Ethan Gach

In Latest WarioWare, Nintendo Swaps Out Virtual Boy For Wii U

It’s nice to see that Nintendo has the ability to laugh at itself a little. 9-Volt is a recurring character in the WaroWare series who loves Nintendo and classic games. “Hey! My name is 9-Volt! I’m the grade-schooler gone old school,” he says while introducing himself in 2003’s WarioWare, Inc. He even keeps a Virtual…

The Culling 2 Tanks So Hard That Developers Pull Game From Steam

The Culling 2 released last week and, right away, it tanked. After a week of negative reviews and its online player-base dropping into the single digits, The Culling 2’s creators at Xaviant Games have pulled the plug. According to the studio’s YouTube video announcement today, anyone who purchased the $20 game across Xbox One, PS4,…

Every Game Should Copy Rainbow Six‘s New Chat Moderation

Earlier this year, Ubisoft said it would be implementing stricter moderation in Rainbow Six Siege to find and sanction players using hate speech. Recently, players have started noticing an uptick in bans being issued and have been discussing it on the game’s subreddit. A few even took to Twitter to complain. “fuck you guys i…

Merciless martial arts brawler Absolver is getting a free expansion in September. The game’s developers announced today that it’ll include a new mode called Downfall, an additional combat style Faejin, more equipment, and a meta competition between players online whereby they can win prestige for their particular schools of fighting. 

Far Cry 5‘s Lost On Mars Is Another Disappointing Expansion

Is there life on Mars? On the surface Far Cry 5’s second DLC seems to answer in the affirmative. The red rock is bursting with armies of alien insects. Some are small. Some are big. Some fly around like Pterodactyls and harass you by spraying firey chemicals at you. As these encounters stack up, however,…

Fornite’s latest patch went live this morning, officially vaulting the Tactical Submachine Gun. It’s been replaced by a slightly higher damage, lower round SMG. Meanwhile, the Typewriter Assault Rifle is being added to Save the World mode. Correction: an earlier version of this article misstated which weapon was being added to the game’s Battle Royale…

Contest Winners Use Labo To Turn Switch Into A Zelda Piano

The standard Nintendo Labo kits include designs like robot arms, mini pianos, and fishing rods, but some players have been able to use the raw materials to create other stuff, like this steering wheel for a motorized wheelchair. Over the weekend, Nintendo encouraged people to get even more creative with a contest for the most…

The PS1 Strategy Game That Nails Robotic Destruction

In Front Mission 3’s 18th battle, I’m on a naval base facing down two giant walking artillery cannons, four Gundam-like mechs, and an apache helicopter. It isn’t the most challenging tactical role-playing game from the PS1 era, but like lots of games from that era it’s prone to the occasional difficulty spike. Unlike many other…

Animal Crossing On GameCube Can Actually Play Any NES Game

A deleted feature from Animal Crossing for the GameCube would have let you play a library of 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System games off of your memory card, a passionate and talented fan of the game found out this week. The original Animal Crossing had so many memorable moments. . There was the dog that performed…

The Only Rule Of Fortnite Golf Is Don’t Get Killed 

Fortnite got a huge patch yesterday for the start of Season Five. Among other things like the addition of portals and some changes to how challenges work, the game also got a new emote that effectively lets players golf. For now, the mini-game feels barebones and disorganized. You have to keep score yourself and you…

Enter the Gungeon’s big Dungeons & Dragons-themed update hits July 17 on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch The free expansion brings a ton of new rooms, weapons, items, enemies, and ammo types to the roguelike, as well as more generous drop rates.

PSN is experiencing outages related to online gaming and social features. A notice on the official status page reads “You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features.” According to some, games affected include Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege, and others. [Update – 10:44pm]: It’s working.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly’s North American theatrical release is currently planned for a January 2019. That’ll be just a couple months after it comes out in Japan as well as the one year anniversary of Dragon Ball FighterZ in which Broly is currently wrecking people left and right.

The Xbox Game Pass Library Has Gotten Much Better

Rocket League and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 came to Xbox Game Pass this week. Game Pass lets you pay $10 a month for access to a library of over 100 Xbox games. As long as you keep your subscription active, you can download and play any of them. Game Pass was an interesting idea when Microsoft…

Someone re-cut the video for speedrunner Cheese’s world record 120 star time in Super Mario 64 down to only the times Mario says “Yahoo!” It’s just over seven minutes long. Mario says “Yahoo!” a total of 369 times, give or take. I counted.

There’s a better type of HDR streaming and Microsoft plans to add support for it to Xbox One S and Xbox One X. The company announced yesterday it’s bringing Dolby Vision to the consoles which allows for better colors and higher contrasts than standard HDR. Netflix has updated its Xbox One app in kind.

Fans Are Expanding Portal’s Universe Even If Valve Won’t

Valve released Portal 2 in 2011, and that’s the last time players returned to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, except as a backdrop for demoing new VR tech. The dream of exploring beyond the end of the second game has been kept alive, though, thanks to mods. The latest of them, Destroyed Aperture, has been…

The Star Ocean Mobile Game Is Easy To Hate And Still Play Anyway

There’s finally a new Star Ocean game after 2016’s barebones Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness. Unfortunately, Star Ocean: Anamnesis, the latest entry, free-to-play, only on smartphones, and a gacha game to boot. The first of those would be forgivable if not for the second, but as a slot machine for collecting characters from Star Oceans…

The Crew 2 Players Are At Least Happy With The Game’s Car Customization Options

On paper there’s a lot to do in The Crew 2. Ten hours in, my map is full of icons. Various races, skill tests, and other points of interest are sprinkled generously from Maine to Washington. Most of it gets boring pretty quickly, and the world itself feels barren and incomplete. That’s probably why so…

Far Cry 5‘s second DLC expansion, Lost on Mars, hits next week on July 17. It’ll feature side-characters Nick Rye and Hurk trying to prevent an alien invasion by shooting stuff on the red planet with some new space-themed weapons and aircraft. The third DLC, Dead Living Zombies, arrives in August.