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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.

This Saturday’s PC Gaming Show has been delayed to June 13, PC Gamer wrote in a postyesterday. “Right now, we want to make space for those speaking out and demonstrating about how to end the systemic oppression and police brutality experienced by black people,” the site wrote

Report: Old Pokémon Games’ Encounter Rates Are Different On Different Days

Throughout 2020 the source code for a bunch of Pokémon games has been leaking online. As people are coming through the data, they’re making weird little discoveries, like the fact Gen 4 Pokémon games would seemingly adjust their encounter rates on certain days, like birthdays or the anniversaries of tragic events. As Polygon report, folks…

Frostpunk’s final season pass expansion, previously confusingly titled “TVADGYCGJR,” will be called “On The Edge” and is coming out on Steam this summer. A press release says it’s “set after the vicious Great Storm as the expedition is sent from New London with a special assignment” and will have “new unique mechanics both in the…

Mario And Luigi Make Magnificent Mechs

Singapore-based artist ClogTwo makes wonderfully detailed works imagining mechanical art. His Mechasoul series imagines iconic characters as pilots inside their own massive mechs. Mario and Luigi are the subjects of his latest work, and they are magnificent. The brothers Mario prepare for battle inside giant robot versions of themselves. Cutaways show off the insides of shock-absorbing…

The Next Total War Game Is Having A Very Weird, Epic-Exclusive Launch

Having previously been a series that we first associated with DVD drives and then Steam, the next release in the Total War series—the spinoff A Total War Saga: TROY—is going to be a 12-month Epic Games Store exclusive. And it’ll be…free? At least initially. Anyone downloading the game within the first 24 hours of it…

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I Am Black And Tired

George Floyd was murdered by the police, and I can’t tell you how hard it’s been to work, to write, or to live since then. I’ve felt like I’ve lost my ability to write. For the entire day I thought, “I can’t do this.” All my attempts to write something significant devolved into “a not-brief…

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How’s It Going?: Helping Edition

Welcome to Tuesday, and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been stressing out about feeling like I’m not doing enough to help the world lately, and I’m sure I’m not alone. For a bunch of reasons, my street protest days are pretty much behind me, but I don’t want that to be an…

Handheld Doom Lets You Manually Crank The Chaingun

It’s a well-known fact that the 1993 classic Doom will be ported to everything, eventually. You can now add the Playdate, a yet-to-be-released micro-console with a crank, to the long list of “Things That Can Run Doom.” Nic Magnier, a game developer, posted a video on Twitter over the weekend showing a version of Doom…

Anybody else still playing Super Mario Maker 2? My kid started playing it so I guess I’m playing it again. Somewhere in the experimentation, this level showed up. Are you a bad enough dude to save this frog?

Latest Magic: The Gathering Change Nerfs Companions

Say goodbye to Magic: The Gathering’s pesky nightmare kitty Lurrus of the Dream-Den. Companions have been nerfed with today’s new banned and restricted announcement Companions, introduced in the latest Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set, were a way to play with commanders without playing in the Commander format. Companions were cards that, like a commander, could…

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New EVE Online Update Puts Items At Risk If Player Citadels Fall Into Disrepair

EVE Online players are familiar with loss. In fact, one of the first pieces of advice given to new players is “Don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose.” When a spaceship is destroyed in EVE it’s gone forever; the only time a player’s assets are truly safe is when they’re locked inside an NPC-owned…

Bandai Namco has canceled its 2020 circuits for Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Soulcalibur VI due to the covid-19 pandemic. Online events are being planned to make up for the lack of competition.

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Today, Hironobu Sakaguchi announced that Terra Battle is ending service. The mobile game first launched in 2014 and went on to garner over 2.8 million downloads and spawn a sequel, Terra Battle 2. “I am so grateful for all the fans who played Terra Battle for nearly six years,” Sakaguchi added.

Oh, Cate Blanchett Is Starring In The Borderlands Movie

Well, this is awkward. Despite my best efforts to persuade her otherwise, Cate Blanchett has officially signed up to take part in the upcoming Borderlands movie, where she’ll be playing Lilith. The news wasn’t announced by Blanchett or her people, but by director Eli Roth, who toldEW “I’m so lucky to have the amazing Cate…

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