Ethan Gach

I Can’t Stop Kicking People To Death In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

I’ve kicked so many people to death in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Off hill tops, mountain ledges, and temple roofs. I can’t help myself. In this latest entrant in the stealth series about assassinating historical figures, stealth is no longer the most important skill, and assassination attacks no longer guarantee success. So I’ve fallen back on…

Gritty Has A Child And It’s This Diablo III Amiibo

Diablo III’s loot goblin is the latest creature to join the ranks of Nintendo’s line of Amiibo toys. He’s equal parts cute and grotesque, and while I can’t imagine ever wanting to display him on my bookshelf, his potential treasure might be too much for the diehard Diablo grinder to ignore. The little red menace…

Here’s What Fallout 76’s Real-Money Store Looks Like So Far

Bethesda’s open world MMO Fallout 76 is currently in beta on console and PC for those who pre-ordered the game. While you can’t spend actual money to purchase its in-game currency, called Atoms, players can now use the currency they’ve already collected from doing various in-game tasks to buy stuff from the shop’s initial offering.…

The Switch port of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP won’t be out until sometime later this month Of course, Capybara Games is also hard at work on another little game called Below which, after many delays, the studio said would be out on Xbox One by the end of the year.

Fans Commiserate After Big Smash Bros. Leak Turns Out To Be Fake

Last week a Super Smash Bros. leak, known as the Grinch leak, sent the Smash community down a rabbit hole of rumor and speculation that ended up with fans divided into two camps, #teamreal and #teamfake, depending on whether they believed the leak would turn out to be legit. In its Direct today, Nintendo resolved…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets Two Final New Fighters, Ken And Incineroar

Nintendo has confirmed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s final starting roster will be 74 fighters, with newly announced Ken from Street Fighter and Incineroar from Pokemon being the last two additions before the game comes out. Ken will be an echo fighter, meaning most of his moves and animations will mirror Ryu’s. He’ll have unique attack…

Smash Bros. Fans Are At War Over Whether The Latest Rumors Are True

Who else will star in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a game that’s already been announced to feature every previous Smash character along with a handful of newcomers? A brand new “leak”—one that’s completely unverified and in fact likely to be fake—is polarizing the Smash community and has led to non-stop drama over the past week.…

Smash Bros. Fan Creates 8-Player GameCube Controller Adapter

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a little over a month away, and many die hard fans are set on playing it with a GameCube controller. The retro hardware’s hold on Smash Bros. players’ imagination is so intense Nintendo’s even started manufacturing them again. But the game features up to eight player local multiplayer, so one…

Google’s Homepage Is Now A Clever Multiplayer Halloween Game

A day before Halloween, Google has reworked its logo into an online multiplayer game called The Great Ghoul Duel to help people get into the spirit of things. While the company has featured games on its homepage before, this is the first that actually lets you play against other random strangers around the world. I…

Smash Bros. Characters Reimagined In Garfield’s Image

Someone has gone to great lengths to render the lasagna-obsessed cat as some of the Nintendo fighting game series’ most iconic characters. Not content to stop there, artist Shawn Bowers also gave each of them perfect backstories. For example, there’s Nessfield. He plays sports and loves baseball. “He did not have enough money for a…

Prototype Wii Remote From The GameCube Era Sells At Auction 

Over the weekend, an old Wiimote controller was sold at auction in Japan for 74,000 yen (approximately $660). Why so much? The device wasn’t just any old Wiimote, but one of the prototypes Nintendo originally created for the GameCube before the Wii had been released. The bundle, which sold on Thursday at Yahoo Auctions per…

Completely out of the blue, the top-down co-op shooter Helldivers got a new update on PS4 and PC. Called A New Hell, the small expansion adds higher difficulties, harder enemies, and a new piece of equipment. The game’s also free for the weekend on Steam.

One Of Dota 2’s Newest Teams Has A Lot To Prove This Weekend

In its first major tournament since the annual International in August, competitive Dota 2 returns this weekend with a $300,000 event in Hamburg, Germany. Though China’s Team Aster came out on top of the group stage with only one loss, it’s now hanging on for dear life in the lower bracket. The days and weeks…

Counter-Strike Pro Banned For Cheating, Now Regrets Ever Playing The Game

Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who was caught cheating at a tournament last weekend. In a video that went viral, he was seen trying to close an aim-assist program open on his computer mid-match Now banned for five years from any Esports Integrity Coalition-affiliated tournaments, Kumawat says he regrets ever…

GameStop Wants People To Switch Their Switch For Another Switch

Every once in a while I go on the prowl for deals. I’m a gamer after all, but also a human being with a car loan and overdue heating bills and a weakness for the artisanal pasta that costs three times as much as the generic store brand. Deals matter—without them I’d be forced to…

Disgaea 5’s Release On PC Has Been A Months-Long Debacle

Disgaea 5, the latest in publisher Nippon Ichi Software anime tactics series, released on PS4 in 2015. Since then, NIS has been working to port it to other platforms, including Switch in 2017 and now, finally, PC. This version, called Disgaea 5: Complete, supposedly included all of the game’s downloadable content. It doesn’t on PC…

Team Sonic Racing has been delayed until next year. Originally planned to release sometime in December, it’s been pushed back to May 21, 2019. While I wasn’t blown away by the game’s E3 demo, it’s been nice to see its cast expand with more weird characters and hopefully it benefits from more time.

Fallout 76 Feels Like Two Different Games

There’s a lot of tension in Fallout 76 between the series’ solitary past and its new multiplayer future. During my four hours in the game’s beta last night, these two sides of the game repeatedly rubbed up uncomfortably against one another. I have a tough time imagining how they’ll ever be reconciled. Fallout 76 began…

Battlefield V’s Battle Royale Mode Won’t Launch Until 2019

Battlefield V will launch on November 20 without its new battle royale or co-op modes, EA and DICE confirmed today. Instead, these highly-anticipated features, part of the game’s free Tides of War post-launch updates, will land somewhere between January and March, 2019. While neither of these modes is technically “delayed,” since specific release dates hadn’t…

Fortnite’s Halloween Event Released, Then Removed Because Of Issues [Update: It’s Working Again]

Another day, another Fortnite patch. The one that went live this morning is V6.20, notable for introducing the game’s Halloween event, Fortnitemares. Unfortunately, players began experiencing problems, including long matchmaking times, as soon as they started trying to play. Within a few hours the event had already been removed. [Update – 11:11am]: The Fortnitemares event…