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An NPC Protocol Droid In Battlefront II Has Had Enough And Fights Back

Look, everyone has a breaking point. One Battlefront II player pushed an innocent NPC droid to this point after shocking it. So the droid pulled out a blaster and fought back. Droids in the Star Wars universe are often treated like crap. Many folks think of them as things, even though droids like R2-D2 seem…

Control Has Some Advice On Washing Your Hands

Remember, in these new and challenging times, to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Wet them, use soap, scrub and…leave your insides by the door? Control, I know you’re trying to help, but you’re also a game set in a brutalist bureaucratic psychological nightmare upside down world. These tips don’t work out here. In…

Secret Bunkers And Mysterious Telephones Are Puzzling Warzone Players

What, did you think Warzone wouldn’t have an Easter egg hunt buried in its gigantic map? Mysterious bunkers are making puzzle-loving players flex their brain cells in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s new battle royale. Call of Duty’s new free-to-play battle royale launched on March 10 with cross-play on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.…

Mortal Kombat 4 is now available on GOG This 1997 release marked the classic fighting game’s first foray into 3D graphics, but is mostly known for its hilarious endings. Do yourself a favor and check out some of those cutscenes if you haven’t already.

Take a look at Assassin’s Creed Odyssey protagonist Kassandra dressed as classic AC hero Ezio Auditore. (Alexios is in Ezio garb, too). This is a new, free addition to Odyssey, a game that hadn’t gotten new content since the fall, but we don’t yet know how players can unlock it.

Westwood’s classic 1997 point-and-click Blade Runner game is making a comeback Nightdive Studios, the folks behind the refreshed versions of Turok and System Shock, are bringing Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition to PC, PS4, Steam, and Xbox One with updated character models, animations, and cutscenes.

LEGO Is Making Super Mario Themed Playsets

Yesterday, Nintendo teased LEGO sets. Today, they’re official. Nintendo and LEGO are joining forces for Super Mario themed playsets. You can see what to expect in the clip below. The LEGO Mario playsets are interactive, not only recreating the world of Super Mario in brick form but also the experience of playing the games. “I…

A New Pop-Up Book Is Full Of Sega Arcade Games

Pop-up books aren’t just for kids. They’re also for adults who were once kids, in particular during Sega’s period of arcade dominance during the 1980s. This is SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up History, a new book by Read-Only Memory that’s written by Keith Stuart. While the enormous and extremely well-detailed models are the star, this is also…

Discord Ups Livestream Limits Because Of Coronavirus

Discord’s Go Live streaming and screen sharing features normally has a limit of 10 users, but for the “next few months” that’ll be increased to 50 to accommodate folks who want to “keep in touch” (or do work/schoolwork) while under coronavirus shutdown. The company announced the increase earlier today, saying it’ll last “while it’s most…

Heather is settling in for some deviously delicious demon demolishing in Nioh 2 right now on Twitch Come for character creation, katanas, and more.

In honor of today’s release of Ori and the Will of the Wisps, iam8bit is releasing a pair of gorgeous vinyl soundtracks for both games in Moon Studios’ series. Each of the $40 two-disc sets is filled with Gareth Coker’s lush compositions and covered with lovely Ori art. I’ve been waiting for the re-issue of…

True Horror Is Playing Jenga With Long Fingers

The rules of Jenga in the real world are pretty simple. You take the block, and if the tower falls down, you lose. Jenga would be a lot more interesting/horrific, though, if every time you successfully pulled a block out, your fingers got longer. Thanks to the wonders of VR, here’s how that would look.…

11 Years Later, EVE Online‘s Wormholes Are Still Mysterious And Deadly

Wormholes—portals between the fabric of space and time—are a common trope in science fiction universes. This puts EVE Online in good company when it comes to the heavy presence of these phenomena. For 11 years, players in EVE have been able to discover wormholes and use them to travel around. For all the player efforts…

Gwent World Masters has been postponed due to COVID-19, developer CD Projekt Red announced today. CDPR writes that “We will share a new plan for hosting the tournament soon.”

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection hits PC on June 5. It wil include Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert, as well as both games’ expansion packs. A new trailer shows the collection in action, including improvements to the UI and controls. Hopefully it plays as well as it looks.

Japan is getting a Panzer Dragoon game tentatively titled Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record sometime in the next year Interestingly, it’ll be a VR game that retells the story of the original three Panzer Dragoon games from the Sega Saturn. It’ll be separate from the remakes that are coming to the Switch.

Father Makes Death Stranding-Style Pod For His Baby

Shanghai cosplayer and cosplay prop builder The_Bai_Ying says he created a special pod to take his baby to the hospital because, according to him, the city’s air quality is bad. But don’t assume he is actually carting his child around in it. The_Bai_Ying says he created a way to filter the air to protect his…

Pikachu-themed medicinal soap and a “no-touch” automatic dispenser have recently gone on sale in Japan. The soap is blue soda lemon-scented and is made by antibacterial soap brand Muse. Hopefully, the soap and dispenser will help kids (and adults) in Japan keep their hands clean. 

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Mario Maker Contest: I Love Power-Ups, Winners!

Last week I asked you Mario makers to create courses that featured power-ups. You could add a lot of ‘em to a level or create a level that centered around using one power-up in an interesting way. A nice bit of variety this week. I got big courses, smaller courses, a music course, and even…