Don’t Split The Party Is A Game About Petty D&D Players

Sometimes the hardest part of Dungeons and Dragons is making sure your friends don’t start yelling at each other. Indie game Don’t Split The Party charmingly captures that challenge by putting you in the role of Dungeon Master—and peacekeeper. Don’t Split The Party is a text-based game where you play as Brynn, a young woman…

Odds Of Beating A Particularly Devious Mario Maker Level Are 1 In 7.5 Million

There have been over two million attempts to beat a Mario Maker level called Lucky Draw, and seemingly all of them have failed because, well, they just haven’t gotten lucky enough yet. As first reported by Patrick Klepek over at Vice Games, Lucky Draw is a Super Mario Maker level that has rarely, if ever,…

This Venusaur Was Too Scary For Detective Pikachu

RJ Palmer, an artist on the film Detective Pikachu known for his hyper-realistic Pokémon drawings, posted his menacing vision for the Pokémon Venusaur yesterday—one that never made it into the blockbuster movie. If you saw Detective Pikachu, it’s likely you left the theater either in awe of its realistic imaginings of Pokémon or wondering where…

EVE Online‘s Latest Expansion Brings An Alien Invasion

Alien forces have invaded EVE Online, and players across the galaxy are banding together to resist them. In the latest free expansion to EVE, a lost race of humans known as Triglavians have breached the walls of reality and are pouring out of the Abyss. Triglavian forces are currently laying siege to three different areas…

New Pet Sim For Switch Is No Nintendogs But It’s Still Better Than My Real Dog

This is Pootie, my Shiba Inu from Little Friends: Dogs & Cats, which is out this week for Nintendo Switch. He’s not the best frisbee catcher in the world and often misbehaves during walkies, but I still like him better than my actual, real-life dog, and not just because he has no butthole. Despite how…

‘We Took A Bold Step This Time’: Final Fantasy XIV Director Addresses The Game’s Sweeping New Changes

Last week, I spent over six hours picking apart Final Fantasy XIV’s new expansion “Shadowbringers” in a lavishly adorned theater space. I played a new dungeon,sampled the new job classes, and examined all the little changes coming to the game. I also had the chance to sit down with producer Naoki Yoshida for a one-on-one…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sleep

At a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, the Pokémon Company announced some unexpected Pokémon-related games and services, mostly on mobile devices. Pokémon Home is a cloud service that allows players to save and transfer their monsters. Great! There’s also a new Pokémon Go peripheral called the Pokémon Go Plus+. It is pronounced “plus plus.” Sure!…

Nintendo Explains Why Its Official Smash Bros. Tournaments Are So Weird

“We used to have the perception he didn’t care,” said Super Smash Bros. pro Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios at Nintendo’s first tournament for Smash Ultimate last year. “He,” of course, was game director Masahiro Sakarai, the Smashdaddy himself, who was watching from the sidelines. Barrios had just won a glistening crystalline trophy, and holding it in…

Feedback Makes Me A Better Gamer–When You’re Not An Asshole

I’ve begun to think of my weekly, local Super Smash Bros. tournament as a sort of doctor’s appointment for my ego. Regulars tell me that it’s normal to just win one or two games at these things, yet selection bias mandates that the people who attend a lot tend to be confident that they’re really,…

Death Stranding Will Be Out In November

Death Stranding, the bizarre next game from Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima, will hit PlayStation 4 on November 8, 2019, publisher Sony said today. In a strange new trailer that ostensibly contains gameplay but makes very little sense—as you might expect based on previous looks at Death Stranding—Sony revealed the news that Kojima’s next…

Sonic Mania and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Are June’s PlayStation Plus Games

This month’s PlayStation Plus games feel like an odd combination, but they’re pretty good picks. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. June’s Playstation Plus games are: Sonic Mania Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

A giant eye with a creepy heartbeat has appeared inside Fortnite’s Polar Peak, following some cracks and creaking sounds in the area recently. The eye follows you when you move. Even though I knew about it, it still scared the crap out of me. What does it mean?

Anthem Gets New Update After Weeks Of Radio Silence

After weeks of saying almost nothing about the multiplayer space shooter Anthem, BioWare has announced a new update, a public test server for PC players, and that new details about its end-game Cataclysm event, originally promised for launch in May, will be arriving tomorrow during a developer livestream. Anthem’s 1.2 update doesn’t dramatically alter the…

Japanese Artists Keep Showing Off Their Work Spaces

A few years back, Japanese artists began posting photos of their work spaces on Twitter. They have not stopped. Thank goodness for that! Professional and amateur artists alike continue uploading photos of their workstations under the tag #絵描きさんの作業環境が見たい (“I want to see artists’ work environments”). The photos show a side array of desks and work…