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UncategorizedThe Sonic the Hedgehog movie was originally scheduled to open on March 27 in Japan. However, due to the coronavirus, the movie’s Japanese release is being pushed back. The new release date is to be announced. In case you missed it, check out Kotaku’s review of the movie right here
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureTurboGrafx-16 Mini Delayed Due To Coronavirus
The TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine Minis were scheduled for release on March 19. However, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the miniature consoles will be delayed. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is packed with nearly 50 games, including Dracula X, Bonk’s Revenge, Gradius and more. Konami announced that the coronavirus outbreak has interrupted production in China, which in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Streamer Suspended After Accidentally Firing Real Gun At His Monitor
A professional Call of Duty streamer who brandished a gun on stream and accidentally fired a round into his desk has been suspended from Twitch and dropped from his esports organization. Last night, during a livestream from inside his home, Call of Duty trickshot specialist and former FaZe Clan member Carl Riemer pulled out a…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureMicrosoft, Bungie Enact Work-From-Home Policies In Response To Coronavirus [Update: Nintendo, Too]
The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has hit the video game industry in a major way, most notably resulting in the postponement of the Game Developers Conference last week. As a response to the virus spreading to Washington’s King County, Microsoft and Bungie, both of which have offices in the area, have decided to enact work-from-home…
By Ian Walker Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureEA Went Digging Through Old 90s Tapes Trying To Remaster Command & Conquer’s Cutscenes
The team behind the upcoming Command & Conquer remaster have posted a video that’s partly about the process behind cleaning up the 1995 original’s cutscenes. Mostly, though, it’s a fascinating look inside the archives at loads of dusty old tapes that are crammed with bonafide video game history. You’ll find the video below, in which…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionIf You Want To See Smash Bros.‘ Wildest Crossovers, Look To The Spirits
Just a few years ago, it would have been nonsense to think we’d see characters like Persona 5‘s protagonist Joker or Terry of Fatal Fury fame playable in Super Smash Bros. But Ultimate has far surpassed what we expect from Nintendo’s massively popular brawler. Look beyond the character select screen, though, and you’ll see that…
By Ian Walker Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsBloodroots Is A Western Brawler Where Everything Is Your Weapon
I can’t remember the last time I hooted and/or hollered at a video game as much as I did during the first 15 minutes of Bloodroots It’s a fast, stylish brawler with one very cool hook: you don’t have a single weapon, you have everything. The game’s world is littered with swords, hammers and guns,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureHacker Discovers That God Of War Villain Gives You Secret Middle Finger
Sometimes, you’ve just gotta flip somebody off, even if they can’t see you. Maybe they cut you off in traffic. Maybe they took your spot in the parking lot. Maybe they did a third thing involving a car. Or, as is the case 99 percent of the time, perhaps they pushed you off a cliff.…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsSludge Life Feels Like Playing Hooky From Late Capitalism
One of my favorite Onion articles of all time is titled “Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back.” It was published five years ago, back when I still worked at an office job I hated where I frequently daydreamed of doing exactly as the Onion health experts advised. But where…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
UncategorizedCastlevania’s Third Season Is A Violent Slow Burn
By the end of its second season, Netflix’s Castlevania show seemed to have reached its apex. Dracula was defeated, and the story—largely based on the NES’ Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse—was over. Season three could have gone in a lot of directions. It ends up focusing on the characters that viewers have come to know and…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureUbisoft Is Massively Reworking Ghost Recon Breakpoint
In as extreme a case of eating crow as you’ll see from a big game publisher, Ubisoft said today that they are cancelling Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s planned second raid, reducing its aggravating always-online requirement, and will soon release an update that lets players deactivate its despised loot system. It’s all in service of trying to…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIt’s Literally Just Mowing (And Microtransactions, Ads, And Loot Boxes)
As soon as I heard about the game It’s Literally Just Mowing, I was like, “Hell yeah!” Unfortunately, the game is not literally just mowing. It’s Literally Just Mowing, which arrived on iOS and Google Play last week, has been promoted as being about mowing some lawns, and that’s it. But once I played it,…
By Ian Walker Published March 5, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesWhat Happens To Your Xbox Game Pass And PlayStation Now Downloads Once They Expire
For budget-conscious gamers, there are few better ways to get games than via the games-on-demand services PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. Each service costs $60 per year or $10 a month and grants access to a vast library of games. Triple-A blockbusters and indie darlings both pop up on these services with some regularity,…
By Ari Notis Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureThe Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show
Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureThe Outer Worlds’ Font Size Is About To Get Even Bigger
Yesterday the developers at Obsidian announced that even though The Outer Worlds came out nearly five months ago, they’re still hard at work on improving its font sizes This is great news since the original text in The Outer Worlds was too damn small, and while Obsidian added a large font option shortly after release,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIf You Like Picross You’re A Good Person And Will Probably Enjoy Depixtion
Picross is a wonderful series of games in which players use logic to create dubious pixel art using numbers and grids. In Depixtion, recently released for the Nintendo Switch, each level is three Picross-style puzzles of varying colors and shades coming together to create dubious pixel art. It’s deep dish Picross with a twist. A…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2020