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.…

Actually, Bulletstorm Is An Excellent Shooter

Bulletstorm was one of the best games of the last generation, tragically ignored because of an awful marketing campaign, an even worse PC port, and the fact that EA wanted audiences to spend $60 for a seven-hour campaign, which is a steep price by any metric. It’s too bad because once players got past all…

Someday, Our Astronauts Might Have Clothes As Cool As These Mass Effect Uniforms

Human beings won’t make it to the far reaches of space for a long, long time, and the engineers who make spacesuits aren’t sure what we’ll wear when we get there. I hope our future astronauts look at cool as the characters in Mass Effect: Andromeda The purpose of a uniform is to broadcast who…

How Much Do Pro Gamers Sweat?

“Blood, sweat and tears” appears on many a weight room motivational poster, but isn’t quite as applicable to esports as it is to more traditional sports. There arecertainly tears, after wins and losses, and injuries are becoming commonplace as pros get older. Curious, we reached out to esports competitors in all sorts of games to…