Celebrate The Most Famous Egg In Gaming With Mystery World Dizzy 

It only took a little over two decades to arrive, but Mystery World Dizzy, the NES port of the arcade game Fantasy World Dizzy, which was supposed to come out back in 1993, is now available to play for free in honor of the character’s 30th birthday. Created by programmer twins Philip and Andrew Oliver,…

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons

The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…

The Weekend In Esports: Tecmo Super Bowl Returns

Tecmo Super Bowl is back! Re-live the glory of the most beloved sports game of all time by watching its top players face-off this weekend in the game’s annual Madison Bowl. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you’ll be watching…

RunAway Blows 3-1 Lead In Overwatch Apex Finals

OGN, a Korean esports organization, hosted the grand finals for Overwatch Apex Season 2, and it was a barn-burner. RunAway, a Cinderella story team with no organization, met the titanic Lunatic-Hai, a team whose only loss in the group stage was to RunAway. A mixture of revenge and underdogs, and a grand finals that went…

GameStop Acknowledges Possible Breach Of Customers’ Credit Card Information

If you’ve shopped at GameStop.com between mid-September and early February, it’s possible your credit card information has been compromised according to a report by the web security blog, KrebsOnSecurity. After reaching out to the video game retailer about the breach, GameStop confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that it had been notified by a third party that possible…

This Week In The Business: Scorpio’s Price May Sting

QUOTE | “I estimate the basic hardware will cost around $650, so if Microsoft wants any kind of margin at all, Scorpio will have to retail for $700 or more.” – IDC analyst Lewis Ward is bracing for a bit of sticker shock on Project Scorpio QUOTE | “At the end of the day we…

Cattails looks like Stardew Valley, except cats. You play as a feral cat exploring an open land, developing relationships, combating cats from rival colonies, and yes, romancing other cats to start a family. No farming, though. Cats are hunters, not gatherers. The game is on Kickstarter

A Look At Super Mario Bros. 3’s Secret Glitch Levels

It’s been almost 30 years since Super Mario Bros. 3 released for the NES, but we’re still discussing its secrets in 2017. In this case: glitch levels that are hiding within SMB3. Perhaps you’ve seen them before. Shesez runs Boundary Break, a YouTube show that’s kind of exactly what it sounds like. Using special tools…

King of Fighters XIV Puts New Spin On Countering Fighting Game Fireballs

The fireball is perhaps the most iconic move in fighting games. Along with the uppercut, it forms the basis of the genre’s most foundational strategies. As such, fighting games have evolved so that one or two characters in any given release usually have interesting ways to counter them. The PlayStation 4 game King of Fighters…

Three Recent Games On Switch That Are Worth A Try

There aren’t a lot of exclusive games on Nintendo Switch right now. But games are trickling out. I played three recent ones that are worth your attention—and worth checking out on other platforms, too. We livestreamed all three on Facebook earlier this week. You can watch an archive of that above. Or, for fans of…

Battlegrounds Player Writes Live Song For Partner, Partner Dies Anyway

They say music soothes the soul. They do not, however, say anything about music saving the soul. Or the body, for that matter. Scene Of Action was playing a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds match, and he died, like you do. It was a duos game, so his partner was left to fend for themselves. Possessed by very…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Weekends are for agreeing to go see A Doll’s House with your friend so spending tomorrow morning brushing up on your Ibsen because you don’t remember that play at all. Also, video games. I enjoyed my time with Gwent on PS4 last weekend, and today I got an email saying I’m in the PC beta.…

Dota Match Turns Into Five-Hour Melodrama

At about 11:00 p.m. local time a day ago, in the European West servers of Dota 2, 10 players queued up for an average, unranked match. Over the course of five hours, these players would rage, taunt, abandon, create new accounts, and become good friends. It was an odyssey of Dota matchmaking, a play in…

Soon, EVE Online Players Will Help Discover Actual Planets

This summer, EVE Online players won’t just be exploring virtual galaxies—they’ll be helping to map out the actual universe. At Fanfest, the annual gathering of players of the popular MMO taking place this weekend in Iceland, the game’s publisher CCP provided the details of its latest collaboration with Reykjavik University and the University of Geneva,…

Tinder Parody Game Tries To Turn Your Controller Into A Massager

Mr. Massagy is a PlayStation 4 game in which players go on Tinder-esque dates with a variety of women to unlock, ahem, massage settings for your controller. Who is this game for, exactly? Let’s pause for a moment: is Mr. Massagy actually intended for massaging? All the packaging of the game points to no. In…

Overwatch Fans Love Genji’s Edgy New Backstory

Recently released Overwatch comic Uprising showed off more of the heroes’ pasts. A juicy lore revelation and slick character design for Genji has captured fan’s imaginations, inspiring theories and lots of amazing art. Uprising focuses on the Overwatch team as a crisis erupts in London. Overwatch is barred from intervening and must decide if they will…

GTA Online Can Look Pretty Different These Days

A couple weeks ago, Rockstar added mesmerizing “props” that GTA Online players can use to create stunt races, and the coolest ones aren’t just flashy—they bend and break tracks in new ways. (Seizure warning!) Some fans are using an “underground” glitch to create strange tracks underneath the GTA Online map. While players have pulled this…

Anime Malware Locks Your Files Unless You Play A Game

In 2017, even malware is anime. Anyone affected by the new malware Rensenware, named after the anime-style game Touhou Seirensen (Undefined Fantastic Object), has to score over 200 million points on the game’s “lunatic” level or they won’t be able to access their computer files. Ransomeware is a malicious brand of malware that holds files…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A surprisingly sweet movie with a muggle who steals the show. What it is: The latest movie in the Harry Potterverse. Fantastic Beasts was a fictional textbook the kids read in the original books, which was then turned into a “real” textbook written by Harry Potter creator J.K.…