Ethan Gach

Half-Life: Alyx is coming out March 23, Valve announced today. That’s the Monday after Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal come out. Sure, why not?

The Witcher card game Gwent is finally coming to Android on March 24 There’s shared accounts between the PC and mobile version of the game so I’m looking forward to many more Witcher-themed distractions in the future. Gwent previously came to iOS last fall.

What The Hell Has Final Fantasy VII Remake Done To Carbuncle

Square Enix released a big batch of new Final Fantasy VII Remake screenshots today, including one of Carbuncle, who is usually one of the Final Fantasy series’ cutest summons. It now looks like an alien from a 1950s science fiction B-movie. Is it a fox or a dog? Why is its head so big? Why…

Destiny 2 Is Having An Extremely Wall Street Moment Right Now

Destiny 2 players need to harvest billions of pieces of Polarized Fractaline in order to complete the construction of a mysterious new tower on Mercury for the Empyrean Foundation event. Instead of simply donating the material outright, they’re trying to invest it to grow their own Fractaline nest eggs, turning the event into an opportunity…

Activision Blizzard Pulls Its Games From Nvidia’s Streaming Service

Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service only came out of beta last week, and it’s already lost some major games. This week, Activision Blizzard pulled its entire catalog, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Overwatch, from the monthly subscription service. “Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the…

Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone is coming to the eShop in Japan in March. The excellent tactical RPG originally came to the GBA in 2006 before later getting ported to PSP. It’s also on smartphones but only in Japan. It would be amazing to have on Switch.

I Can’t Believe This Game Boy Advance SP Still Works

Uh, that doesn’t look good. Or at least that’s what I thought when I brought my Game Boy Advance SP down from the attic. You see, my niece had recently fallen in love with Pokémon Sword, and was now as obsessed with Pokémon as I was around her age. I wanted to show her Pokémon…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline Again After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has once again taken Destiny 2 offline, following fresh reports of some players losing crafting materials following today’s hotfix. “Destiny 2 is being brought offline for emergency maintenance. Stand by for updates,” Bungie announced on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Today’s update was small, addressing problems with certain achievements not being properly recorded and changing…

Outriders, the coop RPG shooter revealed at last year’s E3, has been delayed until this holiday and will be coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X as well as current consoles according to a new trailer. It’s by People Can Fly, the studio behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgement

Dead Cells‘ Latest Expansion Makes A Good Thing So Much Better

The only thing in Dead Cells’ latest expansion that gives me more pleasure than cleaving giant mutated fungi in half with a humongous scythe is having my own mushroomed companion fling itself at them with abandon and then explode upon impact. In other words, I’m really enjoying Dead Cells’ new DLC, “Bad Seed.” Out today…

BioWare Plans A ‘Substantial Reinvention’ Of Anthem

BioWare will seek to “reinvent” Anthem’s gameplay in a “longer-term redesign” of the embattled online multiplayer action game, studio head Casey Hudson said today in a blog post. This confirms a Kotaku report from November. “Over the coming months we will be focusing on a longer-term redesign of the experience, specifically working to reinvent the…

Heads Up: You’ll Need To Manage The Bioshock Collection’s Limited Save Space

If you use up the BioShock collection’s limited space for making saves while playing BioShock 1, you won’t be able to save at all once you start playing BioShock 2 Yesterday was BioShock 2’s 10-year anniversary, and the remastered collection containing all three games is currently available to download as part of PlayStation Plus. As…

If You Like Celeste But Wish It Had More Swords, Try Scourgebringer

It only took about 15 minutes of zipping around in Scourgebringer for my fingers to start feeling sore. One moment, bell chimes were echoing through a peaceful room. The next, I was tearing through enemies in every direction while some heavy metal kicks up. I’ll strap ice to my knuckles if that’s what it takes…

The makers of tactical stealth game Mutant Year Zero are back with a new one called Corruption 2029 It looks a lot like Mutant Year Zero but with futuristic cyber-soldiers swapped in for mutant ducks and pigs. The game will be out February 17 on the Epic Game Store.

Anthem Still Hasn’t Taken Down Its Christmas Decorations Either

Anthem’s most recent update came out near the end of January. It fixed some bugs and shortened wait times for the game’s recently added time trial races. One thing it didn’t do was bring an end to Anthem’s Icetide celebrations. “Decided to have a dip back into Anthem,” GamesRadar Editor-in-Chief Sam Loveridge posted on Twitter…

Outer Worlds‘ Switch Port Delayed Due To Coronavirus

Take-Two Interactive announced in its third quarter earnings report today that The Outer Worlds for Switch has been delayed from its March release until sometime after April of this year. Private Division, the Take-Two subsidiary publishing the game, announced on Twitter shortly after that the delay was due to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus.…

Chart Illustrates The Brutal Odds Behind Hunting The Rarest Temtem

Long shot odds are easy to quantify but hard to grasp. One simple picture puts into perspective just how unlikely you are to find an ultra rare Luma Temtem in the Pokémon-style collectathon game that came out in Early Access on Steam last month. Players have a one in 6,000 chance of finding Luma Temtem,…

Animal Crossing Switch’s Save Data Restrictions Seem Pretty Restrictive

Based on the drip-feed of information that’s been coming out about it via various sources, the way Animal Crossing: New Horizons will handle save data sounds like a big old mess. Payers can only create one island per Switch, even if they create more user accounts or buy extra copies of the game. Their save…

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.