Minecraft’s Next Update Will Bring Huge Progress To Consoles [Update]

In an announcement today, Mojang has indicated that a large number of long-awaited changes are coming to the console editions of Minecraft, bringing those editions a lot closer to the Java edition. The most significant updates are the addition of Ender Cities—pre-generated structures in The End that contain some of Minecraft’s more obscure materials and…

What Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Mario Kart Tracks

Built for speed and not exploration, racing games like Mario Kart like to keep players confined to a set track. Since developers always know what the player will be looking at, it’s easier to hide things away, until a YouTuber like Shesez starts using camera tricks to explore beyond track borders. In the latest installment…

A Horror Game About Finding A Stranger’s Phone

Sara Is Missing is a horror game that takes place entirely on a stranger’s phone. While it never strays too far from horror clichés, it still manages to be pretty frightening, and takes full advantage of its limited format. Horror movies often find fear in granular elements of life—an unclosed door, a barely heard whisper,…

How To Capture Shiny Pokémon In Sun and Moon

There is about a 1 in 4,000 chance a unique color variant of a Pokémon will appear in a random encounter, making “shiny Pokémon” the rarest type of monster you can capture. Some people have played Pokémon for decades and have never seen a shiny. Here’s how you can beat those odds and get a…

King Kaiju Game Lets You Destroy Cities, Godzilla Style

VR is for living out our dreams with no real consequences. And if your dream is to be an enormous, city-destroying monster, you’re in luck: King Kaiju is here. King Kaiju, available on Steam for the HTC Vive, gives you everything you need to go on a shitstorm mayhem spree of indiscriminate chaos. You’ve got giant,…

Blizzard Is Giving Overwatch‘s Symmetra Two Ultimates

For a little while, Blizzard’s acknowledged that Symmetra is too much of a situational hero. Now they’re doing something about that. In a new developer video, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that a new version of Symmetra will soon be coming to the game’s PTR. Nu-mmetra will be the first Overwatch hero to have…

Some of Watch Dogs 2‘s Multiplayer Features Are Coming Online Today

Watch Dogs 2‘s seamless multiplayer was broken at launch, but some of the features have been brought online today for Playstation 4, with availability for Xbox One soon to follow. Should the update run smoothly “additional elements” to the multiplayer will be phased in, Ubisoft noted in a statement this morning. If you want to…

Gifts For Someone Who Plays Board Games

Hopefully, there is a special someone (or at least a someone you’re obligated to buy holiday gifts for) in your life that is into board games. If so, don’t buy them board games! Buy them cool stuff that helps them store or organise their board games, they’ll like that better. Feldherr Storage Inserts & Bags…

Sleeping Dogs, Outlast Headline December’s Xbox Games With Gold

There are some pretty cool games in December’s Xbox Games with Gold. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free;” the two games for the Xbox 360 are backward compatible, so you can play them on your Xbox One as well. Remember, these are only free if you have an Xbox Live…

Season Three of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, titled “A New Frontier,” will premiere December 20th on all major platforms and mobile devices. A retail disc will be available February 7.

Japanese Twitch Streamer Briefly Interrupted By Earthquake

Yesterday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Honshu island, Japan, sent waves as far as Tokyo, where it rocked a humble Twitch streamer playing Pokémon Kai Hamano, whose streams as Kaihama, was sorting through his inventory in the new Pokémon game when his bedroom started shaking. “What the fuck?” he asked his viewers. “Oh my god, it’s…

Lego Dimensions‘ Sonic Level Is A Mini Sonic Generations

Sonic the Hedgehog made his debut in Lego Dimensions last week with a level pack that sends Sega’s hero through several generations in a quest to find the Chaos Emeralds. We played through a bunch of it on Facebook yesterday. Want to see? The Sonic the Hedgehog level pack for Lego Dimensions comes packaged with…

Deus Ex Machina

Manuel Dischinger Moura is a concept artist who has worked on series like Batman and Gears of War You can see more of Manuel’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…

Steam Greenlight Game Evolution Will Mash Up Spore And No Man’s Sky

No Man’s Sky and Spore have a lot in common. Both were ambitious to a fault. They aimed for the stars, but fell well short of expectations. They also both hadplenty of dick aliens Evolution: The Ultimate Creative Sandbox recently got voted number one on Steam Greenlight, the service’s user-driven selection system for lesser-known games. Here’s…

Open-World Conan Survival Game Coming To Xbox One, PC Early Access In January

Funcom’s taking its Conan license to a much harsher environment next year with Conan Exiles, an open-world survival game that challnges players to tame a barbarian wasteland and uncover its secrets. Xbox One players will be able to get in on the action this spring via the preview program. I’m getting a very Ark: Survival…

Rare Pokémon Card Just Sold For $54,970

At an auction in Beverly Hills, a Pokémon Illustrator card fetched an eye-watering $54,970, setting a new record for Pokémon card prices. According to Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for Comics at Heritage Auctions, a Pokémon Illustrator card went for around $23,000 during the early 2000s. As noted on Go Nintendo, this latest auction smashed…