Ethan Gach

Better Stealth Can’t Save Far Cry 5‘s Disappointing Vietnam DLC

The only part of my two-and-a-half-hour jaunt through Far Cry 5’s new Hours of Darkness DLC that really stuck out to me was when a Vietnamese woman taunted me over loudspeakers telling me the jungle was not my friend and would swallow me up whole. I was supposed to be destroying the propaganda machines playing…

The Nintendo Switch eShop just got easier to use with the 5.1.0 firmware update. The Best Sellers page now lists 30 games instead of just 20 with an additional option for download-only games. It’s also now possible to click on developers’ names to find other games they’ve made. Now if only there was voice chat.

Evolve’s dedicated servers are shutting down on September 3, publisher 2K Games announced today. While peer-to-peer multiplayer will still be around for Legacy Evolve, the free-to-play version called Evolve Stage 2 will be going away. Ranked Hunt mode will also disappear, along with leaderboards and in-game store.

Fallout: New California, a New Vegas mod that’s been in development for nine years, will finally come out this October. Its creators announced the news with a new trailer and said that in the meanwhile they’ll be adding more side quests to it as well as running a beta starting in July.

Pro Evolution Soccer Loses Another Big Name Team

The Pro Evolution Soccer series used to be top dog until it was supplanted by the flashier, better licensed FIFA games. Today, PES suffered another blow, with publisher Konami announcing the German club Borussia Dortmund terminated its licensing agreement a year ahead of schedule, meaning the top-tier Bundesliga team will not be appearing in PES…

A Missing Door Almost Ruined One Far Cry 5 Player’s Arcade Masterpiece

Fred Baggs was making a level in Far Cry 5’s map editor, putting the finishing touches on a project that he says took him dozens of hours. Then one morning something weird happened. The handful of silo doors peppered throughout the level had gone missing, leaving empty holes in their place. His map couldn’t function…

The Internet Reacts To Those Unused Pokémon Designs

Nintendo recently announced two new Pokémon games coming to Switch later this year and one that’s out now called Pokémon Quest. There’s also a bigger Pokémon RPG coming in 2019. The real news this week though is that there actually used to be a ton of weird and adorable Pokémon that were planned for Pokémon…

Twitch Prime’s free games for June include Strafe, The Banner Saga 1 and 2, Tumblestone, and Treadnauts If you haven’t heard, an Amazon Prime subscription automatically gets you a Twitch Prime subscription, which now gives you a handful of great indie games to download and keep each month.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 received a hefty free update today adding challenges, daily quests, and more hats, as well as custom mod support. Okri’s Challenges along with daily quests each offer new opportunities to collect loot, while commendation chests now have a higher chance of dropping cosmetics.

11 bit studios, maker of frigid survival sim Frostpunk, has laid out a road map for the game’s free 2018 updates. First up is the new Survivor mode planned to arrive in June, which increases the difficulty and adds more modifiers. That’ll be followed by a new story scenario and sandbox mode later in the…

Programmer Hacks Cartridge To Run SNES Games On The NES

The homebrew scene is always coming out with ways to emulate old games on new hardware with as much fidelity to the originals as possible. Programmer Tom Murphy, otherwise known as Tom7, has been working on a slightly different project in his two most recent YouTube videos: figuring out a way to run SNES games…

Far Cry 3 Classic Edition Is A Good Port With One Annoying Problem [UPDATE]

Far Cry 3 Classic Edition came out yesterday for people who bought Far Cry 5’s season pass and it’s turned out to be the tropical island escape I didn’t know I needed. After several weeks with the recent Far Cry 5 I thought I was done hunting wild boars and accidentally blowing myself up, but…

Lego DC Super-Villains is yet another Lego game coming this year, slated to release October 16 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. This time you get to fight alongside the likes of Joker and Reverse Flash as a fellow super villain in the “Justice Syndicate” who you get to custom create.

Walmart Leak Reveals Team Sonic Racing [UPDATE: Confirmed] 

Walmart has spoiled yet another video game announcement, with a listing this morning revealing the existence of Team Sonic Racing for Nintendo Switch. Earlier this month Walmart Canada leaked the existence of a bunch of other games including Rage 2 [Update – 11:00am]: Sega has officially confirmed the game is real with a new teaser…

Street Fighter Was Almost Released For The 8-Bit NES

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is out today. In addition to including the arcade versions of 12 different games in the series, ranging from 1987’s Street Fighter to 1999’s 3rd Strike, it also has an impressive virtual museum built into it, with some surprising revelations. Among other things, this repository includes the only known screenshot…

Maker Of Game About Fleeing Syrian Civil War Denied Entry Into The UK 

Abdullah Karam, co-creator of an autobiographical game about leaving Syria in 2014, has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. Karam’s visa application was rejected just days before he was supposed to attend the Casual Connect Europe games conference in London where his game, Path Out, was nominated for the Indie Prize award Karam currently…

Mega Man 11 arrives October 2 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. It ditches the 8-bit art style for modern 3D sprites and includes a new ability to slow down time. But don’t worry, you’ll still be fighting Dr. Wily and robots with names like Block Man. A new Mega Man Amiibo is also…

Finally, A Place To Store Those Joy-Con Straps 

Someone 3D printed a contraption to hold some Switch games and, more importantly, the strap attachments for their Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, creating something I didn’t know I needed until now. The Joy-Con are great for playing local multiplayer but also terrible for playing local multiplayer. As nice as it is to be able to boot…

The Speedrunner Smashing Records On Mario Kart 64’s Donkey Kong Track

Matthias Rustemeyer has been trying to collect every individual Mario Kart 64 course world record for half a decade, but thanks to Daniel Burbank that job just keeps getting harder. Burbank has been getting better and better times on the game’s lone Donkey Kong race track since the beginning of the year and shows no…

Fallout: Cascadia Fan Project Looks To Bring Nature Back To The Wasteland

Fallout: Cascadia is a mod project for Fallout 4 that aims to create an entirely new story for the game in Seattle. Cascadia first surfaced a couple years back, and like all ambitious fan projects inspired by Bethesda games, progress ebbs and flows. This week, however, the team released an official teaser trailer that gives…