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40 years ago today: Olympic athlete Valerij Yakushin, luge competitor for the Soviet Union, crouches down to look into the eyepiece of Midway’s Submarine arcade cabinet in the game room at the Olympic Village in Lake Placid, New York on February 7, 1980.

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Children of Morta now has a Hard Mode, which adds new enemies and items. The update also includes balance tweaks and changes to the UI.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

Fortnite’s 11.50 patch adds the previously-mentioned Unreal Engine Chaos physics system The Launch Pad has returned to non-competitive modes. Sidegrading was removed from competitive modes; Epic says its inclusion was unintentional.

Sony has launched the PS5’s official webpage, and it’s short on new details. In fact, there aren’t any at all. You can sign up for the console’s newsletter. With Sony skipping E3, that’s one way for it to share info. 

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!

And now for a different type of gaming video: here’s legendary Japanese developer Swery taking us all on a tour of some of his favourite drinking spots in Osaka.

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…

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Saints Row IV comes to Switch March 27. The Re-Elected version contains 25 DLC packs and two story expansions.