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Upcoming Hearthstone Expansion Will Bring Fresh Mechanics And Resurrect Some Classics

New expansion season has rolled around yet again for Hearthstone. With the “Saviors of Uldum” set, coming August 6, Blizzard’s digital card game is bringing game-changing area-of-effect spells, minions that resummon after dying, and powerful Quest cards that offer a new Hero Power once certain requirements are met. The “Saviors of Uldum” set calls back…

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town is being remade for the Nintendo Switch. The game was originally released on the Game Boy Advance in 2003. It will be released in Japan on October 17. No word yet on an international release. Marvelous Entertainment’s Harvest Moon games are now localized as Story of Seasons. [Update: XSeed…

Visit Real-World Anime Locations In Tokyo

What if watching anime isn’t enough? What if you want to experience more? Well, in Tokyo, you can visit the real-world spots brought to life in some of your favorite anime. Website Mipon Anime Tourism has been chronicling real-world anime locations that fans can visit. For example… One Punch Man Steins; Gate Your Name For…

Service for massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dragon’s Dogma Online is ending. Released in Japan on August 31, 2015, the game was an MMORPG take on 2012’s Dragon’s Dogma. Service will end for the PS3, PS4 and Windows versions on December 5, 2019. 

DDoS Attacker Will Spend Two Years In Prison

One of the men behind a series of 2013 attacks on games like League of Legends and DOTA 2 has been sentenced to 27 months in jail, and must pay $95,000 in restitution to another of his victims. Via Polygon, in a statement released by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California…

Netflix Japan had the Stranger Things kids meet up with Japan’s most famous gamer Takahashi-meijin, he of the “16 shots in one second” and star of Hudson’s Adventure Island. Watch the brief video to see who had the best Famicom skills.

Apex Legends’ New Battle Pass Has Cooler Rewards

A lot of Apex players were disappointed with the first season’s battle pass. Rewards were mostly lackluster character and weapon skins. There were no challenges to complete to level up, or emotes or other fun things you could earn. Overall the battle pass didn’t offer much incentive to play more during the season. Season 2…

Mordhau Developers Address Controversy, Saying They Won’t Add Gender Or Race Filters

After a controversial interview with PC Gamer discussing Mordhau players’ use of slurs and the potential implementation of a race or gender toggle, the game’s developers issued a statement this morning to clarify their stances. They now say they had no plans to add an ethnicity toggle to Mordhau, adding in a statement that they…

Metal Wolf Chaos XD will hit PS4, Xbox One, and PC on August 6. The remaster of a 2004 FromSoftware game, Metal Wolf sees you play as the President of the United States piloting a giant mech to try and fight off an attempted coup by the military.

July’s Game Pass games have been announced with Shadow of Mordor: Shadow of War arriving on July 4 alongside My Time at Portia and Undertale, while Blazing Chrome will be a release day addition on July 11. Unfortunately, Warhammer Vermintide 2 and some other big games are also leaving this month.

Blizzard Responds To Accusations Of Censorship In Hearthstone‘s Latest Patch

In the lead-up to Hearthstone’s upcoming “Saviors of Uldum” expansion, Blizzard Entertainment released a patch yesterday that ran a couple housekeeping alterations to make way for the new content. The update removed some older cards from the game’s Standard mode, added some new cards to the game’s Classic set, and in a move that’s stirred…

The Shirobako movie will open in Japan in spring 2020. The original manga and anime adaptation, both which were a behind-the-scenes look at the anime industry, debuted in 2014. P.A.Works, which handled the TV anime, is also doing the feature film. No word yet about an international release.  

The Curse Of The Yakuza Games

The Yakuza games and their spin-offs have long starred some of Japan’s biggest celebrities. Now that some of those celebs have ended up in trouble, there are rumblings of a Yakuza curse. Dun dun dun. Earlier this year, actor and musician Pierre Taki, who appeared in the Yakuza spin-off Judgment, was picked up on drug…

Apologies in advance, as I expect my latest Super Mario Maker 2 level to occupy much of the video game discourse for months to come. I anticipate many a thinkpiece. If you want to try for yourself, it’s 7JF-QBH-34G. Just know that you, the “player,” are implicated in all that happens.

Wreckfest, one of my absolute favourite driving games on the PC, is coming to Xbox One and PS4 on August 27.

Steel Division II, So Close To An RTS Classic, And Yet So Far

I’ve never tried harder to like a game in my life than Steel Division II On paper it seems absolutely perfect for me: it’s a pretty World War II real-time strategy game, it’s quite serious about its physics and ballistics range and unit composition and it has some bold, almost board-gamey ways for its battles…

Custom Controller Lets You Rage-Quit By Literally Pouring Salt

A very wise man who wore a hood and whose skin was practically melting off his bones once said, “Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you.” Probably, he was talking to a gamer about video games. Competitive games make people mad. There’s no getting around it, so you might as…

Split Screen Was Quietly Removed From Black Ops 4, But It’ll Be Back This Month

Last week, as part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s June 25 update, Treyarch quietly removed split screen co-op play from the game’s battle royale mode, Blackout. At first, no one was sure what was going on, but today, Treyarch said the feature will return on July 9. “Split screen Duos in Blackout was…

Everything That’s New In Apex Legends Season Two

Apex Legends Season 2 arrived today. While players have known a lot of what it would contain for a while, it’s exciting to finally see the new character, weapons, and locations in action. As video producer Paul Tamayo and I discuss in the video above, the most notable Season 2 change is new character Wattson.…

Role-Locking Could Resuscitate The Overwatch League

“Can I say anything I want?” asked Jong-ryeol “Saebyeolbe” Park after a particularly satisfying victory for his Overwatch League team, the New York Excelsior, last year. His translator nodded. Park’s eyes lit up. “I’m the best Tracer in the world.” He stuck his tongue out. Park was referring to the Overwatch hero Tracer, a zippy…