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According to Sony’s first-quarter financial results for 2020, PlayStation Plus currently has nearly 45 million active users around the world, a gain of nearly 3.4 million over the previous quarter. That number should jump significantly now that Fall Guys is a free PlayStation Plus game.

Nintendo Added A Surprise New Stage To Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Ask any Smash fan and they’ll tell you that updates to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are negligible. Usually, they’ll introduce the barest tweaks to existing fighters, or adjust the online mode in some barely noticeable way—and nothing more. So it’s somewhat of a surprise that, in last night’s 8.1.0 update, Nintendo added a whole new…

Pikmin 3 Deluxe Comes To Switch October 30

Cross another game off the “Wii U Games That Still Need To Come To Switch” list. Beloved action-puzzler Pikmin 3 is getting the deluxe treatment, releasing on Switch October 30 with full story mode co-op, new side missions, lock-on targeting, and new difficulty options. There’s nothing quite like guiding colorful plant creatures with unique abilities…

Ninja’s Streaming Fortnite On Twitch Right Now

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is streaming Fortnite’s latest update on Twitch right now, on a stream that’s hovering at over 95k viewers. It’s the popular streamer’s first stream on Twitch since Mixer shut down last month. Ninja is playing with streamer DrLupo. He teased this last night on Twitter, though he didn’t offer any details about…

Here’s How Fortnite‘s New Cars Work

Cars are finally in Fortnite with the 13.40 update, called “Joy Ride.” They might have arrived a bit later than players expected, but now that they’re here, they’re a lot of fun. There are a few different drivable cars in the game, including a pickup truck, a taxi, a tractor-trailer, and a hotrod. (Sorry, it’s…

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Just A Couple Of German Samurai

Alexander Shatohin is an artist from Russia. You can see more of Alexander’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Activision Blizzard Boasts Record Results While Employees Protest Pay Inequity

Activision Blizzard boasted of “record results” for Q2 2020 in an earnings report released earlier today, with an eye on long-term growth thanks to the boost received in the previous quarter from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. This financial victory lap, however, comes just days after workers collaborated on a spreadsheet designed to highlight pay inequity…

The Co-Creator Of The Computer Mouse Has Died

Bill English, one of the two men responsible for the invention of the computer mouse you may be resting your hand on right now, has died at the age of 91. Along with Douglas Engelbart, who passed away in 2013, English helped usher in the era of modern computing by creating a device that could…

World Of Warcraft Classic: Maybe You Can’t Go Home Again

My brother and I started taking World of Warcraft Classic seriously again two weeks ago. We both played during the mid-2000s Vanilla period—the era Classic attempts to replicate—and jumped into Classic last year, grinding to the mid-20s. Back then, it really seemed like Blizzard’s experiment was going to work. Stormwind and Ironforge, the two most…

Just How Lethal Is Ghost Of Tsushima’s ‘Lethal’ Difficulty?

The devs bill it as more difficult than Hard, but in practice it’s more a gameplay tweak.

I Thought I Missed Out On A Free Rare Warframe Suit, And It Sent Me To A Dark Place

Sometimes, you don’t know how much you want something until you realize it may have already slipped through your fingers. That’s what I told myself on Saturday, as sunk-cost fallacy convinced me to feverishly calculate how much it would cost to buy a Warframe suit that had been completely free less than an hour prior.…

Fall Guys Servers Can’t Keep Up With Launch Day Popularity

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout released today on PC and PlayStation 4 to much fanfare—perhaps too much. The hotly anticipated physics-based party platformer has been plagued by server issues all day. Connection issues started shortly after 8:00 a.m. ET. According to the game’s official Twitter account, more than 120,000 players connected to the game at once,…

Yakuza: Like A Dragon Battle Menus Now Spell ‘SEGA’ Thanks To Joking Tweet

Game development is a collaborative effort between designers, programmers, and writers, which on big productions can number in the hundreds. It can take years to get a specific mechanic or cutscene right, and even then, it might still fall flat with players. But in the case of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, some of the best…

Even Lapsed Overwatch Players Love Pharah’s New Lifeguard Skin

It’s summer. Per tradition, this means that the Overwatch team must give somebody abs, or face dire consequences. So Pharah is a lifeguard now. Cue the entire internet dramatically leaping into the ocean and pretending to drown in hopes that somebody—nobody specific, of course—might come save them. It would be an understatement to say that…

How’s It Going?: Lost Edition

It’s a very rainy Tuesday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I stayed up far too late last night looking for a document from my past that I don’t think I have anymore but I know I wouldn’t have purposefully thrown away. I could clearly picture it folded up and shoved into some book,…

Snowman’s incredibly chill snow/sandboarding games, Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Oddysey, are coming to consoles and PC. The two games are combined into one as The Alto Collection, launching August 13 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC via the Epic Game Store, with a Switch version coming at a later date.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Adds Cloud Gaming September 15

As announced in July, Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service is becoming part of the $15-a-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service on September 15, allowing users to stream more than 100 Xbox games to their Android phones and tablets. In a pair of posts on Xbox Wire, Microsoft details the games subscribers can play…

Sushi Used To Be Much Larger In The Past

During the Edo Period (1603-1868) of Japan, sushi was between two and four times larger than it is today. But why? One of the biggest reasons is that Edo (present-day Tokyo), where sushi was invented, was a metropolis from which large numbers of people were passing in and out. They needed food they could take…

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