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New Plants vs. Zombies and Need for Speed games are coming later this year, EA said today ahead of its quarterly earnings call No other details just yet, but boy, it sure was a rough year for the publisher. “Q3 was a difficult quarter for Electronic Arts and we did not perform to our expectations,”…

Supermodel Tyra Banks Is Starting A Wildly Unspecific Theme Park Experience

Tyra Banks is starting a theme park and I need to lie down. I have seen more America’s Next Top Model than is probably healthy. That would be the modeling competition reality show that Tyra Banks hosted. It was a constant feature of my adolescence. I have a favorite winner (Dani), a favorite moment (Jade’s…

Player Hacks Overwatch To Play In-Game Piano With A Real Piano

You’ve probably heard by now that Overwatch’s new Paris map has a fully playable piano. You might have even heard somebody play “All Star” by Smash Mouth on it, because that song—a shimmering monument to the idea of unearned confidence—will outlive us all. Now, one player has taken things a step further. Overwatch fan Zbnone…

Breaking Down The Meta As Hell Opening To Kingdom Hearts III‘s Toy Story World

Kingdom Hearts III is an overwhelming melting pot of Disney cheer and anime excess. The franchise has previously included Square-Enix characters, and while they don’t make an appearance here, the game does include an extended gag trailer that pokes fun at the series’ direction and potentially teases what’s to come. Kingdom Hearts III shows a…

The Voice Chat Software In Fortnite Switch Is Now Available For All Developers

All Switch developers can now license the voice-chat software that powers the Switch version of Fortnite, the company behind the tech said today. That means an easy solution for developers who want to let you chat in Switch games using a headset plugged into the console, and not Nintendo’s bizarro-world phone app. Vivox, a tech…

What It Means When We Dream About Video Games

The optimal system for chopping, arranging, and serving cucumber sushi in Overcooked 2 exists only in my dreams. Lately, I’ve had those dreams a lot. Even if I’ve only played an hour of the strategy cooking game before bed, by the time I get into REM sleep I’m frantically dumping my sous-chef’s hot rice on…

Review Site OpenCritic Says It’ll Start Keeping Track Of Games With Loot Boxes

The review aggregation website OpenCritic announced today that games with loot box mechanics will now include a warning at the top of their OpenCritic page pointing that out. On Overwatch’s OpenCritic page, for example, there’s now a bolded section highlighted in orange right below the aggregated scores that reads: “Please note: This game has monetized…

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How Fans’ Lives Changed During The Long Wait For Kingdom Hearts III

Some got married. Some came out. Some simply got older and began looking differently at the world and the game series they loved. Devoted Kingdom Hearts fans waited 13 years for the big sequel to 2006’s Kingdom Hearts II, and in that time, their lives took some dramatic turns. Jaime bonded over the original 2002…

Twitch Streamer And Game Studio Employee Arrested In Child Sex Sting

Thomas Cheung, an employee of game studio Hi-Rez (Paladins) and a partnered Twitch streamer, was arrested last weekend in Brookhaven, Georgia in connection with a Super Bowl weekend child sex sting. Police charged him with using a computer service “to seduce, solicit, lure or entice” a child, which is a felony in Georgia. Cheung, 32,…

Overcooked 2 gets a free Chinese New Year update today that adds new kitchens, chefs, and recipes. Most notably, it also brings a new survival mode where you try to cook for as long as possible as each new dish adds more time to the clock.

Fortnite’s 7.30 update lets players use the campfires around the world to heal, similar to the Cosy Campfire item. The patch also adds a new weapon called Bottle Rockets, vaults the Boom Box, and makes the Chiller Grenade quieter

Mob Psycho 100‘s Heroes Offer Spiritual Advice Through A Fourth Wall-Breaking Website

Ever wanted to ask Mob and Reigen from the psychedelic anime Mob Psycho 100 for advice about your spooky problems? Now you can, at SpiritsandSuch.com The Spirits and Such website is named after Reigen and Mob’s supernatural consultation office from the show. If you haven’t seen it, the gist is that Mob is a shy…

A Totally Accurate Game About Being A Tree

How To Be A Tree is a game about being a regular, dumb old tree. You’ve got leaves, a trunk, branches—all that jazz. It has 16 endings. And only one of them involves standing still for literally the entire game. I’ve been waiting five years for How To Be A Tree. Now it’s out on…

LEGO Replaces Generic Star Wars Minifig With Actual Character

When LEGO first designed a set for The Last Jedi’s badass Resistance Bomber, they only had some art and reference photos to go on. So they gave the pilot a placeholder name and white skin and released it. Once the film and its expanded canon hit, though, it turns out the bomber’s pilot had a…

Here Are All Of Adidas’ Game Of Thrones Sneakers

First teased late last year, Adidas has now released images of their entire collaboration with HBO’s Game of Thrones, a line that’s going to include six pairs in all, each of them based on a house or faction from George R. R. Martin’s universe. The six pairs are going to be based on Houses Targaryen,…

Look At This Magical Nintendo 64

German artist Mizucat, who specialises in 80s and early 90s anime art, also dabbles in cutsom console paintjobs, like this fantastic Nintendo 64. It’s like a unicorn barfed a fairy dust cupcake all over some Nintendo hardware, and I love it. Maybe the best part is that the console isn’t just a paintjob, it’s a…

The Sims Isn’t A ‘Virtual Dollhouse,’ It’s A Fascinating Human Life Sim

The Sims turns 19 years old today. If you’ve ever pooh-poohed it for just being a “dollhouse” aimed at women and girls, maybe it’s time to give it a try. Nineteen years ago, players got their hands on the first Sims game. As the story goes, SimCity creator Will Wright was inspired to make a…

Warframe’s big Fortuna expansion arrives in the Switch version of the game February 5. In addition to getting a new open world space on Venus, story missions, and frames, the Switch version will also be getting a new option to enable motion controls only when aiming down sights.

Metro Series Will Continue On PC Even If People Boycott Epic Deal, Says Publisher

Metro Exodus’ long, bumpy ride to a February 15 release on the Epic Games Store has just hit another roadblock. Over the weekend, a developer at series creator 4A Games suggested that player boycotts happening in reaction to the Epic deal could lead to future Metro games not coming to PC at all. Now, publisher…