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Starlink‘s Toys Are Finished, But The Game Is Getting Bigger Next Week

Free and paid updates are coming to Ubisoft’s uneven sci-fi game Starlink on April 30, just in time to deliver on the promise of a big update this month. The update, called Crimson Moon, was detailed today in a trailer that shows signs of life for the young Ubisoft game that just recently had its…

Overwatch is getting a “workshop” mode, which will certainly make the custom mode’s sexy role-play community happy. On the PTR, players can make text and rule scripts and add custom play conditions for game modes, like changing heroes’ movement or abilities. Cutely, Blizzard suggests trying out “floor is lava.”

Anthem’s New Stronghold Mission Has One Really Cool Moment

I’m playing Anthem, and I’m flying through a tunnel. There are a lot of those in the game. This one happens to be filled with water. At the other end I can make out some light. I fly closer to it. Eventually I break through the surface into a sandy, sun-bleached arena surrounded by massive…

Leave My Sims Alone, You Damn Dracula!

It’s 3 a.m. and your Sims are asleep. They’ve had a long day helping out the kids with homework, making sure the cat doesn’t destroy the furniture, and taking an entire hour to eat meals. They need this rest, badly, or else the kids will be cranky for school and the adults will go to…

Hindsight 20/20 is a cool-looking action adventure game coming to consoles and PC sometime in 2020. Announced by Triple-I Games, an indie studio founded by former BioWare, ArenaNet, and Sucker Punch devs, Hindsight is being pitched as a Zelda-like that incorporates morality-based decision making into the gameplay.

The Strange Things Nintendo Asked Players To Do To Play Its Handheld Games

For decades, Nintendo has enabled people to play games on the go. It’s been great, but it’s also been silly at times. Seriously, how did any of us even tolerate playing games on the Game Boy Advance’s dim screen? As much love as I have for the systems that brought us Advance Wars, WarioWare, Phoenix…

Persona 5 The Royal Adds New Phantom Thief, Comes Stateside Next Year

After way too many teases, Atlus has revealed details about Persona 5 The Royal. The upgraded edition of the 2016 RPG hit will add a new party member and expand on social elements like confidants and city exploration. The Royal was outlined in a trailer today, which dropped details on what to expect from this expanded…

A Complicated Relationship

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Discovery Of A Secret, Fan-Run City Of Heroes Server Causes A Community Meltdown

It turns out that when superhero MMO City of Heroes was shut down at the end of 2012, it was only mostly dead. For six years, it was kept alive by fans on a secret private server. In the wake of that server’s discovery last week, the City of Heroes community has been thrown into…

The AAF May Be Dead, But Its Spirit Will Live Forever In Sports Video Games

In the real world the Alliance of American Football, a shitshow of a league that was shut down before it could even complete its first season, will never have a champion. But a mod for a PC game can let the truly dedicated/curious try and decide one anyway. Axis Football, which I very much did…

Modder Gets Custom Quests Working In The Witcher 3

rmemr has created a set of tools called radish that allow for the creation of new, custom-made quests for The Witcher 3, something fans have been dying for since the game’s release back in 2015 The good news is that the tools are up and ready for download! The bad news is that they’re pretty…

Nickelodeon Releases Official Spongebob Meme Figures

In a “how do you do fellow kids” moment for the ages, you can now buy officially licensed Spongebob figures based on the series’ memes. From “Handsome Squidward” to “Surprised Patrick”, there are six figures in all, though sadly the best one—which I hope is just called “sPOngeBoB”—is already sold out. They’re going for around…

Final Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Has Designed A Magic: The Gathering Card

War of the Spark, Magic: The Gathering’s next expansion, features the game’s largest collection of Planeswalker cards to date. Wizards of the Coast has tapped a number of different artists to create alternative versions of the cards for Japan, including Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame. Amano produced concept art for the series up until…

Rage-Quitting Is Appropriately Bloody in Mortal Kombat 11

Mortal Kombat wouldn’t be Mortal Kombat without extreme violence, and the look of the game has only gotten more and more gruesome as home consoles have become more powerful. The most recent game in the series, Mortal Kombat 11, kicks things up to, well, 11 in the way it displays bloodshed. Naturally, this brutality also…

For Honor gets a new samurai class called Hitokiri on May 2 for season pass owners and May 9 for everyone else. The hero wields a battle ax and serves as an executioner. The season two update will also rework the Lawbringer and Raider classes as well as add a new map.

A New, Annoying Ad Keeps Popping Up In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

A new in-game ad for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s second big expansion wouldn’t be so annoying if it didn’t appear repeatedly every time I paused checked my map or tried to access my inventory. While we’ve found a fix, the whole thing feels like marketing run amok. I first encountered this ad while doing the free…

Animal Crossing Fan Is Animating Every Fish And Bug In The Series, One Per Day

The wait for Animal Crossing on Switch has been interminable. In order to take the edge off, one fan has been animating one of the game’s bugs and fish every day. They’re so adorable, but sadly only make me want this game even more. Since the announcement of its existence during a Nintendo Direct in…

BioWare Delays Anthem’s Big Cataclysm Event

In an Anthem update released today, BioWare lead producer Ben Irving and head of live services Chad Robertson announced that a number of updates planned for the game, including its limited-time Cataclysm event, have been delayed. “While we have delivered many of the Act 1 features on time, we are not going to hit all…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Un-Banned In Nepal, For Now

A couple weeks ago, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds—the stalwart second-place finisher in the endless battle royale between battle royale games—got banned in Nepal over addiction concerns. Turns out, however, that in the eyes of Nepal’s Supreme Court, those addiction concerns were not enough to warrant a game being tossed into the dungeon of dangerous toys. According to…

Fans Theorize That Sims Alien Abduction Plotline Is Just A Cover Up

There’s a mystery in The Sims 2 that has never been solved. The Goth family, consisting of Bella, Mortimer, and Cassandra, has thus far made an appearance in every single Sims game. Throughout the series, the developers have explored different aspects of the Goth’s family tree, even going back in time in The Sims 3,…