Player Beats Mario Odyssey In Under 90 Minutes For An Early World Record

Speedruns have officially started being accepted for Super Mario Odyssey, and fans are now in a mad dash to figure out the best strategies, pathways, and jumps to beat the game quickly. In the last two days alone, the world record for clearing the game at any percentage of completion has been toppled multiple times…

The French On Ys VIII‘s Vita Box Is Literal Nonsense

Earlier this month NIS America pledged to re-localize Japanese RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana after fans complained about the game’s shoddy translation. They’re also fixing the French on the Vita cover art, which currently begins, “I am sorry I have to leave you, but I must buy a hat.” With most of my games…

A Sherlock Holmes-Style Board Game, But With Anime Time Travel

“Whodunnit” board games exist in worlds beyond the stodgy European living rooms we see in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Clue. The one I’m hooked on is very, very, anime. I’ve stopped pitching Tragedy Looper, released in the U.S. in 2014, to my friends as an “anime time travel mystery game.” That’s what it is, but…

SonicFox Suffers Day One Elimination From Injustice 2 World Championship

In a shocking turn of events, Dominique “SonicFox” McLean was eliminated from ELEAGUE’s Injustice 2 World Championship last Friday after losing twice to Christian “ForeverKing” Quiles during the first day of competition. McLean cited audio issues as “detrimental” on Twitter shortly after his first loss, but gave props to Quiles for playing “amazingly well” in…

Here Are A Bunch Of Cool PS4 Trailers Sony Showed Today

Just like they did at E3, the folks at Sony showed off some new footage today from some of their PlayStation 4 games planned for 2018 and beyond, including God of War, Spider-Man, and Detroit. Here are some of the more interesting trailers Sony showed during its conference at Paris Games Week today. First up…

Super Mario Odyssey Players Are Finding The Best Shortcuts and Secrets

One of the most impressive things about Super Mario Odyssey are the tight controls: Nintendo’s mascot has a ton of movement options. Players are using Cappy to skip entire portions before a Moon, or are using the hat to get into hard-to-reach areas. Better yet, Nintendo seems to have anticipated that fans would try to…

The Last Of Us Part II Gets A Brutal New Trailer

  Today, Sony showcased The Last of Us Part 2, the second installation of developer Naughty Dog gritty survival horror game released in 2013, with a trailer that is very thrilling but almost made me hurl. Seriously—a woman in a noose props herself up on another woman who gets a hatchet buried in her head.…

The Monster Hunter World beta launches on December 9, giving players a little pre-season hunting before the game’s January 26 release. PlayStation 4 owners will be able to dress up as Horizon: Zero Dawn’s Aloy, complete with robot cat thing. Excellent.

Coming next year to the PS4 from Sony in-house studio PixelOpus, Concrete Genie is a game about a bullied teen named Ash who uses magical paint to bring his abandoned home town back to life. It’s quite lovely.

The People Behind Infamous Are Making A Samurai Game

Sucker Punch, the studio behind Infamous and Sly Cooper, has announced a new game. Ghost Of Tsushima, coming to the Playstation 4 focuses on feudal samurai. It has been three years since Sucker Punch’s previous game, the Playstation 4 title Infamous Second Son. A self dubbed “action, stealth adventure game,” Ghost Of Tsushima will feature…

Spelunky 2 Announced

Hope you’re ready for some more adventuring, because Mossmouth just announced Spelunky 2 for the PS4. The first Spelunky, as many of you know, was a beloved indie platformer with randomly generated levels and many, many secrets. This time around, one of the available characters will actually be the kid of the protagonist from the…

Watch The Big PlayStation Press Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Today at 11am ET, Sony is holding a press conference from Paris Games Week that the folks behind PlayStation say will include “seven all-new game announcements for PS4 and PS VR.” Sony will also be showing new stuff from the company’s slate of games for 2018 and beyond. UPDATE (12:45pm): And it’s over. From Sucker…