Ethan Gach

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is getting a time machine in a free upcoming update. The time machine will let players return to earlier chapters in the game and finish any sidequests they skipped the first time around, which is extremely good because Kakarot is full of stuff that’s easy to miss.

The beautifully animated action RPG Indivisible is coming to Game Pass tomorrow alongside A Plague Tale: Innocence. In addition, Sea Salt and Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour will get added on January 30 while Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and a few other games are on their way out.

Xbox Players Are Digging Out Their Old 360s To Get Around Microsoft’s Gamertag Restrictions

Last year Microsoft shrunk the character limit for Gamertags from 15 down to 12, but recently players discovered that limit doesn’t apply on Xbox 360. In a post shared yesterday on Reddit, user Talers-Username pointed out that when you go to change your Gamertag using the Xbox 360 interface it lets you make on up…

Destiny 2‘s Corridors of Time is going away. The Season of Dawn location and its hidden lore drops will no longer be available come January 28. Meanwhile, the quest for the exotic weapon Bastion that players spent thousands of hours working on last week can now be gotten from Sain-14 instead.

The Last Autumn Is Frostpunk‘s Best Expansion Yet

Frostpunk’s The Last Autumn expansion, out today on PC, is the city-building game’s best update yet. It adds several new mechanics and swaps out the threat of a plummeting thermostat for a tug-of-war between strict production deadlines and workers’ rights. The Last Autumn, Frostpunk’s second piece of season pass DLC, takes players back to before…

Killer Queen Black is finally getting full, eight-player couch multiplayer. Today’s update means you’ll no longer need two Switches to play with more than four people locally, and also introduces some bug fixes, better map variety, and make custom matches with only one queen.

Destiny 2‘s Wild Corridors Of Time Puzzle Ends With Lackluster Reward

Destiny 2 players have spent the last week trying to crack a complex maze and earlier this morning the final pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, the reward waiting for them, an exotic weapon already publicized by Bungie, wasn’t what many had been hoping for. It all began when Bungie dropped a mysterious new quest into…

Unsolved Mystery: Which Game Industry Exec Did Joe Biden Just Call A ‘Little Creep’?

The New York Times published a sprawling interview with Vice President Joe Biden today in which the 2020 presidential candidate calls someone high up in the video game industry a “little creep,” and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. The remark came during a conversation with the Times’ editorial board, which is made up…

Destiny 2‘s Latest Puzzle Is Turning Out To Be Brain-Breakingly Complex

Destiny 2 players have hit a brick wall in their quest to solve the popular online shooter’s latest puzzle. Now they’re pulling marathon sessions searching for the next breakthrough in a community-wide effort that is turning out to be the Destiny equivalent of mapping the human genome. The game’s Corridors of Time area is a…

The twitchy roguelike Wizard of Legend got a big free update called Thundering Keep across all platforms today It adds a new boss, stage, enemies, and dozens of new spells and items. The game is also still on Game Pass on both Xbox One and PC and very much worth checking out.

5 Hours In, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Is Not The RPG I Was Hoping For

I’ve played Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot for five hours so far, and it appears to be part fighting game and part fetch-quest generator. Mostly it’s a rehash of the source material that almost anyone who will be interested in the game will have seen performed half a dozen different ways. Trudging through the beginning of…

The post-apocalyptic Russian survival shooter collection Metro Redux will release on Switch on February 28, Deep Silver announced today. It includes the first two games in the series, Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, which can be bought together or à la carte for $25 each.

This Interactive Timeline For Netflix’s Witcher Is Super Helpful

The Witcher TV show is atotally enjoyable fantasy romp that is nonetheless difficult to parse due to its multiple timelines. Fortunately, there’s now an interactive timeline of the show’s major events and characters’ births that breaks down the show’s world building into a series of easily digestible blips. Going into Netflix’s adaptation, which draws from…

Destiny 2 Players Are Hard At Work Puzzling Over Mysterious Symbols

A new quest has been stealthily added to Destiny 2 today that has players trying to navigate a time maze using symbols gathered from around the solar system. Osiris, who’s become somewhat infamous for not telling you about his quests, got a new one as part of today’s weekly reset called Exploring The Corridors of…

Final Fantasy Tactics ‘Battleground’ Lets You Gamble Fake Money On Fake Matches

FFT Battleground is a Final Fantasy Tactics Twitch stream that lets you place bets on competing teams of randomized characters, all controlled by AI. The bets are based on fake money, which is good, because if they weren’t, there’s a non-zero chance I might have done some real damage to my bank account by now.…

Bloodborne Modders Restore Cut Boss Version Of Fiery Mage

Bloodborne players have faced the Loran Cleric before, but not like this. A beast-like mage who can summon fire at will, the Loran Cleric is an enemy type only found in Bloodborne’s randomly generated Chalice Dungeons. However, modders recently found references to the creature lurking elsewhere in the game’s files, leading them to a more…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s fifth DLC character will get announced this Thursday at 9:00a.m. during a livestream with Masahiro Sakurai. The game’s director will give a 35 minute presentation on the new fighter, the final one to be added as part of the current season pass.

Might and Magic‘s 100-Player Auto Chess Spin-Off Comes Out Later This Month

Ubisoft has crunched the numbers on all the hottest gaming trends of 2019 and is ready to roll out Might & Magic: Chess Royale, a mash up of battle royale and auto battler, on mobile and PC on January 30. There’s not a ton of information on the publisher’s announcement page about the upcoming game,…

Breath Of The Wild Player Beats Lynel With Devil May Cry Hijinks

Japanese YouTuber Peco has mastered the art of making The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild boss fights look like highly choreographed action movie scenes, and it’s super satisfying to watch. Peco recently shared a clip of themselves taking on a Golden Lynel. The video has already been watched millions of times, no doubt…

Mario Kart 8 Player Wins Tiebreaker With Clutch Last-Second Green Shell

On Saturday night, Twitch streamer and competitive Mario Kart 8 player Knives_x finished her tiebreaker to get into the semifinals at a Las Vegas tournament in the best way possible: by smashing her opponent with a green shell just inches before he was about to cross the finish line. “911 i just mario kart murdered…