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Some Of The Fall’s Biggest Switch Games Are Shortchanging Handheld Mode 

Super Mario Party comes out on Friday. It’s the series’ debut on Switch and the first main entry since 2015’s ill-fated Mario Party 10 on Wii U. It has 80 new mini games, one of which even utilizes multiple Switches to create a shared, continuous screen. What it doesn’t have is handheld mode support, the…

Google Announces Project Stream, Which Lets You Stream Games In Chrome

Google’s long-rumored Yeti streaming service is now official, as the company today announced Project Stream, a service that will allow users to stream games to the Google Chrome internet browser. The first game supported will be Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which launches on Friday. “We’ve been working on Project Stream, a technical test to solve some…

The Closest Thing To A New Zelda Dungeon Is… Nintendo Labo?

The Nintendo Labo Vehicle kit is far from a new Zelda game, but while building it recently, I had flashbacks to some of my favorite parts of some of the best Zelda adventures. I can’t stop telling people this. I hope not everyone thinks I’ve lost my mind. Like the first two Labo kits released…

Overwatch‘s Group-Finder Is Now Mean Girls For Competitive Play

In July, Overwatch got a group-finder, and now meeting teammates for the game’s competitive mode often feels less like teaming up with a bunch of random gamers on the internet and more like trying to sit at the popular kids’ high school lunch table. The group finder is meant to help players compose teams. In…

Pokémon Go Doesn’t Want You Playing Outside During Typhoons

This weekend, a typhoon hit Japan. Pokémon Go players noticed something: a warning system. Players were alerted of rain and strong winds. These warnings, however, aren’t new and have been appearing over the past few months. Guess some folks are just noticing! The above Tweet pointing out the warning system this weekend went viral Here…

The PS4 Pro is getting a price cut in Japan. Originally priced at 44,980 yen ($394), the PS4 Pro will be 39,980 yen ($351) from October 12. The Glacier White PS4 Pro will also be available as a standard color as it is in North America.

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Black Ops 4‘s New Ad Campaign Is Actually Pretty Funny

In anticipation of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s release on October 12, the Call of Duty brand has launched a wave of commercials that lean into what the community has been doing during the various betas this year. They’re funny! These videos, tagged with #CODNation, are made up of community created content that has…

Arena’s Open Beta Is A Good Way To Play Magic: The Gathering, But It Has Some Pitfalls

Magic: The Gathering Arena is the venerable card game’s new entry into the digital space, and the free-to-play game is finally in open beta on PC after several months of closed beta. I’ve been playing it for those several months. I have some opinions. If you aren’t aware of Magic: The Gathering, it is a…

​Fallout 2‘s First Dungeon Isn’t All That Terrible

Fallout 2 released on this day 20 years ago, so we thought it would be fun to relive the opening dungeon of the game through Kirk’s eyes. This piece originally ran on June 20, 2014 I’ve wanted to play Fallout 2 for a long time. The reaction I get from people when I say I…

Dark Souls 3‘s Cut Environment Effects Look Amazing

Data digger Lance McDonald has worked through the game files in the original alpha for Dark Souls III and has discovered some radical environmental changes that were implemented then cut from the game. The key to changing environment effects in the game has to do with what is labeled in the game files as “ceremonies.”…

The Perfect Beer Pairings For Magic Cards

An Instagram account called “jokulhops” is pairing specific Magic cards with beers that seem to go with them. This is the kind of Magic content that I enjoy. As you can see in the header, the delicious peach fruit that the Spike Feeder is, well, feeding on looks juicy and amazing. What better way to…

Grand Theft Auto V Mod Lets You Become The Predator

The Predator has fascinated us since its film debut all the way back in 1987, and now, through the power of modding, you can play as this intergalactic hunter in Grand Theft Auto V The Predator mod is developed by JulioNIB, who created the amazing Magneto mod that we featured a few weeks ago. While…

Pandas are coming to Minecraft. Pandas are coming to Minecraft! Pandas! Are! Coming! To! Minecraft! They were revealed in a Minecon World stream today, and they are “lazy and playful.” They will appear in the holiday update coming to Minecraft later this year.

Minecraft: Dungeons Is The New Game Set In The Minecraft Universe

Minecraft: Dungeons, a new game set in the Minecraft universe, was announced during the Minecon Earth livestream this afternoon. While details on the game are slim, the developer interviews in a short video that played before the official trailer claimed that Minecraft: Dungeons is an adventure game where up to four players can team up…

Professor Layton On Mobile Could Really Use A Stylus (Or An iPad)

The first game in the Professor Layton series, 2007’s Curious Village, is now out in a beautiful HD version for smart devices. It’s a nice way to revisit this excellent puzzle game, but trying to play something designed to use with the Nintendo DS precision stylus on a phone with a finger can be annoying.…

Video Game Wikis Abandon Their Platform After Year Of Problems

After a year of issues, the Runescape wiki is leaving the Fandom platform, and more may follow suit. If you need to look up a video game factoid, you’re probably going to end up on a site owned by Fandom, which provides a free-to-use online encyclopedia framework called Wikia. Starting last year, these video game…

For Some Reason, Soulcalibur VI‘s Tira Is In The Beta, But Still Sold Separately As DLC

Last month, Soulcalibur fans were disappointed to learn that longtime series regular Tira was not on the main roster for Soulcalibur VI, instead relegated to day one paid downloadable content. She did, however, make it onto the roster for this weekend’s free network test. Great. It’s understandable that fans of the series would be upset…

Valve Renames Artifact Card To Make It Not Sound Racist

Valve’s card game Artifact is coming out in November. Recently, the Artifact Twitter account has been tweeting out designs for some of the cards alongside explanations of how they work. On September 26, that included a card called “Crack The Whip,” the text of which begins “Modify a black hero…” Today the name of the…

Warring EVE Online Factions Declare Peace, For Money

The latest all-out EVE Online war has come to an end, and there’s a clear winner and loser. The Guardians of the Galaxy coalition has agreed to surrender a vast amount of in-game assets to its foes The Imperium in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. The massive war between the Northern Alliances and the…