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Heather is reviving teammates and blowing up tanks in the Battlefield V beta right now on Twitch. Come join the chat and give her some tips on how to become a pro sniper like [Insert Streamer Here.]

Metal Gear Retrospective: Snake’s Punishment Begins

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defense mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the game’s world. Neither are…

Zone Of The Enders In VR Is Some Good Mech Action

Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner is one of my favorite mech games. It has downright horrible localization with the voice acting to match, but the combat is fast. A new remaster for the Playstation 4 adds a VR mode that finally gives me the definite mech-nerd experience. Zone of the Enders: The Second…

Eyes forward, solider! I’m streaming some Valkyria Chronicles 4 right now on Twitch Come join the chat to relax for a while and be my armchair general.

Battlefield V’s “Firestorm” battle royale mode maxes out at 64 players, for sixteen teams of four. A new video gave more details about the mode and outlined further post release plans including expansions set in Greece and France.

SCUM Mixes Hardcore Survival With Slapstick

The first time I died in SCUM, I was exploring a military base for supplies. After scrounging a backpack and some high quality gear, I stepped outside and right into the path of a giant goddamn robot. It shot me, and I fled into the forest. Unsure what to do, I sat by a river…

Fortnite Players Want To Know Where The Cube Is Headed

Last week, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky started spewing lightning until it finally dropped a glowing alien cube on the map. The cube has started moving and changing the landscape, encouraging players to sleuth out where it’s ultimately headed and what will happen when it gets there. The saga technically started back in May…

Tennis With a Bullet Hell Twist

10Sis a bullet-hell tennis game where each match is a frantic battle to survive. Strange dog enemies and massive bosses fill the screen with projectiles, all while you fire shot after shot at them. The amount of things you need to juggle and track to succeed is intimidating, but it makes each victory feel incredible.…

How To Transfer Your Monster Hunter Generations Save To Nintendo Switch

The arrival of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on the Switch might leave veteran hunters scratching their heads. What’s the point if you’ve already spent hundreds of hours playing the 3DS version? Thankfully, you can transfer your character from one console to the other. Follow these steps and your old character will get a spiffy graphical…

Star Wars: Battlefront II’s newest content roadmap has been released, and it looks like we’re finally getting Clone Wars heroes. General Grievous arrives in October, followed by Obi-Wan Kenobi. He better say “Hello there!”

Tips For Playing Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

Whether you’ve never played a Monster Hunter game or if you’re migrating over from Monster Hunter: World, there’s a lot of important things to know about Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, out today on Nintendo Switch. The original version released in 2015 and was a little clunky. Figuring out how to conquer the game’s rough edges…

Heather and Tim are causing trouble in Mafia III right now on Twitch It’s free for PS Plus folks right now. Come and join the chat to talk world design and shake off the Monday mopes.

Monster Hunter: World Team Bests The Game’s Toughest Fight In Under Five Minutes

Monster Hunter: World’s dangerous Behemoth requires a lot of focus to take down. The battle, inspired by Final Fantasy XIV’s boss raids, is a huge change of pace from most fightsand a hard roadblock for plenty of hunters. The extreme version of the fight makes things even harder, but a group of amazingly coordinated hunters…

Even Star Wars: Battlefront II‘s Developers Were Confused About A Droid In One Of Their Screenshots

It’s been a wild week for eagle-eyed fans of Star Wars Battlefront II. On Wednesday they thought they spotted an unannounced droid in the background of some new official artwork for the game. A rep for the game threw cold water on that theory but then clarified today that, actually, these both were and weren’t…

Fortnite‘s Rift Is Shooting Lightning And No One Knows Why [Update: Rift Closes, Giant Alien Cube Appears]

During Fornite Battle Royale’s last season, a giant rocket launched and cracked the sky wide open, tearing the game’s space-time apart. When Season Five hit—adding a new desert area to the map—the rift seemed to die down, but now it’s blasting the ground with massive lightning strikes. Update— 5:40pm: After countless lightning strikes, the rift…

The extreme version of Monster Hunter: World’s Behemoth boss fight snuck into the game last night. The fight has some unique mechanics grants a layered armor set for the awesome Dragoon armor. Good luck.

Heather is continuing her playthrough of Max Payne live now on Twitch. Come join the chat for relaxing conversation and kickass gunfights.

An Existential Doll-Making Game About The Future Of Bodies

Ship of Theseus is a straightforward game. You are given dozens of body parts with which to design and construct an android. Mixing and matching pieces until you settle on a unique creation is a lot of fun. But Ship of Theseus is also a meditation on the human body and what it means to…

Cyberpunk 2077 Tweets Transphobic Joke, Studio Apologizes ‘To All Those Offended’

The official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account courted controversy today after a tweet that some considered transphobic. This is not the first time that a CD Projekt Red-affiliated Twitter account has needed to apologize for a tweet. Responding to a fan on Twitter earlier today, the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account referenced an internet meme mocking…

Tim and Heather are streaming Shenmue right now on our Twitch channel. Lan Di killed their father; they will have revenge. Come join the chat. We’re going to talk about Sega, sailors, and more.