Neverwinter: Sharandar Revisits The Game’s Very First Adventure Module

The first adventure module added to Perfect World Entertainment’s Neverwinter, 2013’s Fury of the Feywild, introduced players to the ancient elven stronghold of Sharandar. The game’s latest three-part module, launching on PC February 9 and consoles a month later, heads back to those wild woods to see what’s happened over the past seven years and…

Duracell Official Suggests Xbox Controllers Use Of AA Batteries In Influenced By Deal With Battery Company

While every other console controller on the market uses internal rechargeable batteries, Xbox’s still let you use AA batteries to power them, and new remarks by a Duracell spokesperson possibly shed some light on why this is. “There’s always been this partnership with Duracell and Xbox…it’s a constant agreement that Duracell and Microsoft have in…

Yoshi Devolved From Babysitter to Baby

Yoshi, upon its debut, was a bright green agent of change in the Mario franchise. In its first appearance, it bursts from an egg, growing from newborn to adult in the blink of an eye. Yet for a character so tied to the concept of change and evolution, Yoshi has found itself creatively and conceptually…

Eiichiro Oda On Reaching 1,000 Chapters In One Piece

Back in July 1997, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump. Now, twenty years later, it has become the biggest-selling manga series ever. Last summer, it was announced that One Piece was entering its final arc, which should take four or five years to wrap up, and this month the manga reached…

Koei Tecmo Filing Charges Over Dead Or Alive Nude Mod

Koei Tecmo announced it’s filing charges with Kanagawa police against a suspect for allegedly selling an unlicensed DVD filled with naked Dead or Alive characters. According to the game maker, the suspect allegedly recorded footage of characters from Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation that had been illicitly modded. The footage was compiled onto a DVD…

Sony Stops Nearly All PlayStation 4 Shipments For Japan Except Standard PS4 Slim

Now that the PlayStation 5 is out, Sony is turning its attention to its new console. In Japan, that means almost all its attention, leaving only the standard slim Jet Black 500GB PlayStation 4 as part of the old-gen line-up. As IT Media and Game Watch Impress report, Sony ceased manufacturing of the PlayStation 4…

Here’s An Open Thread, If You Need It

It feels weird to talk about video games today. Well, to be honest, it’s felt weird talking about video games for years now, but today is a whole new level of what the fuck. As our wonderful sister site Jezebel noted earlier, Trump supporters are currently occupying the United States capitol building in Washington D.C.…

Former Xbox Executives Say Nintendo ‘Laughed Their Asses Off’ When Microsoft Offered To Buy It

Microsoft once proposed buying Nintendo in order to lock in its first-party games for the Xbox. The Japanese video game company didn’t just decline to entertain the offer; it laughed the tech giant’s executives out of the room, according to a new report by Bloomberg. “Steve [Ballmer, Microsoft’s former CEO] made us go meet with…

Outriders has been delayed to April 1, 2021, developer People Can Fly announced today A free demo will be available on February 25. You’ll be able to carry your progress over to the full game.

Immortals Fenyx Rising’s Pinball Mini-Game Is The Best (And Worst) Puzzle In The Game

Last night, I stumbled upon a puzzle in Immortals Fenyx Rising that can only be described as “pinball, but Ancient Greek.” It’s cool as Hades, and I love it. I also hate it with the fire of the Phlegethon. You should definitely check it out. The pinball game in question is the crux of Aiolos’…

Sonic Speedrunners Go Fast, Break World Records Back-To-Back During AGDQ

The Sonic block of games is mandatory watching in my house for every Games Done Quick event and this year’s block—that took place yesterday—has already claimed GOAT status when not one but two runners achieved world records back-to-back Flying Fox’s earned the first world record for her run of 2013’s Sonic The Hedgehog Android port.…

Fumito Ueda’s New Year Celebration Included Teasing His Studio’s Next Game

Fumito Ueda and his studio genDESIGN felt it was the perfect time to remind everyone they’re still working on a new game.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Gets New Abilities But Only If You Disconnect Your Console From The Internet

A few weeks back, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players spotted a handful of new abilities in the game’s elaborate skill tree. Then, those abilities disappeared. Following Valhalla’s mid-December update, which precipitated the Yuletide Festival event, each of the game’s three skill trees (Bear, Raven, Wolf) appeared to expand by two nodes. The first on each tree…

Slay The Spire Is Being Turned Into A Board Game

The incredibly deep roguelike deck-building RPG Slay the Spire will get the tabletop treatment, board game makers Contention Games recently announced, letting people explore the game’s inventive card battles together in real life. According to Contention’s website, the Slay the Spire board game will allow for up to four players, with rounds taking about 45…

Destiny 2‘s final Season of the Hunt mission is now live. It dropped out of the blue, and it’s called Coup de Grace, sending you on one last hunt to take down the High Celebrant. I hear it’s good, though also quite buggy at the moment.