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Below Will Be Less Punishing When It Comes To PS4 This Spring

The brooding roguelike Below is coming to PS4 sometime this spring and when it does it will have a new mode that makes the game much easier to play. This new mode, called Explore, will get rid of a lot of the more punishing things in the game like a thirst meter and traps that…

The Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle hits Switch, PS4, and PC on February 20. That’s a lot of words and even more games with the bundle containing three Double Dragon games and 15 Kunio-kun games (think River City Ransom), 11 of which are being localized for the first time.

Players Are Using BB-8 To Crush Jedi In Star Wars: Battlefront II

The spherical droid BB-8 and its First Order variant BB-9E were added to Star Wars: Battlefront II on Monday and they have been utterly deadly in some multiplayer scenarios, whether facing down standard Storm Troopers or even Darth Vader. Part of that is due to the droids’ speed. They roll around levels fast, which makes…

New Update Makes Power Rangers More Like A Real Fighting Game

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is getting a new update today that adds online lobbies and a spectator mode to make it play more like a full-fledged fighting game. The online lobbies will hold up to eight players and let them fight across four separate matches simultaneously. As people finish, they can then spectate…

Dragon Quest is getting a new tactics spin-off in Japan later this year for smartphones. It’ll be a free-to-play game with paid in-game items, but outside of that we don’t know much else about it. Based on the screenshots, though, it will at least have the grid-based combat that tactics nerds crave.

Destiny 2’s New Sundial Boss Is A Pleasant Surprise

Today’s weekly reset in Destiny 2 brought a new villain to Osiris’ Sundial, and it’s a refreshing departure from the usual grind. Season of Dawn’s battle pass activity The Sundial has been rotating between three Psion Flayer bosses since it debuted back in December. Today, it got a new boss: Inotam, Oblivion’s Triune. After the…

Dark Crystal Tactics Game Is A Pale Imitation Of The Classics

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics doesn’t live up to the promise of its source material, and is a weak imitation of the PlayStation 1-era tactical role-playing games to which it attempts to harken back. It’s not terrible, but it is disappointing. Revealed at last year’s E3, Age of Resistance Tactics looked like an…

Fallout 76 Finally Coming To Steam In April Alongside New Wastelanders Expansion

Fallout 76 lands on Steam on April 7, the same day as the game’s Wastelanders expansion, Bethesda announced in a press release today. The game’s arrival on Steam and the new update have both been in the works for a while. Bethesda announced the apocalyptic MMO would eventually come to Steam last March after initially…

A Hectic Management Sim About Sanitizing The Nightly News

In Not For Broadcast, a new left wing government comes to power, with the threat of police crackdowns looming on the horizon. My job is to make it all palatable for the masses by seamlessly packaging the changes together with celebrity scandals and mind-numbing ads. While Not For Broadcast flounders as a political parable, its…

Anime mech fighter Daemon X Machina is coming to PC on February 13. Previously released on Switch last summer, where it was published by Nintendo, the game is being distributed on Steam by Xseed where it’ll have all of the current updates and add-ons minus “some licensed DLC.”

Hiking Gets Even Harder In Death Stranding When The Controller Is A Treadmill

Playing Death Stranding really made me want to go hiking for real. Instead, I continued to play Death Stranding. If I only had this treadmill PS4 controller, I could have gotten the best of both worlds. YouTuber Allen Pan is an electrical engineer known for wacky science experiments and strange gadget hacks, and his latest…

One Of The Most Annoying Parts Of Death Stranding Has Been Fixed

A new patch for Death Stranding went live today that finally makes the extended animation that takes place when encountering BTs completely optional. Death Stranding is a long game made even longer by the repetition of bespoke animations. One of said animations revolved around the Odradek Terrain Scanner, the strange-looking piece of equipment that hangs…

Survey Has Players Dreaming About PlayStation 4 Remote Play On The Switch

Some players are salivating over the possibility, however unlikely, of one day being able to use their Switches to remotely play PS4 games after Sony asked about it in a recent feedback survey. The survey apparently went out in an email to PS4 owners, a screenshot of which was provided to Kotaku by Reddit user…

Microsoft’s Bug Bounty Program Will Pay Players To Find Security Flaws In Xbox Live

Xbox Live has never suffered a major hack, and Microsoft would like to keep it that way, in part by rewarding people who report vulnerabilities in the gaming network with cash. “The Xbox Bounty Program invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and…

The Behemoth’s next project is Alien Hominid Invasion, an “all new re-imagination of the studio’s first game.” The studio, best known for Castle Crashers, announced its fifth game with a short teaser. If it’s anything like the original Alien Hominid, Invasion will be a coop arcade shooter reminiscent of Metal Slug

More Bans Are On The Way To Combat Idle Players Farming Experience In Halo: Reach

343 Industries says another wave of bans is on the way in response to the ongoing problem of players trying to farm experience points in matches without actually playing them. When Halo: Reach released on PC and console last month as a part of the Master Chief Collection, it brought with it a new battle…

The Outer Worlds is coming to Switch on March 6. The sci-fi shooter RPG came to PS4, Xbox One, and PC last year. While the game will have a retail version, the box will only come with a download code inside. It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacers Choice 

Untitled Goose Fan Game Unleashes Havoc On Your Desktop

There’s a pixelated goose dragging my cursor all over my computer screen and every time I try to close the program that unleashed it more just pop up, threatening me with bad jokes and a chorus of honks. This is the unnerving magic of game designer Sam Chiet’s Goose Desktop, a riff on last year’s…

Mod Adds Mario 64 Dungeon To Ocarina Of Time

N64 modder Kaze Emanuar is back with another mashup, this time taking the Hazy Maze Cave level from Super Mario 64 and recreating it in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a completely new dungeon. Spotted by GamingReinvented (via NintendoLife), it has giant rolling boulders, spike traps, and fish hanging out in little…

Cuphead Fan Makes Awesome Stop-Motion Tribute

A fan spent four months working on this Cuphead stop-motion animated short and it’s fantastic. Running just over a minute and a half, the video shows Cuphead and Mugman making a mess of things in the Devil’s Casino after placing some bad bets. Creator Davy Productions said they fell in love with the bullet hell…