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Axiom Verge Gets ‘Sophisticated’ Randomizer Mode Six Years After Launch

Axiom Verge, the bespoke Metroid-like developed solely by indie designer Thomas Happ, is still getting new content long after it originally came out. A new update will make the game feel like new every time you play by randomizing the order in which you get new weapons and unlock new areas. Currently available on the…

Destiny 2 Will Bring Loot Back To The Moon Next Season

The moon was finally added to Destiny 2 back in 2019, but last year’s Beyond Light update made its loot obsolete. Bungie plans to fix that next season by re-issuing some of its old gear with a new infusion cap in the studio’s ongoing dance to try to get the game’s progression just right. Bungie…

Big Game Publishers Are Retreating Into The Safety Of Hollywood’s Back Catalog

This week, the video game industry got a fresh infusion of boomer energy with the announcement of a new Indiana Jones game. Meanwhile, there’s also a James Bond game in the works, and Ubisoft announced it’s working on an open world Star Wars game—the first in a possible flood of new games taking place in…

Bethesda Delays Elder Scrolls Online Reveal To Get Out Of The Way Of Presidential Inauguration

The US Capitol was attacked and overrun by a right-wing and neo-confederate mob last week, and according to the FBI, groups loyal to President Trump are threatening to try to do it again during next week’s inauguration where President-Elect Joe Biden will be sworn in. Nerves are frayed, people are on edge, and so at…

New Pokémon Snap Is Out On Switch In April

Photography game New Pokémon Snap will be out on Switch on April 30, Nintendo announced today. Announced last year, New Pokémon Snap is a spiritual successor to the Nintendo 64 game about exploring Pokémon in their natural habitats and snapping beautiful pictures of them. The new game will take place in a region called Lental,…

CD Projekt Red Apologizes For Cyberpunk 2077 Bugs, Says It’s Avoiding Crunch On ‘All Future Projects’

In a video on Twitter and a Q&A posted on the company’s website, CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński apologized for the state Cyberpunk 2077 launched in on consoles, shared a road map for updates to the game coming in the future, and said the studio would deliver these fixes “without any obligatory overtime.” Here’s…

The Mega Man X-like 30XX is coming to Steam in Early Access on February 17, Batterystaple Games announced today. It’s got beautiful pixel graphics, chiptune-inspired tunes, and even a Maker Mode for players to design their own levels. 

Ubisoft Massive Is Making An Open World Star Wars Game

Ubisoft is partnering with the the newly launched Lucasfilm Games to make an open world game based in the Star Wars universe, Wired reports. This apparently signals the end of EA’s previous exclusivity deal regarding the development of Star Wars video games. Ubisoft Massive, the studio behind The Division, will be leading development on the…

Cyberpunk 2077, One Month Later

After multiple delays, reports of mandatory overtime at the studio, and a years-long, nauseating hype train inescapably intertwined with edgelord marketing tactics and transphobia, CD Projekt Red finally released Cyberpunk 2077 into the world at the tail end of last year, and almost every day of its existence since has been utterly wild and often…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Now Runs at 60 FPS On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S

2019’s excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order now looks a little bit better on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to its latest update, though the improvements aren’t as dramatic as some other games have seen. Jedi: Fallen Order’s new optimized version runs at a crisp 60 FPS on all three next-gen consoles, but at…

Machine Games Is Making An Indiana Jones Game

Bethesda studio Machine Games is making a new Indiana Jones game, the publisher announced in a short teaser on Twitter today. The game will feature an original story and be a collaboration between Machine Games and Lucasfilm Games, with Todd Howard as the executive producer on the project. Bethesda didn’t reveal anything further about the…

Riot And Bungie Go After Valorant And Destiny 2 Cheat Sellers In Joint Lawsuit

Riot Games and Bungie have decided to work together in both companies’ ongoing crusade against people who make and sell cheats for their games. They’ve filed a joint complaint against Cameron Santos, the owner of several cheat distribution platforms, including Gatorcheats. “[Riot Games and Bungie] seek to put a stop to the unlawful, for-profit sale…

I Love Everything About The PS5 DualSense Except The Home Button

Since the PS3, DualShock controllers have had a nice, round home button nestled between the analog sticks that you can easily press to quickly return to the console’s main menu. The PS5’s DualSense changes that. I hate it. Instead of a small acrylic lump with a PlayStation logo on it, the DualSense’s home button is…

Tech Company Imagines The Nintendo Switch As A Fully Functioning PC

The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would be even better if it could also work like any other computer tablet. Chinese tech manufacturer Lenovo tried to show off what that dream would actually look like with its new prototype: the LaVie Mini. Revealed ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the LaVie Mini…

Artist Claims Official Super Nintendo World Website Is Using His Fan Art

A new website for Nintendo’s upcoming Japanese theme park Super Nintendo World went live yesterday. It featured new details and a virtual tour of the video game wonderland ahead of its February 4 opening. It also used an image of Mario for its loading screen that appears to have been created not by Nintendo, but…

Hitman 3 Trailer Shows Off The Trilogy In Irresistibly Goofy VR

The Hitman series does a great job walking a fine line between very serious murder heisting and utterly ridiculous physics simulator. This juxtaposition is on perfectly display in the new Hitman 3 trailer showing off the game’s VR mode. For those not content to meddle in the lives of strangers in third-person, Hitman 3, as…

Fall Guys are about to become Doom Guys when the new cross-over costumes go live starting January 12. The outfits will transform players’s beans into Doom Slayer, Cacodemons, or Tyrants, so you can feel extra bad-ass or demonic while falling to your doom. 

Game Pass Is Still Missing Most Of The Final Fantasy Games Microsoft Promised

At the end of 2019, Microsoft announced 10 Final Fantasy games would come to Game Pass in the following year. At the start of 2021 most of them are still missing, though Microsoft says they’ll get there eventually. During the X019 livestream event in London near the tail end of 2019, Microsoft announced a bunch…

Duracell Official Suggests Xbox Controllers Use Of AA Batteries In Influenced By Deal With Battery Company

While every other console controller on the market uses internal rechargeable batteries, Xbox’s still let you use AA batteries to power them, and new remarks by a Duracell spokesperson possibly shed some light on why this is. “There’s always been this partnership with Duracell and Xbox…it’s a constant agreement that Duracell and Microsoft have in…

Former Xbox Executives Say Nintendo ‘Laughed Their Asses Off’ When Microsoft Offered To Buy It

Microsoft once proposed buying Nintendo in order to lock in its first-party games for the Xbox. The Japanese video game company didn’t just decline to entertain the offer; it laughed the tech giant’s executives out of the room, according to a new report by Bloomberg. “Steve [Ballmer, Microsoft’s former CEO] made us go meet with…