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Adding Predator To Ghost Recon Is A Cool Idea That Doesn’t Work

Ghost Recon Wildlands, a game about mindlessly blowing stuff up because some CIA bigwig said so, added the alien hunter from Predator in an update today. What’s it like to face off against such a deadly creature? A bit like high tech whack-a-mole. A small update to Ghost Recon Wildlands adds the Predator from today…

Available today for the PS4’s massive vocaloid rhythm game, the $7.99 Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone Extra Encore pack adds two new modules and songs (“Ghost Rule” and “Suna no Watusei”), an enhanced photo mode and 4K support for the PS4 Pro. Early Christmas present for me.

Post Malone Gets Baked, Streams Call Of Duty On Twitch

Rapper Post Malone has has a pretty good year. Not only did he top Billboard’s Hot 100 with his song “rockstar,” he apparently has a bright future as a Twitch streamer. Post Malone had some success with his single “White Iverson” in 2015, but this year his career has really taken off. He’s dropped two…

Tackling Nazis Is The New Punching Them In Wolfenstein II‘s Latest DLC

One of the best features of the rebooted Wolfenstein games has been its likable cast of characters. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was full of complex resistance fighters with different experiences and opinions than hero BJ Blazkowicz. The game’s new downloadable content explores the lives of other people who live and die in the alternate…

Ark: Survival Evolved Players Are Tripping Over The Latest Expansion’s New Mushrooms

Aberration, the paid DLC expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved that arrived this week on PC and consoles, includes a lot of weird, new stuff like invisible flying lizards and a Reaper Queen that can impregnate the player with baby reapers. It also has a new type of mushroom that causes beautiful, dizzying hallucinations. Like all…

Destiny 2‘s “The Dawning” event will run from December 19 through January 9. It’ll add a bunch of winter-themed stuff like snowball fights and event-specific milestones, and is also bringing the Mayhem game mode back to the Crucible. (And here I was just saying Destiny 2 needed more goofy PvP stuff…) More info at the Bungie…

Elite: Dangerous‘ Aliens Are Attacking Space Stations Now

Elite: Dangerous’ enigmatic Thargoid aliens have been splattering players’ ships for months in apparent self-defense. Now, they’ve gone on the offensive. The outer-space starfish have begun destroying space stations, forcing players to rescue their inhabitants. Today, players of massively multiplayer space game Elite began receiving SOS messages from stations that had been devastated by Thargoids.…

The State Of The Xbox One In 2017

When we talk about the Xbox One in 2017, which Xbox One are we talking about? The original big black box? Last year’s streamlined One S? The ultra-powerful One X? It’s probably best to focus on this year’s model, the Xbox One X. Introduced in 2016 as Project Scorpio, the “world’s most powerful console” is…

FCC Votes To Overturn Net Neutrality Rules, Brings Us One Step Closer To A Destroyed Internet

Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality protections in a totally unsurprising move that will, in all likelihood, royally screw the internet as we know it. With net neutrality gutted, browsing the internet could resemble the token ‘90s experience of waiting for a porn image to load pixel by pixel—unless you pay…

The Oxenfree studio’s next game is called Afterparty, and it sounds really cool. It’s the tale of two college friends who unexpectedly die and go to hell. To escape, they have to beat the Devil in a drinking contest. Because, sure. Sure they do. IGN’s got the details

GTA Fans Find Hidden Red Dead Redemption 2 Mission, Solve Years-Long Grave Mystery 

GTA Online’s latest update, The Doomsday Heist, is all about big new weapons and high-tech vehicles. According to players who have dug into the game’s files, however, there’s also a mysterious new scavenger hunt that is directly tied into the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2. Earlier this week GTA Online data miners, The Guru Team,…

Episode Ignis Fills In More Of Final Fantasy XV‘s Blanks

Like Final Fantasy XV’s previous two pieces of downloadable content, Episode Ignis is short, action-packed, and exists to explain an unresolved plot point from the main game. This time, we get to learn how our boy Iggy got… changed. Episode Ignis, which takes place right in the middle of Final Fantasy XV’s Chapter 9, is…

The Puzzle Of A Lifetime

The first time I played Gorogoa, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I’d heard about Gorogoa for years, but never tried it. Maybe it was because, even though multiple people tried to tell me about it, the game defies linguistic description: A wordless, hand-drawn puzzle game in which people, objects, and places move across…

Never Stop Sneakin’ Is A Stealth Game For People Who Hate Stealth

Never Stop Sneakin’, the new game from the creator of Dust: An Elysian Tail, opens with a time-travelling madman kidnapping every president of the United States throughout history. It’s ridiculous. It’s also an excellent little top-down stealth game, and I don’t even like stealth games. Original published 12/8/17—Re-upped for release day. Normally I’m far too…

Pokémon Crystal is coming to the 3DS eShop on January 26. It’s the third game in the Gold/Silver set (which both became available in September) and will be compatible with the Pokémon Bank as well as have wireless trading and battling with the other 3DS Pokémon games.

Hyper Light Drifter Keycap Set Shouldn’t Be Too Hard To Type On

Players who figured out the blocky glyph language of Hyper Light Drifter should have no problem typing on this officially-licensed set of keycaps. Don’t worry, they come with actual letters as well. Designed by Redditor Atakoshi and licensed by developer Heart Machine, DSA Drifter is a special set of low-profile keyboard keycaps based around the…

Mods Turn Zelda’s Dirt Bike Into Sonic, GTA

Remember: people playing Breath of the Wild on Wii U and PC (via emulation) can play the game with mods. Like ones that modify the game’s new dirtbike. Here’s one that will make you thankful Zelda doesn’t have a giant train: And here’s a slightly terrifying take on Road Runner: These are all courtesy of…

Battlefield 1’s New DLC Blends Conquest and Assault, And It’s Great

With all of the games that 2017 has offered up so far, 2016’s Battlefield 1 continues to give me new stuff to play. The third DLC pack, titled “Turning Tides,” is being split into two releases. The second half is slated for a January 2018 release window, but the first half came out this week…

When A Classroom Learns About Pokémon

My daughter is seven, and a few weeks ago her class spent the week choosing a subject to “investigate” (basically write reports on). The teacher might have been hoping they chose something like “nature”, or “factories”, or “history”, but the room of seven-year-old kids did the seven-year-old thing and chose “Pokémon”. Each kid was tasked…

New Clam Blitz Mode Highlights The Best and Worst of Splatoon 2

While Clam Blitz is very fun, it’s hampered by Splatoon 2‘s glaring flaws. Clam Blitz, which was added to Splatoon 2 today, isn’t complicated to play, but is confusing to explain. In this game mode, you have to pick up golden clams that are scattered across the map and put them in the enemy’s basket.…