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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild turns two this weekend so I’m playing it LIVE on our Twitch channel with Tim. Join us in the chat!

The First Dead Or Alive 6 Season Pass Costs $93

It’s rare that a season pass for a game costs $33 more than the game itself. Dead or Alive 6 owners can now drop nearly a hundred bucks on two new characters and 62 costumes. Considering downloadable content costs for the previous game, that could be a bargain. Prices for the season pass bundle, now…

What Makes This Japanese Zombie Movie So Great Is A Spoiler

Throughout last year, I keep hearing how terrific the Japanese zombie flick One Cut of the Dead was. And I kept putting off seeing it. I thought I had seen it all when it came to horror movies, especially zombie ones. I was wrong. Shot for under $30,000, One Cut of the Dead was made…

First Look At Pokémon‘s Ash, Brock and Misty In Full CG

The upcoming Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution is the first full-CG Pokémon anime movie. Of course, that means that not only the Pocket Monsters are in CG but also the Trainers. Here is the latest Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution trailer Here is how Mewtwo looks in CG, which is quite good, I think! And more startling,…

Excuse Me Did You Drop This By Any Chance

Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is an artist who has worked across all kinds of media. We’ve actually featured Beeple’s work before, whenhe completed his absolutely incredible “do a 3D image a day for ten years” challenge, but today we’re just going to be looking at his work in general. You can see more of Beeple’s…

It’s The Perfect Time To Return To Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Recently, a friend of mine started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time. This has had an interesting side effect: Any time I try to play anything else, I just wish I were playing Breath of the Wild. My ironclad resolve to continue making my way through games I hadn’t…

Skyrim Mod Making $33,000 A Month Accused Of Stealing Code

For a while now, a development team has been working on releasing a mod called Skyrim Together that would allow players to jump online and make their way through Bethesda’s RPG together. And for almost as long, they’ve been facing long-standing accusations of having stolen code from another team. The guys behind SKSE (Skyrim Script…

Fallout 76 Players Will Soon Be Able To Drink Even More Of Their Problems Away

There are lots of bottles of beer, whiskey, and other instruments of intoxication already scattered throughout the rolling hills of Fallout 76’s West Virginia, but on March 12 players will be able to start making their own. Today’s Inside the Vault article sheds light on how the whole thing will work. The update, originally teased…

The Next Pokémon Might Be Set In The UK, And Scottish Twitter Is Thrilled [Correction]

The prospect of the new Pokémon game being possibly set in the UK has amused some fans, and I’m laughing along with them. In order to understand these jokes, you’re first going to have to explain the concept of Scottish Twitter. Regional Twitters have regional dialects. A community of Twitter users based in Pittsburgh might…

If you’re playing Anthem you’ve probably seen this warning any time you’re more than a few seconds from your team. Today BioWare put out a 3 GB patch to fix the issue “Players should now have more time to catch up to their Squad before seeing a countdown timer,” it reads.

Destiny 2 Gets Another Injection Of Cool New Stuff

As fans of loot shooters find themselves wondering which one to play, here’s a reminder that Destiny 2 is as good as it’s ever been, and it’s only getting better. On Tuesday, Bungie will put out Destiny 2‘s first big update since the Activision divorce two months ago, as the game enters the Season of…

BioWare Announces Some Fixes For Anthem’s Broken Loot System

In the midst of mounting frustration with Anthem’s end-game loot grind, BioWare has announced a handful of changes to make it less grueling. They don’t address all of the complaints players have had, but it’s a start. The update, which is due to go live in the next day or two, will do three main…

The Skylanders Return In A New Mobile Game

Available today worldwide on iOS and Android devices, Skylanders: Ring of Heroes takes the colorful characters from the toys-to-life series and turns them into pawns in a free-to-play, character-collecting role-playing game. That’s fine, I guess. Not like Activision was doing anything with them recently. Aside from the animated Netflix series, we haven’t heard much from…

Fortnite Season 8 Update Adds Apex Legends-Style Ping Feature

Battle royale game Apex Legends has only been out for a few weeks and Fortnite is already copying one of its best ideas, with today’s Season 8 update adding a ping system alongside other new stuff like pirate ships and a giant volcano. One of the most refreshing things players discovered about Apex Legends, which…

When Should You Start Introducing Your Kids To Video Games?

As a gamer parent, I long for the day when I can play side-by-side with my beloved progeny. Overtly or not, I think most of us hope that our kids will turn out to be mini Pokémon trainers or enthusiastic Destiny squadmates. But what’s the best way to introduce children to games? Sometimes, forcing something…

A free version of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is coming to PlayStation 4 and PC on March 12. Players of the free version will access a rotating weekly roster of heroes and villains, with the option to purchase characters and weapons ala carte. Existing players will enjoy a flood of easy new opponents. Everybody wins!

Tetsuya Nomura Talks Kingdom Hearts III DLC 

Kingdom Hearts III has enough game to keep folks busy for a while. But in a recent Dengeki Online interview, creator Tetsuya Nomura was asked about what comes next. Warning: This article has spoilers. Dengeki Online pointed out that Kingdom Hearts III doesn’t have the Critical Mode difficulty that the Final Mix versions of Kingdom…

WARSAW Looks To Bring Darkest Dungeon To The Second World War

WARSAW is an upcoming “turn-based tactical rpg” set during the Second World War. Obviously there’s a big Darkest Dungeon influence here, not just from the genre but the art style as well. Still, this is a part of the war (the Polish resistance to German occupation) that isn’t covered by video games very often—and when…

Fan Tries To Fix Yakuza’s PC Version, And It’s Fascinating

Silent, normally a Grand Theft Auto modder, played Yakuza 0 on PC recently and loved it. What he didn’t love, though, was the game’s lighting, which at launch was kinda busted, so he decided to get into the code and fix it himself This is normally where a lot of these kinds of stories end.…

Accountants Throw One Hell Of A Doom Party

Work is hell, but usually in just the metaphorical sense; you wouldn’t expect an office full of accountants to actually look like the kind of place you’d run through with a chainsaw saving humanity from space demons. And yet here we are, with LPL Financial in San Diego throwing this little soiree for Halloween last…