Ethan Gach

Fallout 76 Players Who Had Their Inventories Hacked Say Bethesda Returned Their Stuff By Cloning Their Characters

Last month someone managed tosteal a number of Fallout 76 players’ items and gear using a cheat program. Now some of those players say Bethesda has finally managed to restore their lost valuables by giving them access to cloned versions of their characters from before the incident. Player IGN Romulox reported on Reddit last week…

Developers at Blizzard prototyped Hearthstone VR during a company hackathon one of the game’s artists said in a recent interview. It allowed you to go into the tavern, sit down for a game, and even flip the table over if the cards weren’t going your way.

While Other Evo Japan Winners Get Cash, Smash Bros. Ultimate Champion Gets Golden Controller

Shuto “Shuton” Moriya won his first ever Smash Bros. Evo Championship this past weekend. His prize? A special gold embossed Switch Pro controller presented by none other than series creator Masahiro Sakurai. It didn’t break, as some tournament-winning items tend to, but it did take a quick tumble. Who could blame the 23-year-old pro Smash…

Patapon 2 is getting a 4K remaster for PlayStation 4 releasing on January 30. The 2008 PSP game was a rhythm-based strategy game where band of walking eyeballs used music to fight monsters and rival tribes. The first game in the series was remastered and ported back in 2018. 

Gorgeous Tactical RPG Duelyst Is Shutting Down Next Month

Duelyst’s servers will go offline on February 27 the game’s developers announced yesterday on Steam, bringing the ingenious tactical RPG card game hybrid’s nearly four year run to an end. “Saying goodbye to any game is never easy, and it’s always hardest when you love the game as much as we all love Duelyst,” the…

Images for the previously planned and then cancelled Last of Us animated short have surfaced online briefly over at the Oddfellow animation agency website. The movie was supposed to summarize the events of the first game using a series of different art styles similar to the structure of the Animatrix

Which Fallout 76 Faction Is Cooler, The Crashed Space Station Or The Log Cabin?

Fallout 76’s upcoming Wastelanders expansion will add two new faction settlements: settlers and raiders. One of these looks like a Lincoln Log fort while the other is made out of a crashed space station. Can you guess which one players are already gravitating towards? Yesterday, Bethesda shared some screenshots of the two new locations and…

Bungie Says Massive Destiny 2 Puzzle Was Inspired By Cult Horror Film Cube

In its weekly blog post, Bungie described what went into making Destiny 2’s recent Corridors of Time puzzle, including drawing inspiration from a 1997 Canadian cult horror film about people trapped in a giant labyrinth full of death traps, Cube “The puzzle seemed to fit well with the idea of the Corridors of Time, with…

Vermintide 2 is getting the Drachenfels castle in a free new update. The update will also bring some balance changes and a quickplay version of Weaves, as well as a bunch of cosmetics being sold as part of the game’s shift away from paid DLC expansions.  

I Love Watching My Buff Hoplites Wreck People In Magic: The Gathering‘s Theros Beyond Death Expansion

Magic: The Gathering’s big Theros Beyond Death expansion is full of woodland satyrs, brooding cyclops, bronze-shielded warriors, and cruel, twisted gods. After her long sleep was disturbed by the nightmare-weaver Ashiok, the fierce and righteous planeswalker Elspeth Tirel has escaped from hell to exact her revenge against Heliod, the sun god Fortunately, you don’t actually…

Maker of Super Stardust and Resogun, Housemarque, announced today it’s halting work on all internal projects, including its upcoming battle royale Stormdivers, to work on completing a new, unannounced game. “[W]e are focused on delivering our most ambitious and biggest game to date,” CEO Ilari Kuittinen said.

The papercraft-looking adventure game Knights and Bikes is coming to Switch on February 6. It was good on PS4 and Steam when it released last fall, but the co-op mode in particular feels ideal for the Switch’s Joy-Con.

Apex Legends Players Are Trying To Figure Out Lights In The Game’s Sky

During an Apex Legends match yesterday, a player spotted a tiny trio of lights in the game’s sky. Now, players are theorizing about what this sighting means for the game’s upcoming season. “Something is coming, but what else than season 4?” wrote user Chuzeeee on the game’s lore subreddit. Attached was a video in which…

This Video Game Parody Of Hudson Yards Is Super Funny, Oh God We’re Going To Die

Comedian Conner O’Malley, who you might have previously seen screaming about Howard Shultz or hosting talk shows from a lake, is back with a new video game-themed parody of New York City rich-people compound Hudson Yards that’s both funny and soul crushing and has already aged me five years. The video opens with a PS1-style…

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.