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Mars arrives in Dota 2 today adding another ancient god to the game’s existing pool of over 100 heroes. The melee carry has a giant shield that decreases damage he receives from the front and sides and has a bunch of crowd-control abilities that should make him fun to play.

Man Beats Mario 64’s First Bowser Fight Without Using The Control Stick

Super Mario 64 expert Pannenkoek2012 has devised a way to defeat Bowser in the game’s Dark World without ever using the N64 controller’s joystick, and the result is incredible to watch. Pannenkoek2012, whom we’ve covered before and who has spent years researching the depths of every little detail and nuance in Mario 64, has most…

Conan Unconquered is a real-time strategy game being made by Petroglyph, a studio formed by some of the original developers on the Command & Conquer series. It’s also a wave-survival game like They Are Billions, which all sounds great on paper. It’s slated to arrive on PC in the first half of 2019.

While Anthem does occasionally shutdown players’ PS4s, it doesn’t appear to be bricking them after all Instead, players whose consoles become unresponsive have reported being able to get them running again by starting the console in safe mode and rebuilding the data base.

ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove Is A Well-Timed Throwback

Rejoice! There’s a new ToeJam & Earl game out and it’s not garbage. Kickstarted back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is a soft reboot of the original game that debuted on the Sega Genesis back in 1991. It’s out now on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch, and it’s entirely decent.…

Gwent’s new expansion, Crimson Curse, will bring vampires to the Witcher-based card game on March 28. Inspired by the Witcher 3‘s Blood and Wine DLC, the new set, comprised of over 100 cards, will focus on poison, bleeding, deathblow, and berserk effects. In other words: lots of dying.

Anthem Players Say The Game Is Crashing Their PS4s [UPDATE]

It’s been a rough launch for BioWare’s new loot shooter, and some PlayStation 4 players are now finding that the game occasionally shuts off their system as well. “When encountering a crash or game error, sometimes I get booted to the main menu or out of the game completely to the PS4 dashboard,” a user…

The World’s Top StarCraft II Players Will Battle This Weekend

It’s not every day there’s a big StarCraft II tournament going on, and this weekend’s could offer a rematch of one of last year’s great showdowns. The Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII StarCraft II started this week with 24 teams and will soon be down to 12 as the playoff stage gets underway this weekend.…

Warframe‘s Take On The ‘Battle Pass’ Is A Clever, Episodic Radio Drama

Digital Extremes has overhauled the daily alert system in its free-to-play loot shooter Warframe, something that had been in place for six years, and replaced it with a battle pass system called Nightwave that weaves its reward structure into a larger story. Nightwave is the name of a new radio station players can dial into…

Anthem‘s Worst Boss Is So Bad It’s Not Even Worth Fighting

I’m well on my way to hitting the 100-hour mark in my time with Anthem, in part because it’s my goddamn job but also because I’m a glutton for the grind. In all my time with BioWare’s loot shooter, however, nothing in the diverse array of bugs nor the plethora of petty inconveniences has filled…

Fallout 76 Players Will Soon Be Able To Drink Even More Of Their Problems Away

There are lots of bottles of beer, whiskey, and other instruments of intoxication already scattered throughout the rolling hills of Fallout 76’s West Virginia, but on March 12 players will be able to start making their own. Today’s Inside the Vault article sheds light on how the whole thing will work. The update, originally teased…

If you’re playing Anthem you’ve probably seen this warning any time you’re more than a few seconds from your team. Today BioWare put out a 3 GB patch to fix the issue “Players should now have more time to catch up to their Squad before seeing a countdown timer,” it reads.

BioWare Announces Some Fixes For Anthem’s Broken Loot System

In the midst of mounting frustration with Anthem’s end-game loot grind, BioWare has announced a handful of changes to make it less grueling. They don’t address all of the complaints players have had, but it’s a start. The update, which is due to go live in the next day or two, will do three main…

Fortnite Season 8 Update Adds Apex Legends-Style Ping Feature

Battle royale game Apex Legends has only been out for a few weeks and Fortnite is already copying one of its best ideas, with today’s Season 8 update adding a ping system alongside other new stuff like pirate ships and a giant volcano. One of the most refreshing things players discovered about Apex Legends, which…

Trials Rising Players Have Had Enough Of The Game’s Ass-Slapping Taunts

Overall, the motosport platformer Trials Rising is a pretty fun game, even on Switch where it’s been badly visually downgraded. One thing that’s not fun is having your nose rubbed in it every time you fail to beat a rival’s time. In Trials Rising you’re not just trying to complete a course, something that can…

Anthem Glitches Can Make Your Javelin Even Cooler

While its day-one patch fixed a number of issues, BioWare’s sci-fi epic Anthem still has bugs. Not all of them are bad though, and players have recently discovered a few glitches that make the game’s Javelin exo suits even cooler than before. There are four types of Javelins in Anthem, each with unique abilities: Ranger,…

Trials Rising Switch eShop Screenshots Look Way Better Than The Real Thing [Update]

Video games rarely look as beautifully composed as promotional screenshots, but the Switch version of Trials Rising does not look anything like the screenshots on its Nintendo store page. In fact, it seems like those screens are from another version of the game entirely. Trials Rising came out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC,…

Anthem’s Loot Is Not In A Good Place

Anthem has a lot of problems, and while some run deep, others feel like avoidable missteps. How the game handles its loot falls into that second category. As we get farther into the game’s post-launch life, a lot of its end-game feels like reliving the dark days immediately following Destiny 1’s release. For a brief…

Anthem: The Kotaku Review

Every once in a while, a game comes along that that does something surprising, different, memorable. Anthem is not one of those games. Much of this PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC game feels incomplete, while other portions are borrowed from games that did it better. The things that make Anthem special, like flying through…

Up-And-Coming Squad Looks To Break Out At This Weekend’s Big Dota 2 Tournament

Gambit Esports, a Russian esports organization based in the UK, has never been known for its prowess in Valve’s strategy game Dota 2, but this weekend that might change as the newcomers continue continues marching toward the finals at ESL One Katowice 2019 in Poland. Led by relative veteran Artsiom “fng” Barshack from Belarus, the…