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How’s It Going?: Morning Edition

Welcome to Wednesday—we’re halfway there!—and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been up since 5am covering the new Fortnite season, because it is my job to get up at such ungodly hours to play video games. I’ve always wanted to be a morning person, but I can never quite pull it off with…

Pokémon Gets A New Puzzle Game And A Toothbrushing App

In non-Pokémon Snap news, this morning’s YouTube presentation from The Pokémon Company also revealed free-to-start puzzle game Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Smile, a mobile app meant to help children brush their teeth. Launching on June 23 on Switch, iOS, and Android, Pokémon Café Mixis a match puzzle game in which players complete orders in…

They’re Finally Making A New Pokémon Snap

During a special YouTube presentation this morning, The Pokémon Company announced a new version of classic Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap in development for Nintendo Switch. Released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, Pokémon Snap is a photo safari spinoff of the monster-collecting RPG series in which players are tasked with snapping pictures of pocket…

Fortnite Season 3 Floods The Map, Adds Aquaman

Fortnite’s Season 3 is here, at long last, and things look different. The map is flooded, a giant shark keeps landing on me, and there are more NPCs to fight. As suspected, the battle royale island is now largely covered in water. While the landmarks seem much the same, many of them are now islands.…

Human Toad Is Freaky And Terrifying

Artist Miguel Vasquez is a genius at taking beloved video game and cartoon characters and turning them into nightmare fuel. His latest? Toad from Super Mario Vasquez uses a 2D image of each character as a reference but then gives them realistic human eyes. He also takes inspiration from movie make-up effects artists like Rick…

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Bloody Nice Day For A Stroll

Kerstin Evans is art director at Drop Bear Bytes, the team working on Broken Roads, an isometric RPG set in a post-apocalyptic Australia You can see more of Kerstin’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Red Dead Online Update Removes Modded KKK From The Game

For a little while now modders had been taking advantage of a vulnerability in Rockstar’s Red Dead Online that allowed them to spawn members of the Ku Klux Klan, who are normally only present in the offline singleplayer component. That loophole has now been closed. As Polygon reports, Red Dead players had been complaining about…

Former Evo Champion Banned From Multiple Fighting Game Events After Racist Tweet

After posting a tweet that both mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and peddled in racist tropes, former Evo champion Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez has been banned from several fighting game events. This includes an indefinite suspension from Capcom-related tournaments. Ramirez has always been known as something of a heel in the fighting game community,…

Avengers Game Twitter Assembles, Then Deletes Extremely Bad Tweet About Defaced Statue

Today, the official Avengers video game Twitter account posted a short video featuring a monument of Captain America and said that the area around it had been “defaced.” It’s the kind of atrociously poor timing that, itself, deserves some kind of historical monument. Right now, all across the nation, cities and states are making plans…

Fake Crowds Added To Actual Football Matches, Looks Like Some FIFA 96 Shit

Spain’s La Liga, which has resumed its season after March’s Covid-19 lockdown, is like every other major sports league returning to action playing in front of empty seats. So to try and add a little atmosphere for the folks watching at home, they’ve added artificial video game-style crowds, and they are terrible. The league teamed…

PAX West Is The Latest Gaming Event To Go Online Due To Covid-19

This year’s PAX West and PAX Australia gaming conventions are cancelled and will be replaced by PAX Online, a series of live-streamed shows, panel discussions, and video game demos taking place from September 12-20, the show’s organizers announced today. PAX conventions are typically a chance for people to meet up in person, checkout demos for…

Steam Game Festival Lets You Try Out Upcoming Games

It is mid-June. We are now deep into what would have been E3 season, if E3 existed on another planet that wasn’t plunging deeper and deeper into turmoil with every passing second. But hey, digital events are fun. On that note, the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition, which Valve rescheduled from last week while remaining…

There’s A Kingdom Hearts Rhythm Game Coming To Consoles This Year

Coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch later this year in Japan (no Western release details yet), Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is a rhythm action game featuring music and characters from throughout the long-running RPG series. Square Enix launched the Japanese website for the game today, following a leak of the game’s logo…

How’s It Going?: Patience Edition

Welcome to Tuesday, a day that isn’t Monday, and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed lately, a feeling I bet a lot of you can relate to. There feels like too much to do all the time and I’m just…trapped in my house with it all. New York is…

Madden NFL 21 Will Be The First In The Series On Steam

Madden NFL 21 now has a Steam page with a release date of August 28, making it the first game in the series to come to Valve’s digital storefront. The listing was spotted earlier today, complete with a trailer, screenshots, and a release date for the latest entry in the long-running sports series. EA had…

Track: Joga | Artist: Bjӧrk | Album: Homogenic

Horsing Around. Tribalj, Croatia. By Eduard Tucaković | Instagram | Official Site JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line

Nintendo Quietly Releases Free Switch Game That Was Made By Developers Working From Home

With loads of people all over the world still in situations like working from home or having their local gyms closed, Nintendo has released a new first-party fitness game for the Nintendo Switch that anyone can play, right now, for free. It’s called Jump Rope Challenge, and simply uses the Joy-Cons as virtual skipping rope…

New Game For Treatment Of ADHD Requires A Prescription

A new game designed to treat some ADHD symptoms in kids aged 8-12 has been officially approved by the The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meaning that anyone who wants to attempt treating children with the game needs to get a prescription first. As AP report, it’s not only the first time the organisation has…