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Ahead of this week’s Gamescom, Microsoft is holding a news event at 3:00PM EDT today where the company will reveal new information about the Xbox One X (like pre-orders finally going live) as well as show off some new game trailers. You can watch the press briefing live right here

Halo Fan Loves The Warthog So Much He Built His Own

Halo 3 came out almost ten years ago, and one dedicated fan has spent seven of them attempting to build his very own Warthog. As Bryanthavercamp’s project has reached its final stages, his friend CAPNJ1mmy took to Reddit to upload the results. You can see the vehicle’s early progress in a YouTube video here. Driving…

New THQ Nordic Game Biomutant Leaks In German Magazine

THQ Nordic has a new post-apocalyptic game staring world-weary animal with a sword and bad-ass grasshopper sidekick. The game, suspected to be revealed at this week’s Gamescom, was leaked this weekend thanks to an ad in the German gaming magazine GamesMarkt Called Biomutant, the leak surfaced via a screenshot posted to Twitter by Tino Hahn…

A Quick Look Back At The Super Mario Bros. Episode Of Halt And Catch Fire

AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire returns tonight for its fourth and final season. It’s become one of the best prestige television shows still left standing, and while there’s a lot of stuff it gets right and does well, few things show off the series’ charm like the episode it dedicated to Super Mario Bros. With…

BioWare Confirms No DLC For Mass Effect Andromeda

An update today from BioWare confirmed that Mass Effect: Andromeda will indeed not be getting any new content. Kotaku reported as much back in late June, when sources familiar with BioWare’s plans said that Andromeda would receive no single-player DLC, a huge departure from every previous game in the series. In today’s announcement, BioWare confirmed…

If Counter-Strike Had An Anime Opening It Might Look Something Like This

The anime Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opening you never knew you wanted. The anime opening is an art all its own. Often plucky, upbeat, and set to some great tunes that are on occasion completely at odds with the actual content of the show in question, they can live on long after the stories they introduced…

New Star Wars Battlefront 2 Trailer Shows Off Dazzling Space Battles

The first look at the game’s Starfighter Assault mode has the Millennium Falcon, bright lens flares, and yes, Yoda manning a laser turret. The mode also appears to include Darth Vader and plenty of evil Sith, because what better way to use your super powered warriors than by putting them inside fragile space cans that…

The Division’s Latest Updates Hint At How Interesting The Sequel Might Be

“More is more” must be the mantra of the makers of The Division, Ubisoft’s fun but flawed post-disaster shooter that has somehow not collapsed beneath the weight of the latest mound of content added to it. Less really would be more, and probably will be when Ubisoft gets around to releasing a sequel that starts…

Children of Morta is coming next year and has a new trailer. Revealed back in 2015, the lush pixel art roguelike is a procedural game focusing on single family. Think FTL meets Bloodlines. We might be awash in these types of indie games at the moment, but I just can’t resist some damn good pixel…

A long-awaited, much-needed report system is finally coming to Overwatch on consoles. It’ll be part of the next big patch, which is in testing but does not yet have a release date. Over the past year, Overwatch’s problems with toxicity and harassment have become dire. Jeff Kaplan says the team is working hard to improve…

Wildlands Helicopters Apparently Just Do Whatever They Want

Ghost Recon: Wildlands received a complete overhaul to the helicopter controls last month, but that didn’t solve the frustration of weird and fatal landing mechanics. Wildlands gives you the choice to spawn a pickup truck, a van, an armored SUV, or a helicopter, but the vehicles needed to traverse the mountainous terrain of this open-world…

Finally, A Horror Board Game Where You Are The Monster Killing The Obnoxious Teens

Upcoming horror board game Monster Slaughter taps into the best thing about watching campy horror movies: the order in which teens die. Where it one-ups popcorn and The Blair Witch Project is that, in Monster Slaughter, the player is the beast killing off the obnoxious teens. In Monster Slaughter,players operate a family of monsters—zombies, werewolves,…

At Gen Con, a 24-hour charity event called CardHalla has attendees stacking thousands of Magic, Dragon Ball and Pokemon cards in a meters-long sprawl of card towers.

The Switch Has Made Nintendo Cool Again

In the past, Nintendo has been synonymous with baffling business decisions and out-of-touch thinking. While that Nintendo still exists, the Japanese company has also started to reinvent itself this generation—and it’s all because of the Switch. The Switch actually feels cool in a way that the Xbox One and PS4 don’t. In the latest episode…

I Learned Calculus With A Video Game, And It Was Surprisingly Fun

I, like many people, am terrible at math. I need a calculator to do basic addition and subtraction. Math class was excruciatingly painful for me, not to mention boring. But the open-world game Variant: Limits aims to make learning math, specifically calculus, fun. In Variant you play as Equa, a young man (Correction 4:29: a…

War In EVE Online Is The Best, And Also The Worst

A few days ago, in front of an audience of over three thousand people, the leader of the Imperium—the largest coalition in EVE Online and perhaps the largest player alliance in any video game—announced that it would go to war. Over the next 24 hours, Imperium pilots deployed over 1200 capital class vessels to the…

A Device That Turns Almost Any Camera Into A Webcam

Game capture hardware maker Elgato made streaming a little bit fancier this week with the release of Cam Link, a $129 USB device that allows users to use any camera with an HDMI output as a webcam. Plus it also does game capture. It’s pretty nifty. Packaged in a box with a quick start guide…

Overwatch Player Creates Zombie Mode

Blizzard’s only just now getting around to FPS mainstays like deathmatch with Overwatch’s official modes, but custom games have allowed players to tunnel their way outside the box. In order to create an Overwatch-flavored variant of the ever popular “zombie” FPS mode, one player got very creative. An Overwatch fan by the name of “Deltin”…

No Man’s Sky’s Weird Melee Jump Is Still The Most Fun Thing In The Game

No Man’s Sky keeps changing, almost entirely for the better. With each update, I’ve worried Hello Games is finally going to take out my favorite move in the game. So far they haven’t. I’m starting to worry less. The move I’m talking about is the melee jump, a weird and unusually satisfying method for getting…

Slime Rancher, As Told By Steam Reviews

Real world got you bummed out? Steam users recommend Slime Rancher. In Slime Rancher, you ranch slimes. According to these Steam reviews, it’s Mister Rogers levels of positive and affirming. It’s also really, really cute, and apparently there are cat slimes. Basically, it’s the game of the year. You can check out more reviews for…