Ethan Gach

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.

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…