Patrick Klepek

Firefight, where players cooperatively fight off waves of enemies, is coming to Halo 5 later this year. The fan favorite mode was introduced in Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach, but wasn’t part of Halo 4 Contact the author at [email protected]

The Fight Over The Best Way to Translate Fire Emblem Fates

When Fire Emblem Fates was released for 3DS in Japan early last summer, it didn’t have a US release date. Within 24 hours, fans were hacking the game and translating it on their own. What started as an experiment became a race to translate the game before Nintendo of America. Fire Emblem Fates, released as…

Broforce, Galak-Z Headline March’s PS Plus Lineup

Here’s what you’re getting if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber. These are not “free” games, technically speaking. You need an active PlayStation Plus subscription to download them. Once you do, you’re set. PlayStation 4 Broforce Galak-Z PlayStation 3 The Last Guy Super Stardust HD PS Vita Flame Over Reality Fighters You can reach the author…

Running With Scissors is remaking Postal as Postal: Redux for PC, Mac, and Linux this spring. A PlayStation 4 version is coming later this year. Postal was never a particularly good game, but it’s definitely an iconic game. In a post-Hatred world, it almost feels quaint.

Sherlock Holmes, Borderlands Headline Games With Gold For March

Here’s what Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be getting next month. As always, while these are often touted as “free” games, you need an active subscription to Xbox Live Gold in order to download anything. If you’re playing on Xbox One, 360 games are also available, thanks to backwards compatibility. Xbox One Sherlock Holmes: Crimes…

The X-Files Revival Ended As It Began: Terribly

I wanted to believe it’d be different, but that’s not what happened last night. There were reasons to fear The X-Files coming back before a single episode was shot; it’s hard to put lightning back in a bottle. Nostalgia is powerful, but not unbreakable. When I first wrote about The X-Files’ return, I was willing…

That Time A Zelda Trailer Supposedly Made Grown Men Cry

Few game reveals are more anticipated a brand-new Legend of Zelda game, but nothing touches the intense reaction Twilight Princess generated at E3 2004. It’s common for game companies to stuff their press conferences full of employees. These are the people who are happily clapping for every announcement, big or small. But at Nintendo events,…

High-Level Player Talks About Being Trans in the Fighting Game Community

XCOM 2? Fire Emblem? Street Fighter V? There’s so many games right now, which only helps Worth Reading, our weekly guide to the best games writing around. Photo Credit: David Zhou Hey, You Should Read These “The Struggles and Victories of the First Transgender Fighting Game Champion” by Michael Martin (Note: This link takes you…

An Eight-Year-Old Just Wrecked Me In Mario Maker

Every few days, I stream Mario Maker on Twitch, and sometimes people send me the levels they’ve made. I was not prepared for young Tristan’s creation. I don’t have time to play everything, so I told people the way to guarantee I’d play a level is by sending me a letter with a Mario-related drawing.…

Kojima’s Labyrinth

Yep, sure, of course.

Watch Hideo Kojima And Guillermo Del Toro Get Interviewed Together

Hideo Kojima has formed his own studio, but we don’t know what he’s working on yet. Guillermo del Toro was supposed to collaborate with Kojima on Silent Hills, but we all know how that turned out. The two are about to be interviewed by journalist Geoff Keighley and it’s being livestreamed. A CONVERSATION WITH HIDEO…

Streets of Rage II, Binary Domain, Condemned Are Free On Steam (For Now)

Big Bo! Big Bo! As part of Sega’s “Make War Not Love” promotion, it’s continuing to give away a bunch of PC games on Steam. To get ‘em, head over to Sega’s website and click on the “redeem prize” button, which prompts Sega to send you a code via email. Sega had previously given away…

Dark Souls Mod Makes It Way Easier To Play With Friends

There’s no way to simply join a specific game in Dark Souls—it’s all random matchmaking. The randomization is part of the charm, but for fans still playing the game more than five years after its release, it’s a little wonky. Fortunately, modders on the PC have come up with a pretty clever solution. Dark Souls…

Capcom Says It’s Fixing Street Fighter V’s Rage Quitting Problem

There’s no punishment for being a rage quitter in Street Fighter V right now. The game doesn’t interpret leaving mid-match as a win or a loss for either side, and it’s made a bunch of players furious. Capcom has told Eurogamer it’ll be fixed, though it’s unclear how or when. “I can confirm that it…

WWE 2K16 is coming to the PC on March 11, and it’ll include all of the DLC from the console versions for free. 2K says the PC version will “largely mirror” the console versions, but it’ll also be a little cheaper—$50.

One Of Atari’s Newest Games Has Been Unplayable For Nearly Five Months

Minimum, a stylish online shooter, has been mysteriously offline since September 2015. 141 days later, there’s still no word on when it’ll be playable again, and the game’s publisher, Atari, can’t say when that might change. Minimum was originally created by TimeGate Studios, but the developer eventually went under. Later, Atari and Human Head Studios…

Designer Warren Spector is now studio director at OtherSide Entertainment, who are currently working on System Shock 3 and Underworld Ascendent This is a bit of a coming home party for Spector, who worked on the older Ultima Underworld and System Shock games.

The Anti-Piracy Tech That’s Giving Hackers Fits

More than two months after release, it’s still not possible to pirate Just Cause 3. The same is true for Rise of the Tomb Raider, released for PC in late January. Cracking computer games used to be measured in hours or days, but now, it’s turning into weeks and months. The nature of piracy is…

The Witness Puzzle That Broke My Spirit

I spent three hours staring at this puzzle, wondering if I was losing my mind. Warning: We’re going to spoil a single puzzle in The Witness, but this puzzle sucks, so whatever. If there’s a single refrain in people’s observations about The Witness, it’s that you shouldn’t look up solutions to the puzzles. Walk away,…

Dark Souls Player Beats Game Without Getting Hit

People have finished Dark Souls in a number of bizarre ways, from tapping bongos to flipping the perspective upside down. The most impressive yet, however, may be Twitch streamer The Happy Hobbit downing From Software’s challenging action RPG without getting hit a single time. This isn’t something The Happy Hobbit cooked up overnight. He’s been…