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Don’t Split The Party Is A Game About Petty D&D Players

Sometimes the hardest part of Dungeons and Dragons is making sure your friends don’t start yelling at each other. Indie game Don’t Split The Party charmingly captures that challenge by putting you in the role of Dungeon Master—and peacekeeper. Don’t Split The Party is a text-based game where you play as Brynn, a young woman…

Odds Of Beating A Particularly Devious Mario Maker Level Are 1 In 7.5 Million

There have been over two million attempts to beat a Mario Maker level called Lucky Draw, and seemingly all of them have failed because, well, they just haven’t gotten lucky enough yet. As first reported by Patrick Klepek over at Vice Games, Lucky Draw is a Super Mario Maker level that has rarely, if ever,…

This Venusaur Was Too Scary For Detective Pikachu

RJ Palmer, an artist on the film Detective Pikachu known for his hyper-realistic Pokémon drawings, posted his menacing vision for the Pokémon Venusaur yesterday—one that never made it into the blockbuster movie. If you saw Detective Pikachu, it’s likely you left the theater either in awe of its realistic imaginings of Pokémon or wondering where…

EVE Online‘s Latest Expansion Brings An Alien Invasion

Alien forces have invaded EVE Online, and players across the galaxy are banding together to resist them. In the latest free expansion to EVE, a lost race of humans known as Triglavians have breached the walls of reality and are pouring out of the Abyss. Triglavian forces are currently laying siege to three different areas…

‘We Took A Bold Step This Time’: Final Fantasy XIV Director Addresses The Game’s Sweeping New Changes

Last week, I spent over six hours picking apart Final Fantasy XIV’s new expansion “Shadowbringers” in a lavishly adorned theater space. I played a new dungeon,sampled the new job classes, and examined all the little changes coming to the game. I also had the chance to sit down with producer Naoki Yoshida for a one-on-one…

I (Tim Rogers) am playing Conan Unconquered over on our Twitch channel! I love old-fashioned RTSes. This one looks good. Coincidentally, I have read every Conan book or short story at least ten times. Try to best my pulp wisdom in the chat

Nintendo Explains Why Its Official Smash Bros. Tournaments Are So Weird

“We used to have the perception he didn’t care,” said Super Smash Bros. pro Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios at Nintendo’s first tournament for Smash Ultimate last year. “He,” of course, was game director Masahiro Sakarai, the Smashdaddy himself, who was watching from the sidelines. Barrios had just won a glistening crystalline trophy, and holding it in…

Death Stranding Will Be Out In November

Death Stranding, the bizarre next game from Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima, will hit PlayStation 4 on November 8, 2019, publisher Sony said today. In a strange new trailer that ostensibly contains gameplay but makes very little sense—as you might expect based on previous looks at Death Stranding—Sony revealed the news that Kojima’s next…

Sonic Mania and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Are June’s PlayStation Plus Games

This month’s PlayStation Plus games feel like an odd combination, but they’re pretty good picks. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. June’s Playstation Plus games are: Sonic Mania Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

A giant eye with a creepy heartbeat has appeared inside Fortnite’s Polar Peak, following some cracks and creaking sounds in the area recently. The eye follows you when you move. Even though I knew about it, it still scared the crap out of me. What does it mean?

Anthem Gets New Update After Weeks Of Radio Silence

After weeks of saying almost nothing about the multiplayer space shooter Anthem, BioWare has announced a new update, a public test server for PC players, and that new details about its end-game Cataclysm event, originally promised for launch in May, will be arriving tomorrow during a developer livestream. Anthem’s 1.2 update doesn’t dramatically alter the…

Everything You Need To Know About Final Fantasy XIV‘s New Jobs

Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming expansion Shadowbringers looks to be a dark tale full of dimension-hopping and cosmic threats. The expansion releases June 28 in early access for those who pre-order, and July 2 for everyone else. It adds two new classes and revamps nearly every old class as well. I had a chance to play…

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According to Hideo Kojima, there is a countdown for Death Stranding that will end on May 29 for a worldwide reveal on PlayStation’s Twitch channel.

Japanese Artists Keep Showing Off Their Work Spaces

A few years back, Japanese artists began posting photos of their work spaces on Twitter. They have not stopped. Thank goodness for that! Professional and amateur artists alike continue uploading photos of their workstations under the tag #絵描きさんの作業環境が見たい (“I want to see artists’ work environments”). The photos show a side array of desks and work…

This is Altar Quest, a new board game by Adam and Brady Sadler (Street Masters, Brook City) that’s kinda like Hero Quest, only it uses their modular deck system to spice things up.

What Cartoon Sonic Looks Like In Movie Sonic’s Trailer

While we wait to see the official redesign of Sonic the Hedgehog for the upcoming movie, animatorArtur Baranov has gone in and completely changed the film’s trailer, replacing movie Sonic with a more familiar-looking hedgehog. Like Edward Pun’s effort, then, only this one’s actually moving and running and getting shot in the leg. Thanks Bartek!

New Pokemon Games, Hardware & Services Announced

At a press conference in Tokyo today, The Pokemon Company has taken to the stage and showed off a range of new games, services and hardware that are coming over the next year or so. First is Pokemon Home, a new cloud-based service where pretty much every new and big Pokemon game—from Pokemon Go to…

Detective Pikachu is coming to the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo just announced at a press conference in Tokyo. The game was originally released on the 3DS in 2016.

Breath Of The Wild Gets Its First Custom Dungeon

The latest Zelda didn’t include traditional dungeons (no, shrines don’t count), but that hasn’t stopped HailToDodongofrom building one and getting it working inside the emulated PC version of the game. Seeing as it’s only been two weeks since the tools (which HailToDodongo also made, hence the speed) to allow this were first released, this is…