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Solo Has A Weird Little Video Game Easter Egg
Spoilers here, obviously. So there’s a scene in Solo where Emelia Clark, playing Han’s former flame Qi’ra, shows she’s a lot more dangerous than first thought by handing out a brutal beatdown to a bad guy. That eventually happens a lot in the movie, so whatever, but it’s memorable the first time she does it…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2018 -
How World of Warcraft‘s Quest Chains Came To Be
Back before World of Warcraft launched, in 2004, the template for quests in an MMORPG was a little dry. Games like EverQuest were primarily inspired by text-based MUDs, where you didn’t need much incentive to go out and kill things. For World of Warcraft, that wasn’t going to work. Jeff Kaplan, who’s now known as…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2018 -
Final Fantasy IV Randomizer Mod Turns The Game Into An Open-World RPG
What would happen if you started off Final Fantasy IV with the airship? And if every boss and item in the game were made completely random? It’d turn into one big, sprawling treasure hunt, that’s what would happen. Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise, a ROM hack that launched earlier this year, transforms the seminal Super…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2018 -
A Look Back At Dante’s Inferno‘s Over-The-Top Sex Level
Whenever someone starts talking about their guilty-favorite games on Twitter, they’re usually thinking of something tame, like one of the weirder Metal Gears or that one Metroid that everyone thinks is bad. But mine comes with a lot more guilt than most—an appropriately Catholic amount of guilt, in fact, because my guilty favorite is Dante’s…
By Kate Gray Published May 28, 2018 -
Battlefield V Shows How The Video Game Industry Is Turning On Loot Boxes
Last night, the official Battlefield Twitter account published something interesting—a promise that not only will the makers of the upcoming Battlefield V refrain from charging for extra maps, they’re also going to avoid what has become the most toxic two-word phrase in gaming: Loot boxes. “No loot boxes,” read the tweet, referring to the slot-machine-like…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2018 -
The ‘Rewind’ Feature Makes Mega Man On Switch Far More Pleasant
If you have always wanted to check out Capcom’s excellent suite of old-school Mega Man games but found their difficulty too intimidating, here’s your solution: Play them on the Nintendo Switch. With Mega Man Legacy Collection, which came out last week for Switch and includes the first six games in the series, Capcom has installed…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2018 -
Yoshihiro Togashi Wants To Finish Hunter x Hunter
The king of hiatus, Yoshihiro Togashi, takes lots of breaks from his manga Hunter x Hunter. But he says he plans to finish it or die in the process. In a recent Weekly Jump interview, translated by Redditor VeraciousCake, Togashi discussed finishing Hunter x Hunter “I need to finish writing Hunter x Hunter,” Togashi said…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2018 -
Yesterday Was Dragon Quest Day In Japan
The first Dragon Quest game went on sale in Japan on May 27, 1986. To mark the occasion, Square Enix has registered the day as a holiday. Yesterday, was Dragon Quest Day! It’s not a national holiday, though some might wish it were. As IT Media points out, Square Enix registered the day with the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2018 -
Modders Discover Early Concept For Bloodborne Inside Dark Souls Remastered, Open It In GTA V
A modder has extracted a map of Bloodborne’s Upper Cathedral Ward from Dark Souls Remastered and opened it within Grand Theft Auto V. Now you can drive a car in it. It’s hard to decide what’s weirder here. Why is a level that appears in a game from 2015 sitting inside a 2018 remaster of…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published May 27, 2018 -
PUBG Developers Commit To Improving Game’s Performance
The PUBG development team have announced a whole host of specific game optimizations targeted at improving the game experience for players. Many players of PUBG on the PC rightfully complain about the game’s performance. In my own experience, the game often lags during the beginning of the game (where players are most vulnerable) and during…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published May 27, 2018 -
Killer7 Is Coming To Steam This Fall
Multi-character adventure and assassination game Killer7 will be coming to Steam this fall, developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced at a Momocon panel today. The cult classic directed by Goichi Suda and written by Shinji Mikami will be “optimized for the PC,” according to the game’s Steam page, and Game Informer reports that the game will have…
By Eric Van Allen Published May 26, 2018 -
Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies At 81
Ted Dabney, the co-founder of Atari alongside Nolan Bushnell, has died at the age of 81. News of Dabney’s death was announced in a Facebook post by the video game historian Leonard Herman, the author of the Phoenix series of video game history books. Dabney was an important figure in the history of both Atari…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published May 26, 2018 -
PUBG‘s Crossbow-Only Game Mode Is Surprisingly Legit
PUBG’s alternate game modes are often explosion-filled, gunshot-popping, silly experiences. Ghillie Crossing, this week’s game mode, is is all about crossbows, ghillie suits, and grenades. It’s very good. It is a stone cold fact that the crossbow is one of the worst weapons in PUBG. Its one benefit is that it is silent, but you…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published May 26, 2018 -
Finally, A Place To Store Those Joy-Con Straps
Someone 3D printed a contraption to hold some Switch games and, more importantly, the strap attachments for their Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, creating something I didn’t know I needed until now. The Joy-Con are great for playing local multiplayer but also terrible for playing local multiplayer. As nice as it is to be able to boot…
By Ethan Gach Published May 25, 2018 -
Fallout: Cascadia Fan Project Looks To Bring Nature Back To The Wasteland
Fallout: Cascadia is a mod project for Fallout 4 that aims to create an entirely new story for the game in Seattle. Cascadia first surfaced a couple years back, and like all ambitious fan projects inspired by Bethesda games, progress ebbs and flows. This week, however, the team released an official teaser trailer that gives…
By Ethan Gach Published May 25, 2018