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The Incredibles Board Game Is Real Good

All I remember about licensed board games as a kid was that they were usually cheap, terrible cash-grabs. Things are much better for the youth of today. Having spent the last few years reviewing adult board games, I wanted to try and play something with my wife and kids, and so we’ve spent time recently…

FIFA 19’s Cursed Cover Has Been Fixed

It’s been a bad couple of years for the cover stars of major sports games. Big transfers of star players like Kyrie Irving, Neymar and LeBron James have left the marketing for NBA 2K18, PES 2018 and 2K19 in need of repairs, and we can now add FIFA 19 to the list as well. When…

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Siege of Dragonspear have received a huge number of bug fixes and enhancements with the 2.5 update. The list of changes is massive across all platforms, and this might be the perfect time to dive into the classic game and its newer expansion. 

I Never Knew About The Amazing Throwback Mission In Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an interesting experience, but I can’t say that I’ve thought much about it since the release of The Phantom Pain back in 2015. Now a let’s play series has got me appreciating an excellent mission that I missed before. Chip and Ironicus are some of my favorite let’s…

The Witcher Meets Star Wars In A Well-Edited Fan Video

Back in 2015, Kirk Hamilton floated a “crackpot theory” that Ciri from The Witcher III told a tale of traveling to the world of CD Projekt Red’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. What if he was wrong? What if she traveled to a galaxy far, far away? YouTuber Tolkfan has edited together a spiffy little video that…

There’s a new trailer for Battlefield V that shows off the fight for Rotterdam. It is splashy and impressive, and the developers wrote a trailer breakdown to let you know exactly what is happening in the gameplay footage. The game will release on October 19.

Video Of An Early Magic Tournament Is An Awesome Piece Of Game History

Magic: The Gathering commentator Marshall Sutcliffe had Pro Tour Historian Brian David-Marshall on his MTG Breakdown show recently to show off an amazing piece of game history: video of a Magic tournament from 1994. As Sutcliffe and David-Marshall explain, the footage is mostly unedited, freewheeling capture of what an early Magic tournament was like. And,…

David Hayter Returns As Voice Of Snake In Touching Metal Gear Solid Tribute

David Hayter, who voiced Metal Gear Solid protagonists Solid Snake and Naked Snake until he was replaced by Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid V, has returned to the former role in a short video produced by filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts in celebration of the Metal Gear franchise’s 31st anniversary. The video was posted earlier this…

Forces Of Annihilation, the mod for Dark Souls 3 that allows you to play as the game’s bosses, is available now. While not all of the enemies are currently playable, the developer is continually adding more to the mod. Check it out

The truck have started to move! Heather’s playing through the original Metal Gear right now on Twitch. Try to sneak into the chat if you can.

Valve Launches Steam.TV, Which Could Be A Twitch Competitor [UPDATE]

Today, Valve quietly debuted what appears to be a new video game streaming platform, which could be a direct competitor to Twitch, called Steam TV Earlier today it came to light that the company had registered the domain Steam.tv after it was first spotted by Pavel Djundik, the curator of the third-party website Steam Database.…

Monster Hunter: World Could Be Weirder

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate comes to the Switch on the 28th. Yesterday, Paul and I streamed the demoand faced off against a massive Valstrax. It’s a sort of laser-shooting dragon that darts around like a fighter jet. As I wait for the full release, it occurs to me that Monster Hunter: World could learn a…

Three Rules The Makers Of Assassin’s Creed Origins Used To Design Quests

Assassin’s Creed Origins is an incomprehensibly large game, so packed with quests that most players will likely never see them all. If you do see them all, however, you may notice that they follow certain rules—rules that Ubisoft detailed pretty specifically while making the game Speaking on the AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcast in an…

Another week, another batch of details about what’s changing in Destiny 2: Forsaken. This week it’s mostly PvP, with some granular stuff about Crucible and Gambit progression and rewards. Notable: Radar is returning to competitive, Glory ranking is getting simplified, and the Redrix’s Claymore grind is being retooled. More here

PUBG‘s Throwback Mode Is A Reminder Of What Made It Great

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds keeps on expanding, adding new guns and maps that change the game’s pace into something faster than before. The game now has new rules for armor loot drops and tweaks to the dreaded blue zone. PUBG’s latest event mode, ‘Early Access Memories,’ brings back many of the game’s rough edges. Playing it reminded…

Court Blocks Maker Of GTA Online Cheating Programs From Selling Them

Yesterday, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction against a man distributing cheating software for Grand Theft Auto V. In other words, he’s prohibited from making or selling any more cheat programs for the game until the court can definitively sort out whether…

There Is No Longer A ‘Best’ Time To Play A Video Game

That game you bought last month isn’t the same game today. It’s almost certainly been patched, updated, rebalanced, and tweaked. The original version is shrinking from view as it washes downriver. But is it better now? Truer? Should you have played more of it back when you bought it, or waited? This article was originally…

Graveyard Keeper Feels Like A Job

If you ever thought that Stardew Valley needed more corpses, Graveyard Keeper is the highly specific game for you. Managing a graveyard, performing autopsies, and keeping the Church happy is a humble and rewarding existence. It’s also hard work; after my first day playing Graveyard Keeper, I was legitimately exhausted. My grandfather worked for years…

Japanese Sex Toy Gets A Transformer-Type Robot

Some transforming-type toys turn into cars or fighter jets. This one turns into a mock-up male masturbation aid. Keep in mind, it’s not one-to-one scale and not designed for actual use. This is just Japanese sex-toy maker Tenga releasing an off-beat transforming-type toy As Otakuma reports, the regular Tenga Robo is 3,700 yen ($33.50). These…

The Japanese Voice Of Pokémon‘s Professor Oak Has Died

Voice actor Unsho Ishizuka, who voiced Professor Oak and narrated the Pokémon anime in Japanese, has died. Ishizuka has been voicing Professor Oak and narrating the Pokémon TV anime since the show debuted in Japan in 1997. He also voiced some Pocket Monsters, including Onix and Steelix. Besides his Pokémon anime work, Ishizuka also voiced…