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High School Kids Send EarthBound Into Space

How much do you love EarthBound? Do you love it so much that you’d shoot it into space? When Ronnie Doyle turned 14 recently, his grandfather bought him an unorthodox birthday gift. By making a donation to a crowd-funded science group called Earth To Sky Calculus, he gave his grandson the opportunity to shoot a…

Lil Yachty Responds To His Fortnite Haters: ‘I’m A Millionaire’

Lil Yachty isn’t the most conventional rapper, but he can rap. Of this there is no doubt. Can the 20-year-old star play Fortnite, though? Not well, say his Twitch followers. Not well. The boat-est of all time has been heavily involved with Fortnite this year, playing with Myth at Epic’s E3-adjacent Fortnite Pro-Am, teaming up…

Don’t Neglect Your No Man’s Sky Buggy

Look, starships are cool and everything. They’re great! They can fly, they have lasers, and they usually look nice. But if you’re playing No Man’s Sky, I have some advice for you: Don’t neglect your buggy. In No Man’s Sky, you can craft a buggy station (aka “Roamer Platform”) at any time, as long as…

Tips For Playing Dead Cells

The Castlevania- and Rogue-inspired Dead Cells is out this week on a bunch of systems. It’s a really good game, and also a tough one. Would you believe me if I told you I had some tips for you? I’ve lived, died, and lived again many times, and with each death has come some knowledge…

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No Man’s Sky’s Sentinels Need To Chill

Ever landed on a planet in No Man’s Sky, minding your own business, mining some carbon, when a sentinel comes over, scans you and brings the fist of God down onto your cheerful space adventure? Fuck those guys. I understand why sentinels exist. There has to be some friction to harvesting rare resources in No…

I Just Played A 2DS On My 3DS

While the 3DS is hanging on as a gaming platform longer than some gaming pundits would like, Nintendo is making the most of it by doing some really experimental stuff. For example, there are four odd modes in the newly released WarioWare Gold. Two of these wouldn’t work easily on, say, a Nintendo Switch. You…

IGN Pulls Review After Plagiarism Accusations [UPDATE: Writer Fired]

The gaming site IGN has removed a review for the game Dead Cells after allegations surfaced yesterday that the review’s writer had plagiarized from a small YouTube channel. “As a group of writers and creators who value our own work and that of others in our field, the editorial staff of IGN takes plagiarism very…

The World Ends With You: Final Remix is coming to Switch on October 12th Really looking forward to racking up a few hundred more hours navigating the interpersonal issues of my favorite dead teenagers.

Fortnite’s patch 5.20 is out. It brings a new weapon, the double barrel shotgun; rebalanced vending machines; and a new limited time mode, Steady Storm, in which the storm never stops moving. Check out the full patch notes to see all the changes

Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Battles Look Explosive With AR

Before the start of the recent Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships, Konami held a special AR exhibition, complete with cosplaying Duelists. One day, will tournament battles look like this? Maybe! AR tech isn’t new for card games. The PS3’s AR-enabled card game The Eye of Judgment came out over a decade ago. But the AR addition in…

Here is the latest game footage from Lost Soul Aside, the indie game that was inspired by Final Fantasy XV This trailer was recently shown during the Sony presentation at China Joy, which is the country’s biggest game expo.

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Star Wars’ Board Game Miniatures Are Out Of Control

If there’s one thing repeated Kickstarter successes have proven, it’s that board gamers love little plastic miniatures. And if there’s one thing they love more than little plastic miniatures, it’s bigger plastic miniatures. Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Armada has made its money appealing specifically to that sentiment, with the quality and scale of its model…

How Animal Crossing Characters Can Read Your Letters

Ever wonder just how Animal Crossing characters—pieces of code, unable to comprehend complex human prose—are able to read and understand the letters you write them? James Chambers did, so he dug into the game’s code to find out. A software security researcher—who we’ve featured before here for his work on Animal Crossing—Chambers found that your…

How Myth Became Twitch’s Second Most Popular Streamer

For most streamers, “making it” on Twitch is a painstakingly slow process, a years-long grind that reduces even iron resolves to rubble. And while there’s no doubting that Ali “Myth” Kabbani worked hard, he reached the top of the mountain on a, well, accelerated time scale. As of yesterday, Myth became the second most-followed streamer…

Goodbye, Sports Game Cover Man, You Will Be Missed

While other sports games change their cover athletes every year, strategy stalwart Football Manager has for over a decade stuck with the same basic template: show a man from the nose down, usually in a suit, usually with a scruffy beard, standing around looking like the boss. For this year’s Football Manager 2019, though, he’s…

Mod Brings Lord Of The Rings To Age Of Empires

Whilewe wait for a Battle for Middle Earth remake, an alternative might be Tales of Middle Earth, a mod that transforms Age of Empires II into a Lord of the Rings game. Tales of Middle Earth isn’t 100% complete (the mod has been in development for six years!), but a near-final build is downloadable and…

Fallout 76 Isn’t Launching On Steam

All of Bethesda’s previous Fallout games have been available to buy on Steam, but that looks like it’s changing for the upcoming Fallout 76’s PC version, at least when it comes to the game’s beta and launch. After folks started noticing some odd signs related to Fallout 76’s marketing—like the game’s purchase page having a…

Hearthstone’s Balancer-In-Chief Prepares For Boomsday

Hearthstone’s science-themed expansion The Boomsday Project drops tomorrow, and players are out in numbers doing what they do best: speculating about which cards and classes are going to be overpowered once the expansion is live. A few common themes have already made themselves clear, namely: that Boomsday looks like one of the strongest sets released…