Today’s Xbox Showcase

Microsoft finally showed off what it has planned with Halo: Infinite and a bunch of other first-party exclusives today during its Xbox Games Showcase. There were a lot of games, and a lot of exclusives, but not a lot confirmed for this holiday launch of the Xbox Series X. Still, Halo: Infinite at least will…

Paper Mario: The Origami King Bug Prevents You From Beating The Game [Update]

Players recently discovered what appears to be a game-breaking glitch toward the end of Paper Mario: The Origami King that can make it impossible to finish the game on an existing save file. The bug is located in the Shangri-Spa area, arrived at after defeating the first four streamers in the game. Players get a…

Panzer Paladin Is The Retro Throwback I Needed This Summer

My new favorite thing is chilling in the pool while trying not to drop my Switch in the water as I bash pixelated sprites in the face. This is more relaxing than it sounds. In fact, Panzer Paladin is the 8-bit inspired fuel holding my summer together. In Panzer Paladin, out today on Switch and…

Rocket League Is Going Free-To-Play And Leaving Steam

The car-soccer hit Rocket League is getting an update later this summer that will make it free-to-play, developer Psyonix announced today, on the game’s blog. Rocket League will also launch on the Epic Games Store when that update arrives, and will no longer be available to download from Steam. As part of the free-to-play update,…

NHL 21 Isn’t Getting A PS5 Or Xbox Series X Version

EA’s latest hockey game, NHL 21, won’t be out until October this year, and it’s not going to have a special version for the PS5 or Xbox Series X consoles, the publisher announced in an update its website today. “For NHL 21, we made the decision to focus on adding innovation and new features rather…

Shin Megami Tensei V Is Coming To Switch In 2021

It’s been a long time since we got a look at Shin Megami Tensei V, but in today’s Nintendo Mini Direct series publisher Atlus confirmed the game is still on its way and due out sometime in 2021. Originally announced back in 2017 with a trailer, we haven’t heard much about Shin Megami Tensei V…

Originally set to come out this week, Dying Light’s Hellraid DLC has been delayed until next month. Techland announced a new release date of August 13 for PC so that it work in feedback from the DLC’s beta. Hellraid is a dungeon mode based on a previously cancelled standalone game.

Metacritic Will Now Make Users Wait 36 Hours Before Posting Reviews

Weeks after The Last of Us Part 2 was review bombed on Metacritic, the video game review aggregation website now requires people to wait more than a day after a game’s release to submit their personal reviews. Metacritic publicizes two review scores for any game: the Metascore based on critic reviews and the User Score…

Nintendo Veteran Explains Some Of The Restrictions Around Creating New Paper Mario Characters

Last month, Nintendo revealed that some of Paper Mario: The Origami King’s boss fights would be against office supplies instead of traditional Mario villains, and a new interview sheds some light on why. “Since Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it’s no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the…

Destiny 2‘s Big Beyond Light Expansion Delayed Until November

Destiny 2‘s next annual expansion, Beyond Light, has been delayed until November 10, Bungie announced today. Originally set to arrive in September, the studio said Beyond Light’s release date has been pushed back nearly two months due to work from home requirements implemented during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. “The past few months have been a…

Game Pass Ultimate Is Getting Video Game Streaming In September

Today Microsoft announced that its video game streaming service, Project xCloud, will be available to anyone who subscribes to Game Pass Ultimate later this year. Currently in beta, Project xCloud lets you stream Xbox games to phones and tablets. Come September, anyone with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which bundles Game Pass and Xbox Live…

Weeks Later, Dr Disrespect Says He Still Doesn’t Know Why He Was Banned From Twitch

In his first public interview since being suddenly banned from Twitch last month, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, one of the platform’s most popular streamers, claims he still doesn’t know why. “Honestly, we just don’t know,” Beahm told the Washington Post in a new interview published today. “It was a total shock. Imagine showing up to…

Google Announces Stadia Is Getting More Games, But Not Much Else

Stadia is still here, still getting additional games, and might one day be really cool, but nothing in today’s Stadia Connect event made it look like the platform has turned a corner as it struggles to establish a new ecosystem for gaming. The most exciting game (at least to me) announced during today’s event was…

Creaks, the latest game by Amanita Design, maker of Chunchel and Machinarium, is coming out July 22 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. It’s a spooky-looking puzzle game reminiscent of a series of Edward Gorey illustrations brought to life, and it’s apparently been in development for eight years

YouTuber Uses Kinect Mod To Play Mario 64 With A Trampoline

It turns out using motion controls to make Mario jump is hard work. YouTuber Super Louis 64, who you might remember from beating Halo 3 with a guitar or taking on Dark Souls 3 with a Ring Fit, is back again, this time with a bizarre new control scheme for Super Mario 64. Using a…

Lego officially confirmed the retro NES console and TV sets that leaked yesterday are real, complete with a new trailer showing the crank that makes Mario side-scroll in action. The set is due out August 1 and costs $230.

Everything Is Cake Now, Including Dragon Ball Z Characters

He’s cake! He’s really cake! Memes hit a whole new level of galaxy brain over the weekend after a viral July 8 tweet showing all manner of objects being cut in half to reveal layer-cake inside changed how we think of reality: I think, therefore I am…cake? Maybe it’s the months of lockdown as a…