Ethan Gach

Vermintide 2‘s Pack-Rat Villain Is A Master At Creating Suspense

Killing the player is easy. Games do this all the time, often by surprising them with something unexpected and lethal or by simply ramping up the difficulty and pummeling them into submission. Vermintide 2 offers a third option, taunting your four-player squads without outright destroying them: the Packmaster. Vermintide 2 is a first-person action game…

For Honor‘s Creation Ended With A Behind-The-Scenes Break-Up

The most interesting moment from a new documentary about the making of For Honor comes just over 70 minutes in when the team at Ubisoft Montreal is celebrating the game getting certified on Xbox One and PS4. Speeches have been made and the champagne is flowing freely when the game’s then creative director Jason VandenBerghe…

I Still Enjoy Watching People Play Quest 64

Quest 64 is the first game I ever watched someone speedrun. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at the time. It was the late ‘90s, and the term was not yet in common use. My younger brother managed to beat the game in a single sitting, something I’d never previously imagined being possible…

You can now use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller in the Steam beta client, including its gryo sensor. Valve hasn’t said when it will be available in the main client, but back when support for the PS4 controller was first introduced on Steam it took a little over a month.

Now’s A Good Time To Clean Up Your PS4’s Hard Drive 

We’re weeks into spring and finally free of the cold, damp reach of late winter. It’s time to clean out your closets, mow your lawn or at least get your PS4 running faster by rebuilding the system’s database. I did, and it made my console run faster. I tend to close a browser tab the…

FTC Warns Nintendo, Microsoft, And Sony To Review Warranty Terms

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony a 30-day window in to change their console warranty language to let consumers know they can make repairs or use third-party replacement products without voiding them. The FTC said in a press release on April 10 that various companies, including some in the video game…

Far Cry 5 Has A Shovel Gun Now, Because Of Course

Far Cry 5 has been out for just over a month now, and while there still hasn’t been any word on when its story-based DLC will arrive, the game has been getting weekly events and new online multiplayer maps. With the addition of this week’s event, “White Collar Job,” Far Cry 5 now has its…

Star Wars Episode I: Racer has been digitally re-released for PC over at GOG. The podracing sim that first released back in 1999 on PC and N64 had been previously unavailable on modern consoles. Say what you will about the prequels, Episode 1: Racer was totally rad

Capcom Is Re-Releasing Two Classic Mega Man Games On NES, SNES Cartridges

Capcom will release cartridge versions of Mega Man 2 and Mega Man X as limited runs costing $100 a piece alongside production house iam8bit, the two companies said today. As with Street Fighter II, the first of these legacy cartridge collections that was announced last August, both games will appear in cartridge form, Mega Man…

Rainbow Six Siege’s latest patch goes live today on PC and May 2 on consoles. Version Y3S1.2 introduces a number of tweaks, especially to the drone operator Lion, whose scan ability has been significantly weakened. Light machine guns, on the other hand, have had their damage output boosted.

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ got its final booster pack update today. Live on Steam and set to come to PS4 sometime in the future, Booster Pack #5 adds items, enemies, and a boss as well as a completely new character. There’s also an extensive list of bug fixes and other small teaks.  

Far Cry 5 gets its next patch tomorrow when the game goes down for maintenance at 9:00pm EDT. Title Update 5 fixes a number of bugs, including several we’ve written about including the never-ending credits loop and Mary May not spawning in the truck. It also mentions re-balancing some of the weapons.

You Should Be Playing The Brutal City Builder Frostpunk

If you had told me months ago that a city builder about the remnants of 19th century England trying to survive the next ice age would sell hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week on Steam, I’d have guessed you were hallucinating from hypothermia. But that’s exactly what Frostpunk did, and after spending…

FIFA 18 will get a free World Cup update on May 29 on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC. It includes online tournaments and a World Cup Ultimate Team mode, as well as a custom mode in which you can create your own World Cup team from scratch.

Slay The Spire’s New Character Is Great

Months after it first hit Steam Early Access I still enjoy dropping into Slay the Spire to see what cards I’m dealt in its procedurally generated dungeon runs. With the addition of its newest character, The Defect, I can see myself returning a lot more often. Developer Mega Crit Games has been working on Slay…

Far Cry 5, One Month Later

Far Cry 5 has been out for a month. Its big open world based in a fictional Montana has been picked clean by millions of people. Collectively they’ve caught lots of fish, thrown millions of sticks of dynamite, and been sprayed by a lot of sneaky skunks. Publisher Ubisoft has been contributing weekly live events,…

What Someone Who Spent 1,800 Hours In The Witcher 3 Actually Did

The Witcher 3 is a sprawling single-player RPG with so much to do it can be overwhelming. The game world is huge. Points of interest litter the map. Dialogue trees mean you can play through pivotal scenes in different ways. I can think of far worse games to be stuck on a desert island with…

Someone recreated Super Mario Odyssey’s New Donk City in Minecraft. They built it using the base version and the whole thing took about three weeks. While the scale and scope is impressive, the pixel art-adorned buildings are the best part. You can see the whole thing in more detail over on Imgur. 

Rockstar Pulls David Bowie And More From GTA IV

As reported previously by our sister site in the UK, Rockstar is removing a number of songs in Grand Theft Auto IV due to licensing issues. A sizable patch for the game went live today cutting lots of songs across all the radio stations, including some classics, while only adding a few back by way…

Premier League Star Gets Too Hot Playing Fortnite, Takes Shirt Off

Fortnite Battle Royale has taken the world by storm, including the top flights of European soccer. Tottenham Hotspur Dele Alli made his Twitch debut earlier today playing the game and apparently got really overheated. The 22-year-old Premier League and English National Team star decided to skip out on watching the first leg of the Champions…