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EVE Online Developers Discuss Ways To Stop New Players From Leaving The Game

EVE Online fans gathered in Toronto, Canada last weekend to celebrate the midpoint of the EVE Online Invasion world tour. EVE North, the name given to this leg of the series of fan gatherings, was the first official EVE Online gathering to be hosted on Canadian soil. The event drew over 500 players from all…

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Bandai Namco Announces New Action RPG Called Blue Protocol

Bandai Namco is developing a new online action role-playing game for PC. It’s called Blue Protocol, and right above is a currently-in-development screenshot. Via the official release, the game’s official English description is: The world is on the brink of devastation, now is the time to unite. March on with friends and strangers, and defeat…

Mario Maker 2 Is Hiding Two Secret New Power-Ups

While most of the course creation parts in Super Mario Maker 2 are unlocked from the start, there are two that you can’t immediately access. You’ll definitely want them, though. One of Mario Maker 2‘s new features is Story Mode, in which you play through over 100 levels designed by Nintendo. This mostly stands on…

Teamfight Tactics Is Very Popular, And Its Servers Are Not Holding Up

Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s popular League of Legends-flavored spin on auto chess, the auto battler sensation that’s methodically sweeping multiple nations, is now officially out. This, you might figure, would be good for people who want to play it. You would be wrong. Riot has been gradually rolling the game out in various regions, starting yesterday…

Death Stranding Looks Great As A PS1 Game

Bear Parker, the same guy who managed to remake Metal Gear Solid inside another game, has decided to take everything we’ve seen of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding and turn it into a PlayStation 1 game, complete with gameplay and giant ladders It works real well! Death Stranding’s grim aesthetic and murky palette translates nicely into…

Check out these custom Joy-Con grips a modder created to try and make his Switch feel more ergonomic in handheld mode. They aren’t the slickest looking it’s an interesting DIY solution to Switch’s existing flat, somewhat cramped layout. A full video of the custom grips along with instructions are available on Reddit. 

Check Out This Hot New Lego Overwatch Trash

Lego’s first round of Overwatch sets were nice, but they left out a few key characters. Two new sets due out in October fix three of these oversights, adding Junkrat, Roadhog and everybody’s favorite hamster mech pilot Hammond to the mix. 227 plastic pieces can be arranged to form Hammond and his signature ride, a…

Loot-Starved Black Ops 4 Players Finally Get A ‘Contracts’ Mode

Players finally have a better way to earn more rewards in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, besides the game’s unfavorable microtransactions system. This week’s update marks the introduction of Contracts on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Contracts serve as a series of rotating challenges that can be completed for in-game rewards. This system…

There’s A Flappy Bird Battle Royale Game Now, And It’s Good

Flappy Royale, released today in beta on mobile and PC by game designers Orta Therox, Em Lazer-Walker, and Zach Gage, seems like a lot of things: clever, opportunistic, a joke. But it’s also fun. Inspired by the 2013 mobile sensation Flappy Bird, Flappy Royale has you compete against 99 other poor souls to see who…

A Leviathan Might Crush You In Apex Legends Season 2 [Updated]

Apex Legends developer Respawn released a Season 2 trailer today, in which we get to see upcoming new character Wattson and an EMP exploding in Kings Canyon. Leaked trailers on Reddit, one of which has now been officially released by Respawn, reveal even more changes coming to the game when Season 2 launches on July…

Another Alien Faction Is Waging War In EVE Online

EVE Online’s players are in a panic: All across the game, player controlled facilities are under siege by powerful NPCs known as Drifters. Drifter vessels have been in the game for years, but they’ve never attacked player structures in an organized force before. Developer CCP has not confirmed whether this is an intentional part of…

Trials Of Mana Has No Manual, So Here’s How To Play It

The good news: Seiken Densetsu 3, the sequel to Secret of Mana, is finally available outside Japan for the first time, and it’s now called Trials of Mana. The bad news: Collection of Mana, the Switch game that includes Trials, doesn’t have a manual, and Trials is a complicated game. Here’s what you should know…

In its latest ID@Xbox showcase Microsoft announced a bunch of indie games that will soon be coming to Game Pass including Bad North, Gonner, The Banner Saga 3, and Yoku’s Island Express It also announced that others, like Undertale, Timespinner, and For the King, are headed to Game Pass on PC. 

David Kushner’s fantastic book Masters of Doom, about John Romero and John Carmack founding id Software, is getting a pilot on USA, to be produced by the Franco brothers and executive produced by prolific writer Tom Bissell (who, full disclosure, is a good friend of mine). Here’s to video game books turning into TV shows!

Pokémon Masters Brings Real-Time Team Battles To Mobile This Summer

Announced last month and due out on iOS and Android this summer, DeNA’s Pokémon Masters has players forming teams of famous Pokémon trainers and their partners for three-on-three battles on the artificial island of Pasio. Fresh details on the game highlight its strong focus on the trainers behind the Pokémon. Pokémon Masters is not about…

Sony Announces Live-Action Final Fantasy XIV TV Series

Today, Sony Pictures Television and production company Hivemind Entertainment (the company behind Netflix’s forthcoming adaptation of The Witcher and Amazon’s The Expanse) announced a partnership with Square Enix to develop a live-action Final Fantasy TV series based on the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV. The live-action television series will tell an original story set…

Dark Souls 3 Gets A Gay Marriage Mod

It’s not a central part of the story, but off to the sides of Dark Souls 3 the player could get hitched. By default you’d be paired with an NPC of the opposite gender, but this mod for the PC version of the game by Matt Gruen flips all that. Here’s the official description: In…

Battlefield V Finger Gun Is Cute And Funny Until You Reload It

Put your hands together for a Battlefield Easter egg that’s equal parts clever and terrifying. As first spotted by PCGamesN, the new “finger gun” is just what it sounds like: a weapon consisting of the player’s character putting both their hands together to imitate the shape and handling of a small pistol. When they shoot…

World Of Warcraft’s New Cyber-Gnome Wonderland Is The Best Place On Azeroth

In August I wrote about the Abandoned Junkheap, a small patch of rust-covered, robot-infested land on the island of Kul Tiras in World of Warcraft that had captured my heart. Now there’s the Mechagon Island zone, an entire zone of junk, robots, cybernetic gnomes and joy that was introduced to the game in this week’s…