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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…
By Gita Jackson Published May 29, 2019 -
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,…
By Ethan Gach Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Lee Yancy Published May 29, 2019 -
‘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…
By Heather Alexandra Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published May 29, 2019 -
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
By Riley MacLeod Published May 29, 2019 -
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?
By Riley MacLeod Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Ethan Gach Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Heather Alexandra Published May 29, 2019 -
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2019 -
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!
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019
