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Untitled Goose Game As A PS1 Game Is Perfect

Indie developer Narayana Walters decided the titular fowl from Untitled Goose Game wasn’t menacing enough and so decided to recast the anti-hero in the lo-fi hell of a PlayStation 1 game. Untitled Goose Game is an animal circus full of clever little details and brilliant moments of spontaneous slapstick, but at bottom it’s about a…

Pokémon Sword And Shield Players Report Alarming SD Card Issue, But It’s Fixable

Pokémon Sword and Shield are out today. It should be a joyous occasion, except that some players have hit quite a snag: They say that the downloadable versions of the games are deleting all of their Switch save data. In reality, that’s not quite what’s happening, but the glitch in question is certainly alarming. It…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for doing A Very Serious Housecleaning and plugging a bunch of cracks in my apartment, because the cold weather seems to be driving roaches inside, and I am a massive bug baby. It’s also for playing video games while I try not to think about roaches. I have been playing a ton of…

Spamming Like In Death Stranding Makes You Feel Real Good

Death Stranding’s America is dotted with thousands, possibly even millions, of player-made structures that can make the post-apocalyptic expanse less dangerous and also less lonely⁠—perhaps even welcoming. These structures have a social media-inspired system that lets you click a “like” button on them. And I am determined to favorite them all as much as possible.…

YouTube Channel Of A Man Feeding Stray Cats Keeps Me Calm

Life is hard. Take a load off by watching a Japanese man feed stray cats. I discovered Niiyan1216, a series of videos where a Japanese man feeds stray cats, over a year ago. I was perusing the subreddit Deep Into YouTube, which is dedicated to finding rare, interesting videos. I’m a huge cat person, so…

Star Wars Is Now In Fortnite

Fortnite’s latest lincesed tie-in is with Star Wars, with classic trilogy Imperial Stormtroopers now available as a skin in the game. It’s available now for purchase in the item store. Or, if you buy Fallen Order from the Epic Store, you get it for free.

Getting The Bag

Devin Korwin is an artist at mobile studio Gameloft. You can see more of Devin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Fallout 76, One Year Later

Bethesda launched Fallout 76 one year ago today, and almost everything that could go wrong did. And yet 12 months later it’s still around, still getting updates, and full of players who remain willing to pour their best and most creative energies into trying to make it an interesting and wondrous place. It’s been a…

First Streamer To Hit 60 In WoW Classic Kicked From Top Esports Organization For Stealing Item

Before the tail end of August, Daniel “Jokerd” Gobey was basically a nobody. Then he won the worldwide race to hit level 60 in WoW Classic and became an overnight Twitch sensation, with over 300,000 people tuning in to watch his big moment just three days after Classic’s launch. But the 22-year-old player from Malta,…

Giant Batman Cosplay Is A Work Of Art

One of my favorite cosplayers on the planet, Julian Checkley, has spent the last two years working on a Batman outfit that is so good I’m starting to wonder if he’s actually working for Bruce Wayne on the side. “Everything was sculpted, molded and cast in various grades of urethane rubber by me,” Julian says…

Everything Announced For Xbox One And PC At X019

New game announcements from Obsidian, Rare, and Dontnod highlighted Microsoft’s Inside Xbox presentation at X019, the company’s annual fan festival taking place in London this weekend. It also showed several updates and new trailers for previously announced games, as well as new content coming to Project xCloud and Xbox Game Pass—including 10 Final Fantasy games.…

A Ton Of Final Fantasy Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass

Final Fantasy VII through XV (excluding the two MMOs) will get added to Game Pass in the coming months, Microsoft announced today during the latest episode of Inside Xbox at this year’s XO19 fan event in London. That chunk of the series includes 10 games, many of which, like Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy XII:…

New Game From The Makers Of Life Is Strange Features A Transgender Hero

Dontnod Entertainment, the studio behind Life is Strange and Vampyr, are making a new game. Tell Me Why is a mystery adventure game about unraveling a troubled past starring a pair of twins, one of whom is transgender. In Tell Me Why, players follow the story of Tyler and Alyson Ronan, exploring both of their…

Rare Is Making A New Open-World Adventure Game

Rare’s upcoming game, Everwild, is a delightful and fantastical-looking adventure game set in a natural paradise. Revealed today at Inside Xbox, Everwild featured Princess Mononoke-style wilderness and creatures. The British studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. This is Rare’s first game since Sea of Thieves. We couldn’t discern much about the gameplay or plot…

The Final Days Of Japan’s Most Incredible Arcade

Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire high-rise buildings packed with floor after floor of video amusements. On Sunday, November 17, perhaps the most elaborately themed arcade in the country, Anata no Warehouse in Kawasaki, will shut down for reasons that remain unexplained.…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Help, I’ve Fallen For My Roommate

Hello, you sexy pheromone ghosts, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to come to you from dingy bars on the Outer Rim. This week, we’re asking hard questions and facing harder consequences. What happens when it feels like your roommate might also be your soulmate? What do you do when…

A Complete List Of Video Games I Played On Paternity Leave

I had a baby a couple months ago, and I took a few weeks off work to hang out with her. Mostly that meant giving her bottles, changing her diapers, and holding her on my lap as I played video games, because it turns out there’s nothing babies hate more than NOT being held at…

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Oculus Rift’s John Carmack is stepping down from his role as CTO of the VR company to try something new: artificial general intelligence, which he says is “possible, enormously valuable, and…I have a non-negligible chance of making a difference there.”

Gonna Take An Eva To Punch This Nazi

Vladimir Manyukhin is an artist from Russia who specializes in matte paintings You can see more of Vladimir’s stuff at his ArtStation page