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All these Ubisoft games are connected, huh? We’ve seen that Assassin’s Creed is a game played in the world of Watch Dogs (and seems to co-exist in the same world as Watch Dogs). Now, in today’s new Division 2 prequel comic book, The Division: Extremis Malis, you can squint and see that people in that Ubisoft series…

Artist Turns Sega Master System Into The Steampunkiest Console Ever

Modern video games are almost entirely played on black, plastic boxes. The Xbox One, PS4, and even the Switch sans colorful Joy-Con are non-discrete electronics designed to be as visually unobtrusive as possible. Form can be as important as function, though, and I like a little bit of color and whimsy in the objects I…

What Is This, A Platformer For Ants?

Between mobile phones and handheld consoles from the Game Boy to the Nintendo Switch, most of us have played games on small screens. Heck, I’ve featured incredibly small games on this site before. But Lilli, by Eric V. Bailey, might be the tiniest damn game I’ve ever played. It’s 64 by 64 pixels big, and…

Someone Made An Arcade Stick For The Virtual Boy, Of All Things

As a kid who grew up with arcades around every corner, nothing feels better to me than sitting down with a balltop joystick and several clacking buttons. But the 90s also gave birth to the universally panned Virtual Boy. Oddly enough, one determined fan has taken the time to produce a high-quality arcade stick for…

Praise Chernobog! The Shrouded Aisle is coming to Switch on January 17th. I loved this cult management sim when I played it on my laptop. Can’t wait to take ritual sacrifice on the go.

Peach Is A Monster In Smash Ultimate, Pros Say

Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios, regarded as the best Smash 4 player in the world, recently needed a safe approach against Ezra “Samsora” Morris Jr., who was playing Peach. It was their both of their final stocks at last weekend’s Smash Ultimate tournament, Smash Conference. Barrios tried hard to bait Morris’s white gown-wearing Peach as she fluttered through…

Official Sims Smart Speaker App Will Understand Simlish

In the holiday update to The Sims 4, the game got a smart speaker that your Sims can talk to. Soon, there will be a Sims app for real Amazon Alexa devices. In-game, your Sims can talk to their smart speaker, called Lin-Z, to listen music, play trivia, and even order a pizza. The upcoming…

The Division 2 won’t be landing on Steam initially and will, in fact, launch on the Epic Games store on March 15, GamesIndustry.biz reports. The Epic Games store is skimming only 12% off sales compared to Steam’s 30%, making it an attractive option for game developers. GamesIndustry.biz added that publisher Ubisoft will be working with…

Zelda II is back in the news thanks to Nintendo’s announcement that the game is coming to the Switch this month for subscribers of Nintendo’s online subscription service. Did you know that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has some regrets about how this game came together? We talked about it with him in 2013.

One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda Opens Up His House

Tonight on Japanese TV, Eiichiro Oda not only let some of the country’s most famous folks into his house but the television-viewing public. We’vepreviously seen peeks inside chez Oda, but this time, television show Honmadekka!? TV did a whole special episode on the place. The show is hosted by Sanma Akashiya, who, along with Beat…

For Japan, Square Enix has announced a Final Fantasy digital card game that is called, wait for it, Final Fantasy Digital Card Game. It’s a free-to-play browser game that will be released on Yahoo! Japan this year.

Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link and Blaster Master are headed to Nintendo Switch Online on January 16 In the immortal words of the teacher from Willy Wonka: “Just two?” Oh well, at least they’re good ones. Looking forward to “special save data” for Zelda II that’ll make it less annoying. Yeah, I said it. Fight…

The ridiculously adorable Yoshi’s Crafted World will launch March 29 on Switch, Nintendo said today. This would be a good time to start stocking up on insulin for the impending sugar overload. Also, Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, an upgraded version of the Wii game for the 3DS, will hit on March 8.

Civilization V’s Narrator Has Died

British actor William Morgan Sheppard, the voice of Firaxis’ Civilization V, has died. He was 86. Sheppard’s career spanned six decades, across TV, theatre, film and video games, and included appearances in everything from Doctor Who to Star Trek to Medal of Honor, whose earlier games he provided the briefings: But it’s his role as…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Has New Level Scaling

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has a weird approach to way its enemies level. Now there’s an option in the game to change this. To recap, here’s how the game approaches enemy levelling by default: Every region on Odyssey’s map has two numbers associated with it. Those numbers indicate, in part, how leveled up you need to…

Top Smash Player Gets Temporary Twitch Ban For Drinking Too Much On Stream

Joseph “Mango” Marquez, one of the “five gods” of Super Smash Bros. Melee, is on an unpaid vacation this week after Twitch banned his channel for allegedly drinking too much during a weekend stream and passing out. Marquez shared the news on his Twitter account, tweeting out a screenshot of the email from Twitch letting…

The Year-Long, Undercover Plot To Blow Up EVE Online‘s Most Notorious Space Station

In theory, anything can happen in EVE Online, but some things are considered impossible. Well, last month, one of the “impossible” things happened: The destruction of the game’s first-ever Keepstar battlestation, which was kept in a wormhole. Of course, it took 11 months of meticulous planning. Ever since the massive Keepstars, the largest structures that…

As a tie in with yesterday’s “Bastet” comic, Overwatch is kicking off an in-game event that’ll allow players to earn themed rewards. Much like D.Va’s Nano Challenge from last year, Ana’s Bastet Challenge will grant players a new skin for winning nine games, as well as other rewards on the way to that milestone. You…

The Animal Crossing Version Of ‘Sicko Mode’ Is A Bop

Every wondered what it would sound like if Animal Crossing’s K.K. Slider covered Travis Scott? We got you, fam. Travis Scott’s song “Sicko Mode” off his 2017 album Astroworld has been a huge hit, thanks to its unusual structure thatof transitions between three separate beats, its trippy video, and a verse from Drake that isn’t…

Paul and I are playing Katamari Damacy REROLL for the Nintendo Switch right now on Twitch. Is the song already stuck in your head? It definitely is in mine. lalalalalalaalalala