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The creators of Star Control have settled their lawsuit against the developer who made Star Control: Origins, a spiritual successor to the 1990 adventure game. And according to a new blog post by the Star Control devs, the “truly amicable settlement” involves exchanging homemade honey with homemade mead.

Fortnite’s patch 9.21 brings a new weapon, the Proximity Launcher, an LTM called Horde Rush, and tweaks to the availability of shields and shotguns and to Storm Flip damage. See the patch notes for the full list of changes.

Here is the character design for Motoko Kusanagi in the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. Russian illustrator Ilya Kuvshinov is doing the character design, and Stand Alone Complex’s Kenji Kamiyama is directing the series, which will air on Netflix in 2020. 

Final Fantasy VII Remake Renders Provide A Good Look At Cloud’s Pores

“Remaking Final Fantasy VII has allowed us to dive much deeper into the world and its characters than ever before,” producer Yoshinori Kitase said at E3. He wasn’t kidding! Check out the characters’ pores. Via website Hachima, the level of detail is staggering: Instead of smooth porcelain skin, the is real flesh, with little blemishes…

Look At This Dragon Quest Slime Controller For The Switch

Just like they did with the PS4 back in 2017, Square Enix is releasing a Dragon Quest slime controller for the Nintendo Switch, and everything about it is perfect. Due out in September, it’s a fully-functioning Switch Pro controller, with triggers, thumbsticks, motion controls, the works. Only it’s also a giant rubber-coated blue slime from…

We Did Not Get Skate 4, But We Are Getting Skatebird

We must all deal with adversity in our own way. Here is my state of mind prior to this year’s E3: We did not get Skate 4 Rather than succumb to the darkness, I have instead found solace in Skatebird, a game about tiny little birds who skate. We covered it last year, but developers…

Konami Announces The Turbografx-16 Mini

Hey, if Nintendo and Sega can do it, then Konami can too. In a surprise E3 announcement, the company is releasing a miniature version of the classic 90s Turbografx-16 console, called the Turbografx-16 mini. If you’re wondering why Konami is handling this, the original console was a joint effort between NEC and Hudson. Konami became…

Fallout 76‘s Battle Royale Mode Is An Odd One

It’s become a joke at this point: If an online game is in trouble, the fastest way to turn it around is by adding a battle royale mode. It’s funny because it’s true—that’s how Fortnite turned things around, and what game studio wouldn’t want to dramatically snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? The developers…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Story Creator Is Simple But Fun

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey released a story creator this week, allowing players to cobble together their own questlines and share them with others. The website for constructing handmade stories is easy to use and fun to tinker with, even in the final results of that tinkering can be a little awkward. To create your own stories,…

Virtual reality seems like a great place for sniping, doesn’t it? Rebellion and Just Add Water team up for Sniper Elite VR for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, SteamVR and Viveport. Set just before the events of Sniper Elite 4, it’s got a brand new story by Tony Schumacher  and all the x-ray kills you can…

For Honor‘s New Soul Rush Mode Is Frantic, Strategic Fun

The medieval fighting game For Honor is alive and kickin’ us off ledges, and as a part of that, Ubisoft just released a new mode called Soul Rush. A little cops-and-robbers and a little PG-13 blood-fueled deathmatch, Soul Rush rules, and only gets better the more you play it. Ubisoft announced the new mode at…

Cyberpunk adventure 2064: Read Only Memories returns to PC and Mac next year with an all-new sequel, Read Only Memories: Neurodiver Players hunt for a dangerous psychic that’s rampaging through the subconscious minds of Neo-San Francisco.  Yum. 

Surprise: Banjo-Kazooie Is Coming To Smash Ultimate

Nintendo is giving Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans something they’ve wanted for a long time: Banjo and Kazooie from 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie for the N64. Today, Nintendo announced that the bear and Breegull partners will land in Smash fall, 2019. In a 2018 poll of 20,000 fans, Banjo and Kazooie ranked number one among most-desired fighters…

Cadence of Hyrule is coming June 13, 2019, per today’s Nintendo direct. That’s this Thursday!

Resident Evil 5 and 6 are coming to the Nintendo Switch ensuring, as Wesker would say: complete global saturation. They release this Fall, for anyone dying (and maybe reanimating) to play some Resident Evil on the go.

Xbox Players Can Now Have The Same Gamertag, If They Don’t Mind Numbers At The End

Frustrated that someone else got the Xbox Gamertag you wanted before you did? Thanks to changes implemented by Microsoft this week, players can now choose a Gamertag that’s already in use, as long as they don’t mind having a hashtag and random numbers next to their display name. There can be only one MasterChief, MajorNelson…

Here’s something to do while waiting for all those huge new games to come out in early 2020. Disgaea 4 Complete+ arrives on the Switch and PlayStation 4 this fall. It’s all the DLC, all the characters and hundreds of hours of turn-based tactics, plus a whole lot of sardines, dood.

Ah Yes, A $688 Assassin’s Creed Statue

Ubisoft and Pure Arts announced this new Assassin’s Creed statue today, which is both exquisitely-detailed and insanely-priced. It weighs in at 20 pounds, and stands over 24 inches tall, so that price is actually pretty standard for something of this quality and size. But still. In terms of effects, it’s a statue so don’t expect…

Yu Suzuki and publishers Deep Silver announced earlier today that Shenmue III’s PC release would be exclusive to the Epic Games Store

Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon, are gearing up to launch the offspring of those two games. Planet Zoo is coming to PC on November 5. Check out the gameplay reveal trailer to get an idea of how exciting the game could be. Rawr.