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Smash Bros. Ultimate Update Adds Piranha Plant, Features Enormous List Of Actual Patch Notes

Nintendo’s patch notes are notorious for saying pretty much nothing. So the latest Smash Ultimate update—which also marks the release of Piranha Plant—contains a nice surprise: a lengthy and detailed breakdown of everything that’s changing, down to each fighter’s specific tweaks. The 2.0.0. patch notescan be found in full here, and really are enormous. Every…

Mod Creates “HD” Final Fantasy VII Using AI Neural Networks

We’ve seen the original Doom made “HD” using AI neural networks, now it’s the turn of Final Fantasy VII, with a mod for the PC version of the game creating backgrounds that have 4x the resolution. The mod’s creator CaptRobau explains how it works: The Remako HD Graphics Mod is a mod that completely revamps…

French Man Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Replacing PS4 Price Tag With $10 Fruit Sticker

Sometimes, it is better to let dreams be dreams. A 19-year-old man from Nice, France learned that the hard way when he got the wild idea to take a PlayStation 4 off the shelf of a supermarket, walk to the fruit section, weigh it, print out a price tag sticker, put it on the box,…

14 Year-Old Kid Found Apple’s Facetime Bug During Fortnite Session, Tried To Warn Apple

Apple’s massive Facetime bug, which “allows for users to eavesdrop on others while a call is still ringing”, was found as early as last week by a 14 year-old kid who was trying to get his friends together for a Fortnite session. The Wall Street Journal reports that Grant Thompson, from Tucson, was “setting up…

Woman Gets Impressive PlayStation Care Package After Freak Golfing Accident

Taryn Martsella was surprised when she recently received a PS4 Pro, a PlayStation Platinum wireless headset, a gift card for Maui Jim sunglasses and 10 games in the mail. But that, she says, is what she got after getting a scary injury at a Sony-sponsored pro golf tournament. Her injury had been nasty. She’d been…

Shadow of the Colussus-inspired Praey For The Gods will come to Steam Early Access on January 31. The last we heard of the icy survival game its developers were being forced to change the title because Bethesda owned the Trademark for “Prey.” Based on the trailer, Praey appears to be coming along nicely.

Dreams Beta Players Are Building Jupiter’s Moons And Beautiful Fried Eggs

Dreams, Media Molecule’s sandbox for people to create, share, and play one another’s games, has been in closed beta since December 2018. Now that the non-disclosure agreement for that initial beta has expired, Dreams beta players can finally give everybody else a better look at what the game actually is, and it looks pretty damn…

A Game Where You Are The Boulder Sisyphus Must Push

Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Inversion Edition is a browser-based game where you play not as the punished, but the punisher. It puts you in the perspective of a god, an inscrutable being of unimaginable power, and then lets you marvel in how unsatisfying that experience must be. Greek mythology is littered with stories of…

What tricks went into making one of the best games ever? YouTube channel Boundary Break has peered behind the scenes of the N64and the DS versions of Super Mario 64 to show off secret rooms, hidden NPCs, and the inner workings of Peach’s Castle.

Top Smash Bros. Commentator Is No Longer Accepting Feedback On Her Speaking Voice

Victoria “VikkiKitty” Perez had been competing at Super Smash Bros. 4 for five months when local tournament organizers plucked her out of the contender’s pool and threw her on stage to commentate. Over the PA one 2015 tournament in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, everybody heard the words, “Victoria, come into the stream room.” It wasn’t a…

Me (Tim Rogers) and Paul are going to tear through Toy Story world in Kingdom Hearts III over on our Twitch channel. We will skip all cutscenes and not discuss spoilers! Come yell at Woody and Buzz with us in the chat!

The Real Story Behind Pioneer, The Troubled Sci-Fi Game Teased In Watch Dogs 2

A tweet two weeks ago from a former Ubisoft director led the gaming world to believe that Pioneer, the sci-fi game that was teased inside of Watch Dogs 2, was canceled. Is it, though? The answer to that question is hazy, and may depend on your definition of “canceled.” Some background: In November 2016, a…

Resident Evil 2 “No-Hit” Playthrough Is A Masterclass In Zombie Dodging

The Resident Evil 2 remake might not have the teeming hordes of the original, but it’s still packed with zombies and other monsters that can wreck your day. Surviving can be tricky, but one speedrunner made it a point to breeze through one of the game’s route on the highest difficulty without taking a single…

EA has announced it will stop selling FIFA Points on January 31 in Belgium after previously saying it would fight claims by the country’s regulators that FIFA’s loot boxes constituted gambling. The company apologized to players in the country “for any inconvenience caused by this change.” 

Fallout 76‘s patch 5 goes live today bringing a ton of much needed balance changes In addition to reducing the damage bonuses for explosive and two shot mods by more than half, players are now limited to carrying no more than 1,500 pounds over their weight limit and Bobblehead effects no longer stack 

Razer Is Making Everything Pink Now, Including Laptops

Last year hardware maker Razer turnedfour of its peripherals pink. This year the company’s “Quartz” line of pink gaming gear expands by a microphone, wireless PlayStation 4 controller, headset stand, phone case and, best of all, a limited edition pink metal Razer Blade Stealth laptop. Pink metal. Mmmm. My love of pink things, specifically pink…

GameStop said this morning that it’s given up on a sale, news that sent stock tumbling. “GameStop’s Board has now terminated efforts to pursue a sale of the company due to the lack of available financing on terms that would be commercially acceptable to a prospective acquiror,” the retailer said in a statement. Uh oh.

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Look At These Pikachu Sneakers

Yellow? Check. Fluffy? Check. Tail? Check. These upcoming Pokemon sneakers by Glamb will be out in Japan next month, and I love them. There won’t be many pairs made, and those that will be are coming in a fairly limited run of sizing. They’re also selling for USD$250, so these are definitely in “cool shoes…

$100 Dark Souls Statue Is Just The Bonfire

Later this year, Gecco will be releasing their next Dark Souls statue. Unlike previous ones, which have featured characters from the series (and run up $300 price tags), this one isjust the bonfire The bonfire is 1/6 scale, same as the statues, and does actually have some functionality; the sword comes separate from the base,…