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After a somewhat sleepy show floor in 2016, E3 is very crowded this year, maybe due to the thousands of tickets sold to the public, maybe due to bad booth design. The event opened 15 minutes early on Tuesday to reduce the crush. That’s the Nintendo booth in the photo. A rep told us to expect tweaks to the booth today… Read more
I splatted and swam through a quick session of Splatoon 2's new co-op mode today. I played in a quartet, and this…
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I played Assassin’s Creed Origins for an hour yesterday, with one of the game’s level designers at my side pointing…
The long-dreamt dream of virtual reality was leading to this: Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV. It’s a first-person fishing game starring the bros from FFXV. Because the game title “Ridiculous Fishing” was already taken.
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Big swords. Large monsters. Carving blades. Even bigger swords than those other swords. It can only be one thing:…
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In a world where we can actually play Duke Nukem Forever and The Last Guardian, we will soon be able to play the…
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Cars? The Crew 1 had them. Trucks? Motorcycles? Been there. But The Crew 2, shown off for the first time at…
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You have to listen very, very closely to figure it out if you need or even want Microsoft’s powerful new console. I…
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Gears of War 4 gets a big Horde mode update today and the addition of Inconceivable and Ironman difficulty modes. More details here. Who’s keeping up with the game? Are you enjoying it? Are the updates what you’re looking for?
What are the best Twitter accounts to follow if you’re into video games? We ran what is now an amusingly dated list back in 2014. Who would you list these days? “No one” would be a funny answer, but we’ll take real suggestions in the comments, too. Read more
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Teased in the spring slot that Ubisoft usually reserves for announcing and hyping Assassin’s Creed games, the new Far…
The gaming internet was agog today over what appear to be leaked marketing images of an upcoming Super Mario team-up…
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Players in Ubisoft’s third-person shooter The Division will no longer be able to camp near a certain spawn point and…
An April story about Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey stated that the VR pioneer donated to the President’s inauguration through companies named after things from Chrono Trigger. Our previous assertion they were “shell companies” was disputed by Luckey last night on Twitter. We’ve updated the post accordingly. Read more
We expected the improved photo mode to be the best thing about PS4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn’s new 1.13 patch. It is.
A note to readers: Our recent story about a supposed group of transgender gamers being denied entry into an esports tournament was based on a hoax. Please see the original, updated story for more. We apologize for the mistake. Read more
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At an event in a New York City hotel meeting room engineered by Nintendo to hype the July launch of the New 2DSXL,…
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