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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…

Destiny 2 Players Speedrun The Game’s Mind-Bending Prophecy Dungeon In Minutes

Prophecy is a three-person mini-raid full of gorgeous skyboxes and fun puzzles, both of which are on full display in a recent speedrun in which players cleared the Destiny 2 dungeon in just over eight minutes. Added when Season of Arrivals launched in early June, Prophecy lets players dig a little deeper into some of…

Everything We Learned About Assassin’s Creed Valhalla After Playing It

Last Tuesday, I played a preview build of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for three hours by streaming it directly from one of Ubisoft’s computers. That’s how Ubisoft is doing E3-style previews this summer. It’s useful. Three hours is a lot of time to spend with a game that’s not even out yet, but it’s…

U.S. Army’s Twitch Chat Is Banning People For Asking About War Crimes

Some folks have recently taken to trolling the U.S. Army’s official Twitch channel by asking in chat about the military’s well documented history of committing war crimes. The channel’s moderators have responded by banning them. The U.S Army has a Twitch channel where the members of its esports team occasionally stream games, and earlier this…

Far Cry 6 Seemingly Leaked In Hong Kong PlayStation Store Listing [Update]

An apparent listing for Far Cry 6 briefly appeared on the Hong Kong PlayStation Store earlier today, revealing some details about the game’s possible setting as well as a release date of early next year. According to an English translation of the listing, which was captured in screenshots by ResetEra forum goers and a number…

Sony Invests $250m In Epic Games For ‘Further Collaboration’

Sony has purchased a $250 million minority stake in Epic Games, makers of Unreal Engine and Fortnite, according to a joint announcement by both companies today. $250 million isn’t a huge amount relative to Epic Games’ overall value, which a recent report by Bloomberg estimated at over $16 billion, but it’s a lot for one…

Ruinous Effigy Is One Of Destiny 2‘s Best Guns Yet

Destiny 2 has had a ton of great, overpowered guns over the years, but Ruinous Effigy, the latest exotic weapon to get added to the game, already feels head and shoulders above most of them. Introduced on Tuesday as part of Season of Arrivals’ new exotic quest line, Ruinous Effigy is actually pretty straightforward to…

Tetris Is Getting A Competitive Game Show On Smartphones

Thirty six years after it was invented, Tetris is finally getting the game show treatment, complete with cash prizes and a wry host. Called Tetris Primetime, the game show mode announced earlier today by Tetris mobile makers N3TWORK has you compete every night starting around 7:30 p.m. for a chance to win actual money. The…

Fortnite YouTubers Buy Mansion, Decorate It Like Sad Teenagers

Behold the One Percent Fortnite house, a mansion some gaming YouTubers bought and proceeded to turn into a vaguely fun-looking giant home office. It’s both a reminder that even when you’ve “made it” as an influencer the grind never stops, and also that most people have no idea how to decorate a home like a…

Ninja’s First-Ever YouTube Livestream Draws Over 100,000 Viewers

Tyler “Ninja”Blevins livestreamed on YouTube today, his first stream since Microsoft announced it was shutting down Mixer. The choice has fueled speculation about which platform he’ll make his permanent home going forward. Over 100,000 people tuned in for the start of Blevins’ first ever YouTube livestream, and his first livestream in nearly three weeks since…

Bungie Just Made Destiny 2 Raids More Rewarding (For The Next Three Months)

Raids are some of the hardest but most rewarding parts of Destiny 2. If you’ve spent any amount of time playing the game you really owe it to yourself to see what these six-player missions have to offer, especially since some of them won’t be around for much longer. Last month, Bungie announced that a…

Last Of Us 2 Developer Condemns Online Harassment Of People Who Worked On The Game

The Last of Us Part 2 developer Naughty Dog put out a statement over the weekend condemning harassment and threats made against those who worked on the game as director Neil Druckman and others shared some of the vile messages they’ve received following the game’s release. “You can love or hate the game and share…

Ubisoft Employees Have ‘Grave Concerns’ Over Toronto Studio’s Misconduct Allegations

There’s a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall’s bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion. It goes something like this: Maxime Béland, one of its co-founders and, until last week, a 20-year veteran of Ubisoft, allegedly choked a female employee at a work party. Some heard it…