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The beautifully animated action RPG Indivisible is coming to Game Pass tomorrow alongside A Plague Tale: Innocence. In addition, Sea Salt and Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour will get added on January 30 while Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and a few other games are on their way out.

Cthulu Game Creators Acknowledge That Lovecraft Was A Racist

H. P. Lovecraft was a very talented writer whose Cthulhu mythos is one of the absolute great works of modern fiction. He was also—and this is something very few companies profiting off his works will acknowledge—a massive racist. I’m not talking about “oh, this was the old days, he had some antiquated views like a…

When Control Meets Doom

The brutalist supernatual adventure and the brutal ’90s shooter have little in common, but this custom map by willkuerAT combines them as an exploration of Control’s exquisite architecture. It’s made for GZDoom, hence the prettiness, and it’s using custom textures to get the look just right. Thanks Philip!

FTL, Released In 2012, Is Now Getting Achievements

Deep space death simulator FTL has for almost eight years existed with a single achievement: avoiding a sense of overwhelming despair as your carefully-cultivated run through the stars comes to a violent and bullshit end. That’s soon going to be joined by some more official company. While not live yet, the game’s list of achievements…

Destiny 2‘s Corridors of Time is going away. The Season of Dawn location and its hidden lore drops will no longer be available come January 28. Meanwhile, the quest for the exotic weapon Bastion that players spent thousands of hours working on last week can now be gotten from Sain-14 instead.

A box-office smash when it released in Japan last year, CGI movie Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution debuts worldwide exclusively on Netflix on February 27. It’s a remake of the very first Pokémon movie from back in 1998, redone in computer graphics because they are all fancy.

Killer Queen Black is finally getting full, eight-player couch multiplayer. Today’s update means you’ll no longer need two Switches to play with more than four people locally, and also introduces some bug fixes, better map variety, and make custom matches with only one queen.

Kingpin, One Of The Dirtiest Shooters Of The ’90s, Is Coming Back

It’s all but forgotten now, but in 1999, Kingpin was kind of a big deal, pitched as an unashamedly adult first-person shooter that was going to be video gaming’s answer to Frank Miller’s Sin City That was the idea, anyway. And despite some notable press at the time—it even got a mention on the floor of…

More Games Need Loading Screens Like Dragon Quest Builders 2

Loading screens often suck. They are a necessary part of playing large and complex video games, but they often break the flow. Sometimes games find fun or interesting things to do with these waits. Dragon Quest Builders 2 uses these screens to showcase user creations and I love it so much. I’ve been playing a…

Hidden Inside Frogger On PlayStation Is An Unused Q*Bert Level

Frogger on the PlayStation 1 was a game I played a lot as a kid. But as I hopped around the various maps for hours and hours, I had no idea what was lurking just out of sight. Turns out a bunch of unused and random bits and bobs are hiding just out of bounds…

Track: The Woman That Loves You (Live) | Artist: Japanese Breakfast | Album: American Sound

The Seven Deadly Sins Anime Is Looking Pretty Rough

Damn. The latest season of Seven Deadly Sins features some iffy animation. No doubt it will get cleaned up for the ultimate Blu-ray release, but in the meantime, fans have to contend with some jarring art. Via 2ch, here are some of the most egregious examples. Granted, animators are overworked and rushed, but it might…

Put your fries and drinks in this Hello Kitty carrying case, complete with handle. It’s going on sale starting today in Taiwan at McDonald’s 

Koei Tecmo has filed a lawsuit against Chinese mobile game company Hangzhou Jedi Technology over copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit (via ANN), Koei Tecmo alleges that the Chinese company has repeatedly used its game images and music in online app ads.

This is HyperSpace: Pirates of Atira, an upcoming co-op indie space game where players take control of different aspects of a starship and try to work together to keep everyone alive. This kind of thing has of course been tried before, but the division of labour here seems really cool!

Dad Builds Custom Xbox Adaptive Controller So Daughter Can Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Xbox’s Adaptive Controller has done some amazing things as far as accessibility in video games goes, but the setup isn’t hard-wired to only work on a Microsoft console. It can, with a little work, also run on the Nintendo Switch, and in doing so bring an enormous smile to a little girl’s face. Rory Steel…

Respectful Fighting Game Staredown Was Actually Just A Controller Issue

As Event Hubs report, this match last night between Guzman and SpaceDetectiveKH ends up stopping a few seconds in for what was assumed by all to be an intense staredown, born out of mutual respect between two fierece competitors before everyone realised that, oh, it was just a technical hiccup. Beautiful commentary in the lead-up,…

Track: Back To The Lab | Artist: Prince Paul | Album: Dexter’s Lab: The Hip-Hop Experiment

Someone Built An Extremely Accurate Recreation Of Their Apartment In VR

If you have played VR and bumped into your couch while in the middle of a zombie wasteland, you know how weird that feels. It breaks your brain and momentarily shatters the illusion. But what if every object in VR matched a real-world object and you could basically “feel” the game you were playing? That’s…

Randomness In Video Games Is Not All The Same

Random chance mechanics in video games can be frustrating. Missing a 90% shot in XCOM, when you really need it to hit, can cause some players to throw their controller or rage quit. But not all randomness found in video games is the same and how developers use randomness can make you scream or cheer.…