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Fancy Coffee Table Turns Into Arcade Setup

Swedish designer Love Hulten is behind this very Scandinavian, very lovely coffee table. That just so happens to also magically transform into an arcade setup. As you can see, what from the outside looks like a pair of handles, designed to pull out a draw that maybe has some magazines or remote controls in it,…

Nemesis, set in a universe that’s basically Alien without the license, is a very good and popular board game about escaping a bug-infested ship while also fucking over your friends. It’s now also becoming a video game.

NYC Prisoners Given $15 Bootleg Game Boys

Because prison visits and social mingling have been curtailed recently as part of Covid-19 precautions, the New York City Department of Corrections have decided to buy 5500 handheld gaming machines at a cost of $15 each to try and give inmates at the city’s prisons something else to do. As the Daily News reported last…

Do you like games about undead pegleg criminal penguins being heroic? Of course you do. That’s why you’re so excited about Prinny 1+2: Exploded and Reloaded coming to the Switch on October 13. It’s two Disgaea-adjacent PlayStation Portable games, now playable on a system that’s not dead, dood.

Adidas’ Pokémon Slides Are Very Cute

Continuing their recent series of footwear collabs, Adidas this week have released a very nice pair of Pikachu slides. The good news? They look great and are only $20! The bad news? They’re only in kids sizes, and are already sold out. If you’ve got kids or tiny feet though don’t despair, a lot of…

Post-apocalyptic action platformer Steel Assault has a new trailer up showing off some gorgeous pixel animation. The game was Kickstarted back in 2015 and while it’s now 2020 and the game’s still not out (it’s planned for PC by the end of the year) it’s come a long way.

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Hero Creates The Entire Smash Bros. Ultimate Roster In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Redditor DJ-Dez spent over 400 hours creating Animal Crossing custom costumes representing every playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, though they may have cheated a bit on the Villager and Isabelle. There are those who create custom clothing in Animal Crossing, and there are those who wait patiently for other people to put in…

Attack On Titan Creator Dreams Of Opening A Sauna

In a recent interview, Hajime Isayama was asked how much is left in his Attack on Titan manga, which debuted back in September 2009 and has become a massive hit, spawning anime, and live-action adaptations. According to Isayama, there’s about five percent left in the manga before it will end its run. The upcoming anime…

EA Play Live has been postponed to June 18 due to “the important conversations taking place around the world.” The event, which was originally scheduled for June 11, is meant to be a digital replacement for the publisher’s typical E3 showcase.

The summer edition of the Steam Game Festival has been pushed back a week to June 16-22. As with previous installments, the event is meant to showcase demos for upcoming games. No reason was provided for the delay.

Magic‘s New Set Stars A Black Man Who Can Bend Time, And I’m Here For It

Wizards of the Coast kicked off the new Magic: The Gathering set release with a preview of the Core 2021 set. The set features a new Teferi planeswalker, reprints of powerful cards, and the return of phasing—a mechanic not seen in Standard decks for over 20 years. While the official stream revealed only a handful…

Summer Games Done Quick 2020 is moving online in response to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The annual speedrunning marathon will maintain its previous schedule, broadcasting live August 16-23 to gather donations for Doctors Without Borders.

Sega’s New Streaming Platform Will Turn Japanese Arcades Into Little Data Centers

According to the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, Sega is currently researching and developing an exclusive new arcade-based streaming tech for Japan called “Fog Gaming.” The name Fog Gaming comes from fog computing, and the concept uses the arcade infrastructure in Japan. Arcade games use servers that are then connected to the cloud. Fog Gaming…

Pokémon Star In Very Cool Old-Timey Cartoon

Pokémon’s official Japanese Kids TV channel today released something definitely worth four minutes of your time: a short called Chase the Beans, starring Scraggy and Mimikyu. Animated in the style of old 1930s, Fleischer-esque cartoons, there’s no dialogue, just an incredible soundtrack and equally impressive animation.

NBA 2K20 Is Giving Players “I Can’t Breathe” And “Black Lives Matter” T-Shirts

A number of Take-Two’s games, from Grand Theft Auto to Red Dead, took their servers down for a couple of hours today to “honor the legacy of George Floyd”. NBA 2k20 did as well, but the basketball game is getting more active with its messaging than just going offline. One of the game’s clothing stores,…

Sims 4 Update Introduces Burning Piss

Thanks to the abudance of mods and player-created content bogging down any given Sims 4 save, plus the game’s age, new updates can often break a bunch of stuff. Something I’ve never seen before, though, is a Sim’s excrement catching fire in a toilet bowl. As RPS report, the game’s latest update has introduced an…

2K has postponed the release of Borderlands 3‘s second Takedown “out of respect for what’s going on in the world.” The event was scheduled to launch today but will now be delayed indefinitely. 2K will also be adding an additional $1 million in funding to its 2K Foundations program.

The excellent roguelike card game Slay the Spire is coming to iOS later this month, according to a new post on Steam by Mega Crit Games. An Android port is also in the works, but further out the studio said. 

Wizards of the Coast announced today’s livestream event featuring previews of the Core 2021 set will be delayed until Friday, June 5th at 7 a.m. PST. This delay also affects updates to MTG: Arena and Online that would have implemented the latest banned and restricted ruleset.