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Apple’s New Policy Hurts Mobile Game Review Sites

Apple is ending its affiliate program for apps which could mean the end of review sites like TouchArcade that have relied on a cut from Apple to keep their mobile game review sites afloat. The tech giant made the announcement in its August newsletter saying that members of the program will stop receiving commissions starting…

Overwatch‘s Symmetra Mains Are Still Getting Hate, Even After Her Overhaul

Overwatch’s Symmetra mains haven’t had an easy go of it. Any time they play their favorite character, they run the risk of getting harassed or reported. This year offered potential salvation in the form of a huge overhaul to the character. But even after that, things haven’t changed much in Symmetraland. The more things change…

The Best No Man’s Sky Bases We’ve Seen So Far

No Man’s Sky’s latest update allows players to build bases anywhere, unlike the previous version of the game, where you could only build in preset locations. The update also added some new kinds of building materials, and allows players to build their bases up to delirious heights. Here are some of the coolest and wildest…

Salt And Sanctuary Is Better When You Can Put It Down

I’m flying across the country tomorrow and need help keeping calm while I travel. Luckily, the Nintendo Switch has added dozens of exploration-focused titles to distract me, including the 2D Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary. Like Hollow Knight, it’s a game that fares much better on a portable console. Salt and Sanctuary originally released in 2016…

Iconoclasts, a 2D action adventure inspired by Metroid Fusion and Metal Slug, is now out on Switch. We interviewed the game’s sole developer, Joakim Sandberg, back in January. It’s one of our favorite games of the year. Now it can be one of yours, too!

The Largest Mecha Plastic Model In History Is Completed And Enormous 

Kotaku previously reported that Japanese model company Kotobukiya had made one-to-one scale plastic parts for a Border Break mecha model. It has now been put together. According to Kotobukiya, this was to be the largest one-to-one scale plastic model ever. The parts were on runners in Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. They had to be cut…

First Look At The New City Hunter Anime Movie 

Iconic 1980s anime City Hunter has already been turned into several live-action TV shows, including a Korean drama, a Jackie Chan Hong Kong movie and an anime movie. Next year, it’s getting another anime movie, with the original voice cast. Here is the debut trailer. The original manga debuted in 1985 and was followed by…

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The excellent Game of Thrones board game is getting a major expansion later this year. Mother of Dragons adds House Targaryen (who start on a new Essos sideboard) and House Arryn, while also introducing the Iron Bank and a “Vassal” system to help with unchosen factions.

A Beta Version Of Bowser’s Castle Was Hiding In Mario Kart Wii

It’s not uncommon for developers to leave things behind during the course of a game’s development. As we’ve seen with Bloodborne and Dark Souls, sometimes that comes in the form of cut enemies, discarded items, or new pathways. In the case of Mario Kart Wii, it’s a beta version of an entire track. If you…

No Man’s Sky Planet Has A Giant Sean Murray Face On It

As Kirk pointed out earlier today, there are two No Man’s Skys. One is the game that shipped in 2016 to an increasingly hostile reception. The other is the more recent game that is inspiring people to build enormous monuments to its creators. This is definitely an example of the latter. Created by Roland Oberheim,…

I’ll Really Miss GameStop’s Elite Pro Program

Yesterday, video game retailer GameStop sent out an email to members of its PowerUp Rewards Elite Pro program saying that it is coming to an end as of today, August 1. Surely the end times are near. I am an Elite Pro. But not for much longer. My subscription expires in 87 days. At that…

June’s Best-Selling Video Game Console Was The NES Classic

The best-selling piece of video game hardware earlier this summer was not the surging Nintendo Switch nor the dominant PlayStation 4—it was a miniature version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. That’s the word from retail analyst NPD Group, which reports that “the NES Classic was June 2018’s highest unit-selling hardware platform, while the PlayStation 4…

The Junji Ito inspired horror game World of Horror is inching ever closer to a real release date, and more importantly, is coming to Switch. Publisher Ysbyrd Games announced today that the game is coming to PlayStation 4, Steam and Switch in 2019. We played an early demo in January 2017 and loved it—check it…

Sims 4 Fans’ ‘Hot Guys’ Don’t Meet My (Very Low) Standards

If you’re playing a straight female Sim in The Sims 4, finding someone to date can be difficult. Many of the pre-made Sims are either taken or not that cute, and if you take a chance on a randomly generated Sim, you might end up with a hotheaded slob who hates kids. Luckily, you can…

The Two No Man’s Skys

For two years, No Man’s Sky has been one of gaming’s great Rorschach tests. View it one way, and it’s a beautiful adventure through an endlessly fascinating parallel universe. Tilt your head, and it’s a janky hunk of junk built on a bed of LIES. That’s been the case since I reviewed the game in…

Artifact, Valve’s Dota card game, is coming November 28 for PC, Mac, and Linux. Let us never forget its fan reaction

A Quick Guide To No Man’s Sky’s Freighters And Frigates

When you’re zooming through space in No Man’s Sky, sometimes you’ll hear what sounds like a clap of thunder. That’s a freighter warping in. Freighters are massive ships you can use to haul loot. If you don’t have a freighter of your own it can be hard to figure out how to get one, or…

Mafia III Headlines August’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

I’ve been meaning to play Mafia III since it came out, and now that it’s one of August’s PlayStation Plus games, I might finally do it. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. August’s PlayStation Plus games are: PlayStation 4 Mafia III Dead by Daylight PlayStation 3…

An Ode To Nick Valentine, Fallout 4‘s Best Companion

I was sick this week and decided to play Fallout 4 to relax. I’m not 100% on board with Fallout 4—I find its emphasis on action over roleplaying frustrating—but it’s full of fun characters. One of them, the robotic detective Nick Valentine, isn’t just one of the best character in the game. He’s one of…