Kingdom Hearts III‘s New DLC Is My Kind Of Anime Nonsense, On Steroids

Kingdom Hearts has two modes: cheerful Disney reveries and the most extreme of anime bullshit. Both have their merits, but the latter is where the series shines its brightest and is most captivating. Kingdom Hearts III’s new DLC, Re:Mind, embraces this. There’s time travel and scheming villains, dramatic clashes between light and dark, difficult new…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going climbing after taking some time off for an injury. Hopefully all that moping around with ice packs has healed me, because not climbing is a bummer. The weekend is also for video games, because you can’t climb all the time—that is, apparently, how you get injured I played some Overwatch…

Bungie Says Massive Destiny 2 Puzzle Was Inspired By Cult Horror Film Cube

In its weekly blog post, Bungie described what went into making Destiny 2’s recent Corridors of Time puzzle, including drawing inspiration from a 1997 Canadian cult horror film about people trapped in a giant labyrinth full of death traps, Cube “The puzzle seemed to fit well with the idea of the Corridors of Time, with…

Disco Elysium‘s New Hardcore Mode Sounds Like A Bad Time

“You will fail more,” reads the first bullet point in the official announcement of Hardcore mode (and widescreen support!) for magically delicious PC RPG Disco Elysium. I did not think that possible, yet here we are. Every dice roll is harder to hit. Prices for healing pharmaceuticals are inflated, while money is more scarce. Smoking…

Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa’s Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Song Is Kind Of Great

Remember when the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer came out and it was set to “Gangsta’s Paradise” for some stupid reason? The official movie theme, “Speed Me Up” from Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, and Sueco the Child, fits so much better, and its video is pretty cool, too. I am something…

The Most Downloaded Switch Games In Japan Last Year

Do you wonder which Switch games were downloaded most in 2019? Would you like to know? Well, good news, because Nintendo just released a list of them. There are two lists, actually. The first is for download-exclusive games. Let’s have a look! And here are the top 30 downloads for retail games: Any surprises? Any non-surprises?

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken Has A Catchy Song And Endless Memes

Have you seen Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken? You should. It’s about three schoolgirls who explore their imaginations in their question to make a feature-length anime. So far, it’s excellent. Originally a manga, the anime is being handled by Masaaki Yuasa’s Science Saru studio. The anime version switches visual style, showcasing schoolgirl Asakusa’s concept art,…

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Be Well, My Big Hairy Friend

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Suspended Hearthstone Player Blitzchung Doesn’t Regret Speaking Out About Hong Kong

Last October, Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai decided, during an official stream of the Asia-Pacific Grandmasters, to shoot his shot. “Liberate Hong Kong,” he said while wearing a gas mask. “Revolution of our age!” He wound up getting suspended by Blizzard. Now, in 2020, he says that if he could go back to that…

Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan Has Some Thoughts About Overwatch‘s Meta

Ah, the meta. Sometimes OK, sometimes terrible, always there, it’s rare that it’s not a hot topic of conversation among fans of Overwatch (or, well, any online game), and a boring one at that. But when a prominent developer weighs in on the subject, that’s a bit more interesting. Jumping into a thread on Blizzard’s…

Witness The Most Excruciating Round Of Street Fighter V Ever

Fighting game competition is tense no matter the circumstances, but one recent moment from a local New York City tournament takes the cake as perhaps the most agonizing round of Street Fighter V I’ve seen since the game’s release. Capcom Cup champion Derek “iDom” Ruffin and fighting game legend Sanford “Santhrax” Kelly met in the…

A Grizzled Cat Shoots Living Critters At Outlaws In Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath

A hybrid first and third-person shooter starring a gruff-talking cat-looking bounty hunter armed with a crossbow that fires living creatures, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath is an outlandish gem, whether you’re playing the 2005 Xbox original or this week’s HD remaster for the Nintendo Switch. The oddest game in the Oddworld series, which started with 1997’s puzzle…

I Love Watching My Buff Hoplites Wreck People In Magic: The Gathering‘s Theros Beyond Death Expansion

Magic: The Gathering’s big Theros Beyond Death expansion is full of woodland satyrs, brooding cyclops, bronze-shielded warriors, and cruel, twisted gods. After her long sleep was disturbed by the nightmare-weaver Ashiok, the fierce and righteous planeswalker Elspeth Tirel has escaped from hell to exact her revenge against Heliod, the sun god Fortunately, you don’t actually…

There’s A New Official Mobile Tetris

EA and Popcap’s popular Tetris Blitz is shutting down in April, but do not fret. There is another. Available today on iOS and Android, the simply named Tetris is as straightforward a block-dropping puzzle game as you can get. At least for now. Created by game company N3twork as part of a multi-year partnership with…

Let’s Be Happy And Listen To Portal Songs

GlaDOS, the artificially intelligent computer system from Portal, is one of the greatest video game villains of all time, but she’s an even better singer. Nothing picks me up on a dreary morning like listening to a trio of upbeat tunes from a robotic life form that’s spent countless hours trying to kill me. Portal…