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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for really needing to be hitting certain mileage goals in my half-marathon training, which has been making me realize how small New York actually is. Can I resist turning into one of those runners who jogs up and down the block repeatedly to squeeze in that last portion of a mile? The…

Grand Theft Auto V Is On Game Pass Now

Grand Theft Auto V is available on Xbox Game Pass today. In other news, I kind of regret not having an Xbox now? Xbox Game pass is a subscription service that allows players to pay for monthly access to hundreds of games. Grand Theft Auto V is now part of that catalogue. For players who have…

Bayonetta Director Calls Out The Nintendo Switch’s Crappy Menu

The co-founder of Platinum Games criticized how the Switch home screen is laid out and the console’s lack of organization options in a series of tweets earlier this week. One hopes this high-profile critique might help finally get the Switch’s menu fixed. Hideki Kamiya, the director of games like Resident Evil 2 and Bayonetta, called…

The ‘Mother 4’ Fan Game Is Now Called Oddity, Still Looks Amazing

The Mother 4 fan game that I was hoping to play in the winter of 2014 and stopped being a Mother 4 fan game in 2017 has finally announced its new title: Oddity At the beginning of the last decade, I, an EarthBound fan starved for content, stumbled upon an incredibly professional looking fan-made sequel…

It’s officially 2020 so you know what that means. We’re playing Perfect Dark Zero, baby. LIVE on Twitch. Come hang out with us in the chat!

That Damn Witcher Song Is Now Playable In Beat Saber

“Toss A Coin To Your Witcher,” the obnoxiously catchy song from Netflix’s The Witcher series, is everywhere. It’s in our heads. It has permeated Twitter. It’s being remixed over and over again. Now, thanks to an enterprising player of hit virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber, fans can beat the song to death with glowing…

Playing Outer Wilds In Times Square Was The Best Way To Ring In The New Year

Some people go to Times Square on New Year’s Eve to brave the cold, watch the ball drop, maybe get seen on TV or even pop the question. Not me. I went there to play Outer Wilds. I’m pretty sure I had the best time of anyone there. I got to Times Square at 9:29…

Track: 1999 | Artist: Prince | Album: 1999 (Album) 

The ‘Shop Contest Awards: 2019

Hello and welcome to the 2019 ‘Shop Contest Awards! I’m excited to have you all here as we look back at what you creative and wonderful folks have made over the past year. And as always, I’ll be handing out some awards! 2019 was a year filled with many things and also a lot of…

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator Are January’s PS Plus Games

Sure, that Uncharted film is stuck in development hell, but the games aren’t and you soon you will be able to get the first three games for free if you have PS Plus. Or maybe you just want to be a goat. Little odd, but hey, you will probably enjoy Goat Simulator which is the…

Due To A Y2K-Like Bug, WWE 2K20 Is Almost Unplayable In 2020 [UPDATE]

WWE 2K20 is having a rough New Year’s Day. According to multiple reports from Reddit, Twitter and Youtube, many people are unable to play the game now that it’s 2020. Instead of working, the game just crashes when selecting most game modes, including online and career. Yes,if these reports are accurate, it sounds like WWE…

What Games On Your Backlog Do You Want To Finish This New Year?

Every December, I wonder where the year went. Every week before January 1st, I wonder what games from my backlog I will finally get to in the New Year. There’s so many games I need to tackle, going all the way back to the PS2. Suikoden V, Rogue Galaxy, and Valkyrie Profile call out to…

Lost Odyssey Is A Moving Story About Immortality, Memories, And Loss

There’s a game I keep coming back to every few years. It’s Lost Odyssey for the Xbox 360. Developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker Studios, it’s basically Final Fantasy mixed with the old show about immortals, Highlander. The first two times I played it, I got to the White Boa, then stopped. Life just got in…

The Story Behind Solomon’s Key, One Of The Most Challenging NES Games

Constellations, block puzzles, magic, and a Taoist monk collide in this odd but extremely difficult puzzle game called Solomon’s Key. Published by Tecmo as an arcade game in 1986, it was ported to the NES in 1987. Michitaka Tsuruta was the main designer and he explained over email how he drew the original inspiration for…

Modern Warfare Players Are Being Killed By… A Chair

There are plenty of ways to die in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but nobody ever suspects the office chair. A few days back, aReddit user discovered that they could melee the two chairs inside the hotel of the St. Petrograd map, spinning the office chairs until the furniture struck back. It seems that either…

Syd Mead Has Died

Legendary concept artist and futurist Syd Mead, famous for his work on movies like Blade Runner and Tron, has died. He was 86 years old. Mead had only announced his retirement in September. His career as a concept artist saw him work on projects like the aforementioned Blade Runner (and its sequel, Blade Runner 2049)…

Should I Replace My Damaged Nintendo Switch?

There is a hole on the top of my Nintendo Switch where the vent grill used to be. It’s been growing for the past year and a half and It is very concerning. A replacement console may be in order. What do you think? I’m pretty sure the gaping hole is my fault. It started…

The Week In Games: It’s A Bit Of A Ghost Town…

The last days of 2019 are here and the first days of 2020 are coming. And there aren’t new games coming out during the transition to a new year. Seriously, if you thought last week was a quiet week, look down below this paragraph and see how short the list is this week. I had…

More People Are Playing The Witcher 3 On Steam Today Than Ever Before [UPDATE]

The Witcher 3 was a popular game back when it came out in 2015. But the recent release of the Netflix show has lead to a huge surge in popularity for the Polish RPG. And it just set a new active player count record on Steam today, with over 93k players. The news of this…

‘Shop Contest: Baby Sonic

And so, we end the year with Sonic. But this time I’m not angry or sick looking at Sonic. Instead, this time, we have the wonderful and cute Baby Sonic. He might not be as cute as Baby Yoda, but give him time. But not too much time, because he’ll grow into actual Sonic and…