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Mechs Are The Latest Shiny Toy Shaking Up Fortnite‘s Players

Fortnite’s Season 10 launched this morning. Besides bringing back past location Dusty Depot and changing up the battle pass, the new season added mechs to the game. The mechs require two players to pilot, and they look big and dangerous. They’re probably a lot of fun to play, though I wouldn’t know—they keep wrecking me…

Mobile Game Lets You Build Gundam Models Without All The Clutter

Building Gundam models is an exciting hobby, but if you’re on the go or don’t have a shelf for all your giant robots, you’re in a rough spot. Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare is a new mobile game looking to make it easy to build and battle robots on the go. There’s some mobile game jankiness,…

Matoka tribe champion Nightwolf is the next character to join the Mortal Kombat 11 cast. He’ll be available on August 13 for folks who have purchased the Kombat Pack and August 20 for everyone else.

It Sure Is Tough To Be A Titanfall Fan Right Now

On Thursday morning, Titanfall was trending on Twitter in the U.S.—not because anything remotely Titanfall related actually happened, but because Fortnite’s new season added mechs. It’s a hard comparison to resist, now that Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment is running its own battle royale game in Apex Legends—a game that feels an awful lot like Titanfall…

The Nintendo Live Gaming Expo Will Be This October In Kyoto

This October, Nintendo will once again hold a dedicated game expo in Kyoto, Japan. It’s called Nintendo Live 2019 Kyoto Last year’s event was called Nintendo Live 2018 Tokyo and was held in, wait for it, Tokyo. The expo will have game tournaments, stage events and playable demos of new games. Included in the stage…

Sony is ending maintenance support for the PSP-3000 series in Japan. As of September 30, it will no longer accept the hardware for repair.

A New Card Might Make Hearthstone’s Warlock Class Relevant Again

Hearthstone’s Warlock class has seen better days. While it’s historically boasted some of the strongest decks in the game (the Zoo and Handlock varieties have been powerful for much of Hearthstone’s lifetime), the most recent “Rise of Shadows” set failed to give the class good enough cards, and as a result, the class is struggling.…

A new batch of games is headed to Game Pass starting August 1 with the delightfully minimalist shoot ‘em up Downwell. Other notable additions include Space Hulk Tactics on August 8 and Slay the Spire on August 14.  

Splatoon 2‘s 5.0 patch is now live, adding to the option to re-play previous Splatfest stages in private mode and throwing in a ton of other adjustments. You can find the full list of changes over at the game’s Nintendo Support page

Sniper Elite 4 And Wipeout Omega Collection Are August’s PlayStation Plus Games

August’s PlayStation Plus games are pretty different. As always, they’re only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. August’s PS Plus games are: Wipeout Omega Collection Sniper Elite 4 They’ll be available August 6 through September 2.

Mutant Year Zero has received an update on Switch that improves the performance and visuals While the changes are noticeable in docked mode, the game still doesn’t look great when playing in handheld.

Oh my GODDDD! Andrew Rea of the YouTube cooking “Binging With Babish” has made squid ink pasta, based off an infamous scene from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. It’s deceptively tasty. You can find it at a lot of restaurants but you might want to try making it at home.

Sleep is important! In a recent interview, League of Legends pro Faker talks about how much sleep he usually gets (7.5 hours) and how as he gets older, he places more importance on snoozing. Be sure to get enough sleep!

Glitch Reveals Popular Young Streamer Is A Middle-Aged Woman

Qiaobiluo Dianxia, also known as “Your Highness Qiaobiluo,” was racking up followers and donations on DouYu, a Chinese live-streaming platform. The photos she uploaded and the short clips she posted showed a young woman, leading her growing number of fans to think this was her. It was not. Here are some of the photos Qiaobiluo…

Looks Like EA’s NBA Live Is Being Weird Again

It’s easy to forget that there are two AAA basketball games on the market, so complete is 2K’s dominance of the scene, but EA Sports just keep plugging away with their NBA games. Some get released to little fanfare, others get cancelled at the last minute and some, like this year’s game, get delayed before…

A Short Hike is out today. You’re a bird who is trying to get to the top of a mountain, but you can go any way you like, take as long as you like and just chill out and chat with people all the way up.

It’s patch day for Final Fantasy XIV! The latest update adds a new difficult tier to the Eden series of raids and applies some welcome buffs to Monks and Astrologians. Also: hey, Scholars get Energy Drain so they can do something other than spam Broil!

Are you ready for some football?! I’m not! Which means that, were I confronted by some football, my reactions of surprise and delight would be genuine. This is precisely why I’m about to stream Madden NFL 20 over on our Twitch channel. Roar from the bleachers in our chat, bruddy. (That’s a portmanteau of “bro”…

The Text In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Too Damn Small

Fire Emblem: Three Houses has some of the most rewarding tactics action and Hogwarts-simulating that you can get. There aren’t many flaws in the game, but there is something that badly needs to be fixed: For a game focused on navigating menus, that text size sure is tiny. Text size in modern games has been…

Fortnite player and streamer Soleil “Ewok” Wheeler joined team Faze Clan this weekend, making her the team’s first Deaf and first female member. Ewok played in this weekend’s Fortnite World Cup Pro-Am, as well as at the recent Fortnite Summer Block Party