Ethan Gach

What’s Going On With GeForce Now

Ever since it officially launched last month, game publishers have been abandoning Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform in droves. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, meanwhile, has defended the service, arguing it’s the most developer-friendly option out there right now. “Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles…

Free Call Of Duty Battle Royale Launches Tomorrow

Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a free-to-play battle royale add-on called Warzone featuring 150-player matches, two modes, and cross-play PS4, Xbox One, and PC. To clarify, you don’t have to own a copy of Modern Warfare in order to play Warzone. Details of the mode have been leaking out…

Players Finally Figure Out Two-Year-Old Destiny 2 Puzzle Clue

Destiny 2‘s Rasputin Chamber Puzzle alternate reality game (ARG) was discovered back in 2018, and one part of it stumped players so much they had to brute force the solution, solving the puzzle in just a few days but without fully understanding all the pieces. That is, until last week. The puzzle was introduced in…

Spawn Has A Lot Of Weapons In Mortal Kombat 11

NetherRealm Studios gave us our first real look at Mortal Kombat 11‘s sixth DLC character during last night’s tournament and one thing’s clear: everything Spawn does will hurt you. The trailer shows Spawn shredding through Mortal Kombat mainstays with an arsenal of guns, swords, and axes. And of course his cape isn’t just there to…

The Original Creators Of Burnout Are Making A New Open-World Racer

Dangerous Driving 2 is the fourth arcade racing game that veteran developer Alex Ward has worked on in as many years. He and just over half of Three Fields Entertainment’s seven-person staff flew out from the UK to show it off at PAX East ahead of its holiday 2020 release on Xbox One, PS4, PC,…

The Emerald City Comic Con taking place next week in Seattle, Washington has been postponed until the summer, the event’s organizers announced today. This news comes just five days after the company behind the convention, Reedpop, had previously said the event would take place as scheduled

Sludge Life Feels Like Playing Hooky From Late Capitalism

One of my favorite Onion articles of all time is titled “Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back.” It was published five years ago, back when I still worked at an office job I hated where I frequently daydreamed of doing exactly as the Onion health experts advised. But where…

The Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show

Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…

The Outer Worlds’ Font Size Is About To Get Even Bigger

Yesterday the developers at Obsidian announced that even though The Outer Worlds came out nearly five months ago, they’re still hard at work on improving its font sizes This is great news since the original text in The Outer Worlds was too damn small, and while Obsidian added a large font option shortly after release,…

Hands On: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Will Put You Right To Work

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a hard game to demo, but Nintendo invited me to try to do it anyway last weekend at PAX East. I came away from my brief trip to its deserted island impressed by how pretty everything looked and eager to continue toiling away on its beaches, in its fields, and…

The esports company Echo Fox has settled claims in a defamation suit brought by co-founding partner Amit Raizada. The suit stemmed from accusations made by co-founder Rick Fox, who left Echo Fox last fall. Editor’s Note: March 5, 2020, 10:42am: This item has been updated to clarify the resolution of the lawsuit.

Knuckle Sandwich Is An RPG That’s Like EarthBound Meets WarioWare

In Knuckle Sandwich, I stumble into a restaurant and the next thing I know my boss is barking at me to bring customers their burgers. A minute later, after barely passing a customer satisfaction survey, I get jumped in the alleyway while taking out the garbage by a green guy in a leather jacket. A…

A Dramatic Podcast Fills In The Gaps Of Fallout 76‘s Broken World

Fallout 76 didn’t have much of a storyline when it was released in November 2018. Its world was full of interesting little details, but bereft of living, breathing characters. Instead, it tasked players with creating their own narratives. Some role-played as cannibals, others joined cults. One person decided to try and weave these player experiences…

Surprise! Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is out on PC today It’s the second Halo game to make its way there as part of the Master Chief Collection and comes with some nice features in addition to 4k resolution and variable framerate like the option to switch between classic and remastered graphics.

There’s a new trailer for Destiny 2‘s Season of the Worthy which starts March 10. It looks like it’s based around teaming back up with Rasputin to defend the Last City by powering up Seraph Towers through public events and clearing out bunkers with wanted enemies in them. 

March Is A Good Time To Dust Off The Vita

Spring isn’t officially here for another few weeks but it’s already over 50 degrees outside, new growth is starting to bud, and I’m feeling nostalgic for the dozen or so colorful indie games that I’ve accumulated on my Vita over the years. For years around this time, Sony used to run its annual Spring Fever…

Mario Kart Tour is finally getting real-time multiplayer races on March 8 Following an update that will go live at 11:00 a.m., players will be able to race against one based around a rule set that will change daily. There’s also the choice to just race against friends 

Someone Tried To Recreate Breath Of The Wild Dungeons With Nintendo Labo

The programming tools that come with Nintendo’s Labo VR Kit are extremely limited, but that didn’t stop one player from using them to try and make dungeon mini-games ripped straight out of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Nintendo Labo uses a visual node system to program apps. It makes it intuitive for…

Outriders Is Like Destiny Mixed With Heart Of Darkness

Outriders’ art makes it seem like a grittier rip-off of Destiny, but having played the game for a couple hours, it feels more like Gears of War mixed with Mass Effect. It occasionally reminded me of a James Cameron sizzle reel: the bucolic paradise of Avatar giving way to the bloody horror of Aliens occasionally…

Microsoft Drops Out Of GDC, Too [Update: And Epic]

Following in the footsteps of several other major tech firms including Sony and Facebook, Microsoft and Epic both said today that they will no longer be attending this year’s Game Developers Conference due to the growing health risks posed by COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. “After a close review of guidance by global health…