This Week’s EVE Expansion Adds Major Free-to-Play Features

When the Arms Race expansion for EVE Online drops tomorrow, players using the free-to-play option will be able to do a lot more in the game. The first time I ever logged into EVE, I found myself browsing the game’s ship tree, a massive visual layout of the nearly 200 ships that you could fly…

Three Ways Ultra Sun and Moon Is Shaking Up Competitive Pokémon

Pokémon’s new competitive rule-set goes live in January 2018, meaning that players everywhere are devising strategies based on the new monsters and movesets available in Ultra Sun and Moon. Let’s talk about some of the biggest additions that will have a major impact on the way competitors approach tournaments. Pokémon that are out of this…

What Remains of Edith Finch Does Dreams Right

What Remains Of Edith Finch is a game about exploring an abandoned house, placing players in a curious world where everything has a deeper meaning. This already mysterious world goes a step further in including several dream and fantasy sequences, which capture the feelings of real-life dreams and help players feel what the characters are…

Capcom Announces Mega Man 11

Mighty No. what? Mega Man 11 is coming, Capcom said today. It looks beautiful and will be out in late 2018 for PS4, PC, Xbox, and Switch. This is the first proper new Mega Man game since the retro-styled Mega Man 10, which came out in 2010. Rather than recreate the 8-bit style of the…

Mega Man X Games Coming To PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC

All eight Mega Man X games are coming to current-gen platforms, Capcom said today on a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mega Man. The publisher later added that all of the games will be coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in the summer of 2018. Mega Man X, which started on the Super…

A List Of Old Games That I Would Definitely Buy Again On Switch

Here I am, thinking about buying Skyrim again on Switch. Yes, Skyrim. A game I’ve played for 197 hours on Steam in addition to God knows how many on console. I’ve already made the case for why the Switch is so good for playing old games. Look no further than the impressive number of hours I’ve…

Deciding to go up against Destiny 2‘s first expansion for some reason, The Division’s huge and excellent-sounding free 1.8 update will be out tomorrow. Check out detailed patch notes (including radical changes to Underground). The game and its DLC will be free this weekend.

StarCraft Pro Wins With His Foot, Naps Mid-Match, Thinks He’s The Shit (Update)

Lim “Larva” Hong Gyu proved last night that he can win a StarCraft: Remastered match with his foot. During the finals of the Zotac Cup Masters Showmatch, Larva made quick work of his opponent’s base, and in the game’s final moments, he lifted his bare left foot onto the keyboard to tap in a few…

Latest Google Doodle Game Celebrates 50 Years Of Teaching Kids To Code

Way back in the 1960s, researchers at MIT created Logo, an early programming language designed to teach children the basics of instruction-based coding. In honor of 50 years of teaching kids to code, Google has transformed its logo into a fun little rabbit-based coding game. Designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia…

EA Boosts Star Wars Battlefront II‘s Multiplayer Rewards

Star Wars Battlefront II hasreceived negative feedbackever since it was confirmed that its loot crates provided in-game advantages. Since then, the game has disabled the ability to purchase crates with real money. Now, players will also receive more in-game rewards. Battlefront II uses credits to unlock characters and purchase loot boxes that grant ability-augmenting“star cards.”…

The Smash 4 Championship Final Was Extremely Satisfying

The fight between Leonardo “MkLeo” Lopez Perez and Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios in the 2GG Championship final was some of the highest-level Smash 4 I’ve ever seen, with incredibly clean play and perceptive reads and adaptions. This weekend’s 2GG Championship was created to be a capstone tournament for the Super Smash Bros. For Wii U scene.…

Final Fantasy XIV Bards Are Making Beautiful Music

A couple of weeks back, Square Enix finally gave Final Fantasy XIV Bards the ability to play real music. Now YouTube is filling with great (and only occasionally terrible) Bard performances. Since Square Enix’s has users agree to not use the new Bard tools to recreate third-party music, most of the tunes showing up online…

How To Cook In Dungeons & Dragons

A few months ago, I proposed a wild idea: Dungeons & Dragons—except you cook what you kill. After a little tinkering, I’m happy to report that my mechanics for cooking in D&D are now widely available. There aren’t always easy-baked ways for players to collaboratively role-play in every D&D game. Cooking is a great way…

Bad Reporting Leads To Widespread False Rumor About The Game Awards

This morning, I woke up to a string of headlines declaring that journalist Geoff Keighley had teased a major announcement at this week’s Game Awards. OK, I thought, clicking one of the articles, only to find out that he had done it during an interview with… me. Wait, what? Maybe it started on Twitter, or…

The Week In Games: Curse Of More Loot

Destiny 2’s first DLC expansion arrives this week which means too many of us will be magically drawn back into its universe and grinding for loot whether we want to or not. Last week Bungie laid out a number of small changes coming to the game when Curse of Osiris arrives as well as some…

Turning Real People into Anime Art

Real life looks different from anime and manga. That’s okay! But here’s what three dimensional humans might look like if they were two-dimensional drawings. This is called “nijigenka” (二次元化) or “2D-ification” in Japanese. It’s not only popular in Japan, but pretty much anywhere people are interested in anime and manga. Some 2D-ified images created by…

The Best Cosplay Of The Tokyo Comic Con

The Tokyo Comic Con just wrapped up, so let’s check out some of the best—and most entertaining—cosplay of the show. Held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, the Tokyo Comic Con kicked off last Friday and ran through Sunday. Since this is Comic Con, cosplayers mostly portrayed Western comic book, video game and movie characters,…

In Japan, Family Mart Opening Fitness Gyms

Japanese conveniences are already great, but they’re getting greater. Family Mart is opening a string of fitness gyms on top of its convenience stores. According to Jiji, Family Mart plans to open 300 gyms over the next five years, with the first hitting Tokyo’s Ota Ward in February 2018. Dubbed “Fit & Go,” the 24-hour…