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Time To Dream About An Overwatch Cartoon

Bruce Vernon is a freelance animator who has made a range of amazing lil’ clips based on everything from The Witcher 3 to Overwatch to Bayonetta You can see more Bruce’s work at his personal site

Magic: The Gathering‘s New Pro Players Prove To Be Controversial Picks

Today, Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast announced that it had signed two new players to its fledgling Pro League, including the league’s first woman. While it has been a galvanizing decision for many players, especially female ones, some fans worry that the process for joining the professionalized ranks of Magic has become…

This is Risk System, a new indie shmupthat’s out today on Steam.

Surviving Rat-Infested France During The Black Plague

A Plague Tale: Innocence, from French developer Asobo Studio, is a third-person game set during the catastrophic events of the black plague as it destroys everything and everyone in its wake. You play as Amicia, a teenage girl helping escort her younger brother, Hugo, to safety by avoiding swarms of disease-ridden rats and the violent…

Undertale’s Toughest Boss Fight Made Into A Fortnite Map

One of Undertale’s most memorable boss fights is against the friendly skeleton Sans. It’s now been creatively remade as a series of platforming puzzles in Fortnite Normally a friend, Sans is also the final boss fight for players who attemtp a genocide run in Undertale by killing every single thing in the game. His fight…

The Detective Pikachu Game Is A Perfect Complement To The Movie

After watching the Detective Pikachu movie, all I wanted was to live in that world. Luckily I had a copy of Detective Pikachu, the game, which gave me that chance, and some fun puzzles to boot. The first thing that struck me about the Detective Pikachu game, which was released last year for Nintendo 3DS,…

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider’s Piecemeal Season Pass Ultimately Improved The Game

Last fall’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider had a season pass with a packed lineup that must have sounded great in its publisher’s boardroom and maybe in the ears of some fans: seven expansions, one a month, adding a new tomb each time. Can’t miss, right? For a while, it did miss, with each small…

Days Gone‘s Best Twist Is At The End Of Its Worst Storyline

The absolute worst part of Days Gone involve something that, on paper, sounds interesting: A clandestine government organization called NERO that’s scouring the freaker wastes searching for… something. Unfortunately, all of the missions that send the PlayStation 4 zombie survival game’s gruff, biker-man protagonist Deacon St. John out to see what said organization is up…

Lovely Japanese massively multiplayer role-playing game Caravan Stories comes to North American PS4s on July 23, with open beta kicking off July 16. The free-to-play game has a huge following in Japan. I’ve been fiddling with the Japanese version, which has English language support, and it’s very nice.

Forza Horizon 4 Bug Wipes Some Players’ Car Mastery Progress

In Forza Horizon 4, vehicles are like characters in a role-playing game. Players can grind for skill points to buy perks and unlock each vehicle’s full potential. A game update that went live last week wiped many players’ skill trees clean, erasing months of progress. A fix is in the works, but the developers say…

New ROM Hack Adds Ganondorf To Super Smash Bros. 64

The original Super Smash Bros. released 20 years ago with only 12 characters, leaving many classic Nintendo characters by the wayside until future installments were released. A new hack released over the weekend helps add some more variety by adding Ganondorf. Created by modder JSsixtyfour and titled “Smash Remix,” the hack swaps the Legend of…

Magic: The Gathering’s pro League just got its first female player. Jessica Estephan, who is from Australia, was also Magic: The Gathering’sfirst Grand Prix winner. Earlier this year, Kotaku reported on how publisher Wizards of the Coast wanted to make Magic less of a boys club—it looks like they’re keeping their word.

Thousands Of People Are Watching A YouTube Drama Stream Set To Wii Menu Music

The “Mii Channel” theme song on the Nintendo Wii was great. Like “Guile’s Theme,” it goes with everything, and that includes the latest YouTuber drama. Last week, beauty YouTuber Tati Westbrook publicly unfriended fellow beauty YouTuber James Charles via a forty-minute YouTube video. The video, entitled “Bye Sister,” now has over 34 million views; it…

I’m playing A Plague Tale: Innocence on our Twitch right now and putting my rat-dodging skills to the test. Come join me in the chat!

Here’s your first look at gameplay footage for Oddworld: Soulstorm, developer Lorne Lanning’s rebooted sequel to Abe’s Odyssey, returning the series to its platforming roots.

The official Twitter for Square Enix’s Studio Istolia is M.I.A., and the studio’s official site is gone. In March, former Tales producer Hideo Baba, who had been working on a new game for Studio Istolia, left the company. The status of the game, known as Project Prelude Rune, is still unclear. 

Avengers: Endgame Doesn’t Dominate In Japan

Marvel movies are definitely popular worldwide, even in Japan. But you know what is more popular in Japan? Pikachu, it seems. And depending on the week, Detective Conan, too During opening weekend in Japan, Avengers: Endgame debuted at number one. Bravo! Cinema Today reports that the following weekend, Detective Conan: The Fist of the Blue…

Spanish Football League Chooses Uniforms Just Like FIFA Does

You pick your teams, you settle in with your mates to play a few games of FIFA, and in the middle of it all, everyone gets a chance to choose which uniform the sides will wear in the game. It’s a very video game way of doing things, and it’s now how Spain’s top two…

I Love My Beautiful Bike, The Only Friend I Have In Days Gone

The world of Days Gone is filled with a large selection of characters. Some are nice, others are jerks, most are a bit dirty because showers are hard to come by in the zombie apocalypse. But none of these grimy characters have captured my heart or soul quite as my motorcycle has. I would do…

A Dedicated Fan Is Remaking Metal Gear Solid In Dreams

We’ve already seen some really cool things being built in the early access release of Dreams on PS4. Now we can add this Metal Gear Solid remake project to that growing list of cool stuff. While it isn’t finished yet, the first footage of the project looks really good. This fan-made Metal Gear remake is…