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UncategorizedThe Best Video Game Music Of 2017
The video games of 2017 were’t just fun to play; they were fun to listen to. As we do every year, it’s time to list the best video game music of 2017. (For a trip to the past, check out the lists from see: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.) These aren’t just my personal…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 22, 2017 - Uncategorized
We’ve made a correction to yesterday’s piece about PUBG cheats. While Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene says that the majority of cheats are from China, the specific figure he cited was from Battleye, an anti-cheat provider, which we accidentally omitted from this story. We apologize for the error.
By Nathan Grayson Published December 22, 2017 - Uncategorized
Vs. Super Mario Bros. Is The Meanest Trick Nintendo Ever Played
Super Mario Bros. is available on the Switch! Well, a long-forgotten version of it, anyway, that’s probably not the one you were expecting. While Nintendo hasn’t yet begun to add its classic console games to Switch, we’re getting something else instead: Nintendo’s classic arcade games, courtesy the Arcade Archives series by the publisher Hamster. This…
By Chris Kohler Published December 22, 2017 - Uncategorized
Xenoblade 2 gets a patch today that tweaks a few small things. You’ll get an extra zoomed-in map overlay when you press L3, and hitting X will now open the fast travel menu right at the area you’re in. “Tiger Tiger” gets an easy mode and there are a bunch of bug fixes. Sadly, this…
By Jason Schreier Published December 22, 2017 -
UncategorizedI’m Late To Nioh And I’m Loving It
If I wrote a list of my favorite games of 2017, Nioh would not be on it, because I didn’t start playing Nioh until just two days ago. I just bought it for myself for Christmas, 10 months after its release. And I’ve made a video about what I think of it. I’ve been working…
By Tim Rogers Published December 22, 2017 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Arms Gets Its Last New Character
Nintendo’s carnivalesque boxing game Arms, released in June, just received what looks like its final content update. Arms 5.0 just dropped along with the new fighter Dr. Coyle, the “empress of the ARMS lab,” and was appended by an announcement that, from now on, Arms will only be receiving balance patches. “As a big update,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 22, 2017 -
UncategorizedCatherine Remake Is Already Causing Controversy
The debut trailer for Catherine: Full Body, the PS4 and PS Vita Catherine remake, is causing controversy for its portrayal of the game’s third romance option. You can watch the trailer below: The scenes causing controversy are towards the end. Here’s Kotaku UK’s Laura Kate Dale: Vincent, the protagonist, looks shocked and dismayed when looking…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2017 - Uncategorized
Junkrat Thinks Overwatch Is A Stealth Game
Watch your back, Solid Snake. Seriously. Junkrat is about as far from a stealth character as you can get in Overwatch, or video games in general, for that matter. He makes things go boom. Also, himself. But there is a certain subtle art to deploying his ult, the explosive riptire. I’ve just never seen anybody…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 21, 2017 - Uncategorized
Luke’s Top 10 Games Of 2017
It’s absolutely insane to think that 2017 was so good to me that The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, a game made in close consultation with my wildest fantasies, was somehow still not my favourite game for the year. Instead, that honour goes to a game about my magical teenage friends, who wear…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2017 -
UncategorizedCivilization VI Is Out On iPad, And It’s $60
Hahahah, a $60 iPad game, in 2017, would you get a look at that. Only in this case, it’s not as insane as it sounds. With the series having endured a half-assed history on mobile devices, Aspyr (long-time porters of Firaxis’ series to Apple computers) has surprisingly dropped Civilization VI on the App Store for…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2017 -
CultureMaybe Adding VR To LA Noire Was A Mistake
Not now, Phelps! L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files was supposed to make Rockstar’s detective caper classic more realistic than ever by nestling you deep inside the uncanny valley that is Cole Phelps’ face. Perhaps, though, the world was not ready for Phelps to have fully-functioning hands. Perhaps it will never be ready, as evidenced…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 21, 2017 -
UncategorizedGwent Players Aren’t Happy With The Game’s Big New Update
This week the Midwinter Update for Gwent, CD Projeckt Red’s card game based off The Witcher 3, finally went live. Gwent, which is still in beta, gets patched pretty regularly, but not like this. Popular cards have seen their abilities simplified and weakened, and text descriptions that added flavor to the game have now been…
By Ethan Gach Published December 21, 2017 -
UncategorizedTiny Metal Is The Modern Successor To Advance Wars
Nintendo used to have a big strategy series called Advance Wars. It’s dead now, crushed beneath Fire Emblem’s growing popularity, but those hoping for a return to the days of cute lil’ tanks should definitely check out Tiny Metal It doesn’t take long with Tiny Metal to realise this isn’t inspired by Advance Wars so…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2017 - Culture
Majority of Battlegrounds Cheats Are From China, PlayerUnknown Says [UPDATE]
Many PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players blame the game’s cheating problem on China. They’re not wrong, says the popular battle royale game’s creator Brendan Greene. But there’s more to it than that. “Battleye have already tweeted out that I think around 99 percent of cheats in the game right now are coming out of China,” Greene told…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 21, 2017 - Uncategorized
The World’s Top Tetris Player’s Secret To Success Is Learning To Embrace Chaos
Of the eight Classic Tetris World Championships that have ever been held, Jonas Neubauer has won seven. The 36-year-old Neubauer, a microbrewery manager from Redondo Beach outside LA, bought the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris after seeing it on the front cover of Nintendo Power magazine in November 1990 when he was eight, and…
By Ethan Gach Published December 21, 2017 - Uncategorized
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’s Gardening Is Cute, If You Have The Time
Gardening has come to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp today, and with it more things to spend Leaf Tickets on. I never really got into planting flowers in the console versions of Animal Crossing. I’d always forget where I planted them, not water them, and then they’d wilt and die. Pocket Camp makes gardening easier. Instead…
By Gita Jackson Published December 21, 2017 -
UncategorizedIllness Cost This Woman A Job. Now She Streams Diablo II From A Farm
“My mom always likes to say that I was hatched,” Diablo 2 streamerAlara Shadelaughed. We were sitting in her streaming headquarters, a totem-filled temple to the 2001 dark fantasy role-playing game. The walls were decked with flaming skulls, glistening black swords and figurines of sub-human beasts. Outside her window, a dozen horses milled about, alongside…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 21, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Year In Ships, 2017
In fandom, the rules of fiction don’t matter, or at least matter a lot less. This is what allows shipping to exist, where fans write fanfiction, draw fanart, and get enthusiastic by a couple that may never happen in the game’s canon. Fandoms for video games this year were enthusiastic and loud, and sometimes cropped…
By Gita Jackson Published December 21, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Switch Gets An Excellent 2D Zelda Clone Today
Nintendo has not yet released a two-dimensional Zelda game for the Switch, but Blossom Tales is as close as you’re gonna get. If you’re looking for a new action-adventure to scratch that Link to the Past itch, this one’s for you. Blossom Tales, which came out for Steam earlier this year but is now on…
By Jason Schreier Published December 21, 2017