Ethan Gach

For Honor’s Season Six update is now live. It adds some new skins and weapons to collect as well as reworks to the Orochi and Peacekeeper classes. There’s also a new map, Beachhead, and more importantly, a new event called The Rite of Champions that runs until May 31.

I Love Complaining About Destiny 2 While Playing Destiny 2

I love the feeling of getting back into Destiny. No matter how long I’m away, picking it back up again is like slipping my hand into a well-worn baseball glove. After hundreds of hours exploring planets and killing everything in sight, things like the light double-click of the jump button to glide while sprinting as…

I Don’t Know How Many Digital Games I Own

I collect games like I do books: stacking them on shelves or in boxes, never quite finding the time to finish them but always enjoying simply having them around. Owning physical games provides a sense of history and future possibility and makes me feel like I have some sort of handle on this unwieldy hobby…

Wild Homebrew Console Looks Straight Out Of Fallout

The Ocelot is one of the most bizarre homemade consoles I’ve ever seen. It looks more like a piece of scientific equipment than something you’d play video games on. In all honesty there’s no reason for it to exist at all, but thanks to its determined builder, console modder Matthew Carr, it does. The machine,…

Things Are Finally Looking Up For The Witcher 3 On PS4 Pro After Its Latest Patch 

The Witcher 3 got a PS4 pro patch today. People can finally play in 4K with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support without having to navigate seas of vegetation magically popping in as they travel. CD Projekt Red’s attempts to update The Witcher 3 to take advantage of the PS4 Pro have been troubled. The game…

The first part of Minecraft’s Update Aquatic is out today on Xbox One, PC, mobile, and various VR platforms. Announced at last year’s MineCon, the update overhauls the game’s water sections and will release in two phases. Today’s portion adds swimming, shipwrecks and buried treasure.

Two of publisher Deep Silver’s planned 2018 releases, Metro Exodus and Shenmue III, have been delayed until 2019. In both cases, Deep Silver cited the need for more time to polish each game. It’s another reminder that nebulous, year-long release windows almost never end up being accurate.

Nintendo Hacker Is Trying To Make A Virtual Console For His Switch

Nintendo might not have plans to bring Virtual Console to Switch, but that doesn’t mean somebody else won’t. In light of new details about how Nintendo Switch Online will work and the company’s plans to bring NES games to the handheld via a subscription service, at least one hacker and longtime Nintendo fan is trying…

The Race To Stop The Best Mario Kart 64 Player From Securing Every World Record 

For five years now, Matthias Rustemeyer has been on a quest to nab the world record for each individual track in Mario Kart 64. With only one record left for him to break, other Mario Kart 64 speedrunners have risen up to try to stop him. The track in question is D.K.’s Jungle Parkway. It’s…

Doom‘s John Carmack Opens Up About Working With Steve Jobs

Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world. The iPhone has an install base of over 700 million people. And yet the company has always had a fraught relationship to gaming. Mac users know the pain of needing to run alternate operating systems to play popular PC games well. In a new…

Fan Project To Remake Diablo II Using StarCraft II Is Now Playable

The Curse of Tristram: Destruction’s End, a mod that takes the main campaign of Diablo II and recreates it using the StarCraft II engine, has been four years in the making. This weekend, creator Etienne Godbout finally released a playable version to the public on a test server. The good news is, it works. While…

Arc System Works is working on porting Guilty Gear to Switch, PS4, and PC. The studio announced the news during a live stream earlier today. Guilty Gear originally came out on PS1 20 years ago, but hasn’t been available in North America since. Currently, there’s no release date set.

Microsoft One-Ups Sony And Nintendo By Allowing Game-Gifting On Xbox One

While it’s been possible to gift video games to people on digital PC storefronts like Steam for years, Xbox One is now the first modern console to offer it. Microsoft has offered the option to Xbox One Insiders since last fall, and later expanded it to more people for select games. Today, Microsoft is enabling…

PS4 Parappa Is Running On A PSP Emulator, Hackers Discover

This week, hackers discovered that the PlayStation 4’s “remastered” version of of Parappa The Rapper is actually the 2006 PSP version of the game running on a PSP emulator. As a result, other hackers with jailbroken PS4s have been seeing how they can use Parappa The Rapper to emulate other PSP games on the home…

Rocket League will be getting new cross-platform friends lists sometime this summer according to the game’s latest development road map. Players will be able to search for friends and invite them to parties between PS4 and PC, and Xbox One, PC and Switch using a new type of in-game ID.

Minecraft on the Switch will get its long awaited Bedrock update on June 21, Nintendo has announced. The free update adds cross-play with Xbox One and Android devices, as well as Xbox achievements. But starting in September, players will need a paid Switch Online subscription to keep playing online.

New Super NES Game Is All About The Dangers Of Crunch

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is releasing a new Super Nintendo game that looks to raise awareness of video game development crunch, with all its profits going to a mental health charity. Fork Parker’s Crunch Out gets its title from the game industry term for when companies push their employees to work long hours in the…

Super Mario 64 Online Is Back From The Dead, For Now

Last September, modders created a way for up to 24 people to jump around together in Super Mario 64. The ROM hack was called SM64 Online and it garnered lots of attention, including Nintendo’s who promptly issued copyright strikes to have the ROM hack and videos demoing it taken down. Eight months later the modders…

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate will come to the Switch on August 28. It’s the first Monster Hunter game to appear on the console in North America (Japan got Monster Hunter XX on the Switch last fall) and will let players transfer save data from their 3DS copies of the game.

TF2-Inspired Loadout Is Shutting Down Ahead Of New European Regulations

Edge of Reality’s 2014 free-to-play online shooter, Loadout, is getting shut down on May 24. The developer announced the news on Steam earlier this week, citing, among other reasons, the prohibitive costs of making the game compliant with new European regulations. “Loadout just received a few death blows,” wrote the CEO, Rob Cohen, on the…