Ethan Gach

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…

11-11 Memories Retold is a newly announced game by the makers of the surprisingly delightful Lost in Harmony and Wallace and Gromit animators Aardman Studios. Based on the title it’s about the end of WW1 but beyond that not much is known other than that it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Halo Online Fan Project Goes On Hold After Microsoft Intervenes 

A team of modders working to make the unreleased Halo Online playable have halted work after Microsoft contacted them in an effort to protect its intellectual property. Developed for the Russian market and based in the Halo 3 engine, Halo Online would have been only the third game in the series to be playable online…

Belgium Says Loot Boxes In Games Like Overwatch Are Illegal

Loot boxes in FIFA 18, Overwatch, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are now illegal in Belgium, with the country’s legislators declaring today that if the games’ publishers don’t remove the offending microtransactions, people behind the games could face fines and even time behind bars. As reported by Eurogamer, Belgium minister of justice Koen Greens said in…

Switch Hackers Say Nintendo Can’t Patch Their New Jailbreak

This week, two hacking groups have independently released methods that allow a user to jailbreak the Switch, which one group is already using to run a ported version of Linux on Nintendo’s device. The worse news for Nintendo—the hackers say the exploit is due to a bug in the system’s processor chip, meaning that Nintendo…

Microsoft plans to let Xbox users link their Discord accounts in the future. This means Discord users on PC will be able to see if their friends are playing Xbox One games. There won’t be any direct communication beyond that between the two platforms but it’s a nice addition. 

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is coming to Switch on June 29. Publisher Bethesda released 2016’s Doom on the handheld last fall where it ran pretty well and has only gotten better thanks to subsequent patches. A polished port of Wolfenstein II would be just as impressive.

The Demonic Strategy Game I Love Playing Before Bed

Golem Gates is a surprising mix of strategy and card game elements that’s beautiful to look at but rough around the edges. While I started playing it because of its weird hybrid mechanics, what I really came to appreciate was its serenely empty world and relaxing ASMR voice overs I commute long hours and often…

Modders Are Still Working On The Never-Released Halo Online Game

Halo Online is a free-to-play version of the popular shooter series that was only ever offered in a closed beta test in Russia in 2015. After years on ice, a mod that makes it playable the world over is getting a brand new version on April 20. A new trailer, first spotted by PC Gamer,…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Spring 2018

Spring is here, the perfect time to come out of that backlog hibernation and play some new video games. Here are the biggest ones coming out this season. March 22 Ark Park |PSVR , Oculus, Vive, Windows Mixed Reality March 23 A Way Out | PS4, Xbox One, PC Detective Pikachu | 3DS Ni No…

Guild Wars 2 Developers Criticized For Technique Used To Suspend More Than 1,500 Accounts

Late last week, ArenaNet, makers of the MMO Guild Wars 2, suspended over 1,500 player accounts it suspected of cheating. According to one of the players caught in the sweep, the studio accomplished this using what some users and experts are calling spyware to monitor people’s computers for known cheat programs. “Today, ArenaNet suspended 1583…

Dark Souls: Remastered for the Switch has been delayed. It was originally due out May 25, which is when the game comes to PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but will now be coming sometime “later this summer” according to Bandai Namco.

The Handful Of People Still Playing LawBreakers On PC Aren’t Giving Up On It

If you ask Boss Key Productions, LawBreakers isn’t dead yet. Talk to the game’s most dedicated players, and some will tell you the online shooter is ready for the big dirt nap. And, unlikely as it may be, some are clinging to hope that it will one day rise from its ashes. Boss Key, the…