Doom Eternal And Elder Scrolls Online Are Getting Next-Gen Ports

Bethesda announced this morning that Doom Eternal and The Elder Scrolls Online are coming to Xbox Series X and PS5 sometime in the future. The publisher didn’t say when the games would be available on the next-gen consoles, but did note that existing owners of the games will be able to upgrade to the Xbox…

How’s It Going? Clutter Edition

What is all this crap? Welcome back to our daily open thread. I am currently dealing with an overabundance of stuff issue in my living space. There are too many things. Boxes, books, medical supplies, cats, children—there’s too much stuff. Our landlord recently decided that, after seven years of on-time rent payments, too much stuff…

Serious Sam 4 has suffered a small delay. Originally set to come out this month on Stadia and PC, it’s now not releasing until September 24. It’s still not clear when the game will eventually come to consoles. The Stadia exclusivity deal appears to go into 2021.

Paper Mario: The Origami King has a new patch out that fixes a game breaking glitch that was previously keeping some players from being able to beat the game It also includes a handful of other bug fixes.

Gundam Is Here With An Important Public Service Announcement: Be Good To Each Other

Gundams and their pilots are here to remind us all not to lose faith in our shared humanity. Over on the GundamInfo YouTube channel, which usually hosts an ever-changing lineup of episodes and movies from the series’ decades-long back catalog, a video titled “Message from Gundam ‘Beyond’” recently went up, full of trippy visuals and…

CD Projekt Red announced it will detail more about how quest progression and combat will work in Cyberpunk 2077 in another Night City Wire Twitch stream. Welcome to the never-ending summer of not-E3. It’ll air August 10 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Horizon Zero Dawn On PC Is Magical

Aloy wasn’t originally designed to roll around post-apocalyptic jungles, deserts and snow peaks at 120 frames per second, but it definitely suits her. This week marks the release of Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. It’s the base game with the Frozen Wilds DLC, plus the extra features patched…

As of June 30, the Nintendo Switch has sold 61.44 million hardware units and 406.67 million software units. Both numbers are worldwide. 

Let’s See What The Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games Are!

Over the past few months, with more folks at home due to the ongoing pandemic, people have been buying and playing a lot of Nintendo Switch games. Let’s see what the best-selling Nintendo Switch games are! As of June 30, here they are:

The Incredible Story Behind The Barbie As Rapunzel Video Game

In the late 90’s, amongst a wave of all-new “Games for Girls”, Barbie appeared on CD-ROM for the first time. I was five, dressed in a timeless bejeweled-satin-homemade-princess-gown-and-feather-boa combo. I was squarely within the target audience for the first ever Barbie fantasy video game. Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel is burned into my memory.…

Paper Mario Player’s Coins Hit A Very Nice Number

Twitch streamer and speedrunner Boyks accomplished a monumental feat of gaming prowess earlier this week when he briefly hit 42,069 coins in Paper Mario: The Origami King That’s it, that’s the story. I’m 12 years old.

Xbox’s New Streaming Service Doesn’t Look Likely For iPhone, iPad Users

When Microsoft announced that its Project xCloud game streaming service was coming to Xbox Game Pass, it only mentioned Android phones and tablets, despite the fact xCloud has also been in testing on iOS devices. Any iOS users hoping this was an oversight, something that might be fixed or revealed at a later date, should…

EA Removes ‘Toxic’ Celebrations In FIFA 21

A pair of celebrations that contributed to “toxic behaviors” online will not return in FIFA 21 when the game launches on October 9, according to series publisher EA. This news comes courtesy of Eurogamer, which reported earlier today that FIFA 21 will not include the post-goal “Shush” and “A-OK” celebrations from previous games. The former…

Call Of Duty Warzone Season 5 Launches With Map Updates, Loot Train

Today’s update finally gave Call of Duty’s Warzone a slight refresher with a bunch of satisfying map changes. The Season 5 content launched for both Modern Warfare and Warzone across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. At first glance, Warzone’s map of Verdansk looks pretty much the same as it did at launch, but now…

Enjoy This Word Salad About Why Marvel’s Avengers’ Spider-Man Is A PlayStation Exclusive

On Monday, developer Crystal Dynamics announced that Spider-Man will be coming to Marvel’s Avengers sometime next year, but only on PS4 and PS5. Fans were understandably upset. Now, studio co-head Scot Amos has explained the reasoning behind the exclusivity deal. Kinda. Not really. Amos could have just dodged the issue entirely by saying something like…