Ethan Gach

Since actual matches are still suspended the Premier League is going to hold a FIFA tournament this week instead The 20 team single-elimination bracket gets underway April 21 at 7:00p.m. ET with the early matches streaming on YouTube and the semifinals and beyond airing live on NBC Sports.

This Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox Is Too Much

Happy Friday: this special edition Xbox One X comes with glow-in-the-dark graffiti that says “No Future.” It’s probably right. I wasn’t down with this Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X when it leaked on the Canadian Walmart website yesterday. Instead of something bright and neon-fueled, it looked to me like the sort of colorful scrap metal…

Taxi cab whodunit Night Call is getting a big update on PC today. Called “The Long Way Home,” it adds a new passenger system, more guests to interrogate, and a free roam mode where you can explore neo-noir Paris at your own pace. The update comes to console later this year.

It’s Not Gonna Happen But I Still Want A Physical Copy Of Final Fantasy VII Remake [Update]

I made the mistake of trying to get a physical copy of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the game I’ve been waiting over a decade to play, ever since the idea of it first started knocking around my early-20s brain. It never came, and now I’m staring at page after page of scalper prices on Ebay.…

The indie studio behind OlliOlli has a new experimental game out called RUNME.EXE. In the words of its creators it’s “an esoteric turn based puzzle game with glitch graphics, weird sounds, and a bunch of strangeness.” Sounds perfect. Also it’s free. You can give it a try over on itch.io.

Fallout 76’s NPCs Don’t Care About Getting Nuked

This week’s Fallout 76 Wastelanders update added human non-player characters to the game for the first time. Naturally, one of the first things players tried to do was nuke them. Players have been finding all sorts of curious new details in the game thanks to its burgeoning populace, from the return of pizza rolls to…

Destiny 2 Is Getting Its Own Version Of The Olympics

Destiny 2 is getting a new limited-time event called Guardian Games next week. The event will have players try to out-compete one another for the honor of having their guardian class represented in the Tower for the rest of the year. The Guardian Games were teased in this season’s roadmap but didn’t have an exact…

Gamescom 2020 Won’t Happen In Germany, Goes Digital

Gamescom, one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world, won’t be happening in Germany this year. Gamescom 2020 is canceled, its organizers announced today, but a digital version of the event is in the works. “It’s official: unfortunately, gamescom will under no circumstances take place on site in Cologne this year,” the German Games…

Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Battle of Scarif update has been delayed again It was originally due out last month but got pushed back as the team started working from home. The update, which adds the new Scarif map and Galactic Civil War-era Supremacy fights, will now arrive later this month.

The improbable remaster SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated will see the light of day on June 23. The GameCube-era 3D platformer is headed to PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, and will include not only new content cut from the original but a multiplayer horde mode of all things.  

Riot Tries To Force League Of Legends Player Named Corona To Change His Username

Joao Corona’s League of Legends name had never been a problem in the past. But earlier this month, Riot told him he had to change it to something else if he wanted to keep playing. A year ago many people knew Corona as the overpriced Mexican beer for impromptu beach parties by rich and beautiful…

Gunsport, a game where you play volleyball with a gun, is coming to Stadia this summer. Made by Necrosoft Games, Gunsport has been bouncing around the internet for several years now but it sounds like it’s finally ready to usher in a new era of cybersports. It’ll come to other platforms later.

Phantasy Star Online 2‘s beta is over and it’s officially out on Xbox One. The free-to-play MMORPG originally came out in 2012 but was never released in North America. Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra called it late-night gaming popcorn in her write-up. The game is also coming to PC in late May.

Latest Cooking Mama Game Was An Unauthorized Release, Say Creators [Update]

The creator of the Cooking Mama games says it pulled the plug on the latest game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, over quality concerns. Except the publisher went ahead and released it anyway. Controversy has been swirling around Cooking Mama: Cookstar ever since it temporarily went up for sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop at the end…

Fallout 76‘s Wastelanders Expansion Is Underwhelming So Far

Running down the hill from Vault 76 where I emerged a year and a half ago, I spot a couple hiking up a stone path. They are the first people I’ve ever seen in Fallout 76 in my over 100 hours with it. They ask me if the vault’s still open and if I’ve heard…

Minecraft Gets Graphics Overhaul Later This Week On PC

Players will be able to explore Minecraft with dazzling new visuals when its RTX Beta gets underway on April 16. Nvidia announced it was working on bringing real-time ray tracing to the popular open-world crafting game at last year’s Gamescom, and according to a new blog post by the company, the fruits of that labor…

The Nintendo Switch Finally Lets You Remap The Controls

At long last you can customize the button layout for your Joy-Con or Pro Controller on the Switch. The much-requested feature was added last night in a firmware update and means players can now change their controller layouts at the system level rather than only if specific games that allow for it. While great in…

Fallout 76 Players Brace For Possible Evictions In Wastelanders Update

Fallout 76’s sweeping Wastelanders expansion arrives tomorrow, bringing a bunch of new content to a game that hasn’t seen much of that in the last six months. While most players are eagerly awaiting the update, some are sitting with their fingers crossed hoping the new changes won’t force them to relocate the elaborate campsites they’ve…

Side-scrolling crafting game Terraria is getting its final update May 16 on PC Originally released in 2011, the 2D take on Minecraft has received tons of updates and ported to just about every platform. Titled Journey’s End, the final update will add a bunch of new items, characters, and mini-biomes.

Journey comes to Steam on June 11. Thatgamecompany’s serene exploration game first arrived on PC by way of the Epic Games Store last summer.