Battlegrounds‘ New Kill Cam Needs Some Work

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the kill-or-be-killed game where you often come away with only the vaguest notion of how you died, is finally getting a kill cam. That’s good news! PUBG, though, is a colossal cauldron of explosive strangeness, and the new kill cam is having trouble keeping up. The kill cam is live alongside a host…

Players Worry Paladins‘ New Card System Inches Closer To Pay-To-Win

A new update to go live on Paladins’ public test server is already drawing a lot of criticism from some of the hero-based shooter’s most dedicated players. In addition to the normal gameplay tweaks, the OB64 patch introduces a new system for how players can use cards to customize their favorite characters and make them…

I Can’t Stop Spending Money On This Horrible Horny Dating Sim

Every time I open Instagram, I see three kinds of ads: hipster makeup, hipster clothes and corny-looking visual novels. It’s easy for me to resist the makeup and clothes, as I’m trying to downsize on both right now, but in a moment of weakness, I downloaded one of the visual novels last night. It is…

One Year In, Battlefield 1 Is Still Going Strong

Battlefield 1 continues the franchise’s tradition of launching in a somewhat patchy state, only to be bolstered through ongoing developer support. In the past 12 months, the game has added 22 maps and seven modes, along with millions of new players. Let’s examine BF1’s launch state, its evolution through updates, and the radical multiplayer tweaks…

The Fantastic Arcade Bundle Brings Together Six Amazing Games

The Fantastic Arcade 2017 bundlepacks a handful of awesome indie games together. You’ll play as an existential Mario fed up with the American healthcare system and a floppy clown dog just trying to eat some eggs. It’s imaginative, lush, and this week’s indie pick. The Fantastic Arcade 2017 bundle is published by Austin, Texas’ Juegos…

Fan Immortalized In Original .Hack//G.U. Missing From Remaster 

In 2007, Christopher “Ichida” MacKinnon and two other Bandai forum moderators were featured as an arena team in the third volume of PlayStation 2 RPG series .hack//G.U. This month’s remaster of the series inexplicably removed MacKinnon and another moderator’s character name. As MacKinnon tells it in a lengthy post on his personal Kinja page, back…

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Is A Super Nintendo Game, Microwave-Mutated For The 2017 Generation

I played the first 10 hours of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 twice. I made a long video describing the minute details of how the experience made me feel. (Warning: This video contains some light spoilers for the prologue chapter of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.) One word to describe how I feel about this game would be “weird.”…

Sexy RPG Lust Doll Lets You Choose Your Own Kinks

In the world of sexy games, Lust Doll is unique: It’s an RPG that lets you choose what types of sexual situations you want to see as you journey through its world. Into feet, but not BDSM? Fantasize about futanari, but don’t particularly enjoy vore? Where other games start you with a character creator and…

Overwatch‘s Doomfist Kinda Sucks, So Thank Goodness For Patches

Five months after his release, it turns out that Overwatch’s villainous, terrifying hero Doomfist kind of sucks. Barely anybody wants to play him competitively and, frankly, that makes sense: His beat-em-up playstyle doesn’t feel like a great fit for Overwatch’s cartoonish first-person shooter world. Yesterday, Blizzard finally announcedthat they’re tweaking the hero so, hopefully, he’ll…

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp‘s Big Christmas Event Is A Grindy Letdown

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’s first, Christmas themed event is now live. I spent a couple hours playing, and came away with some cute new winter boots, and 15 fewer Leaf Tickets. Pocket Camp’s Holiday Event is all about one thing: candy canes. Candy canes are a new currency that you can use to craft all…

Putting Games On Mute Might Make It Harder To Play Well

From the limited findings based on a recent experiment, researchers at Brandeis University found that sounds can affect how we interpret visual cues. Participants in an experiment found it more difficult to score points in a simple game when its audio was messed with or turned off entirely. More proof that listening to podcasts while…

Following the controversy surrounding this year’s voice-acting strike,Hannah Telle and Ashly Burch will be returning to Life is Strange via the prequel Before The Storm, Deck Nine Games says. The pair will reprise their roles solely for a bonus episode available in Before The Storm’s Deluxe Edition, which releases in early 2018.

Cobalt WASD Is 2-D Counter-Strike With Time Grenades And Super Suits

There’s only one member of the enemy team left as I leap down to Cobalt WASD’s bomb site. They open fire with their shotgun, but I activate my slow motion power before firing a teleporter round behind them. I zap past and rush with my spear, dispatching my foe with just enough time to defuse…

There’s An Amiibo On Every Box Of Super Mario Cereal

Nintendo’s back in the game cereal game. Rumored for days and now confirmed, Super Mario Cereal becomes part of this nutritious breakfast in December. Every box is an Amiibo, unlocking gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey. In stores in North America as soon as December 11, Kellogg’s Super Mario Cereal is a mixed…

Jazz Jackrabbit and Jazz Jackrabbit 2, a pair of gamesnear and dear to my arm, are now available for purchase on GOG.com, optimized to play on these newfangled modern computers. The hare pair are joined by Epic Pinball: The Complete Collection, another game that helped me while away the mid-’90s.

KOS-MOS Re: Coming To Xenoblade Chronicles 2 

On the eve of Xenoblade Chronicles 2‘s worldwide release, the game’s official Twitter announced that KOS-MOS Re: will make an appearance as a Rare Blade. Here is the character’s introduction clip, which is in Japanese. (However, it does not state whether or not this is a Japan-only exclusive.) Android KOS-MOS appeared in the Xenosaga games,…