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Returnal, A New PS5 Game That’s A Horrific Groundhog Day In Space

As part of today’s PlayStation 5 reveal event, Sony showed off a Groundhog Day-esque game about repeatedly dying and reawakening called Returnal In the trailer, a woman talks about how she dies every day, and each time she comes back, the planet she’s stuck on changes and becomes part of her. “My only hope is…

Ratchet & Clank Return In New PS5 Game

A new Ratchet & Clank game is coming to the PS5. Titled Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, the new game focuses on interdimensional travel. Check out the trailer here:

Spider-Man‘s New PS5 Game Stars Miles Morales (Update: It’s An Expansion)

Miles Morales is finally getting his own Spider-Man game, Sony revealed during its PS5 event today. It’s called Spider-Man Miles Morales and is headed to PS5 sometime this holiday season. Developed by Insomniac, the game looks like it will pick up after the events of 2018’s Spider-Man with Morales taking over web-crawling and super-villain fighting…

Gran Turismo 7 Races To PS5

Sony’s superior racing simulation series is coming to the PlayStation 5 as Gran Turismo 7, and this time around it’s got an extensive campaign mode. Hundreds of races between hundreds of different vehicles with ultra-realistic tuning are all well and good, but a campaign mode? Might be exactly what this arcade racing fan needs to…

Grand Theft Auto V Is Coming To PS5

The Sony presentation today began with a brief GTA V trailer. At this rate, GTA V could become the new Skyrim in terms of anticlimactic port announcements, so that’s something to look forward to. The trailer’s YouTube description includes some information about Grand Theft Auto V’s PS5 port, including a “second half of 2021″ release…

Watch The PS5 Reveal Event Right Here

It’s time for Sony to show us what to expect when the PlayStation 5 arrives later this year. Expect games, dates, and possibly prices. And who knows, we might even get a look at the actual hardware this time around. Let’s watch! We’re watching the English version of the stream on YouTube. If you do…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Keep My Relationship Alive When I Can’t See My Partner?

Hello, all you greased porn fruitbats, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that’s too hot to handle and too cold to hold. This week, we’re taking on your personal development questions and dealing with the doubts and fears that’ve been haunting you. How do you keep a relationship going when you…

Players Are Using Destiny 2’s New Grenade Launcher To One-Shot Raid Bosses

Behold Sanctified Mind, the big boss from last year’s Garden of Salvation Raid, instantly melting before the power of Destiny 2‘s new Witherhoard grenade launcher. One of the best ways to find out how a new Destiny 2 gun stacks up against all the others is to test it out on the game’s hardest bosses,…

Embracing The Beautiful Nonsense Of The Final Fantasy VII Spinoffs

This year has not been great for my mental health. But I recently thought I could just push those vibes away, even just briefly, to dunk on Tetsuya Nomura, the creative visionary of Final Fantasy VII and a man who never met a story he couldn’t convolute. I had plenty of material, because I’ve played…

Animal Crossing: The Last Airbender

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony, until the Fire Nation ruined everything, the jerks. Don’t worry, YouTube’s The Nooksters bring all four elements back together for an outstanding remake of the Avatar: The Last Airbender intro in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Utilizing the amazing costumes put together by…

How’s It Going?: Summer Edition

It’s Thursday—we can do this! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner, which I always try to avoid for as long as possible. While working from home has been nice in a lot of ways, I’m not excited about what it’s going to do to my bills this…

Metal: Hellsinger Is A Rhythm Shooter Where You Slay Demons To A Heavy Metal Beat

In some ways Metal: Hellsinger looks like a traditional first-person shooter. At first I try to play it like one, strafing left to right while lining up my shots and keeping an eye out for health packs. It’s not until I start to play it like Guitar Hero with a shotgun that things begin to…

There’s a new Transformers game coming later this year called Transformers: Battlegrounds Headed to Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC on October 23, the developer, Coatsink, is calling it a “tactical warfare” game where you customize your autobot squad and fight battles from “Central City to Cybertron.” 

Bug Causes Some Call Of Duty Players On Xbox To Get Hit With Massive 84 GB Update [Update]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s latest season arrived last night alongside another giant update download. Thanks to a bug, the download was twice as big for some Xbox One players, forcing them to effectively download an entire game’s worth of data to keep playing. “We’re actively investigating an issue for #ModernWarfare where some players on…

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Board Gaming’s Industry Body Refuses To Say A Word About Black Lives Mattering [Update]

An increasing number of prominent board game industry and community members have pulled out of an upcoming show over The Game Manufacturers Association’s (GAMA) continued silence over Black Lives Matter. UPDATE 6:53am, June 11: GAMA has since released a statement on their Facebook page, cancelled Origins Online and offered to “match, dollar for dollar, any…

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Riot Games Executive Says George Floyd Was Murdered By Police Because Of His “Criminal Lifestyle” [UPDATE]

Ron Johnson, Global Head of Consumer Products at Riot Games, has shared an image on his personal Facebook account that lists George Floyd’s prior convictions before saying “this type of criminal lifestyle never results in good things happening to you or those around you”. He is now being investigated internally by the company. As Vice…

Arcade1Up Announces Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom Cabinets

During today’s IGN Summer of Games event, the folks over at Arcade1Up revealed a handful of new additions to their line of miniature arcade cabinet replicas. These include Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Big Buck Hunter, and a virtual pinball machine based on Marvel Comics superheroes. While Ms. Pac-Man is iconic…