Mario Kart 64 Speedrunner Sets New World Record By Repeatedly Slamming Into Wall

The Nintendo game buckles under this advanced strategy

Stardew Valley’s massive 1.5 update is also out on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch now The update adds a ton of stuff including new people, items, quests, and a beach farm. It also lets you finally sit-down

Twitch’s not-so-grand Pogchamp experiment is coming to an end. After replacing the conspiracy-addled face of the popular emote with 35 different Pogchamps in 35 days, Twitch seems to be on the brink of a more permanent arrangement. Tomorrow, viewers will be able to “decide what the future of hype looks like” as part of a…

Agents of Mayhem (Which Is Good BTW) Plays Way Better On My Xbox Series X

The power of next-gen consoles can, in some cases, help improve games that suffered from performance problems. A great example of this is Agents of Mayhem, a good last-gen open-world shooter made even better thanks to the Xbox Series X and its backward compatibility features. Agents of Mayhem was released back in 2017 and developed…

Borderlands Movie Casts Actor Who’s Actually Funny To Play Claptrap, Which Feels Off

Jumanji and Orange County star Jack Black has joined the cast of the Borderlands movie, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Black, who will be playing Borderlands’ perennial robotic sidekick and ostensible comic relief Claptrap, is the latest actor to sign onto the project after Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin…

Axiom Verge 2 is coming to PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive, as revealed during a buggy Epic Games Store digital showcase Before today, the highly anticipated Metroidvania was only confirmed for a Switch release.

Kingdom Hearts Series Coming To PC On March 30, Exclusive To Epic Games Store

A handful of Kingdom Hearts games are coming to PC on March 30, and will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store. During today’s spring showcase, Epic Games announced that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts III, and Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory will be…

Today, developer Thunder Lotus outlined a 2021 roadmap for Spiritfarer Over the course of three free seasonal updates, the hygge simulator will get four new spirits, a new island, co-op fishing, and a raft of quality-of-life updates.

Lance Reddick Is Now Voice Acting Destiny Memes

Lance Reddick is a famous actor, with major roles in The Wire and John Wick, among other things. He’s also the voice of Destiny’s Commander Zavala, and apparently not above granting fan requests to voice act the memes they send him. That’s what he did yesterday when Destiny player xMechanizex sent him a meme drawn…

Nintendo’s New ‘Switch Concierge’ Service Will Give You Game Recs

Nintendo has launched Nintendo Switch Concierge, a program designed to familiarize those who “recently purchased a Nintendo Switch system” with the console. Switch Concierge gives Switch owners one-on-one video conferences with a Nintendo rep. There are six half-hour sessions to choose from: Nintendo Switch 101, Games (Getting Started), Games (What to Play Next), Security and…

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Comes Out This June

Next-gen exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart releases on PS5 on June 11, Insomniac Games announced over on the PlayStation Blog today. Announced last June, the action platformer is set to be a showpiece for PlayStation’s new hardware, including levels where players seamlessly hop between multiple worlds, something that wouldn’t have been possible on the…

A Pokémon And Post Malone Concert Is–Wait, Why Are You Laughing?

Pokémon and Post Malone sounds like the follow-up album to Post Malone’s 2018 Beerbongs & Bentleys, but it is a real thing that is actually happening because 2020 isn’t done fucking with us I guess. The “Circles” rapper is teaming up with The Pokémon Company to put on a concert this month in celebration of…

Praise Be Unto Zeus, Immortals Fenyx Rising Finally Has Loadouts

Ubisoft released an update for Immortals Fenyx Rising today, resolving known issues, adding key stability improvements, and… blah, blah, blah. Forget about all that! The game is (finally!) getting loadouts! Today’s 1.1.1 patch bakes an equipment loadout feature right into Fenyx Rising’s inventory screen, allowing players to curate up to three loadouts. Following the update,…

CD Projekt Red Resorting To Kickstarter To Launch New Witcher Board Game

CD Projekt Red, one of the biggest video game developers in Europe, is teaming up with board game makers Go On Board to produce a deck-building game based on The Witcher. It’s called The Witcher: Old World, and it’s going to use the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to do it. According to BoardGameGeek News, the game…

Abandoned Shooter Six Days In Fallujah Is Being Brought Back Over A Decade Later

Publisher Konami originally pulled the plug on Six Days In Fallujah, Atomic Games’ attempt to tell a realistic story about the war in Iraq based on the experience of US service members, for being too controversial. Now a new publisher and developer are resurrecting it. Production is being led by Victura, founded by former Atomic…

Pedro Pascal To Portray Joel In HBO’s The Last Of Us

Deadline reports that Pedro Pascal, well known for Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian, will be starring as Joel in HBO’s upcoming television adaptation of The Last of Us First announced last March, the show’s plot will follow that of the original 2013 video game, with Pascal’s Joel struggling to cross a post-apocalyptic former United…

Twitch Leaks New Street Fighter V Character [Update]

Update (1:06 p.m. ET, 02/11/2021): During today’s winter update steam, Capcom clarified that Eleven will be a bonus character in Street Fighter V rather than the last addition to its final season. We’ve updated the headline to reflect this. The shapeshifting fighter will be given to players who purchase either the Season 5 character pass…

Lara, You’re Drunk

When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was…something else. It’s hard to overstate just how big a deal Lara Croft was in her heyday. Sure, she’s gotten all gloomy and grimy recently, but you…