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Razer’s Project Hazel Is A Translucent Face Mask With RGB Lighting

If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent plastic front, voice-amplification tech, and RGB lighting effects. Every year at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, gaming hardware maker Razer demos conceptual projects that may or may not wind up becoming real. This…

Grand Theft Auto V Actors Recreate ‘Lamar Roasts Franklin’ Scene

Grand Theft Auto V, now available across two platform generations with a version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on the way, refuses to die. The game’s latest contribution to the online zeitgeist is the brief scene where side character Lamar Davis roasts protagonist Franklin Clinton, which has become the basis of an exceedingly…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Now Runs at 60 FPS On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S

2019’s excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order now looks a little bit better on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to its latest update, though the improvements aren’t as dramatic as some other games have seen. Jedi: Fallen Order’s new optimized version runs at a crisp 60 FPS on all three next-gen consoles, but at…

Oh No, He’s Hot

A new trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario 3D World arrived earlier today featuring a first look at Bowser in Bowser’s Fury and y’all…damn. Bowser’s hot. Super hot. Bowser-Jr.-ain’t-the-only-one-calling-me-daddy hot. There’s something undeniably sexy about a dangerous creature. Bowser’s hit the gym and gotten bigger and more muscly since last we saw…

Machine Games Is Making An Indiana Jones Game

Bethesda studio Machine Games is making a new Indiana Jones game, the publisher announced in a short teaser on Twitter today. The game will feature an original story and be a collaboration between Machine Games and Lucasfilm Games, with Todd Howard as the executive producer on the project. Bethesda didn’t reveal anything further about the…

It’s Giant Cat Mario Versus Kaiju Bowser In Bowser’s Fury

With a month remaining until its February 12 release, Nintendo gives us a peek at what the new Bowser’s Fury portion of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury looks like. They had me at Giant Cat Mario. In Bowser’s Fury, Bowser’s gotten big. Too big. So big that Bowser Jr. and Mario team up…

View from Ebisu Tower, 2016. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr

A Full Throttle Movie Script Has Been Written By Moon’s Director

Duncan Jones, director of movies like Warcraft and Moon, has spent his time in lockdown better than most of us. He’s written a full-length “fan script” for classic 1995 adventure game Full Throttle It’s pretty good! While it deviates in some parts and whips up some new material in others—the original game is a lot…

Japan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation

The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a fan translation for…

The Lucasfilm Games Name, At Least, Is Back

LucasArts is dead, but for some reason, the powers behind The Brands have decided that the company’s previous name—Lucasfilm Games—is something that needs to be resurrected, so will now be on the box and the ends of trailers for every Star Wars game going forward. The announcement of the brand’s return means it is “now the…

Sony Gives Release Windows For Project Athia And Other PS5 Games

The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show began today—virtually, of course—and during a video presentation Sony revealed new release date information about half a dozen games. But it didn’t announce these dates as you might expect. Instead, all the new info came from text that appeared at the bottom of the screen for only a few seconds…

Spanish Streamer TheGrefg Obliterates All-Time Twitch Viewership Record

For years now, Twitch’s record for most concurrent viewers on a single streamer’s channel has been hotly contested, with streamers topping each other in slow-building increments. Today, however, Spanish streamer TheGrefg made everybody else look like they’d been wrestling for discarded peanut shells. As of writing, he topped out at nearly 2.5 million—a new all-time…

Nier: Automata Dumped Me And I’m Okay With It

I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god the game is over, I am free now,” way that I felt finishing The Last Of Us 2—a game hellbent on holding on to you long after what any normal, non-sadistic storyteller…

Breath Of The Wild Player Snipes Guardian From Over 1,400 Meters Away

Although The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out almost four years ago, folks continue to pull off incredible feats in the game. Case in point: this player nailing a Guardian with an arrow from over 1,400 meters away. Neko is a Breath of the Wild player from Japan with an extensive resume…

Otterbox Is Making Mobile Gaming Gear Now

Otterbox, one of the biggest names in phone and tablet cases, has teamed up with Microsoft to create a new line of clips, cases, and grips aimed at making the most of mobile gaming services like Xbox Game Streaming and Apple Arcade. Otterbox has been making rugged cases for mobile devices since there have been…

AGDQ 2021 Raises $2.7 Million For Charity

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $2,764,437 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is the second-highest amount raised at AGDQ, only beaten by last year’s total of over $3 million. AGDQ 2021 was held online this time around due to the continuing…

Riot And Bungie Go After Valorant And Destiny 2 Cheat Sellers In Joint Lawsuit

Riot Games and Bungie have decided to work together in both companies’ ongoing crusade against people who make and sell cheats for their games. They’ve filed a joint complaint against Cameron Santos, the owner of several cheat distribution platforms, including Gatorcheats. “[Riot Games and Bungie] seek to put a stop to the unlawful, for-profit sale…

Now We’re Playing Pokémon In A Twitter Profile Pic

Gameloft Montreal programmer Constantin Liétard has created a script that allows Twitter users to control a game of Pokémon Red playing out in his profile picture. It’s like ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ without having to deal with Twitch chat. Launched on January 8 and then relaunched on January 9 to make sure frames get saved, Liétard’s ‘Twitter…

The Week In Games: Hello Again, Friend Of A Friend

After years of people asking, begging, and hoping, the Scott Pilgrim game is back this week. I’m not much of a Scott Pilgrim game fan, but I do hope you folks who have wanted the game to return enjoy it. Me, I’m way too excited about Hitman 3. It’s out next week. I’m currently playing…

Please Play This Wolfenstein vs Monkey Ball Game

Return to Castle Monkey Ballis what happens when you take two very different and beloved games and smash them together in a way that on paper sounds terrible, but which in practice is so very very excellent. Made by Nickireda, it’s a fantastic homage to both games, combining the pioneering visuals and Nazi-killing premise of…