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Just Cause 4 Hits Xbox Game Pass Only Three Months After Release

Despite all of the explosions in Avalanche Studios’ open-world chaos simulator, Just Cause 4 did not set the world on fire when it launched last year on December 4. Now, less than 100 days later, it’s free for Game Pass subscribers to download and play on Xbox One. Microsoft announced the game would be the…

Left Alive Is A Fascinating Concept, But A Crappy Game

Left Alive, the new game by Square Enix, sounds amazing. It mixes intense sneaking and massive robot battles, and if that doesn’t sound familiar enough, it even has art from Metal Gear’s Yoji Shinkawa to drive the point home. But the reality is less impressive than the concept. Left Alive is a clunky disaster whose…

In case you missed it, Heather and I streamed Left Alive earlier and talked about mechs, vodka, and bad haircuts. Follow us on Twitch for more streams!

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Bloodline Expansion Is A Solid End To A Divisive Saga

As I battled the final boss in the new and final chapter of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s first big episodic expansion, a chapter that happens to be all about parenting, I heard my two-year-old daughter cry out for me and her mom. It was half past midnight. She was down the hallway, three rooms away, wide…

Anthem‘s Level-One Weapons Are Stronger Than Endgame Ones, Thanks To An Apparent Bug

An apparent bug in the new loot shooter Anthem has made beginner weapons just as powerful as the ones you’ll get in the final levels. In fact, players have discovered, the level-1 rifle might currently be the strongest gun in the game. Earlier today, a player by the name of YeetLordSupreme shared a major discovery…

20 Minutes Of Devil May Cry 5’s Excellent Combat

Devil May Cry 5 doesn’t release until Friday, but I’ve played it and had a veritable ass-load of fun. Each of its three protagonists plays differently, with neat quirks and flashy moves. Tim Rogers and I played as all of them, in order to break down their smokin’ sexy styles. Oh, yeah. If you want…

Here’s A Wooden Cheeseburger That Plays Nintendo Games

Swedish artist Love Hulten combines technology with natural wood to create outstanding works of functional art. He’s made gorgeous retro gaming PCs and an ingenious retro console disguised as a wooden boom box. And now he’s made a wooden cheeseburger than plays NES games. He calls it the Game Burger Advance. Tiny PCs and LED…

Nintendo Is Reportedly Toning Down Micro-Transactions In Its Mobile Games

Developers behind some of the free-to-play mobile games Nintendo has published in recent years say the company has told them not to be too aggressive with the microtransactions that these games tend to rely on to make money, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Where individual studios Nintendo partners with are looking…

Red Dead Redemption 2’s Vaudeville Shows Are More Than Just An Impressive Diversion

Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of distractions. There’s poker, blackjack, and dominos to play. There are animals to hunt and collectibles to find. Many of these activities seem like ways to take your mind off the main story, and you can easily ignore them to focus on the game’s more pressing matters. But one…

Heather and I are playing the very strange Left Alive on our Twitch channel. Join us in the chat!

‘Voice Skins’ Could Let Gamers Customize Their Voices Online

Online, we can be whoever we want—a bulked-up soldier, a freakish banana, Sonic the Hedgehog—only until we start speaking. Over any online game’s built-in chat or Discord, our voices have the power to immediately reveal information about our geographic region, our gender, even our ethnicity. Now, a company that makes “voice skins” is trying to…

Last night, Chiquita Evans was drafted by the Warriors Gaming Squad, making her the first woman in the NBA 2K league. Read our interview with her, and wish her luck for this upcoming season!

Rainbow Six Siege’s first expansion of the year, Operation Burnt Horizon, is live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC It adds two new operators, Gridlock and Mozzie, a new map called Outback, and a Newcomer Playlist for people just getting started with the game so they don’t get shredded by veteran players.

Black Desert for the Xbox One is three years behind the PC version, but it’s got plans for catching up. Developer Pearl Abyss haslaid out a road map for the first half of 2019 that will add four new classes, three regions, world bosses and more to the massively multiplayer console RPG.

Hideo Kojima said that lots of studios fall behind their games’ original release dates in a recent J-Wave interview (via ResetEra). Kojima added, “Death Stranding is slightly off its original schedule but this isn’t a major delay.” Better late and good than on time and bad!

Kid Icarus and StarTropics will join the Nintendo Switch Online collection on March 13 The Japanese collection is getting Kid Icarus, Konami’s early fighting game Yie Ar Kung Fu, and the first Fire Emblem

New Doom Map Recreates A Famously Terrible Bathroom

Once upon a time, a Something Awful user decided to renovate his bathroom, and did it in about the worst way possible. Not only was it a garish mess—it looks like a Helghast home improvement show—but he violated a bunch of building codes with some reckless DIY along the way As bad as all that…

Gaming Monitor Stops A Bullet, Still Works Great

At 4 a.m. last Sunday morning, Fresno County, California resident Eric Gan heard a loud banging noise in his house. He lay awake in panic for an hour before falling back asleep, figuring he’d observe the damage in the morning. He didn’t expect to find five bullet holes in his home hours later. What he…

2016’s Curious Expedition was a very cool idea, so I’m very excited that it’s getting a sequel, eh wot, jolly good show.

In case you missed me and Chris stumble around the new prehistoric sim Dawn of Man on Twitch while talking about JCVD movies, here’s the YouTube archive. Follow us on Twitch for daily streams too!