Ethan Gach

Fallout 76 Easter Egg Pokes Fun At Lore Inconsistencies

When did the Brotherhood of Steel first show up in West Virginia? What’s the real origin of Fallout’s big green super mutants? Fallout 76 takes liberties with more than a little of the series’ lore, but Bethesda doesn’t seem to be too worried about it, making light of timeline contradictions with a funny callback to…

Warframe Players Will Be Able To Copy Their PC Account To Switch

On September 20 Steve Sinclair, Digital Extremes’ creative director, tweeted out that its third-person shooter MMO Warframe had just gotten faster, decreasing latency by one millisecond to be precise. That was thanks to the work of Panic Button, an outside studio that in the last few years has focused on porting other companies’ games (Rocket…

Sunset Overdrive is headed to PC, Xbox’s Major Nelson announced on Twitter today. The news confirms previous rumors that the Xbox One exclusive would be getting ported, and adds Sunset Overdrive to the existing list of Microsoft-published Xbox One games recently added to Steam this year.

Players Have Already Found Ways To Cheat Fallout 76‘s Nuke Codes

Even though Fallout 76 takes place in a world where the bombs have already dropped, the game is littered with silos full of more nukes for players to launch themselves. Finding the codes to do so is supposed to be complicated, but players have not only already launched nukes, they’ve found ways to streamline the…

Fallout 76: My First Day Out Of The Vault

Fallout 76 is out today, three years after the last game in the series, Fallout 4. Unlike its predecessor it’s not a single-player open world role-playing game, but an online multiplayer one. It also went through a lengthy beta period, with players’ progress from those sessions carrying over into official release today. As a result,…

AIs Are Getting Better At Playing Video Games…By Cheating

Earlier this year, researchers tried teaching an AI to play the original Sonic the Hedgehog as part of the The OpenAI Retro Contest. The AI was told to prioritize increasing its score, which in Sonic means doing stuff like defeating enemies and collecting rings while also trying to beat a level as fast as possible.…

The next chapter in Spider-Man’s The City That Never Sleeps DLC, called Turf Wars, is out November 20. While it adds new story missions based around the crime boss Hammerhead, the DLC also brings new challenges, trophies, and Spidey suits, including the Spider-Armor MK, Iron Spider, and Spider-Clan Suits.

Valve Condemns Dota 2 Pros Making Racist Remarks But Calls On Teams To Regulate Themselves

Following a series of offensive remarks made by professional Dota 2 players recently, the game’s creator Valve has published a blog post condemning the behavior. In keeping with the company’s traditional approach of remaining mostly hands-off, however, it leaves the responsibility for sanctioning players strictly with teams, and didn’t offer any clear guidelines about how…

The New Smash Trailer Is Better With Pop Music

Over the weekend, Nintendo released a new commercial for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate without any background music. The internet proceeded to work its magic and there are now hundreds of different versions of the video floating around set to songs ranging from Prince’s 1991 to the Dragon Ball Z intro music. They all somehow work…

The beautifully pixel animated, hoverbike racing game Desert Child will release for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on December 11. It takes place in a futuristic solar system where you can customize your ride to shoot stuff and win races all while chilling to lo-fi hip-hop.

The Best Team In Rocket League Is On The Hunt For Another World Championship

Team Dignitas won Rocket League’s season five championship earlier this year. It was not easy, though, requiring a long run through the lower bracket that culminated in a back-to-back best-of-seven series against NRG Esports. Despite a nail-biter in the final match after NRG tied things up 3-3 with what some have called the best goal…

Warframe’s New Expansion Features Class Warfare

Fortuna was released yesterday on PC, and is expected to arrive on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in the near future. It’s too early to know whether Fortunat rights some of the wrongs made by last year’s expansion, Plains of Eidolon, when it first released, including it felt too isolated from the rest of the…

Bethesda Says It Plans To Fix Fallout 76’s Item Storage Problem

Fallout 76 players are running out of room in their inventories, and the game’s not even out yet. Fortunately, Bethesda is promising a fix. Finding and crafting the best equipment is a major part of Fallout 76. The game’s world is full of junk you can pick up, useful for creating everything from guns and…

New PS4 Pro Models Seem Much Quieter

While the PlayStation 4 Pro has been out in the wild for two years now, it’s recently undergone some slight hardware refinements that change how loud it is. According to a recent analysis by Digital Foundry, the noise reduction in the latest iteration of the console, currently only available as part of a Red Dead…

YouTube is now available on the Nintendo Switch, bringing the console’s total app count up to two. The only other app currently available on the platform is Hulu (which, thanks to Hulu’s live TV, I actually use a lot). This also means you can officially watch the next Nintendo Direct on Switch.

Players Have Discovered Payday 2‘s Secret Ending

Payday 2 came out in 2013, but players are only just now uncovering what appears to be its secret ending after weeks of piecing together esoteric clues in the culmination of a challenge that began even before the game was officially released and was finally able to be completed thanks to a new update to…

The beautiful and haunting platformer Gris will release on Switch and PC on December 13. I demoed the game over the summer and was impressed with how elegantly the gameplay and animation meshed together.  

Nintendo Says It Will Remove Racist Native American Animation From Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

In pre-release marketing materials for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, set to release on December 7, the character Mr. Game & Watch uses racist Native American imagery during one of his attacks. Nintendo now says it plans to remove that imagery from the game and has apologized to fans, saying the caricature doesn’t represent the company’s…

Some Switch Players Are Looking Outside Nintendo For Matchmaking

Nintendo Switch Online went live over a month ago. While the paid service is required for people to play games like Mario Tennis Aces online together, it still doesn’t include any way for players to easily meet and connect with one another. As a result, fans have tried to fill that void with their own…

I Don’t Want Fortnite’s Cube Monsters To Go

For the last couple weeks, cube monsters have been rampaging through Fortnite matches (don’t call them zombies or you’ll hurt Epic Games’ feelings). But on Sunday, they, along with their namesake, disappeared from the game. It was beautiful, but I was sad. Cube monsters have been my favorite thing to happen to the game since…