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This Week’s EVE Expansion Adds Major Free-to-Play Features

When the Arms Race expansion for EVE Online drops tomorrow, players using the free-to-play option will be able to do a lot more in the game. The first time I ever logged into EVE, I found myself browsing the game’s ship tree, a massive visual layout of the nearly 200 ships that you could fly…

Three Ways Ultra Sun and Moon Is Shaking Up Competitive Pokémon

Pokémon’s new competitive rule-set goes live in January 2018, meaning that players everywhere are devising strategies based on the new monsters and movesets available in Ultra Sun and Moon. Let’s talk about some of the biggest additions that will have a major impact on the way competitors approach tournaments. Pokémon that are out of this…

What Remains of Edith Finch Does Dreams Right

What Remains Of Edith Finch is a game about exploring an abandoned house, placing players in a curious world where everything has a deeper meaning. This already mysterious world goes a step further in including several dream and fantasy sequences, which capture the feelings of real-life dreams and help players feel what the characters are…

Capcom Announces Mega Man 11

Mighty No. what? Mega Man 11 is coming, Capcom said today. It looks beautiful and will be out in late 2018 for PS4, PC, Xbox, and Switch. This is the first proper new Mega Man game since the retro-styled Mega Man 10, which came out in 2010. Rather than recreate the 8-bit style of the…

Mega Man X Games Coming To PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC

All eight Mega Man X games are coming to current-gen platforms, Capcom said today on a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mega Man. The publisher later added that all of the games will be coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in the summer of 2018. Mega Man X, which started on the Super…

A List Of Old Games That I Would Definitely Buy Again On Switch

Here I am, thinking about buying Skyrim again on Switch. Yes, Skyrim. A game I’ve played for 197 hours on Steam in addition to God knows how many on console. I’ve already made the case for why the Switch is so good for playing old games. Look no further than the impressive number of hours I’ve…

Deciding to go up against Destiny 2‘s first expansion for some reason, The Division’s huge and excellent-sounding free 1.8 update will be out tomorrow. Check out detailed patch notes (including radical changes to Underground). The game and its DLC will be free this weekend.

Gorogoa finally has a release date: December 14. The hand-illustrated, wordless, mind-bending puzzle game made waves when it was first shown off way back in 2012. Five years later, it’s (almost) here.

Latest Google Doodle Game Celebrates 50 Years Of Teaching Kids To Code

Way back in the 1960s, researchers at MIT created Logo, an early programming language designed to teach children the basics of instruction-based coding. In honor of 50 years of teaching kids to code, Google has transformed its logo into a fun little rabbit-based coding game. Designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia…

EA Boosts Star Wars Battlefront II‘s Multiplayer Rewards

Star Wars Battlefront II hasreceived negative feedbackever since it was confirmed that its loot crates provided in-game advantages. Since then, the game has disabled the ability to purchase crates with real money. Now, players will also receive more in-game rewards. Battlefront II uses credits to unlock characters and purchase loot boxes that grant ability-augmenting“star cards.”…

Final Fantasy XIV Bards Are Making Beautiful Music

A couple of weeks back, Square Enix finally gave Final Fantasy XIV Bards the ability to play real music. Now YouTube is filling with great (and only occasionally terrible) Bard performances. Since Square Enix’s has users agree to not use the new Bard tools to recreate third-party music, most of the tunes showing up online…

How To Cook In Dungeons & Dragons

A few months ago, I proposed a wild idea: Dungeons & Dragons—except you cook what you kill. After a little tinkering, I’m happy to report that my mechanics for cooking in D&D are now widely available. There aren’t always easy-baked ways for players to collaboratively role-play in every D&D game. Cooking is a great way…

Bad Reporting Leads To Widespread False Rumor About The Game Awards

This morning, I woke up to a string of headlines declaring that journalist Geoff Keighley had teased a major announcement at this week’s Game Awards. OK, I thought, clicking one of the articles, only to find out that he had done it during an interview with… me. Wait, what? Maybe it started on Twitter, or…

Hunter x Hunter‘s Latest Hiatus Will End Next January

Manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi takes lots of breaks from Hunter x Hunter. His most recent one started in September. It’s now been announced that Togashi’s manga will return on January 29. According to IT Media, the most recent Weekly Jump confirms that Hunter x Hunter will be back late next month. Before his most recent…

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Mingjue Helen Chen is a Disney artist who has worked on movies like Wreck-It-Ralph and Big Hero 6. Here, though, is her shot at Final Fantasy XIII, part of a show on now at the Nucleus Gallery in LA

PS3 Emulation Makes Huge Strides, Can Now Play Uncharted

The team behind RPCS3, an emulator designed to let you play PS3 games on a PC, have made a ton of progress since we last checked in on the project, with the program now able to run—if not perfectly play—some of the biggest and best games on the PS3. The reasons why are of course…

2K & 4K Texture Packs Have Mass Effect Looking Sharp

For as long as we’ve had Mass Effect, we’ve had fans working to improve the PC versions of the series. That effort has hit a new high recently with a compilation of 4K textures for Mass Effects 2 & 3 that have them looking a bit more 2017. The Mass Effect 2 packs can be…

For followers of our Fine Art feature, here’s State of the Art : A Digital Art Anthology, a coffee table book showcasing the work of some of the world’s best concept artists, like Ian McQue and Goro Fujita.

It Might Be Time To Rethink Difficulty Menus

This is the difficulty menu for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. In a callback to the original games which also showed up in The New Order, the menu’s telling you only babies play the game on easy. It’s funny on the surface, but also an insidious kind of peer pressure. Don’t listen to it. At…