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Call of Duty‘s Frantic Battle Royale Takes Some Adjustment

Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s new battle royale mode Blackout is both familiar and strange for anyone into the genre. The game is split between frantic gunplay and methodical movement. I’ve had a lot of fun with it, but its fast pace doesn’t match the battle royale experience I’m used to. There’s two…

Animal-powered digital board/dice/card game Armello is coming to the Nintendo Switch September 27. The Switch version comes in two varieties. The $19.99 normal edition with the basic board and characters, and the $39.99 Complete Edition, which comes with $20 more stuff.

Fumito Ueda, creator of The Last Guardian, is currently prototyping game concepts for his studio Gen Design. Ueda recently told Weekly Famitsu, “It doesn’t feel like I’m making an indie game, but aim at ending up with the scale of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian

New Lupin Anime Just Referenced Castle of Cagliostro 

In the latest Lupin The Third Part 5 episode, there are multiple references to the 1979 film Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro Warning: Spoilers below! At the end of the episode, Lupin hides out at the castle, which has been turned into a tourist site. If you’ve seen that Hayao Miyazaki classic, you’ll…

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Modders Bring Cannon Fodder To The Switch

Funnily enough, this works best if you have the Amiga version of Cannon Fodder lying around. If you haven’t come across it already, Openfodder is basically what it says on the box: an open-source port of Sensible Software’s very good Cannon Fodder. And given that top-down shooters and twin-stick games work very well on the…

After Shooting At Dr Disrespect’s House, Streamers Are Concerned For Their Safety

Yesterday, one of Twitch’s best-known streamers, Dr Disrespect, was forced to abruptly shut down his stream after someone fired a gun at his house, shattering a window. Police have since said the shots likely came from a BB gun, but this and other recent incidents now have Twitch streamers concerned for their privacy and safety.…

Riot Games Says It Wants To Clean Up Its Mess, But The People Who Made It Are Still There

In mid-August, in front of an audience of his own employees, Marc Merrill, a co-founder of Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends, admitted fault. According to two sources watching, he apologized, his voice choked up, and he began to cry. Twelve years after Riot’s founding, it had become clear to its employees, League…

Bungie says they’ve found a fix for the bug that cost some Destiny 2: Forsaken players their weekly powerful rewards over the weekend. The fix will go out in a new hotfix on Thursday, and players who were affected will get the gear they missed, just in time for the raid.

My Favorite Final Fantasy Taught Me Some Bad Lessons About Love

Final Fantasy VIII, the sorceress epic about a hormone-fueled romance, has been my favorite game in the series ever since I was 12 years old. I beat it almost that many times before I unlearned the lessons that Squall and Rinoa’s relationship taught me about trying to fix sad, broken guys, like the game’s gunblade-brandishing…

Tips For Winning Destiny 2’s Gambit Mode [Updated]

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion introduces a lot of new stuff to the game, but the most significant addition is a new hybrid competitive/cooperative mode called Gambit. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, once you know what you’re doing. Note: This article originally ran on 9/04/2018. I’m bumping it up with some new tips…

Where we droppin boys!? Heather and Chris are playing Call of Duty Black Ops 4‘s new battle royale mode, Blackout. Come and join the chat.

I Really Want To Help Spider-Man Find All His Backpacks

Spider-Man has done the unthinkable and turned me into a completionist. I hate busy work and repetition, and I’ve never 100%’ed a game in my life, but Spider-Man’s various idiosyncratic collectibles changed all of that. As I said in my review, I enjoyed most of the side missions, but I especially loved hunting for Peter…

A Note About Sunday’s Spider-Man Proposal Story

Since Sunday evening, we’ve been updating our article about a marriage proposal in the new Spider-Man game to better reflect the dynamics and details of the situation. The ex-girlfriend in the story, who has been harassed in the fallout of the proposal’s coverage, denies dating the ex-boyfriend’s brother, a detail we share anew on our…

How Metro: Last Light Flipped The Script On Players 

Metro: Last Light is relentlessly linear, right up until it isn’t. It gives you a trusty ally to follow, right up until he betrays you. As the game pulls the rug out from under you, leaving you completely alone, it becomes clear: all of this was by design. This piece first appeared 11/5/15. Last Light…

Spider-Man‘s Take On Police Feels Out Of Touch

Spider-Man has taken on his share of street thugs and supervillains, sometimes teaming up with the police to face down foes and rescue the people of New York. While Spider-Man on PS4 undoubtedly shows Spidey’s allegiance to his community, it also casts him as a big fan of police and their tactics that sometimes conflict…

The Nintendo Direct that was postponed last week will instead take place tomorrow, September 13, at 6pm ET, Nintendo said this morning. It’ll run 35 minutes and cover both Switch and 3DS games, the company said. Nintendo added that the Switch’s online service will launch on September 18

Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is cancelling a live music performance and talk scheduled for October 7 in Kanazawa, Japan for health reasons. In his apology, Uematsu said he hopes he can regain his health to perform in the future with the Kanazawa ensemble

Japanese Celebrity Attacks Enemies With Vibrator In New Sega Game

Project Judge stars Takuya Kimura as a tough lawyer named Takayuki Yagami. In the game, he beats up baddies with punches, kicks and a variety of weapons including a vibrator. Kimura is a pop star, actor and celebrity. He’s been called the Brad Pitt of Japan. Yet, even that comparison doesn’t seem fitting, because he’s…

For the first time in six years, Level-5 will be attending the Tokyo Game Show, bringing its latest Yokai Watch and Inazuma Eleven games.