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Vampyr’s new difficulty modes are live today. When starting a new game, players can select Story mode, which de-emphasizes combat, or Hard mode, which makes combat tougher and reduces XP gained from defeating enemies.

Zenyatta Overwatch Figure Comes With All The Glowing Orbs

No video game is complete without some sort of glowing orb, and Omnic monk Zenyatta is Overwatch’s prime source of lighted spheres. Japanese toymaker Good Smile Company understands this. That’s why their new Zenyatta figure has all of the orbs. Now available for preorder for about $80 USD with a release planned for next summer,…

Sony Is Finally Allowing Cross-Play On The PS4 [Update]

Having resisted for so long, Sonyis finally giving in and allowing cross-play on the PS4 “for select third party content”, meaning PlayStation 4 owners will soon get to play the same game against people on competing consoles. In a blog post, Sony say: Following a comprehensive evaluation process, SIE has identified a path toward supporting…

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood release on the Playstation 4 on October 26th. That’s just in time for Halloween and just in time to annoy your friends by asking them “What is a man!” over and over again.

Man Makes Excellent Anime Trope Glasses

A common trope in anime is light reflecting on glasses. You’ve seen them in Detective Conan, Evangelion and more. TV Tropes calls these lenses “scary shiny glasses.” One man decided to make them. The trope is used to underscore a character’s thoughts or emotions. Twitter user Hideki Katsumura bought some cheap glasses and stuck LED…

After Bowsette, Fans Go Wild For Boosette

Bowsette isn’t the only fan creation tearing up the internet. Boosette is really making a name for herself. As Kotaku previously reported, the Super Crown in New Super Mario Bros. Wii U Deluxe led to fanart in which Bowser morphed into a new character, Bowsette. Fans didn’t stop there, dreaming up what other characters would…

BTS And Jimmy Fallon Did Fortnite Dances 

K-pop supergroup BTS appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing “Idol” and as a special bonus “I’m Fine.” The group and talk show host also pulled off their best Fortnite dance moves. You can watch the group’s performances below Here they are doing Fortnite dances And if you missed it, here’s the group’s…

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X018—a “global celebration of all things Xbox”—will be held in Mexico City on November 10-11. There’ll be thousands of fans in attendance, but announcements will be streamed online as well.

AtGames will release a “Legends Flashback” console on October 1, with 50 console and arcade games including Mega Man 1 and 2, Super SFII, Joe & Mac, Bad Dudes, and, weirdly, the Famicom version of Tetris. It’ll have HDMI out, save states, and rewind.

Here, A Bowsette Amiibo, I Hope You’re All Happy

Nintendo has of course released official Peach Amiibo. But it’s up to people like GandaKristo turn them into something fans truly want The custom Amiibo creator extraordinaire has created the masterpiece you see here. And the back: Perfection. We’vefeatured her work here before, but in the time since our last showcase and this she’s also…

Scrabble Adds 300 New Words, Like “Sheeple” And “OK”

Four years after its last update, the official Merriam-Webster Scrabble Dictionary is having around 300 new words added to the ranks. AsAP reports, 20 of those start with Q, like “Qapik”, which is “a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to 1/100 of the Azerbaijani manat”. Also added are some Asian culinary treasures, like “bibimbap” and…

Xbox One Getting Mouse + Keyboard Support

FPS games (and…strategy games?) are about to get a lot more precise on the Xbox One, with the announcement today that Microsoft is “enabling mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One for select Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks.” It’s a game-by-game thing, with developers free to choose whether they implement the added compatibility or…

Cloud Saves Will Last Six Months After A Switch Online Subscription Ends

When Nintendo Switch Online launched last week, subscribers gained the ability to finally back up their save files. One question remained, though: what would happen if the subscription lapsed? Nintendo’s original support page FAQ was vague on the matter, but today the company confirmed they’ll last for six months. For $4 a month or $20…

Ex-Telltale Developers Share Alternate Walking Dead Endings And Other Gags

Telltale is no more, and its smoldering remains are being sued for failing to give hundreds of employees adequate notice or compensation. There’s a faint glimmer of a silver lining, though. Ex-employees have been sharing odds and ends from their time at Telltale, and now they’ve gotten to the primo stuff: the goofs. Today, Jake…

Here’s October 2018’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

Xbox announced October’s Games with Gold lineup during its Inside Xbox presentation this afternoon. I’m excited to see Hitman: Blood Money because it’s a chance to play some Hitman before I get to play more Hitman next month. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. October’s…

Take A Break With This Cat Who Plays Your Favorite Tunes

Want respite from a hectic, stressful world? Here, have some Bongo Cat. Bongo Cat was originally created by artist Stray Rogue, and wasn’t originally called Bongo Cat or even playing the bongos. Stray Rogue had been drawing a cat-like blob called Rogu for some time. In May, they drew Rogu smacking a counter with their…

Fans And Developers Are Torn About Whether The Walking Dead Games Should Continue

Today, what’s left of Telltale Games following mass layoffs on Friday released episode two of The Walking Dead: The Last Season. It’s good, and while it would take the series out on a high note, many fans are ambivalent about whatever comes next. When the closure of Telltale was first announced on Friday, people weren’t…

Destiny 2‘s Dreaming City looks… different today. It’s all part of the ongoing Taken Curse storyline, which just got a new chapter. Sounds like it’s nearing its conclusion. Today the game also gets the new Breakthrough PvP mode, three new Crucible maps, and, well, who knows? Possibly another secret or two. We’ll see.

The Gardens Between Provides My Favorite Gaming Fantasy: Control Of Time

Move forward and time advances. Move backwards and time rewinds. It’s a simple idea that games such as Superhot have done well. It’s one of the only things you can do in The Gardens Between, a simple, beautiful three-button game I’m enjoying during my breaks between climbing the mountains of this season’s gargantuan releases. The…