Call of Duty‘s Latest ‘Prop Hunt’ Is Candy Canes Vs. RPGs

The fan-favorite Prop Hunt mode returned to Modern Warfare Remastered on June 30 as part of Call of Duty’s “Days of Summer” event, which runs until August 1. In addition to disguising themselves as trash or furniture on a map for a wacky game of hide and seek, players are being trolled by one map…

Wayforward’s half-genie hero, Shantae, is available today as a free downloadable character for Blaster Master Zero on the Switch, and she is a delight to play. Side-scrolling is tough with only her signature hair-whip, but her animal transformations make the top-down segments a joy.

15 Years Later, Here’s Why A Gamer Was Duct-Taped To A Ceiling

Few photos from the forum ages of online gaming live in greater infamy than one of what appears to be a human duct taped to the ceiling of a dimly lit basement, his arms reaching out to lightly graze the keys of a Dell mechanical keyboard. Many have laid claim to this image. “I was…

Ex-Bioshock Developers Are Making A Game Inspired By Arabian Nights

Uppercut Games, the Australian studio founded by a trio of former 2K developers, is taking players to a mysterious new domain in City of Brass, a first-person “rogue-lite” based on famous tales from Middle Eastern folklore. Coming to PC this fall and consoles in 2018, City of Brass casts players as a thief attempting to…

Fans Spend 8 Months Subtitling Ace Attorney Game, Capcom Slaps Them Down [UPDATE]

After spending months translating a Japanese Ace Attorney game on YouTube, two fans had their subtitled videos taken down by Capcom. UPDATE 11:14, July 12th: The videos are now back up on YouTube Dai Gyakuten Saiban is an Ace Attorney spin-off starring an ancestor of Phoenix Wright in feudal Japan that has not been released…

Doomfist Finally Comes To Overwatch

At long last, Overwatch’s gauntlet-wearing villain Doomfist is seeing the light of day. The new character has been teased since before publisher Blizzard even released Overwatch, and now, players can finally try him out on Overwatch’s public test region. Doomfist, whose real name is Akande Ogundimu, is a cybernetic offense character whose hand cannon gauntlet…

You Can Import Your Old Shadow of Mordor Nemesis Into The Sequel

Do you really hate your Shadow of Mordor nemesis and wish you could kick their ass again? The newly launched Nemesis Forge will let players import their orc rivals to fight once more in Shadow of War. The most memorable feature of Shadow of Mordor was the nemesis system, which dynamically created orc baddies for…

How A Designer Accidentally Opened Every Door In The Witcher 3

Video games like The Witcher 3 are enormous, complicated pieces of machinery with thousands upon thousands of moving parts. Make one mistake and you can break everything—or, as one developer discovered, you can accidentally unlock every door in the game. In October, I visited CD Projekt Red’s offices in Warsaw, Poland, for my book on…

The Nintendo Switch Phone App Goes Live With Splatoon 2

During today’s Nintendo Direct, Splatoon 2 showcased a mobile feature called SplatNet 2. It will be available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online phone app coming alongside the game on July 21st. SplatNet 2 is a mobile phone feature that connects players to the game while they’re on the go. Here’s what we know:…

Pokémon Go’s Anniversary Event Will Let You Capture Ash’s Pikachu

One of the biggest gaming phenomenons in recent memory was released exactly a year ago. Pokémon Go will celebrate the occasion with Pikachu, of course. Today Niantic announced a new event that will run from July 6th to July 24th. In it, players will be able to acquire a special Pikachu wearing Ash’s hat, along…

Splatoon 2 Has A New Pair Of Squid Idols And They Are Perfect

Given that Marie and Callie have split, squid kids need new pop singers. Enter Pearl and Marina, Splatoon 2’s freshest new sound. Like the first game, Splatoon 2 will feature “Splatfests” where players can join teams based on voting preferences. During these events, the common square lights up, and music booms through the streets—all courtesy…

Corsair Gaming K95 RPG Platinum Review: A Very Gaming Keyboard

Many of today’s mechanical “gaming” keyboards are innocuous devices that are just at home in an office as they are a game room. Corsair’s K95 RGB Platinum is not one of those. It’s a brushed aluminium boat of a keyboard with dedicated macro keys, a silver volume wheel and extra RGB lighting, just in case.…

Horizon Zero Dawn‘s New Game+ Lets You Keep Your Gear But Skip The Kid Stuff

A new patch for Horizon Zero Dawn adds an Ultra Hard difficulty mode and New Game+, in case you feel like playing through Aloy’s adventures yet again before the expansion hits. Horizon, which came out for PS4 in February, remains one of the best games of 2017. We just tried to boot up the New…

Candy Crush TV Show Leads To In-Game Mario Lopez

The live-action Candy Crush game show debuts Sunday at 9PM Eastern on CBS. Along with guiding show contestants through the live-action casual puzzle game on the show, host Mario Lopez will also be appearing in each of the three Candy Crush Saga games for weekly TV tie-in events.   Yeah, it’s Candy Crush Saga, one…

Watch The Godzilla Anime’s First Trailer 

Anime feature film Godzilla: Kaiju Wakusei (Godzilla: Monster Planet) is slated for a November release in Japan and internationally on Netflix after that. Here is the flick’s debut trailer. Twenty thousand years in the future, the Earth is overrun with Godzilla and other kaiju. Humans arrive, set to take back the planet from those monsters.…