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Dauntless Is A Less Intimidating Monster Hunter

Dedicated players of games like Monster Hunter: World might feel burned out after spending so much time in the game, while players curious about the genre might be intimidated by World’s complicated gameplay. Dauntless is an upcoming free-to-play monster hunting game that looks to help both types of players scratch their itch for tough monster…

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Twitch Prime’s free games for June include Strafe, The Banner Saga 1 and 2, Tumblestone, and Treadnauts If you haven’t heard, an Amazon Prime subscription automatically gets you a Twitch Prime subscription, which now gives you a handful of great indie games to download and keep each month.

New Leak Reveals Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Set In Ancient Greece [UPDATE: Official]

The next Assassin’s Creed is called Odyssey and will take place in ancient Greece, according to a new report from the French site JeuxVideoLive, which adds that Odyssey is a sequel to last year’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. Kotaku can confirm this report. UPDATE (7:33pm): And now it’s official: Original story follows: Rumors about the next…

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 received a hefty free update today adding challenges, daily quests, and more hats, as well as custom mod support. Okri’s Challenges along with daily quests each offer new opportunities to collect loot, while commendation chests now have a higher chance of dropping cosmetics.

In Cultist Simulator, Death Is Only The Beginning

The most fun thing to do in Cultist Simulator is die. Cultist Simulator is a new game about running a cult, interpreted as a virtual card-based board game. There are no instructions for what to do, really, so you begin picking up cards, putting them in different slots, and hoping for the best. Sooner or…

11 bit studios, maker of frigid survival sim Frostpunk, has laid out a road map for the game’s free 2018 updates. First up is the new Survivor mode planned to arrive in June, which increases the difficulty and adds more modifiers. That’ll be followed by a new story scenario and sandbox mode later in the…

Console Repairmen Explain Why Cockroaches Love PS4s

First, there were snakes on a plane. Then, we had sharks in tornadoes. Now, there is a darker and more prevalent combination of pests and unlikely places they exist: cockroaches in your PS4. This piece originally appeared 4/17/17. I heard about the PS4’s roach problem at an independent console repair shop on the Lower East…

People Cannot Believe How Cute Neko Atsume VR Is

Today Neko Atsume VR was released in Japan. That’s right, cat-collecting in VR. Understandably, folks are going gaga. Priced at 1,944 yen ($17.84), Neko Atsume VR is a download game. It’s currently Japan-only. Check this out. Goodness. Here is the tutorial This might be the cutest VR game ever made Remember, you don’t need PlayStation…

As previously reported, Professor Layton and the Curious Village is coming to smartphones. Here is the debut trailer. The app will be released on iOS and Android next month in Japan. No word yet on an international release.

CG Wasn’t Used To Create This Sorcery 

YouTuber Frisk P is quick to point out this effect wasn’t created by CG effects. Instead, this is the result of a modded Nerf gun and rotating LEDs. As Get News explains, the effect is generated by a 3D hologram display called the Phantom. Created by Tokyo-based Life Is Style, the Phantom is outfitted with…

The Man Who Inspired Snorlax

One of the most beloved Pokémon is Snorlax. Meet the man who inspired the character. In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Pokémon art director Ken Sugimori confirmed that planner Koji Nishino served as the model for Snorlax. Nishino has worked on the series since Red and Green Previously, it seems, that it wasn’t…

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Atone is a story-driven puzzle game inspired by Norse mythology. As a warrior named Estra, you explore a world brought to life entirely by hand-drawn vector art. You’ll solve puzzles and also beat down people and ice wolves with the power of rhythm. It’ll be out next year on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

James Marsden Will Star In The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

James Marsden (Westworld, X-Men) will be the star of the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog film, Variety reports The movie, due out in November 2019, will be a mix of live-action and CG, and is also amazingly the first time the 27 year-old Sega character has appeared on the big screen. Marsden has past experience with…

A Little Sombra Figure For Overwatch Fans

This Nendoroid Sombra is out early next year. She includes two different faces, a skull mark (to stick on other figures), translocator, effects, a gun and some interchangeable hands, including one with a “boop” finger. Sombra will cost around $40, which is in line with the other Overwatch Nendoroids.

Breath Of The Wild Cookbook Looks Delicious 

HYRULE: Taste of the Wild is a fan zine that’s both a cookbook and an artbook. There are 12 recipes inside (by Bryan Connor and Diane Ault), covering many of the game’s more palatable dishes, along with huge illustrations by Shattered-Earth, Milkbun, Mayuiki, Finni Chang, Chiou! and Onemegawatt. You can preorder a copy (they’ll ship…

Mod Adds The Witcher To Crusader Kings II

Given the variety of kings, factions and political intrigue throughout the world of The Witcher, it’s only right that its universe be paired with a game that enables Machiavellian-style warfare. The Witcher Kings is a total conversion for Crusader Kings 2 that’s compatible with the latest version of CK2, as of two days ago. (It’s…

The Two Developers Keeping Guild Wars 1 Alive

The original Guild Wars first came out in 2005. By MMO standards, it’s ancient. Two developers have taken it upon themselves to keep the game alive and, in the process, have figured out how to make it better than it’s ever been. Preserving old games is a monumental challenge in endless media avalanche year 2018.…

Programmer Hacks Cartridge To Run SNES Games On The NES

The homebrew scene is always coming out with ways to emulate old games on new hardware with as much fidelity to the originals as possible. Programmer Tom Murphy, otherwise known as Tom7, has been working on a slightly different project in his two most recent YouTube videos: figuring out a way to run SNES games…