Super Mario Odyssey will get a snazzy Switch bundle on October 27th, Nintendo announced today.

Doom and Wolfenstein II Are Coming To Switch

Hope you like the idea of taking Bethesda games with you on the go, Switch owners. During today’s Direct event, Nintendo announced that portable versions of two their biggest games would make their way to the hybrid console. Soon, you’ll be able to kill Nazis in the subway, and fight back against the forces of…

Stay With Me Here: Dungeons & Dragons, Except You Cook What You Kill

So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where you kill what you eat. A few questionably-spent days of vacation after spawning this ludicrous idea, I found a way to mod Dungeons & Dragons to accommodate my cooking fantasies. And, surprisingly, it turned out great. The…

Find Your Favorite Room In A Kaleidoscopic Labyrinth

The Catacombs of Solarisby Ian MacLarty is an exploration game that sends players through a maze of warping walls. There’s only one goal: find your favorite room in the labyrinth. It’s a trippy waltz through a technicolor wonderland. It’s this week’s Indie Pick. Navigating through the catacombs seems like a straightforward process. The walls and…

Pro Overwatch Team Starts Cooking Show

Team EnvyUs is a major esports organization whose Overwatch team is like a circling bird of prey. Other teams might be flying high, but Envy’s shadow always looms heavy. So anyway, they’ve started a cooking show. The first episode of EnvyUs’ YouTube show “Envy Eats” stars Overwatch aim god Timo “Taimou” Kettunen and follows him…

How EVE Players Pulled Off The Biggest Betrayal In Its History

EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their…

Uncharted 4 Co-Director Bruce Straley Leaves Naughty Dog

Bruce Straley, co-director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, is officially leaving Naughty Dog following an extensive sabbatical. “After heading up three extremely demanding projects, and taking some extended time away from the office, I found my energy focusing in other directions, and I slowly realized this was the signal that it’s time…

What Homestuck Was

On September 14th, at long last, the first episode of the Kickstarted Homestuck game, Hiveswap, will be released, only five years after it was originally announced. Homestuck was one of the biggest fandoms of the early 2010s, but what exactly was it? Well, that’s a complicated question. Before it ended in 2016, Homestuck was a…

I’m Obsessed With Battlegrounds‘ Brutal Hospital

In Battlegrounds’ bombed-out hospital, I can’t tell whether my footsteps are my own. Every few meters, I duck into a room and stop to listen to my own movement, taking a few test steps to match them with their corresponding sounds. If there’s silence, I keep moving. That way, I can amass a dozen items…

Transformers’ Dinobots Finally Combine To Form A Giant Robot

Announced at Hascon over the weekend and debuting later this month in the Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game, Volacanicus is what happens when the Autobots’ robot dinosaurs get their act together. The ‘80s cartoon and toy line was packed with teams of five or six robots combining together into gigantic gestalts, but the Dinobots never…

Ghost Recon: Wildlands PvP Mode Finally Gets Open Beta Next Week

Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ PVP mode is called “Ghost War,” and will enter into an open beta that anyone can play, even if they don’t own the game, starting on September 21, Ubisoft said today. Ghost War will allow players will choose from a list of classes designed for one of three specific categories—Assault, Marksman, or…