Ethan Gach

PlayStation Is Really Bad At Suggesting New PSN Names

Yesterday, Sony announced PlayStation Network name changes were officially ready for primetime. While a lot of people might have crappy user names they want to get rid of, they might not be sure what to replace them with. Fortunately, PlayStation provides suggestions. Most are terrible. Some are secretly amazing. For some people, a new PSN…

Overwhelm Is A Tough Game That Still Feels Like It’s Rooting For Me

I am not a glutton for punishment in games. I don’t usually enjoy dying over and over again until some mercurial mix of skill, experience, and luck finally combines to see me through to the next level. But I revel in the moments just before failure occurs, when I’m fighting for my life and the…

Pathway Is An Indiana Jones-Inspired Tactics Game That’s Hard To Put Down

The year is 1936. Nazis are sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East excavating tombs and pillaging archaeological dig sites for mysterious artifacts. The only way to stop them is through a choose-your-own-adventure-style strategy game where death comes swiftly and often. While upcoming game Pathway doesn’t nail things perfectly, its juicy pixel animations and…

Trine 4‘s Developers Want To Take The Series Back To What Worked

The first time I played Trine, which came out in 2009, I found its combination of high-fantasy, 2D side-scrolling, and co-op puzzle solving to be such a perfect blend that I was surprised I hadn’t already played a dozen other games like it. Even since the release of Trine, there haven’t been many games like…

Monster Hunter: World will be on Xbox Game Pass starting April 18. It’s one of six new games coming to the paid subscription service this month, the rest of which are Prey, The Golf Club 2, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Life Is Strange: Episode 2, and Resident Evil 5.

Bungie Blocks Xbox And PC Destiny Players From Equipping PS4-Exclusive Weapon After Accidentally Allowing Them To Buy It

Bungie announced today it will soon be rolling out a fix to prevent players on Xbox One and PC from using the PS4-exclusive exotic trace rifle Wavesplitter after Destiny 2’s traveling alien salesman, Xur, accidentally sold the weapon to some players last weekend. “We’re investigating an issue where the Sony exclusive weapon Wavesplitter was made…

Player Discovers Brutal Combo For One Of Smash Ultimate’s Worst Fighters

Charizard may be the final evolution of one of the strongest Pokemon starters of all time, but in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate he’s kind of shit. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun playing as him, especially by trying to pull of this deadly two hit combo that few of your friends will see…

YouTuber Takes Beautiful Walks Across Huge Video Games

Open world games keep getting bigger and bigger, but the time we have to thoroughly explore them is limited. Most players will never see all the beautiful things a game has to offer, but a time-lapse walkabout across the entire map can offer a slightly blurry glimpse. As spotted by Eurogamer, Gaming YouTuber Enigma recently…

Fallout 76‘s PVP mode is about to get a lot less brutal In the patch notes for today’s update, Bethesda announced significant nerfs to the game’s survival mode, including greatly reducing the number of caps players drop when killed as well as how many aid items they leave behind.

Anthem’s latest update is live and corrects some of the smaller problems players have been having with loot. Players will no longer get loot for Javelins different from the one they’re using and Elysian Cache items now immediately appear in players’ inventories. The newsfeed, which had been blank, is also fixed.

Bethesda Plans To Sell Fallout 76 Repair Kits For Real Money

Late last week Bethesda announced a new item would be coming to the game soon: repair kits. Rather than waste resources repairing weapons and armor, players will be able to use these kits instead. There’s a hitch. Players will only be able to buy them through Fallout 76’s microtransaction store. “Repair Kits are new utility…

Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night Doesn’t Feel Quite Right In Its Latest Demo

While at PAX East I finally had the opportunity to try Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. What I played left me intrigued but ultimately underwhelmed. Of all the Castlevania-inspired games due out this year, like Cyber Shadow and upcoming DLC for The Messenger, I’m now less excited about the one actually coming from one of…

Epic Games Is Spending $500,000 Just So Competitive Fortnite Players Can Practice

It’s a light weekend for esports, save for Epic Games’ Fortnite World Cup Warm Up. It’s a two-day mini-tournament which, because it’s Fortnite, will nevertheless include a $500,000 prize divided up among hundreds of winners. Competitive Fortnite’s World Cup event is slated to take place in July. Before that, teams will compete in a series…

Doom Mod Turns The Game Into One Extremely Long Hallway

Tired of getting lost in the original Doom while hunting for ammo packs and teleporters? Well there’s now a mod that takes everything in the game and unravels it along a single, unwavering path, and it’s called Linear Doom. Created by modder DeXiaZ and uploaded to ModDB, Linear Doom takes all of the game’s clever…

How Battlefield V’s New Microtransactions Work

Battlefield V received microtransactions this week, almost five months after the first-person shooter was originally released. Players can now use Battlefield Currency, which can only be bought with real money, to customize the look of their characters, guns, and vehicles. Prior to the update, players could buy common, uncommon, and rare cosmetics using an in-game…

Warframe’s first big open world area, the Plains of Eidolon, has been remastered. The graphical overhaul comes to PC today and will hit consoles sometime later on. The update also includes some new terrain for players to grind their scifi skateboards on as well as new badges for animal conservation.

Fallout 76 Player Turns Their Camp Into A Disco For Mutant Cows

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Flames bursting out of the walls of a haunted church. A labyrinth funneling vault dwellers into the clutches of a hungry Deathclaw. And now this: a disco full of Brahmin getting down and getting electrocuted. As GamesRadar points out, some Fallout 76 players have become obsessed with Brahmin,…

Invisible Beetle Is The Key To A New Donkey Kong Country 2 World Record

One of Donkey Kong Country 2’s best speedrunners, who goes by V0oid, recently took first-place in the game’s 102 percent category, completing and collecting everything in the game in 1:26:28. He’d been working on it for months, but was able to shave a full nine seconds off the previous record thanks to a newly discovered…

It turns out Game Boy shells make great dioramas. Reddit user trythisfuckingone recently shared pictures of Zelda and Pokemon nature scenes recreated with used Game Boy cases they ordered online and combined them with some faux-grass and tree miniatures

Respawn Entertainment has fixed the problem which had caused players to lose all of their progress following yesterday’s patch. The studio said it was a server-side issue and that everything that was lost should now be restored.