Ethan Gach

Madden Tournament Plans To Raise Money For Victims Of The Jacksonville Shooting

On August 26, a shooter at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida opened fire at the event, wounding 11 people and killing two, Taylor Robertson, 29, and Elijah Clayton, 22. This weekend, the organizers of Muthead, an independent Madden league, are holding a charity tournament to raise money for and honor the victims of the…

Just Cause 4 Is A Series Of Chaotic Science Experiments

I’m standing on a bridge connecting two small mountains, staring at the tree-laden canyon and small river below. I turn around and walk towards the road, trying to find my bearings and get a handle on the controls. Seconds later, a car plows into me. The screen turns to red and then grey, but I’m…

New Glitch Upends SpongeBob Game’s Speedrunning Community 

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a forgettable 3D platformer from the early 2000s that’s nevertheless gained a small cult following in recent years thanks to a dedicated speedrunning community. Now, a glitch discovered just a few days ago that allows players to infinitely farm one of the game’s collectibles threatens all that. The…

More Telltale Employees Laid Off As Studio Continues Its Collapse

After Telltale laid off roughly 90% of its staff on September 21, the studio said the remaining 25 employees would proceed with finishing work on Minecraft: Story Mode, an interactive show for Netflix. Today, a narrative designer who was one of those remaining employees stated on social media that she and other members of that…

Telltale Is Looking For Another Company To Hire Its Staff To Finish The Walking Dead, Sources Say

Two weeks after Telltale Games laid off the bulk of its staff, the fate of the four-episode final season of the popular The Walking Dead series remains in question. Behind closed doors, the company continues to work on a deal that would provide for the third and fourth episodes to be finished by another company…

Multi-Console Emulator Now Runs On Hacked Switches

RetroArch is a homebrew program that combines a ton of different gaming emulators into a single, relatively sleek package. Development on it began in 2010, with version 1.0 releasing in 2014. Several updates later, today the people behind itreleased the latest version, which can run on hacked Nintendo Switches. RetroArch isn’t the simplest homebrew program…

Witcher Author Threatens CD Projekt Red With Legal Action If It Doesn’t Pay Him More

The creator of The Witcher books, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, has called on CD Projekt Red to pay him up to $16.1 million more in royalties following the success of the studio’s video game adaptation of the series. In a post on the company’s website, CD Projekt Red called the demands “groundless.” Lawyers for Sapkowksi…

Gearbox CEO Says His Former Assistant Stole $3 Million

In 2014, Randy and Kristy Pitchford found that they needed a personal assistant to help manage their busy lives. He was the CEO of Borderlands maker Gearbox Software, she the owner of the Dallas-area gaming-themed cafe Nerdvana. They hired John Wright Martin, who worked for the couple for two years. In 2016, they parted ways.…

Some Of The Fall’s Biggest Switch Games Are Shortchanging Handheld Mode 

Super Mario Party comes out on Friday. It’s the series’ debut on Switch and the first main entry since 2015’s ill-fated Mario Party 10 on Wii U. It has 80 new mini games, one of which even utilizes multiple Switches to create a shared, continuous screen. What it doesn’t have is handheld mode support, the…

Valve Renames Artifact Card To Make It Not Sound Racist

Valve’s card game Artifact is coming out in November. Recently, the Artifact Twitter account has been tweeting out designs for some of the cards alongside explanations of how they work. On September 26, that included a card called “Crack The Whip,” the text of which begins “Modify a black hero…” Today the name of the…

PlayStation Experience Is Skipping 2018, Sony Says

For a while now PlayStation fans have been wondering what’s up with 2018’s PlayStation Experience, PlayStation’s annual fan event, since Sony still hadn’t announced dates for it. Today, Shawn Layden, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, explained that it’s not happening this year. “For 2018, I know this is going to be a…

CBS Shuts Down Ambitious Fan Effort To Make A Virtual Starship Enterprise

Before there was Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s game about piloting the original Enterprise, there was Star Trek Stage-9, a fan project recreating the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation in Unreal Engine. This week the project is no more, following a cease and desist demand by CBS. One of the leads on the project, who…

Epic Games Says Fortnite‘s New Breast Physics Were ‘Unintended, Embarrassing, Careless’

Fortnite players noticed something unusual about the new Calamity skin in the season six update: her breasts have an undeniable jiggle when she performs the “Jubilation” emote. According to Epic, that was unintentional and a fix is on the way. The Calamity cowgirl skin is one of the two main new character skins in the…

The sci-fi MMO WildStar will shutdown on November 28. This announcement follows the news earlier this month that the game’s makers, Carbine Studios, would be shutting down. Refunds for recent purchases will go out on October 3 but there are still a few events planned over the next several weeks. 

TowerFall May Be A Party Game, But It’s Also Fun Solo

TowerFall is out on the Switch today, just over five years after it originally released on the ill-fated Ouya. It was one of the best party games then and has continued to be one of the all-time best since. It’s still great on Switch, but more than anything I can’t get over is how much…

Yo-Kai Watch 3 will hit 3DS in North America on February 8, 2019. The Pokemon-like will come as two separate versions per usual: Sushi and Tempura. The game is broken up into two halves, the first focusing on life in an Americanized town called St. Peanutsburg and the second on a detective agency.

A Game About Going To Art School In A World Made Out Of 90s Screen Savers

Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But the closest I ever got was watching Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 satire Art School Confidential. It’s a about a wide-eyed college freshman whose idealism is beaten out of him by the pettiness,…

Players Will Soon Be Able To Merge Fortnite Accounts Across Consoles

In a post on the Fortnite subreddit and Twitter today, Epic announced that it’s working to let players unlink their accounts from a particular console and, in the near future, ultimately be able to merge them so their progress carries over no matter where they play the game. Earlier today, Sony announced a beta for…

Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season Has Been Removed From Several Digital Gaming Storefronts [UPDATE]

The Walking Dead: The Final Season has disappeared from the PlayStation and Xbox One digital stores, as well as Steam and GOG. At the time this article was posted, the game’s season pass was still available to buy on the Switch eShop. This latest news comes after the studio laid off approximately 90% of its…

Cloud Saves Will Last Six Months After A Switch Online Subscription Ends

When Nintendo Switch Online launched last week, subscribers gained the ability to finally back up their save files. One question remained, though: what would happen if the subscription lapsed? Nintendo’s original support page FAQ was vague on the matter, but today the company confirmed they’ll last for six months. For $4 a month or $20…