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Super Smash Bros. UItimate Now Has Virtual Reality Support

It wasn’t great with Mario or Zelda, but hey, let’s see if adding a dash of virtual reality to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, via Nintendo Labo, adds anything to the experience. Ultimate just updated to 3.1.0, and among other changes (check them all out here) is the addition of a very weird, very limited form…

A Very Amiibo Wedding Cake

For their upcoming wedding, catsdotcomand her fiance decided to skip traditional toppers and go straight to some custom Amiibo. Super cute! Can’t wait for the day after the wedding, when the Tom Nook Amiibo appears behind them to start collecting his dues The figures were done by diyCrossing, who sells a bunch of custom Animal…

Fallout Shelter’s Sequel Looks Cool, But Is For China Only

There’s a sequel to Fallout Shelter about to be released, called Fallout Shelter Online, and it features new stuff like attacks on other vaults and even player-vs-player combat. Pity, then, that at the moment it’s only coming out in China. JuiceHead has made this very handy video (via @secretzsc) from closed betas giving everyone a…

You can now pet the cat in Katana Zero. The excellent time-bending cyberpunk samurai slasher just got its first major update, which includes a hard mode with revamped levels and reworked bosses, a speedrun mode, new achievements, stealth fixes, and yes, the ability to pet a kitty.

Microsoft will have 14 games from its internal studios to show at this year’s E3. That’s according to a new tweet by the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. Microsoft has been busy acquiring a bunch of new game studios recently. It sounds like we’ll finally get to hear what they’re working on.

Google Now Requires App Makers To Disclose Loot Box Odds

Google rolled out a new Play Store policy requiring game makers to show players what the chances are of getting any items that might be contained in a paid random-chance scenario. Spotted by the website Android Police, the new requirement, listed in the monetization section of Google’s Development Policy Center, states: “Apps offering mechanisms to…

BioWare Shares New Details About Anthem’s Upcoming Cataclysm Event

During a developer live stream today, BioWare gave Anthem players their first look at the game’s upcoming Cataclysm event, a limited-time end-game activity that will take place in an entirely new environment. Based on what BioWare showed, the Cataclysm, which will last six weeks, seems to function like a mini-freeplay mode. Players load into a…

Outer Wilds Is An Excellent Game About The Joy And Terror Of Space Exploration

Outer Wilds asks you to accept that if you went to space, you’d probably die there. Maybe more than once. In Outer Wilds, out today for PC and Xbox One, you play an average four-eyed inhabitant of Timber Hearth, a small planet in a small solar system. Timber Hearth’s people live in log cabins but…

Starting next Tuesday, Apex Legends is having a limited time event called The Legendary Hunt More details are in the blog post, as well as a few tiny kernals of information about the Season 2 Battle Pass, which will be further fleshed out in a stream on June 8th. Happy hunting!

The Makers Of Divinity: Original Sin 2 Are Teasing Baldur’s Gate 3

Are the developers behind my favorite role-playing game of the decade making a sequel to my favorite role-playing game of the decade before? It sure seems that way, as Larian Studios, makers of Divinity: Original Sin 2, are teasing news of a Baldur’s Gate 3 This morning, Larian put up a teaser on the company’s…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Announced, Will Be A Dark Reboot For The Franchise

Following a cryptic tease Tuesday afternoon, Activision announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the latest installment in the long-running series of first-person shooters. In a new trailer released Thursday, we got our first look at the rebooted Modern Warfare. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be released October 25, 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One,…

Portal Headlines June’s Xbox Games With Gold

There’s a fun mix of games in June’s Xbox Games with Gold, from sports to puzzles. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. June’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One EA Sports NHL 19 (June 1-30) Rivals of Aether (June 16-July 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with…

Fire Piranha Plant will be the latest character added to Mario Tennis Aces. Players can earn it by competing in tournaments throughout June before the character becomes available to everyone starting in July. That month, Mario Tennis will also see Dry Bowser added to the lineup

DIY Retro Gaming Handheld Is As Fun To Build As It Is To Play

This is the GameShell, a retro gaming handheld that I built from a kit. I clipped and trimmed the plastic pieces, inserted the circuit boards, connected the wires and snapped it all together. It plays old games, emulated titles and homebrew software. It’s pleasing that something I built does those things. The folks at Clockwork…

Microsoft has hinted at this for a while, but now it’s official: Xbox Game Pass is coming to PC. No word on timing or any other details just yet; Xbox boss Phil Spencer says they’ll elaborate more at E3.

Iron Maiden Is Suing The Video Game Ion Maiden

Ageing British metal band Iron Maiden (or at least the band’s holding company) are suing video game publisher 3D Realms over retro shooter Ion Maiden, claiming the game’s logo and marketing is “an effort to confuse consumers into believing Defendant’s products and services are somehow affiliated with or approved by Iron Maiden”. The lawsuit, filed…

You Can Now Have Official Pokemon Weddings In Japan

ESCRIT, a Japanese company specialising in wedding ceremonies, recently teamed up with The Pokemon Company to start offering officially licensed Pokemon weddings. There are now some pictures of the first ceremony to be hold, and there is a lot to take in. As you cast your eyes over these images, please remember this is not…

Recreation Of Smash Bros. In Overwatch Is Shockingly Accurate

If I was a betting man, I’d put my entire accumulated fortune of [single, chirping cricket inside a wallet] on the idea that there have been several very serious conversations inside Blizzard about the idea of a Smash Bros.-like fighting game starring Overwatch characters. In the meantime, one fan has made that idea a reality.…

Crank Gaming Handheld’s Creators Trying To Make Amends For Poorly Worded Email

On May 22, app developer and game publisher Panic announced a new gaming handheld called Playdate that quickly became a mini-sensation online. Playdate is also the name used by a small, yearly indie showcase for experimental games, the 2019 edition of which took place just a few days later. The back-and-forth over the name “Playdate”…

During a live stream today 343 Industries showed off gameplay from the Halo: Reach remaster coming to The Master Chief Collection running on PC. It looks clean and responsive, despite the poor streaming quality! The studio also confirmed the game’s first testing phase for Xbox Insiders will begin in June after E3.