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Destiny 2 Players Can No Longer Show Off Some Of Their Favorite Stats [Update]

Today, Bungie improved the emblems Destiny 2 players use to express themselves to offer more customization options, but in the process wiped out some of players’ most coveted stats. Destiny 2 recieved a massive update today alongside the start of Season of the Worthy. It changed a lot of things, ranging from how the quest…

First-Person Mario Lets You Shoot Goombas In The Dang Face

As part of Nintendo’s forced MAR10 holiday (March 10, Mario, get it?), developer Sean Noonan has released a beautiful rendition of Super Mario Bros. as a first-person shooter. Sure, the gun only shoots plungers, but I have to imagine Mario would take some satisfaction from being able to blow away hordes of Goombas. Noonan, a…

Your Old Neopets May Still Be Alive, And Very Hungry

You’re sitting there, minding your own business, when the thought hits you. You wait for it to pass, but it lingers, forcing its way to the front of your mind. You try desperately to ignore it, but the guilt swallows you, occupying all of your thoughts. There’s no escaping it, the truth. You abandoned your…

This Month’s Rerelease Of Doom 64 Will Include A New Chapter

Doom 64, an original Doom game released exclusively on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, is often overlooked when discussing the history of the series. Perhaps that will change on March 20, when a Doom 64 port, complete with a new epilogue chapter, lands on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Doom 64 was…

Sony Says It Has No Plans To Release PlayStation Games At The Same Time On PC

PlayStation 4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC, as we reported in January, but Sony isn’t pulling an Xbox with its approach console and PC gaming, the head of PlayStation game development said today. Or at least, if they are, they’re not announcing it yet. “And to maybe put a few minds at…

Fan-Made Browser Game Lets You Plan Out Your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will give players more options and freedom to customize their island than any previous game in the series. Thanks to a browser game called Happy Island Designer, eager fans can get a head start on planning out their new village before New Horizons even comes out. Created by Github user Eugeneration,…

2K Will Make NFL Games Again For The First Time In 16 Years

2K Games announced a deal with the NFL today to release a number of new football games in the coming years, with the first slated to launch sometime next year. It’s not at all clear what these new NFL games will consist of. “The games will be non-simulation football game experiences,” 2K stated in its…

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Our Favorite Photos From Cosplay’s All-Star Weekend

It’s kinda fitting that the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was held in Chicago this year, because a couple weeks later it was also the setting for C2E2, one of the biggest cons of the year and a show that’s kinda become its own unofficial All-Star Weekend for cosplay. Taking place Feb 28-Mar 1, C2E2 hosted the…

FIFA Team Can Be Trained By Putting A Chip In Your Shoe

A new collaboration between Adidas, EA and Google has resulted in a rather quaint old video game idea being resurrected for the 2020s: the concept of using a small piece of electronics to track your real-world exercise and have it reflected in a game. Only instead of it being for the Nintendo DS, it’s for…

Play Super Bernie World, Bop MAGA Goombas

The game’s title kinda sums it up, really. Super Bernie World is a free, rad platformer where you “Run and jump your way across 11 states and the District of Columbia as Bernie and free the USA from the clutches of four Republicans in their castle lairs”. Super Mario World, basically, only with MAGA hat…

Thousands Of Twitch Scam Channels Are Still Trying To Steal From Viewers

Back in December, I reported on an issue that’s been plaguing Twitch for quite some time: scammers who pretend to be popular streamers and lure people in with the promise of fake giveaways. As of now, Twitch has yet to comprehensively solve the problem. Instead, it’s played whack-a-mole with thousands of fake accounts. The playbook…

Disco Elysium Players Are Hunting Down A Mysterious Achievement

Fans are still enamored with Disco Elysium's world, especially when it comes to one mysterious achievement.

What’s Going On With GeForce Now

Ever since it officially launched last month, game publishers have been abandoning Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform in droves. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, meanwhile, has defended the service, arguing it’s the most developer-friendly option out there right now. “Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles…

SonicFox Wins Mortal Kombat 11 Championship, Shouts Out Bernie Sanders

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is one of the greatest fighting game players of all time. The young non-binary competitor added to this legacy with a win at the Mortal Kombat 11 championship this weekend. It wasn’t quite as easy as some of their previous wins, but SonicFox used every opportunity to let the world know that…

Free Call Of Duty Battle Royale Launches Tomorrow

Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a free-to-play battle royale add-on called Warzone featuring 150-player matches, two modes, and cross-play PS4, Xbox One, and PC. To clarify, you don’t have to own a copy of Modern Warfare in order to play Warzone. Details of the mode have been leaking out…

The Week In Games: Ori Gives A Hoot

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps drops this week for PC and Xbox One. If you have Game Pass you will be able to play this game the moment it launches. The sequel to 2015’s much loved Ori And The Blind Forest, this new game features owls. That is why I put “hoot” in…

Players Finally Figure Out Two-Year-Old Destiny 2 Puzzle Clue

Destiny 2‘s Rasputin Chamber Puzzle alternate reality game (ARG) was discovered back in 2018, and one part of it stumped players so much they had to brute force the solution, solving the puzzle in just a few days but without fully understanding all the pieces. That is, until last week. The puzzle was introduced in…