Ethan Gach

In its latest ID@Xbox showcase Microsoft announced a bunch of indie games that will soon be coming to Game Pass including Bad North, Gonner, The Banner Saga 3, and Yoku’s Island Express It also announced that others, like Undertale, Timespinner, and For the King, are headed to Game Pass on PC. 

Battlefield V Finger Gun Is Cute And Funny Until You Reload It

Put your hands together for a Battlefield Easter egg that’s equal parts clever and terrifying. As first spotted by PCGamesN, the new “finger gun” is just what it sounds like: a weapon consisting of the player’s character putting both their hands together to imitate the shape and handling of a small pistol. When they shoot…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Mod Project Aims To Make The Game Play Even Faster

Chilean Smash Bros. pro, streamer, and modder Felipe “Nyx” Montero recently showed off the latest additions to his ProjectNX mod for Smash Bros. Ultimate on his Twitch channel. Already months in the works, Montero’s goal is to make a version of Ultimate that incorporates his favorite techniques and moves from the rest of the series.…

Sony, Microsoft, And Nintendo Come Out Against Trump’s Tariffs On Gaming Consoles

Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have joined forces to tell the U.S. government that its newly-proposed tariffs on goods imported from China would hurt consumers, put jobs at risk, and stifle innovation, according to a joint letter sent by the companies to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. As part of its ongoing trade war…

Wall Street Journal Fortnite Column Instantly Turns Into Meme

“Fortnite doesn’t hold a candle to my boyhood games of ‘fort night,’” reads the subhead for a recent column at the Wall Street Journal. In it, Charlotte, North Carolina attorney Mike Kerrigan laments that his kids don’t do the same sorts of things for fun that he used to when he was their age. To…

Razer Brazil Cuts Ties With Influencer After Her Tweets Saying ‘Men Are Trash’

The Brazilian branch of gaming peripheral maker Razer announced yesterday on Twitter that it won’t be renewing its contract with influencer Gabriela Cattuzzo. The decision appears to be related to a Twitter thread from June 21 in which Cattuzzo said “men are trash” in response to her having been sexually harassed. Razer Brazil framed the…

Free Fan-Made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Game Is A Fun Throw-Back

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! has it all: Foot Soldiers, the Party Wagon, lesser known mutant antagonists Groundchuck and Dirtbag. And best of all, the fan-made PC game is free to download Spotted by DSO Gaming (via PC Gamer), Rescue-Palooza!, created by modder Merso_X, started out as a remake of the 1992 NES game Teenage…

Well that didn’t take long. As Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra predicted, Mario Royale, the battle royale game based-on the original Super Mario Bros., has already changed its name and replaced its titular character. The new version is called DMCA Royale

Overpowered ‘Frog Legs’ Are Dominating Fallout 76‘s Battle Royale Mode

Nuclear Winter, Fallout 76’s battle royale mode, allows players to go into matches with customized perk loadouts that grant them various advantages in battle. Players enjoying the game’s early “pre-beta” version are finding that some of those perks are extremely overpowered, especially one called Frog Legs. Frog Legs lets players jump 300 percent higher than…

This YouTuber Heard You Like Minecraft, So He Put Some More Minecraft Inside Your Minecraft

Streamer, programmer, and speedrunner SethBling is always cooking up fascinating new gaming feats: a machine learning Mario Kart AI, an SNES cartridge that runs mods, an Atari emulator that runs inside Minecraft. His latest creation is a 2D version of Minecraft that runs inside a Minecraft chest. SethBling showed how it works in a video…

The Sad Story Of Steve, The Pet Deathclaw Whose Life Was Cut Short By Fallout 76 Bugs

Mikael Hertell really wanted a pet Deathclaw. He wanted one so bad he spent hours searching through Fallout 76’s broken wilds in search of one he could tame. He named it Steve. Steve was a good boy. Some might say a very good boy. That is, until Hertell went to sleep, woke up the next…

This Weekend’s Rocket League Tournament Will Set The Stage For The World Championship

With a $100,000 prize pool at stake, this weekend’s big Rocket League tournament in Dallas will give some of the game’s biggest teams one last chance to test one another before next month’s World Championship. Now in its seventh season, the Rocket League Championship Series is divided across four continents. The winners of the biggest…

Google’s DeepMind AI Takes Down Human Players In Quake III‘s Capture The Flag Mode

Google’s DeepMind AI lab has been hard at work creating programs to take on human players across a variety of games these last few years. In 2016 its AlphaGo beat the best Go player in the world. Earlier this year, its Alpha Star defeated two middle-tier pros at StarCraft II. Now it’s learning to win…

That set of classic D&D-inspired role-playing games that includes Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, and others, is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch on September 24 Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition will arrive later on December 3. Planescape: Torment? Portable? On Switch? What times we live in.

Rick Fox will be staying with esports organization Echo Fox after all. Last month he threatened to leave over threats and racist remarks by a fellow investor, but recently said on his new podcast that he’s staying put, and going to work to have the other shareholder removed instead.

Microsoft will have 14 games from its internal studios to show at this year’s E3. That’s according to a new tweet by the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. Microsoft has been busy acquiring a bunch of new game studios recently. It sounds like we’ll finally get to hear what they’re working on.

Google Now Requires App Makers To Disclose Loot Box Odds

Google rolled out a new Play Store policy requiring game makers to show players what the chances are of getting any items that might be contained in a paid random-chance scenario. Spotted by the website Android Police, the new requirement, listed in the monetization section of Google’s Development Policy Center, states: “Apps offering mechanisms to…

BioWare Shares New Details About Anthem’s Upcoming Cataclysm Event

During a developer live stream today, BioWare gave Anthem players their first look at the game’s upcoming Cataclysm event, a limited-time end-game activity that will take place in an entirely new environment. Based on what BioWare showed, the Cataclysm, which will last six weeks, seems to function like a mini-freeplay mode. Players load into a…

Conan Unconquered Is A Real Time Strategy Game Without Any Fresh Ideas Of Its Own

If you were to ask Conan Unconquered, “What is best in life?” it might say back “To effectively manage your resources, build big walls, and hear the lamentations of your enemies when they see there’s another wall right behind the first big wall.” Conan Unconquered is a new real-time strategy game that came out on…

Fire Piranha Plant will be the latest character added to Mario Tennis Aces. Players can earn it by competing in tournaments throughout June before the character becomes available to everyone starting in July. That month, Mario Tennis will also see Dry Bowser added to the lineup