Ethan Gach

GameStop Wants People To Switch Their Switch For Another Switch

Every once in a while I go on the prowl for deals. I’m a gamer after all, but also a human being with a car loan and overdue heating bills and a weakness for the artisanal pasta that costs three times as much as the generic store brand. Deals matter—without them I’d be forced to…

Disgaea 5’s Release On PC Has Been A Months-Long Debacle

Disgaea 5, the latest in publisher Nippon Ichi Software anime tactics series, released on PS4 in 2015. Since then, NIS has been working to port it to other platforms, including Switch in 2017 and now, finally, PC. This version, called Disgaea 5: Complete, supposedly included all of the game’s downloadable content. It doesn’t on PC…

Team Sonic Racing has been delayed until next year. Originally planned to release sometime in December, it’s been pushed back to May 21, 2019. While I wasn’t blown away by the game’s E3 demo, it’s been nice to see its cast expand with more weird characters and hopefully it benefits from more time.

Fallout 76 Feels Like Two Different Games

There’s a lot of tension in Fallout 76 between the series’ solitary past and its new multiplayer future. During my four hours in the game’s beta last night, these two sides of the game repeatedly rubbed up uncomfortably against one another. I have a tough time imagining how they’ll ever be reconciled. Fallout 76 began…

Battlefield V’s Battle Royale Mode Won’t Launch Until 2019

Battlefield V will launch on November 20 without its new battle royale or co-op modes, EA and DICE confirmed today. Instead, these highly-anticipated features, part of the game’s free Tides of War post-launch updates, will land somewhere between January and March, 2019. While neither of these modes is technically “delayed,” since specific release dates hadn’t…

Fortnite’s Halloween Event Released, Then Removed Because Of Issues [Update: It’s Working Again]

Another day, another Fortnite patch. The one that went live this morning is V6.20, notable for introducing the game’s Halloween event, Fortnitemares. Unfortunately, players began experiencing problems, including long matchmaking times, as soon as they started trying to play. Within a few hours the event had already been removed. [Update – 11:11am]: The Fortnitemares event…

PS3 Game Shutting Down Servers Earlier Than Promised [Update]

Warhawk is a third-person military shooter that came out on PS3 in 2007. Over a decade before Call of Duty thought to do it, Warhawk ditched the standard single-player campaign to focus instead on multiplayer only. Last month, Sony announced the game’s servers would finally be abruptly shutting down on October 25. Thirty days’ notice…

Bethesda Tries To Set Player Expectations Ahead Of Fallout 76‘s Beta

Late yesterday, Bethesda published a letter to its fans that appeared to be an attempt to set their expectations for today’s launch of the Fallout 76 beta test on Xbox One. The letter covered a variety of topics, but the most notable was when Bethesda touched on how buggy its games have been in the…

Spider-Man’s Heist DLC Is Fun But Familiar

My favorite part of the new downloadable addition to the new Spider-Man on PS4 involves a hungry and exhausted Peter Parker eating a pizza on the roof of an apartment building with the city skyline behind him. Warring mob families, stolen art, a love triangle between the Black Cat Mary Jane can all wait. Everybody’s…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Fall 2018

Fall can feel like the worst season for a lot of reasons—school starts, the days grow short, people become obsessed with putting pumpkin in everything—but new video game releases is definitely not one of them. If you enjoy big, expensive, blockbuster video games, especially sequels, this time of year has you covered. Assassins, cowboys, soldiers…

16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique

Over the weekend, seven-time winner Jonas Neubauer showed up at the Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Oregon like he has every year since it moved there in 2011. Instead of adding another championship to his name, he finished in second place this time, bested by 16-year-old Joseph Saelee who went on an amazing three-game…

Finally, Players Can Add As Many Puddles To Spider-Man As They Want

A week before Spider-Man released, some people on the internet started freaking out about the game’s apparent lack of puddles. There were a lot of puddles in an early trailer for the game, and later, not as many puddles in what appeared to be the same location, which some saw as a downgrade. Fortunately, they…

Soulcalibur VI’s Story Mode Does Geralt Dirty

Bandai Namco’s fighting game does an excellent job of portraying the personality and likeness of The Witcher 3 protagonist, but fails to make good on the full crossover potential CD Projekt Red blessed it with. Soulcalibur VI’s Geralt moves like a witcher and talks like a witcher but spends most of the game’s story mode…

Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending

UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news from across the pond hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag. “Despite the company’s strong performance…

Spider-Man’s New Game+ mode has finally been added to the game. Version 1.07 also adds an Ultimate difficulty setting, new frames and stickers for photo mode, and the ability to access photo mode directly with one button press. New Game+ was originally expected at the game’s launch but got delayed

League of Legends Coach Urges Underdog Teams To Play Their Own Style

The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left. One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to…

PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Delayed Again, Now To April

Days Gone is the first to flinch in the game release death race currently slated for February 22, 2018. Today, Sony announced the open world zombie game will be delayed again by two months so the studio can finish polishing it. “We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February…

Valve Discloses The Odds For Its New Dota 2 Loot Boxes

Valve’s latest update for Dota 2 changes how the free-to-play MOBA’s loot boxes work. It now discloses the odds for the rare items that have a chance of dropping in each box, following in the footsteps of other companies amid growing public concerns over loot boxes’ similarity to gambling. Yesterday, Valve added the “Treasure of…

In an interview with USGamer, Monolith Soft executive director Tetsuya Takahashi said a Switch port of Xenoblade Chronicles X would cost a lot of money. As a result, it seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all. “It’s a massive game. Re-creating it would be really difficult,” he said.

Skybound Games ‘In Discussions’ With Former Telltale Staffers About Completing The Walking Dead

Skybound Games, which is currently finalizing an agreement with Telltale Games to finish the final season of The Walking Dead, hopes to release episode 3 by the end of the year and have episodes 1 and 2 back up for sale later this month, according to comments by its CEO during an AMA on Reddit…