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Twilight Princess HD Coming To Wii U Next March

The heavily rumored The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, an update to the GameCube and Wii adventure, is coming to Wii U on March 4, 2016. Besides updated visuals, the game will gain amiibo support, including a brand-new amiibo, based on Link’s wolf transformation. Also, Nintendo teased that your Wolf Link’s amiibo data will…

Watch The Nintendo Direct Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

This afternoon, Nintendo will put on their first Direct since former president Satoru Iwata died. You can watch it live right here. We’re expecting lots of 3DS news and maybe even a few bombshells to prepare us for what could be the Wii U’s final year. We’ll likely hear some news on DLC for Smash…

Little Clark Kent Thinks He’s a Freak in Great New Superman Comic

You’re Clark Kent, a little boy who’s way different than your parents or anyone else in your hometown of Smallville. One day, you start floating high into the sky. Who the heck is going to show you how to fly? Superman: American Alien is another origin story for the Man of Steel. Except that it…

Blizzard Has Big Plans For Overwatch‘s Story

Overwatch is a competitive team-based shooter—not exactly the genre people go to for stirring tales and convincing characters. Blizzard wants to change that. For now, there’s no plan for a single-player Overwatch campaign. How, then, can Blizzard tell a story without tossing up roadblocks to the fast action people seek in these sorts of games?…

Hearthstone‘s Latest Adventure Is Really Creative

The latest Hearthstone adventure pack, League of Explorers, gets its first wing today, and with it comes a set of new single-player challenges that are surprisingly interesting. One boss, for example, is immune to all damage while holding a certain staff: Which you can counter by destroying—and therefore stealing—the staff from right under his nose:…

Fallout 4’s Power Armor Is Better Than Ever

I remember the first time I saw Power Armor, back in Fallout 2. Frank Horrigan, the game’s villain, mowed down a group of innocents right in front of my eyes. It was horrifying, but the message was clear: you don’t mess with Frank. Frank is a badass. And if you cross him? He WILL fuck…

Riot’s Made Some Big Changes To League of Legends’ Minions

Riot started to release its massive laundry list of changes for League of Legends this week, and while players expected things to feel very different, they’ve been surprised by one thing in particular: minions. Those cutesy automated creep spawns pack a serious punch now. Riot didn’t mention any impending changes to League of Legends’ minions…

If you’re a Blood Bowl 2 player wondering why some armor colors were removed from the game and turned into paid DLC, know that’s a mistake. “We’re aware of the store content issue caused by the latest patch and are working quickly to resolve it,” the game’s developer, Cyanide, told me. Contact the author at…

Star Wars Battlefront Lets You Kill Rebel Scum While You Install

There’s a cool little mini-game in the installation screen for Star Wars Battlefront. Also, if you’re on EA Access, you might not want to play it. When you load up the new Star Wars, which comes out Tuesday but went live today on EA Access, you can jump right into a battlefield and rip apart…

The Avengers Need to Figure Out How to Be Avengers Again

Tony Stark is kinda broke. New Captain America Sam Wilson and old Captain America Steve Rogers aren’t talking. Odin’s firstborn isn’t worthy to wield Mjolnir anymore. Marvel’s still going to have an Avengers team, of course, but it’s going to take some doing to have them assemble effectively. When we last saw two of the…

Diablo III On Consoles Has A Cheating Problem

A big part of Diablo III is playing with other people, whether it’s friends or strangers. Many consoles owners have given up on strangers, though, thanks to cheaters doing a fantastic job of making the game tough to enjoy. I became aware of the problems facing the console versions of Diablo III after a reader…

The Xbox One’s New Calendar App Is Surprisingly Useful [UPDATE]

Now here’s a thing I didn’t realize I wanted: an event calendar on my console. There’s a new(ish) Community Calendar app on the Xbox One that is good and could be great. Like so many Xbox One things, this is an app you’ll have to download, then load up from the console’s app directory. It…

Unity Just Keeps Looking Better And Better

There once was a time I’d use the word “Unity”—as in the massively-popular game engine— almost dismissively. Like, “oh, this game looks so bad it may as well have been made in Unity”. Those days are long gone, and I now regret them. Unity was pretty gross back in the day, but it was an…

With its story concluded in Episode 5, Square Enix’s episodic adventure Life is Strange is ready to get its retail version. It’s coming out in the U.S. on January 19 for PS4 and Xbox One. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Has Hidden Ewoks

One of the missions in Legacy of the Void’s campaign is on a forest moon called “Endion” and it involves shield generators and orbital battle stations. Sounds familiar? It’s also a game made by Blizzard, and they love hiding easter eggs everywhere, so Ewoks from Return of the Jedi just fit perfectly. Pointed out by…

Saying Goodbye To One Of MMA’s Most Terrifying Fighters

I recently saw Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic referred to as “the myth who turned into a man.” That’s so accurate that it’s painful. Yesterday, Cro Cop—a UFC heavyweight hopeful and, before that, the Croatian version of The Fucking Terminator in legendary Japanese MMA organization Pride—made a sudden retirement announcement. This only a couple weeks out…

Something Weird Happened In My Last Game Of Overwatch

I told you guys that D. Va was a total badass. But did I tell you that she’s so much of a badass that she can get Overwatch’s coveted “Play of the Game” just by walking? It’s moments like these that make me stop and think: “And this is why Overwatch is still in beta.”

Fallout 4 Has An Infinite Caps Glitch

Just because it’s a wasteland doesn’t mean you gotta run around with scraps. If you feel OK with completely breaking the economy of Fallout 4, there’s a glitch in the game right now that may be of interest to you. Behold: So, what’s happening there? Fallout 4 players have discovered that selling and buying ammo…

Marvel Comics’ New Wolverine Is Refreshingly Different From the Old One

The guy who was Wolverine for decades of Marvel Comics’ publishing history is dead. The new Wolverine—a female clone of Logan also known as X-23—is a stone-cold killer just like him. But she needs to figure out how to be something more. Spoilers follow. A woman named Laura Kinney puts on a yellow-and-blue Wolverine costume…

This Dragon’s Crown Statue Is Freaking Me Out

I know the character designers in Dragon’s Crown are exaggerated, but holy shit. RocketNews24 (as noted on Twitter by Polygon’s Mike McWhertor) noticed a new 1:6-scale Dragon’s Crown figure that Beat Hobby will sell next March for 17,064 yen (roughly $138 USD). The proportions on the original artwork were pretty ridiculous, of course, though in-line…