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Magic: The Gathering‘s Next Expansion Will Radically Alter The Game

Wizards of the Coast is pulling out all the stops for Magic: The Gathering’s April 25 expansion, Ravnica: War of the Spark. The latest is a beautifully animated cinematic lore trailer that launched at PAX East over the weekend. In it, a brooding, sinister take on Linkin Park’s “In The End” plays while Planeswalker Liliana…

By Joshua Calixto Published April 2, 2019

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Hack and slash and hackin’ some more! I’m streaming Devil May Cry 5‘s Bloody Palace right now on Twitch. Come join chat for combos, Devil Breakers, and maybe post-modernist criticism. (Though probably not that.)

By Heather Alexandra Published April 2, 2019

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Sims Players Are Building Adorable Dollhouses

Like any other fandom, the Sims community often gets swept by trends. This time, the new hotness is dollhouses, all inspired by a Simmer on Tumblr called Smart Milk. The results are absolutely adorable. Smart Milk was so inspired by JMW327’s isometric pixel art of bedrooms that she made some cute bedrooms with cutaway walls.…

By Gita Jackson Published April 2, 2019

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Devil May Cry 5‘s Bloody Palace Is A Fabulous Hack And Slash Playground

The Bloody Palace has been a fixture of Devil May Cry ever since 2003’s Devil May Cry 2. It’s a mode that involves an exhausting climb through monster-filled rooms with hundreds of enemy arrangements and bosses along the way. But it’s also the best place to play around with combos test your skills in real-time.…

By Heather Alexandra Published April 2, 2019

CultureKotaku Game Diary

Elder Scrolls Online Used To Be A Bad Theme Park And Now It’s A Great Theme Park

I flippin’ love theme parks. I loved them as a kid, and I love them as a grown-ass man. I also love anything that reminds me of a theme park—and for me, the game that feels most like a theme park is The Elder Scrolls Online. Unfortunately, when it first launched on consoles four years…

By Joshua Rivera Published April 2, 2019

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How BioWare’s Anthem Went Wrong

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff. Then, less than a week before…

By Jason Schreier Published April 2, 2019

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Chef Andrew Rea of Binging with Babish has a great breakdown on how to make Brock’s favorite—delicious jelly donuts from Pokemon! There’s also a version to make some wonderful onigiri, if you want to make some actual food.

By Heather Alexandra Published April 2, 2019

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After shutting down /r/Games yesterday to draw attention to bigotry in the gaming community, the subreddit’s moderators explained their controversial decision last night in a second post. We have updated our story

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 2, 2019

OpinionImpressions

The PS4 Exclusive Iron Man VR Makes A Surprisingly Good First Impression

“We’re not making a rail-shooter. We’re not making an amusement park game. We’re not making a short demo or an experimental Iron Man ‘experience,’” game developer Ryan Payton told me last week in New York City after I had finished a demo of his studio’s forthcoming game, Iron Man VR “We’re making a full game…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 2, 2019

Culture

All Aboard The Kyoto Express

Jose Vega is a freelance background artist who most recently worked on the Castlevania animated series. You can see more of Jose’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2019

CultureCosplay

That Is A Lot Of Shy Guy Cosplay

For the last few years, an ever-growing group of cosplayers have been using April Fool’s day as an excuse to team up all over the internet, pulling off massive showcases of characters like Nurse Joy and Misty. This year, the focus was on Shy Guy. Here’s Nurse Joy, for example: And Misty: The group has…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2019

Culture

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Is Finally On Steam, And It’s Great

You might think that four gangly muppets pushing wheelbarrows have no place on the same battlefield as a battalion of catapults, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time with Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, it’s that strategy requires an open mind. It also requires that you accept a fundamental truth of the universe:…

By Nathan Grayson Published April 1, 2019

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The Game Of Thrones Board Game Is Now Bigger And Better

Game of Thrones was already one of the best board games around, but the release of the game’s third expansion—Mother of Dragons—changes everything. It’s enormous, and adds so much cool and interesting stuff to the experience that it almost feels like an all-new (or at least third edition) of the classic. In case you’re new…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2019

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2019 Game Is A Tribute To PS2 Horror

The Glass Staircase is a new release that’s inspired by two things: PS2-era horror games and Italian zombie movies. Specifically, stuff like Silent Hill and Clock Tower from the former, and Burial Grounds: Nights of Terror and House by the Cemetery from the latter. Despite those influences, I’m also getting a strong Alone in the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2019

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A Fallout 76 Player Mailed Bobby Pins To Todd Howard

Fallout 76’s launch last year was fascinating for all sorts of reasons. And while the developers received all sorts of feedback, one fan expressed their feelings about bobby pins in a rather creative way. At the game’s launch, one of Fallout 76’s biggest problems was weight. Characters could only carry so much, and with limited…

Alex Walker Published April 1, 2019

OpinionImpressions

15 Games That Grabbed My Attention At PAX East

I spent the weekend at PAX East, and while I didn’t play nearly all of the games I wanted to, I got to play quite a lot and even discovered a few I’d never heard of that I’m now extremely excited about. Here’s a brief rundown of some of them, which is still only a…

By Ethan Gach Published April 1, 2019

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The Truth About Kirby’s Feet Is ‘Top Secret,’ Developer Says

I recently contacted Nintendo to see if I could get an interview with the Kirby development team. To my surprise, they replied by offering three interviews. During one of them, I asked what Kirby’s feet look like and the reply was another swerve. “It’s definitely a unique question,” Shinya Kumazaki, chief creator at Kirby studio…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2019

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Melee Player Quits Match Over Opponent’s Jigglypuff Stalling

Over the weekend, an entire venue of Super Smash Bros. competitors and spectators lost their collective minds over the actions of one Jigglypuff player. Did he cheat in some way? Go overboard after a win? Destroy a CRT? Yell obscenities at the audience? No, he simply played to the Pokémon’s strengths in a favorable matchup,…

By Ian Walker Published April 1, 2019

Esports

Not Everyone Loved The Smash Balls In Nintendo’s Latest Smash Ultimate Tournament

Hundreds of PAX East attendees crowded around a small stage in the expo hall last Saturday afternoon to see if Seth, one of the top-ranked Smash players in Chicago, could keep his team alive in Nintendo’s North America Open against his opponent Poltergust. As both players deployed deadly items and Final Smash attacks, the hall…

By Ethan Gach Published April 1, 2019

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Risk Of Rain 2 Brings An Excellent Roguelike To 3D

Risk of Rain 2 surprise launched in early access last week. The game is a followup to Hopoo Games’ 2013 Risk of Rain, a 2D roguelike platformer. Though it makes some changes to the original formula, Risk of Rain 2 is less a sequel and more the original game remade in 3D. This is great.…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 1, 2019