Warface Squeezes Crytek’s Demanding CryEngine Into The Switch

The free-to-play and ridiculously named competitive shooter Warface is the first CryEngine game to grace the Nintendo Switch. How’d the developers cram a CryEngine V-powered game onto Nintendo’s modest hardware? By modifying the hell out of it and limiting it to 720p docked and 540p handheld. Developed by My.Games in-house studio Allods Team, the folks…

I’m Not Sure I Like Snack World But I Keep Playing Anyway

I do not enjoy questing in Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold. It’s boring and repetitive, killing the same creatures on the same maps for underwhelming rewards. And yet I’ve been playing for eight hours and can’t seem to put down my Joy-Cons. What’s keeping me playing? Is it the puns and poop jokes? It’s…

Big-Headed Bloodborne Action Figure Is A Bitty Badass

Most video game characters who receive Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid treatment, giving them tiny bodies and massive heads, end up looking somewhat adorable. Turns out if you make the Bloodborne Hunter’s head larger, it just makes his ragged tricorn hat that much more imposing. The secret to the Nendoroid Hunter’s suave success is that the…

Lovely New Nintendo Switch Lite Color Announced For Japan [Update: And North America]

Say hello to the newest member of the Nintendo Switch family. It might look like a pink Switch Lite, but the color is actually coral, a pink or red shade of orange named after sea creatures of the same color. Living Coral was Pantone’s color of 2019, which might explain the choice? Slated for release…

Dragon Quest-Themed ATMs In Japan

For a country where Dragon Quest is so popular that there are DQ-themed convenience stores, ATMs featuring the classic RPG font and the character Slime seem inevitable. Below is one of the Dragon Quest Lawson stores in Japan. The same convenience store chain is rolling out DQ-themed ATMs at its locations across the country until…

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The PlayStation Forums Are Closing Down

For the longest time, Sony has run its own official message board, a place where PlayStation owners could get together, hang out, ague pointlessly and, most importantly, troubleshoot. But on February 27, that board will be shutting down. Sony announced the move late last week with a very short, very blunt message: Hello, Beginning 27th…

Persona 5 Royal Is Editing Two Homophobic Scenes

Persona is a series that has sometimes struggled with homosexuality, like Persona 4’s well-meaning-but-ultimately-busted approachto Kanji’s romance. Persona 5, meanwhile, had a couple of scenes involving a “Scruffy Romantic” and “Beefy Trendsetter” on release that were…yeah. Here’s the first of those scenes: Just so you can get a clearer idea of the tone, here’s the…

This Is A Controller For A Sega Saturn Game

Weird controllers! I love ‘em! And so does the YouTube channel Stop Skeletons From Fighting. They recently released a video going over some of the dumbest, weirdest and most expensive controllers ever made. A few months back, SSFF uploaded a great video about weird Dreamcast accessories, including a fishing controller you can use for a…

Some Of The Weirdest Times Real-Life Presidents Appeared In Video Games

Past presidents of the United States have appeared in video games more frequently than you might expect. And often, these appearances are strange or feel out of place. Let’s look back at some of the weirder presidential video game cameos and appearances. Why? Because today is a national holiday in the United States. Happy President’s…

Real World Fortnite Teasers Hint At Gold And Cats For Season 2 [Updated]

Fortnite’s Season 2 is a few days away. While there haven’t been hints of a big in-game event this time around, players are finding clues about what the next season might contain both in-game and in teasers around the real world. The teases seem to have started over the weekend, with people reporting seeing glitchy…

Zombie Army 4 Is Just Another Zombie Game, But It’s A Really Good One

Zombie Army 4 doesn’t reinvent the wheel. If you have played a shooter or a game featuring zombies in the last 5 years, you will have seen almost everything Zombie Army 4 does throughout its story campaign. Big armored zombies, last stand moments against waves of enemies, some RPG mechanics, co-op, special abilities, Nazi zombies,…

The Week In Games: Slide To The Left, Slide To The Right

It’s time to power slide and shoot some robots. Vanquish is being released on PS4 and Xbox One this week, alongside Bayonetta. It is a good day for fans of action games. I’ve been putting off playing Vanquish for too long. I need to just buy it and play it. I’ve gone too long in…

Rice Balls Like You’ve Never Seen Before

YouTuber Onigiri Gekijou (Rice Ball Theater) specializes in making rice balls that are unlike anything I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen lots of rice balls! Onigiri Gekijou calls this “onigiri art,” and is uploading how-tos on YouTube. That’s very nice! Many of the techniques, such as mixing ketchup and mayo to make a pinkish color…

Japan’s Ageless Manga Artist Meme Continues Into 2020

This is Hirohiko Araki. He does two things: churns out JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and refuses to age. The manga artist is famous for not appearing to grow old as the rest of us do. The fact that his appearance has stayed the same for years is a meme in Japan. Every time Araki makes a…