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Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Streaming Service

Today, Microsoft announced its plans to enter the world of video game streaming with Project xCloud, an ambitious service with a silly title that promises to allow the streaming of Xbox One games across computers, phones, and tablets. Microsoft says it’s currently testing out Project xCloud and plans to open up tests to the public…

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is coming to Switch today. Drinkbox Studios announced the stealth release in a press release, adding that Guacamelee! 2 will arrive on the Nintendo console sometime in December. It won’t have any additional content, but will support up to four players with the Joy-Con.

Let’s Appreciate Flight Sim Graphics For A Minute

Digital Combat Simulator is more widely famous for a takeoff video, but jokes about how complicated it is can get in the way of just how good these planes can look. Here’s the latest entry, due out this “Winter”. It focuses on the F-14 Tomcat—a subject very close to my heart—and has loads of cool…

Doomfist’s new Halloween skin is called “Swamp Monster”. It really should be called “Doomfish”, as this started-as-a-joke-but-is-actually-a-good-idea petition points out.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Players Are Getting Their Asses Kicked By Chickens

If you’ve put any time into Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you’ve probably encountered some aggressive wildlife. Lions, boars, and dogs roam the Greek landscape looking for blood. But you never expect a chicken attack. You don’t want to piss off a chicken in Odyssey. They are small, aggressive, and they attack for seemingly no reason. Unlike…

Nightdive Studios have released footage of the “Adventure Alpha” of their System Shock remake. The footage was linked in a Kickstarter update that has a lot of info about doors. There is currently no release date for the game. 

Rimworld will leave early access on October 17, the studio announced today. The Dwarf Fortress-esque building game has been in development since 2013.

Telltale’s The Walking Dead Will Be Finished By Another Company

Skybound Games will complete Season 4 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, the company announced today. Skybound Games is part of the company behind The Walking Dead comics, which Telltale’s adaptation is based on. “We’re SO happy to announce that we’ve reached a deal with Telltale Games that will allow Skybound to continue The Walking Dead:…

Adapting A Magic: The Gathering Card Into A Life Size Cosplay Weapon Is Cool

There are quite a few equipment cards in Magic: The Gathering that get players excited, but the ever-scary Bonesplitter has been cleaving through enemies since it was printed in the Mirrodin set fifteen years ago. And now you can see how you might recreate it in real life. The YouTube channel Odin Makes is generally…

My Favorite Part Of Forza Horizon 4 Is Naming Myself Sonny Jim

Like many other people, I have been enjoying my time scooting around the United Kingdom in Forza Horizon 4, but that has been made all the sweeter because my name is Sonny Jim. Not in real life, of course. I am not Sonny Jim. But when Forza Horizon 4 presented me with with a huge…

Fan Recreates Metal Gear Solid In Lego Worlds

A fan tribute to Metal Gear Solid is always welcome, but when it comes with a hefty helping of Lego it is hard to ignore. Lego Worlds has allowed for some really fascinating creations, including a Dark Souls replication, and YouTube user Craig Kelly has used the extensive Lego tools to do an incredible job…

Fortnite Event Will Let ‘Creators’ Earn Money From Fans’ In-Game Purchases

Epic Games have announced a new “Support-A-Creator” event that begins October 8 and runs through the end of the year that allows creators to earn real-world currency when their supporters spend V-bucks, Fortnite’s in-game currency. Players will be able to support creators by adding a creator’s Epic tag in the Support a Creator menu in…

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is getting a “match composer” for multiplayer. In a tweet yesterday, Brian Jarrard, the Community Director for 343 Industries, said it would facilitate mixtape matchmaking. The mode will enter into testing “soon.”

Just Cause 4 Is A Series Of Chaotic Science Experiments

I’m standing on a bridge connecting two small mountains, staring at the tree-laden canyon and small river below. I turn around and walk towards the road, trying to find my bearings and get a handle on the controls. Seconds later, a car plows into me. The screen turns to red and then grey, but I’m…

The Antagonist In Life Is Strange 2 Is Racism

The first season of Life Is Strange leaned on melodrama to give some stakes to its story of a time-traveling queer girl and a potentially destructive tornado. This season’s first episode also leans into schlock, but this time, the story is about racism in America. Sometimes, that melodrama made me groan. When it works, though,…

We are playing Trails in the Sky on our Twitch channel! I have always wanted to play it, and there’s no motivation for doing something you have always wanted to do than making it part of your job! Yell at me in the chat!

Mario Odyssey‘s Goomba-Stacking Limit Has Been Found

How many Goombas can be stacked atop one another in Super Mario Odyssey? Playing normally the answer is 30, but video game developer and dissector Skelux has managed a stack of 200. A very unstable stack of 200. They may be magical mushroom creatures, but Goombas are still subject to the laws of physics. His…

How The ‘NPC’ Meme Tries To Dehumanize ‘SJWs’

From time to time, and especially if you’re a fan of science fiction, you may have had the thought that nobody around you is actually real. That sentiment has taken root in anti-progressive parts of the internet as a dehumanizing meme, and it borrows some familiar gaming terminology. About a month ago, a meme along…

My First Tattoo Lets Me Remember My Love For Skies Of Arcadia

My favorite video game of all time is Skies of Arcadia, a Japanese RPG released for the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast in 2000. The Dreamcast was an amazing console, with bright and colorful games that left a major impact on me. So, when the time came for me to finally get my first tattoo, I took…

Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s first downloadable add-on, a $5 adventure that focuses on a new tomb that can be played solo or co-op, will be out on November 13. That’s an unexplained delay, given that the game’s season pass had promised seven monthly add-on tombs starting in October.