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Minecraft update 1.8.8 goes live for consoles today, Microsoft just announced. It’ll come with a bunch of new biomes and monsters.

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen released a new game this week. It’s called Swing Copters 2 and I don’t understand how to play it at all. But it’s free!

I’ve been looking forward to the space horror game Routine for, quite literally, years now, but the most recent update suggests 2016 might be when the game finally arrives. The trailer for Routine still gives me chills! If we all watch it again, maybe development will finish faster. Contact the author at [email protected]

Guy Says He Was Hit By A Car While Playing Fallout 4

Ben Rose says he was sitting in his apartment last week playing Fallout 4 when he was hit by a runaway Hyundai Sonata and badly injured. Wait, what? As CBS’ local affiliate reports, the Irving man says he was in the middle of a Fallout 4 session on his Xbox One when the car, with…

Final Fantasy VII, Retold With Smash Bros. Trophies

Cloud and a bunch of Smash Bros. trophies. That’s one way to create a new gen Final Fantasy VII Adam Vian on Tumblr made some funny shots, which almost—almost!—resemble moments from Final Fantasy VII’s story. Barret? Cait Sith? Sephiroth?!? Aeris?!?!?! To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

D&D Player Falls Asleep, Dungeon Master Tries Everything To Wake Him Up 

Playing Dungeons & Dragons through Twitch has its advantages, but if one of the players falls asleep, there’s not much to do. In this case though, the Dungeon Master of PokeYourEyesOut didn’t give up so easily. He uses some voice modification to sound like a voice in the sleeping guy’s dream. And the other players…

Clustertruck Looks Like A, Well…

This is Clustertruck. It’s a game about not falling off trucks. An indie title in development at Landfall Games, it’s due around April 2016, and is planned to include both a “Hollywoodesque” campaign “where everything tries to kill” you, along with a level editor.

The Five Nights at Freddy’s novel, The Silver Eyes, has been released “early,” which has become a pattern for series creator Scott Cawthon. Cawthon likes to keep fans on their toes. The games are apparently over, though Cawthon’s putting the characters into an RPG called Five Nights at Freddy’s World

Chill Out With Some Looping ICO Music

ICO, a game that is as barren as they come, offers a small piece of solace when you reach a save point and a piece of music called Heal kicks in. Realising that there wasn’t a looping version of the very chill music available, reader Stephen Mlinarcik spliced on together. I’ve had it on in…

“When working in big companies, especially Japanese companies, every little thing has to be approved beforehand, and you need paperwork to do anything,” says ex-Konami employee Hideo Kojima in a new interview withThe New Yorker “Now that I’m independent, I can do what I want with much more speed. I don’t need to invest time…

Dad Immortalized In His Favorite Game By Grieving Son

John Hathway’s father was a big fan of the Diablo-style action RPG Grim Dawn. He liked it so much that during an emergency room visit, he left the game running. In November, Lee Hathway died of lung cancer. Upon hearing the news, the developers of Grim Dawn decided to put Lee into the game. Diablo…

Well Here’s A Good Opportunity For Nintendo To Release Mother 3

Today, Mother 3 is out for Wii U Virtual Console in Japan. Now it’s time for America to have its day too. Granted, fans have been making this request of Nintendo of America for almost a decade now, but it feels more realistic now. Consider this: In 2013, Nintendo pulled off a surprise releaseof Earthbound—aka…

A grown man has never been so happy to finish a stage. I’ve finally beaten Doubleheader (E41C-0000-0117-BA72), which you can watch me play here. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

The Marvel Comics Prequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is Kinda Weird

The end of Star Wars: Episode VI made it seem like all that fighting between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire stopped once the credits rolled. Of course, wars don’t end quite like that. A Marvel Comics series that just ended this week features a few characters who will connect the old Star Wars movies…

Rocket League Has Made Nearly $50 Million

Rocket League has been one of 2015’s biggest surprises, and it’s paid off handsomely for the game’s developer, Psyonix. A Wall Street Journal profile of the company also revealed they spent roughly $2 million developing Rocket League. Game developers are notoriously tight-lipped about financials (see: the many ways Activision has avoided discussing Destiny sales), so…

Square Enix Wants To Know: Final Fantasy XV or Persona 5?

Next year will see the release of two massive, time-devouring JRPGs that many people have been anticipating for close to a decade: Final Fantasy XV and Persona 5. So Square Enix is asking the question on everyone’s mind: Which one are you gonna buy? In a survey on their website today—via DualShockers.com—Square asks prospective buyers…

Stephen Colbert’s Ridiculous Plan To Save Everyone From Star Wars Spoilers

Everyone will be able to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens soon. You know what that means, right? SPOILERS WILL BE EVERYWHERE. Hell, those of us who are unlucky enough may already be spoiled, thanks to jerks on the internet spreading all sorts of info about The Force Awakens. Stephen Colbert knows how horrible that…

The Best Perk In Fallout 4 Is Completely Broken

Most perks in Fallout 4 are just supposed to give you a little boost, nothing major or almost game-breaking. This is not one of those perks. Whenever you befriend a companion in Fallout 4 and max your relationship status with them, they will grant you a special Perk. Piper, for example, will give you “The…

Big Changes Are Coming To World of Warcraft‘s PvP

As it was teased at Blizzcon, World of Warcraft: Legion will have an entire new PvP system and it’ll be one of the biggest revamps of player-versus-player mechanics in the series’ history. Blizzardis now sharing more details on these changes. It’s a long list of changes, so let’s highlight the most crucial points: Honor and…

Halo: Reach, Braid and Deus Ex: Human Revolution Achieve Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Today

Sixteen last-gen games will be debuting on Microsoft’s newest home game console today, with games like Spelunky, Fable III and Kane & Lynch 2 among them. Word of the additions comes from this Microsoft post. Here’s the complete list: Braid DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION Doritos Crash Course Fable III Halo: Reach Hydro Thunder Iron Brigade…