Microsoft’s Inside Xbox Show Isn’t Working

Yesterday afternoon, Microsoft aired its latest episode of Inside Xbox, a monthly livestream in which the company updates players on new stuff in the world of Xbox. Like most episodes of Inside Xbox, it was long, precisely staged, and light on interesting news. If new Nintendo Directs have become exciting, mini-E3 press conferences, new episodes…

Latin America Isn’t Getting As Screwed Over By The Capcom Pro Tour This Year

Last year, Capcom made changes to their official Street Fighter V competition, the Capcom Pro Tour, that hurt the qualifying chances of a very specific sector of the fighting game community: those who live outside competitive hubs like the United States and Japan. The adjusted points system impacted players who lacked the means to travel…

Far Cry 5’s Prepper Stashes Were The Best Kind Of Sidequest

The best video game sidequests are detours worth taking. They can be even more delightful than a good game’s main quests by their very nature of being optional. Bad sidequests are tedious filler that are best ignored. Those good ones, however, were made for you to find and enjoy, but only if you want to.…

God Eater 3 Is Like Monster Hunter But Simpler

The God Eater series is Bandai Namco’s take on Monster Hunter, and while not nearly as big or deep as the best games in that series, God Eater 3 does a good job of making up for those shortcomings with flashy combat and an apocalyptic backdrop that helps raise the stakes. God Eater 3, which…

Tips For Playing Apex Legends

Apex Legends might have a boring name, but it’s a lot of fun to play. Respawn’s battle royale ditches Titanfall’s giant mechs but plays around with the genre in exciting ways. It can be daunting to start up any new game, especially a battle royale. Here are some tips to help you find your bearings…

Sadly, It’s Surprising That There Are Two Black Women In Apex Legends

Loading up Apex Legends for the first time, I saw two black women as playable characters. It was a strange and arresting feeling to see them. I’m still trying to understand my feelings about it. I’m usually quite wary of falling into what my coworker Riley MacLeod calls “the diversity trap,” which is to say,…

The 3DS Is Even Dying Better Than The Vita

People have been calling PlayStation Vita a dead console for years. Now, Nintendo’s 3DS seems poised to join it, with hardly any new games on the horizon for the rest of 2019. Yet even in death, Nintendo’s clam-shelled handheld still feels more alive and vibrant than Vita. The 3DS’s annual lineup has grown thinner with…

Competitors See Potential in Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s New Characters

Late last month, Dragon Ball FighterZ received its first new characters since September 2018: fan favorites Videl and Jiren (CORRECTION 10:09 am ET: This story originally misstated the release date of the previous DLC). Since the two newcomers joined the playable roster, the fighting game community has inundated social media with initial impressions, and while…

Japan’s Blueberry Cheese Burger Looks Freaky But Delicious 

Japan’s Freshness Burger has upped its bonkers burger game with its latest release: the Blueberry Cheese Burger. As ASCII points out, Freshness Burger previously released a Peach Burger, which was beef, bacon, a slice of peach and cheese, and a Mango Burger, which was beef, a huge mango slices and onions This time around, Freshness…

How K-Pop Revived Black Sickness Masks In Japan

It’s flu and cold season. That means people in Japan are wearing sickness masks in public. Either they are ill or are trying to avoid a cold. The default is still the white sickness mask, but recently, black ones are becoming more popular among the country’s youth. This recent trend in Japan appears to be…

Taco Bell Made A Special Burrito Just For Osaka

To celebrate the opening of a new Taco Ball in Osaka’s Umeda, the fast-food chain decided to turn the city’s soul food into a burrito. Okonomiyakiis one of Osaka’s signature dishes. Made with cabbage, flour, egg, strips of pork and crunchy tempura bits, okonomiyaki means “however you like,” so people add all sorts of other…

The Alpine Express

Cosmin Hrincu is a background artist based in Sydney who has worked on a number of Marvel movies. You can see more of Cosmin’s work at his ArtStation page

Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kirby’s Adventure are coming to Switch Online on February 13, Nintendo said today. Get ready to tear up some turnips. The Japanese NES app will get these two games and also Tsuppari Oozumo, a sumo game made by Tecmo.

Breath Of The Wild Now Runs Beautifully In 4K (On The PC)

While the latest Zelda game has been available in 4K for a while now on the PC via emulation, its performance wasn’t always the best. It is now. The latest version of the CEMU emulator, 1.15.2, is now able to run the game at 4K resolution, and at framerates of between 60-100fps. I know the…