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The Pokémon Trading Card Game enters the Sword and Shield era today with the release of the first expansion based on the Switch game. The Sword & Shield expansion introduces Pokémon V, special pocket monsters with the ability to evolve into Pokémon VMAX, including Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon.
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2020 -
EA Hikes Up PC Game Prices, But Only On Steam
Yesterday, EA raised the prices on a whole bunch of games across a whole bunch of regions on Steam, making some of them cost almost twice as much on Valve’s store as they do on EA’s own Origin marketplace. While the price of EA games on Steam remains unchanged in the US, everywhere from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2020 -
BoJack Horseman Says A Lot Of Deep Stuff About Sobriety, But I Just Liked This One Cat
The final episodes of Netflix’s animated show BoJack Horseman came out last week, ending the story of an alcoholic has-been actor who’s also, inexplicably, a horse. In the final season, BoJack goes to rehab and then tries to square his new sober lifestyle with his past. The part that rang most true to me as…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 6, 2020 -
The unusual 2D action-exploration game Dandara, in which your player can jump—but not walk—through a topsy-turvy world is getting a free expansion that will add new areas as well as additional in-game text, dialogue and music that should freshen up new playthroughs of the game. All that plus a new ending. No specific release date,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2020 -
Final Fantasy XIV‘s Next Big Patch Will Let You Ride This Adorable Snek
Final Fantasy XIV’s recent expansion “Shadowbringers’ delivered some of the game’s best stories and challenges. But expansions don’t really end right away, and the next patch is stuffed with content and drama. A new trailer and developer livestream outlines giant robot battles, creepy villains, and maybe the most adorable and important mount ever placed in…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 6, 2020 -
A Raccoon Camped Out On My Back Porch This Week And I Couldn’t Stop It
This past Monday morning, as I walked out my back door to go to an early dentist appointment, I stepped right over a sleeping raccoon. He woke up and growled, a low rumble like an angry dog’s. I was surprised to see him there, but I shouldn’t have been. After all, the raccoon had been…
By Maddy Myers Published February 6, 2020 -
The Wheelchair Portion Of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Is Some Bullshit
In the opening level of 2017’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, a critically injured B.J. Blazkowicz navigates a captured German U-boat in a rickety wheelchair. Having spent the past year and a half confined to a wheelchair, I have some thoughts on the sequence. For starters, it’s total bullshit. I am by no means a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 6, 2020 -
Grand Theft Cthulu, Sure, Let’s Do It
This is Dead Static Drive, an upcoming game whose official pitch is just three words: Grand Theft Cthulu Coming “soon” to Xbox One, Game Pass and Steam, it’s an isometric action game where you play as a post-apocalyptic survivor on the run from all kinds of supernatural horrors.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2020 -
Report: Banjo-Kazooie Was Named After Former Nintendo President’s Family
Veteran games writer Andy Robinson, who before resuming a career in journalism spent a few years at Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic, has a very cool storyabout how Banjo-Kazooie got its name. While touring Japan recently, Robinson learned that former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who died in 2013, has a son called Katsuhito Yamauchi, whose name is…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2020 -
Final Fantasy XV and Wolfenstein: Youngblood are set to join the Xbox Game Pass library starting tomorrow This includes both the Xbox One and PC versions of the subscription service, with exclusive titles Death Squared and Death’s Gambit, respectively, following soon after.
By Ian Walker Published February 5, 2020 -
How To Buy The Animal Crossing Switch Parts Separately, From Japan
Everybody’s losing their minds over Nintendo’s new Animal Crossing-styled Switch hardware. The Tom Nook-themed dock! The pastel Joy-Cons! Whatever’s on the back of it! Many of the millions of people who already own a Switch are tempted to upgrade just for the new look, but wish they could just buy the accessories separately. Well, you…
By Chris Kohler Published February 5, 2020 -
The Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle hits Switch, PS4, and PC on February 20. That’s a lot of words and even more games with the bundle containing three Double Dragon games and 15 Kunio-kun games (think River City Ransom), 11 of which are being localized for the first time.
By Ethan Gach Published February 5, 2020 -
The Evolution Championship Series has revealed the official 2020 lineup. This year’s event will include obvious choices like Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as well as the return of community favorite Marvel vs. Capcom 2, among others. Fighting games!
By Ian Walker Published February 4, 2020 -
New Lawsuits Say EA’s FIFA Is Basically Gambling
EA’s long-running conflict with European governments over its loot box mechanicslook set to continue, with two separate lawsuits filed in France accusing the company’s flagship FIFA series of containing a game mode that’s essentially unregulated gambling. As L’Équipe report (via GFFN), two lawyers from Paris are filing on behalf of players who claim that the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2020 -
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By Paul Tamayo Published February 4, 2020
