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Hearthstone Pro Gets Instantly Wrecked By New Card

Hearthstone’s new Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and that means that on top of being able to play with fresh strategies, we get to partake in another more underappreciated pleasure: watching pro players fail to play around new cards. One recent shining example comes from Johnnie “Ratsmah” Lee, one of North America’s…

A Brief @!#?ing History Of Swearing In Video Games

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents and even came with a shiny yellow controller, though sadly not the limited edition banana one. Regardless, I popped it in my N64 (after inserting the expansion pack, of course) and snapped…

Wrapping My Nintendo Switch In Wood

Back in June I made my PlayStation 4 look old and classywith a wooden cover by a company called Toast. It was fast and easy. Doing the same thing to my Nintendo Switch took a little more doing. Toast makes covers out of actual wood veneer for all sorts of devices, from smartphones (we can…

Deadly Premonition Creator’s Next Game Is A Slice-Of-Life Cat RPG

Not just a brand of cat food, The Good Life is Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro’s upcoming mystery slice-of-life cat role-playing game. It will be the debut game of White Owls, Swery’s new studio. The Good Lifeis set in rural England’s “Rainy Woods,” where a New York photographer named Naomi is struggling to pay…

We Asked New Yorkers If Mario Is Human

I went out on the streets of New York City to ask the people a question that has burned game-likers’ brains since the announcement of the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey: is Mario a human? I promise I’m getting a haircut really soon, by the way.

Nintendo Switch Bending Problems Are Still A Thing

Earlier this year, there were English language reports of the Nintendo Switch warping and bending. Now, there are similar reports from Japan. In the spring, NeoGAF noticed the issue, as did Twitter and Reddit users. This was just one of the early hardware problems, and with all those issues, it’s still hard to say how…

Just A 127-Hit Combo In Dragon Ball FighterZ

Dragon Ball FighterZ lookskiller. Case in point: this clip of Goku unleashing a 127-hit combo on Cell. As EventHubs points out, this is the first 100-plus combo we’ve seen from the game. The clipwas originally uploaded by YouTuber NGI. Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released next year.

3,000 People Lined Up In Tokyo For 105 Nintendo Switch Consoles

Earlier this month in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, around 3,000 people lined up at a retailer for a chance to buy one of 105 Switch consoles. As Game Memo and Science Plus report, the line was recently featured on Japanese morning show Tokudane. As with other Switch sales in Japan, people lined up to get a raffle…

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We reviewed the Nintendo Switch already. Now, here’s Deadspin’s belated take

Lona, An Adventure Game About Being Trapped By Art

Lona: Realm of Colors is an adventure game in development from a small team based in Sweden. There’s a strong Miyazaki vibe running through the game’s art style, and it looks cool as hell. Here’s the pitch: What happens if you could escape from life difficulties that you can do nothing about? What if you…

Upcoming MMO’s Cryptocurrency Marketplace Was Inspired By Other Games’ Black Markets

When black markets develop on the sidelines of most massively multiplayer online role-playing games, most developers would panic. But with today’s rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a growing group of game-makers are embracing some gamers’ tendency to turn in-game currency into real-world money. In general, publishers often take steps to prevent the selling of in-game…

A Substantial And Interesting Discussion Of Pyre, Feelings, Dogs, Mustaches, And God

Every character in Pyre has a story. Some are about the nature of freedom. Others focus on religion. Others invite you to scrutinize systems that purport to offer justice while privileging a select few. But the story that helped the game find its voice and its heart was the unlikely story of a dog’s mustache.…

Sonic Mania Has An Irritating Home Button Bug On Switch

Sonic Mania may just be the best Sonic game in years, but it also seems broken in a small but annoying way on the Nintendo Switch. If you’re playing Sonic Mania on the Switch you may have already noticed a weird flaw. According to multiple Switch owners, there’s a delay with hitting the Home button…

Growing Up, I Bonded With My Older Brothers Through Games

As a kid, when I told people that I was the youngest in my family and had three older brothers, they would often say, “Three older brothers? Oh, you poor thing!” My brothers Bob, Mike, and Joe are 11, 10, and 7 years older than me, respectively. At first, I didn’t understand why adults thought…

A Silent Voice Is A Sensational Anime Movie About Bullying

In anime movie A Silent Voice, deaf girl Shoko Nishimiya’s sixth-grade notebook is full of apologies to the classmates who keep throwing her hearing aids in the river. Her bullies’ ringleader, Shoya Ishida, later watches his guilt-ridden mother offer $15,000 dollars to Nishimiya’s mother in compensation. The cycle of hurt continues until it reveals itself…

25 Years Later, ‘Disgusting’ Night Trap Is Incredibly Tame

Night Trap, the FMV game that U.S. Senators once called “sick” and “disgusting,” is now available in a spruced-up edition on PlayStation 4 and PC, 25 years after its original release on Sega CD in 1992. There’s even a few special, delightfully cheesy, bonus gifts. Before getting to the nitty and the gritty of the…

Sonic Mania Has A Secret Joke Mode, And It’s Perfect

Sonic Mania hides a few goodies, and this one in particular shows that SEGA knows exactly how to meme. Presenting “& Knuckles Mode,” where you can play as the lovable red Echidna while also accompanied by another Knuckles, who acts as your buddy. (You can also play as other characters paired with Knuckles, but that’s…

Dungeons & Dragons’ new digital toolset, D&D Beyond, releases today. After checking out its beta, we deemed it a convincing argument against pen-and-paper purists.

In the PS4 release of Undertale, there is a new area that you can visit: the Dog Shrine. This shrine is buried at the back of Papyrus and Sans’ kitchen. The Dog Shrine is necessary to unlock 15 separate trophies, which you can unlock by donating different amounts of gold—one piece at a time—to the…