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Lovely New Nintendo Switch Lite Color Announced For Japan [Update: And North America]

Say hello to the newest member of the Nintendo Switch family. It might look like a pink Switch Lite, but the color is actually coral, a pink or red shade of orange named after sea creatures of the same color. Living Coral was Pantone’s color of 2019, which might explain the choice? Slated for release…

Some Of The Weirdest Times Real-Life Presidents Appeared In Video Games

Past presidents of the United States have appeared in video games more frequently than you might expect. And often, these appearances are strange or feel out of place. Let’s look back at some of the weirder presidential video game cameos and appearances. Why? Because today is a national holiday in the United States. Happy President’s…

Real World Fortnite Teasers Hint At Gold And Cats For Season 2 [Updated]

Fortnite’s Season 2 is a few days away. While there haven’t been hints of a big in-game event this time around, players are finding clues about what the next season might contain both in-game and in teasers around the real world. The teases seem to have started over the weekend, with people reporting seeing glitchy…

The upcoming seventh episode of A Certain Scientific Railgun T will be delayed due to the effect coronavirus (COVID-19) has on production. In its place, the show’s sixth episode will be re-aired. The new broadcast date will be announced on the show’s official site at a later date. 

Japanese FIFA Fan’s Favorite Team Is Not Very Good, Travels 6000 Miles To See Them Anyway

Japanese FIFA player Akito Aoki flew all the way from Japan to the UK last week to watch his favourite team play. And while you’d expect that to be a club from the Premier League, or maybe the Championship (ie, the second division), he was actually there to watch Stockport County, a side currently toiling…

Someone Accurately Recreated Red Dead Online In Dreams

Red Dead Online is a game that has improved a lot since it first launched back in late 2018. But it still has some issues. One of the most annoying is how often players get kicked from the game, often randomly with no warning. Someone recreated that experience in Dreams Using Dreams, PlayStation user RikisCafe…

Mario Maker Contest: Water, Water Everywhere, Winners!

Last week I asked you all to create underwater or water-themed levels for Mario Maker 2. You could include big oceans, water-filled tunnels or small lakes. Whatever felt right to you. I got some good stuff this week. Well, as good as a water level can be. Which in this case, at least for some…

The Weirdest Part Of The Sonic Movie Is A Giant Owl

There are some weird moments in the new Sonic The Hedgehog film, released this week. Like, a strange and totally forced Zillow ad during one early scene in the film. But the weirdest moment happens right at the start of the film and involves a new character not seen in the Sonic games. If you…

Epic Boss’ Confusing Comments About Games And Politics Don’t Add Up

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney gave the keynote speech at this week’s DICE conference in Las Vegas. The talk touched on many topics, including data privacy, loot boxes, and the problems with a lack of cross-platform games. It also seemed to call for keeping politics out of games, or at least out of marketing, or…

HQ is shutting down, according to a report by CNN Business. The mobile trivia game was immediately popular when it launched in 2017, but slowly fizzled out until today, when CEO Rus Yusupov emailed the company’s 25 employees to tell them investor funds have dried up and the company is dissolving.

The ‘Nintendo Play Station’ Will Sell For Over $400,000

Bidding on the so-called ‘Nintendo Play Station,’ a prototype of a doomed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony, has reached $350,000 as deep-pocketed collectors put up ever-increasing amounts of money in hopes of owning the rare device. The console, which is essentially a Super Nintendo Entertainment System paired with a CD-ROM drive and manufactured by Sony,…

Untitled Goose Game And Control Clean Up At The 2020 DICE Awards

A short but delightful game about a rambunctious waterfowl took home top honors at last night’s DICE Awards, joining games like Overwatch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Fallout 4 in the pantheon of Game of the Year award winners. Meanwhile, Remedy’s Control snagged four awards of its own. Untitled Goose Game…

Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s Chocobo Chick Looks So Dragon Ball

While it’s unclear what the hell happened to Carbuncle in Final Fantasy VII Remake, the Chocobo summon looks like it’s taking a page out of Dragon Ball. Chocobo appearance has varied over the years with different twists on the design, but the Final Fantasy VII Remake Chocobo looks like it has a Super Saiyan ’do:…

Dragon Quest makes excellent Valentine’s Day sweets. Twitter user Manna shows how he made a series of chocolate Dragon Quest theme hearts, which look so cute and so yummy.

Xbox x Air Jordan Collab Is A Tasteful Nod To A Classic

Because it’s All-Star Weekend in the NBA, and because that’s traditionally been a time for companies related to basketball to show off some cool stuff, Jordan and Xbox have decided to team up and make a console that nobody can actually buy. This kind of thing isn’t new, particularly for Microsoft, who seem 1,000 times more…

Counter-Strike‘s Dust, Remade In Fortnite

It’s one of the most iconic maps in all of video games, and soon Counter-Strike’s famous Dust stage will be playable in Fortnite’s creative mode thanks to the work of some expert modders. Team Evolve have brought the map as faithfully as Fortnite’s tools will allow, and seeing as the map will also allow creative…

Steam Can Now Tell You What To Play Next

If you’ve ever been stuck scrolling through a games library that includes dozens/hundreds of PC titles, and you just can’t work out what to play next, Steam is going to try and help with a new feature called Play Next. Unlike Steam’s store recommendations, which tell you what you should buy next, this is going…

Half-Life: Alyx is coming out March 23, Valve announced today. That’s the Monday after Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal come out. Sure, why not?

The Witcher card game Gwent is finally coming to Android on March 24 There’s shared accounts between the PC and mobile version of the game so I’m looking forward to many more Witcher-themed distractions in the future. Gwent previously came to iOS last fall.

The CG-animated Dragon Quest movie is now streaming on Netflix. It’s called Dragon Quest Your Story in the West, and it’s something to watch once you’ve finished Locke & Key, Bojack, and the latest season of Sabrina