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Here’s November 2018’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

I’ve only just started getting into the Yakuza series, and November’s PlayStation Plus games will help me out with Yakuza Kiwami. I’m also excited to see the delightful Burly Men at Sea on there. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PS Plus subscription. November’s PlayStation Plus games are: PlayStation…

Learn Your ABCs With Our Video Game Horror Alphabet Book

Editor’s note: Happy Halloween! We’ve prepared a special treat (or is it a trick?)—our horror games reporter Stacie Ponder and editor Chris Kohler teamed up to bring you this special ABC book starring your favorite horror game pals (with sincere apologies to Edward Gorey). Stacie did the wonderful illustrations (tons of work), Chris wrote the…

Undertale Creator Releases New Game (Maybe?)

Is Deltarune a prequel to Undertale? A sequel? A prototype demo to garner feedback for the sequel? We won’t know until we play through the whole thing, but the new game from Undertale designer Toby Fox promises to be just as bizarre and trippy as the last one. (Plus, it’s an anagram.) After teasing a…

Japan’s Infamous Halloween Trains

In years past, the “Halloween train” was a carriage taken over by costume-wearing foreigners, who turned it into an impromptu space for merrymaking and boozing. Tokyo’s Halloween train even sparked protests! My, how things have changed. When riding the Midosuji Line in Osaka in late September of last year, I saw an advertisement that, no…

Fortnite and Minecraft Nintendo Switch bundles are coming to Japan later next month. The Fortnite one is the Double Helix Bundle that already launched in North America, while the Minecraft Switch set comes with the game’s digital download and collectible real-world stickers.

Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

One Twitch Streamer Is Fighting Racism With A Chicken Emote

Good plans are born after hours, days, or even months of meticulous planning, but the best plans emerge from dumb jokes. One day, Twitch streamer Xmiramira was doing her thing when a rando came into chat spewing what she remembered as “racist crap.” “Oh,” Xmiramira said in reply, “a wild cock has appeared.” Now her…

Fallout 76 Bug Accidentally Deletes Entire 50GB Beta

The Fallout 76 beta starts on PC tonight, but an 11th hour bug in Bethesda’s launcher has had unusually severe repercussions for some affected users. Earlier this evening, Bethesda tweeted: Don’t click any buttons? Weird. Turns out the “issue” wasn’t your average freeze. It was a bug where clicking any button on the launch client…

Happy Halloween

Sweet dreams. This animated take on artist Will Burke’s nightmarish Garfield sketches was done by artist and animator Lumpy There’s more coming!

Twitch’s New Karaoke Game Is Missing Some Of The Things I Love About Karaoke

I don’t just like karaoke; I love it. On average, I go out and sing at least twice a week, sometimes three times a week. Singing in bars in front of people helps me conquer my ever-present fear of doing literally anything in front of people. It’s a strange sort of therapy. Twitch and Harmonix’s…

Smash Bros. Fan Creates 8-Player GameCube Controller Adapter

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a little over a month away, and many die hard fans are set on playing it with a GameCube controller. The retro hardware’s hold on Smash Bros. players’ imagination is so intense Nintendo’s even started manufacturing them again. But the game features up to eight player local multiplayer, so one…

EVE Online‘s Constant Wars Are Driving Away New Players

EVE Online is a game that thrives on war. Players love to clash with each other, attempt to wrest control of territory from one another, and expand their influence in the game’s universe. These wars fuel the spectacle that surrounds EVE, drawing all eyes towards the game when an insane battle occurs. But some wars…

The Story Behind Square Enix’s Failed Latin America Video Game Division

In the summer of 2013, Square Enix sent a small team of representatives to Latin America for an ambitious business trip. They met with dozens of independent development studios across the region, visiting five countries over the span of a few days. They were looking for developers to partner with Square Enix to create games…

Bungie has detailed the many changes in today’s big Destiny 2 patch. Gambit Sleeper ammo nerf! Breakthrough tweaks! Enhancement Cores! Reduced exotic duplicates (allegedly)! Read all the changes at the Bungie blog

Nearly two decades old, venerable MMORPG EverQuest gets its 25th expansion pack on December 11. CalledThe Burning Lands, the expansion features a war between elemental jann, six new planar zones and a new Luck stat. Also, people are still playing EverQuest.

Transistor Sings On The Switch

I loved Transistor when I first played it on PC, but I struggled with some aspects of the game. The combat system, while interesting and creative, was sometimes tedious to control. On the Switch, the game feels more cohesive. In Transistor, you play as Red, a singer who has lost her voice. Plus, her boyfriend…

Red Dead Redemption 2 Defiantly Bucks Open-World Trends

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2 are both big open-world games, and they both came out in October of 2018. Both involve a hero on a horse riding around and murdering lots of people. The similarities end there. AC Odyssey is very much of its time. It’s an embodiment of the open-world game…

Google’s Homepage Is Now A Clever Multiplayer Halloween Game

A day before Halloween, Google has reworked its logo into an online multiplayer game called The Great Ghoul Duel to help people get into the spirit of things. While the company has featured games on its homepage before, this is the first that actually lets you play against other random strangers around the world. I…

Battlefield 1 Headlines November’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

In November’s Games with Gold, I’m personally most excited about indie racer Race the Sun, but Battlefield 1 is good too I guess. If you’re out of things to do in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you can go back to the start of the series with Assassin’s Creed As always, these games are only “free” if you have…

Symmetra’s Qualifying Matches Is A Delightful Overwatch Dating Sim

Overwatch dating simulator Symmetra’s Qualifying Matches is asking the important questions: “Will you date your teammates? Will you stay on the payload? Will you teleport everyone off the map and throw all your games?” Mostly, it’s focused on that first one. And the answer is resoundingly “yes.” Symmetra’s Qualifying Matches is a silly, riotously funny…