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Breath of the Wild‘s New DLC Has Fans Debating The Zelda Timeline Again

Breath of the Wild’s new DLC offers another hint as to where the game fits on the Zelda timelines, and in doing so, also raises more questions than it answers. The new DLC comes with new costumes for Link—ever wanted to dress like Tingle? Well here’s your chance. In order to find where these costumes…

Bad Translation Comes Close To Ruining Cult Classic Princess Maker 3

The weird, charming daughter raising simulator Princess Maker 3: Fairy Tales Come True has finally been released in English. Fans have long wanted an official English translation, and while they might find the wait worth it, the game’s translation problems may be a turnoff for newcomers. The Princess Maker series was developed by legendary Japanese…

Mario Kart 8 Update Gives You Even Better Items When You’re Losing

Yesterday’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update fixes a lot of bugs for online matches, as well as making the game a bit more fair for players that are losing. While the jury’s out on whether or other racers in AI matches are cheating, losing against real life players in online matches is no less frustrating.…

For One Weekend, The Drama Of YouTube Comes To Life

YouTube as a website and community bursts with positivity and good vibes. It’s also a cesspool of divisive discourse, which can sometimes turn into harassment. You’ll find all that and more at VidCon. VidCon, founded by the vlogging brothers Hank and John Green in 2010, is a convention designed for YouTubers, streamers, and other video…

Overheard at Vidcon: one well dressed man says to another well dressed man, “You think 3,000 views is viral?”

Darkest Dungeon‘s DLC Adds More Awesome Bad Times For Your Party

The new Darkest Dungeon DLC, The Crimson Court, tacks a couple more stressful mechanics on top of an already stressful game. I love it. Darkest Dungeon is a game about losing—you will lose all your party members as they explore dungeons, they will all lose their sanity, and you will lose the game. Despite being…

Rabbid Peach Has An Instagram Now, And It’s Unsettling

Much as I love derivative works, I prefer my fictional characters to remain fictional. The official Rabbid Peach Instagram account gives me the heebie jeebies. The all-purpose marketing account for the Rabbids franchise is now the personal Instagram for character Rabbid Peach, from the upcoming Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. In the trailers for the…

E3 2017’s Best Dressed Video Game Characters

We’ve seen all the E3 trailers, announcement and gameplay demos, but one question remains: which game characters were the best dressed? Here’ a few of my favorite looks from the games we saw. A Way Out 70s looks are coming back in a big way, and the two main characters from A Way Out embrace…

The Creator Of Metroid II Fan Game AM2R Isn’t Mad About Nintendo

DoctorM64 spent over ten years remaking Metroid II: Samus Return in his free time, only to have Nintendo send him a DMCA and have to take the project down. Now that Nintendo has announced their own reimagining of the same game, he’s just as pumped as everyone else is. When DoctorM64 was working on Another…

Watch a bunch of Nintendo fans completely lose it over the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 Their enthusiasm is infectious.

At E3 2017, Black Characters’ Hair Looks Better Than Ever

Games tend to have trouble depicting black hair, but this year’s E3 displayed refreshing palette of kinky, coily, textured hair. Here’s a breakdown. In his essay for anthology State of Play, io9‘s Evan Narcisse says that, for video games, “when it comes to head hair—specifically locks that look like what grows from my scalp—I’m generally…

Let It Die is getting a new area, The Tower of Barbs. At the end of this trailer there’s a sneak peak of the next of the 4 Forcemen, who appears to be a woman wearing an outfit made of swords.

The New Yoshi Switch Game Looks So Good

The handcrafted look for the upcoming Yoshi game on the Switch is freaking adorable. On yesterday’s Treehouse stream, Nintendo showed off a little over half an hour of their new Yoshi game, which takes place in a papercraft diorama. Each of the stages has two sides—the front is covered in colorful paper models of a…

Nintendo has announced a new game for the 3DS, Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido It’s an action puzzle game where you eat sushi and hurl your plates at your opponents. Looks cute, and the song in this trailer fucking bangs

Nearly 20 Minutes of The Life Is Strange Prequel In Action

The first gameplay footage from Life Is Strange: Before The Storm tries hard to recapture the drama from the original game. If you want to ruin something, keep adding to it: this is true of cakes, outfits and most of all fiction. Chloe Price in the original Life Is Strange had a lot of secrets—it…

We’re Liveblogging Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference [Update: Over!]

Me and Features Editor Chris Kohler are back again, for the last time! Today we’ll be keeping you up to date on everything Nintendo talks about during their recorded presser. I feel like the focus will probably be Super Mario Odyssey, but I would do unspeakable acts for a new Animal Crossing on the Switch.

We’re Liveblogging Sony’s E3 Press Conference [UPDATE: It’s Over]

Our second press conference and liveblog of the day: Sony. I’m back with Features Editor Chris Kohler to see what’s in store for us. Excited to learn some more about Uncharted: Lost Legacy, and of course, Knack 2

The Internet Is Coming Around On Mario + Rabbids

When a marketing presentation for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle was leaked in May, the internet met it with mockery and bafflement. But now that people have finally seen the game in action at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, the internet has done a 180. Huh. Mario and Rabbids seemed like like a totally incongruous combination,…

We’re Liveblogging Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference [UPDATE: It’s Over!]

It’s day three of E3 press conferences and first up is Ubisoft! I’m here to give you all the details alongside Features Editor Chris Kohler. Given that Assassin’s Creed: Origins was officially announced, I’m looking forward to seeing a little more about that game, but hopefully there’ll be some nice surprises as well. You can…

Devolver Digital’s ‘Press Conference’ Was A Nightmare Vision of E3

Publisher Devolver Digital hosted their very first E3 press conference this year. OK, it was actually an hour slot in Twitch’s official E3 stream. They didn’t announce any new games, but they did offer us a satirical sketch about E3 press conferences. Publisher Devolver Digital has an irreverent sense of humor—they’ve published games like Hotline…