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A New Game That Captures The Cringe Of Middle School Romance

In developer Nina Freeman’s newest game, Lost Memories Dot Net, you play as a 14-year-old girl building her own blog while navigating the social drama wasteland that was middle school in the year 2004. Originally commissioned for the Manchester International Festival, you “play a role based on the young Freeman.” The game centers on a…

Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion Is A Surprisingly Good Strategy Game

When it was announcedlate last monthfor iOS and Android, Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion looked a bit like Ubisoft’s answer to Fallout Shelter. It’s actually a clever take on turn-based squad strategy, as well as one of the best mobile AC games yet. The base threw me when I first saw the trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion,…

Even Without Miiverse, Splatoon 2’s Lobby Is Still Amazing

One of Splatoon’s most memorable features were the Miiverse drawings that players displayed in the lobby. There’s no Miiverse social media hub on the Switch, but you can still draw in Splatoon 2. Players are already having fun with the feature. Last night, the Splatoon 2 Splatfest demo went live on the Nintendo Switch eShop.…

Hearthstone’s Next Expansion Is All About The Lich King

Hearthstone’s next expansion, announced tonight, is called Knights of the Frozen Throne It takes the game’s nine heroes, kills them then recasts them as undead Death Knights, raised from the grave by the Lich King himself: Each Death Knight was once a mighty hero of Azeroth—but after the Lich King raises a hero from the…

We’re continuing our playthrough of Wolfenstein: The New Order live now on Twitch. Come for the chat, stay for the Nazi punching.

Sydney Hotel Is On Some Deus Ex Shit

While capsule hotels are nothing new in the real world, having been a staple of Japanese accommodation options for decades, a new business in Sydney called…The Capsule Hotel is taking the sci-fi inspiration very literally. Look at these designs! These aren’t practical cabins, these are a straight up homage to stuff like Fifth Element and…

Titanfall 2 Player’s Dog Gets In-Game Tribute

Dogs are basically perfect. The only real problem with them is that they eventually die. As a show of appreciation to a prominent member of Titanfall 2‘s community, Iniquity, Respawn is adding a banner emblazoned with his sadly deceased pup to the game. Iniquity has been making Titanfall 2 videos for months and has formed…

Mario Maker’s “Trials of Death” Level Hurts Just To Look At It

This Super Mario Maker level is called Trials of Death, a level so tough the guy who made it has been trying for over a year to complete it. There’s a great interview up with its creator Braden “ChainChompBraden” Moor over on Waypoint, who has spent 1500 hours trying to beat it. Without success. If…

Ark: Survival Evolved Just Doubled In Price On PC

In anticipation of the game’s retail release, Ark: Survival Evolved developer Wildcard has increased the price of its popular dinosaur survival game on Steam from $29.99 to $59.99. This makes sense considering it’ll be officially available 0n August 8 as a full retail game. So far, it’s just been in Early Access. Posting on Twitter,…

I Can’t Stop ‘Choking’ When I Play Multiplayer Games

I’m on the elimination spree of a lifetime. 28 kills, no deaths. I feel unstoppable. An enemy Reaper tries to sneakily teleport onto the payload. I, as Pharah, rocket into the sky and unleash the full fury of my ultimate on him, just because I can. “Damn, that was nasty,” he types into chat, clearly…

Two Final Fantasy XIV Players Buy Dozens Of Homes, Spark Debate Over Housing Shortage

Frustration over Final Fantasy XIV’s housing shortage has come to a head after two players angered a lot of others by buying up 28 homes in the land-strapped massively multiplayer online game. Now, players are questioning whether virtual housing is an equal right or a privilege meant for the rich and over-dedicated. The two players…

The very good adventure game Thimbleweed Park is coming to Nintendo Switch, AKA the perfect place for it.

Call of Duty‘s Latest ‘Prop Hunt’ Is Candy Canes Vs. RPGs

The fan-favorite Prop Hunt mode returned to Modern Warfare Remastered on June 30 as part of Call of Duty’s “Days of Summer” event, which runs until August 1. In addition to disguising themselves as trash or furniture on a map for a wacky game of hide and seek, players are being trolled by one map…

Wayforward’s half-genie hero, Shantae, is available today as a free downloadable character for Blaster Master Zero on the Switch, and she is a delight to play. Side-scrolling is tough with only her signature hair-whip, but her animal transformations make the top-down segments a joy.

Ex-Bioshock Developers Are Making A Game Inspired By Arabian Nights

Uppercut Games, the Australian studio founded by a trio of former 2K developers, is taking players to a mysterious new domain in City of Brass, a first-person “rogue-lite” based on famous tales from Middle Eastern folklore. Coming to PC this fall and consoles in 2018, City of Brass casts players as a thief attempting to…

Fans Spend 8 Months Subtitling Ace Attorney Game, Capcom Slaps Them Down [UPDATE]

After spending months translating a Japanese Ace Attorney game on YouTube, two fans had their subtitled videos taken down by Capcom. UPDATE 11:14, July 12th: The videos are now back up on YouTube Dai Gyakuten Saiban is an Ace Attorney spin-off starring an ancestor of Phoenix Wright in feudal Japan that has not been released…

During our recent playthrough of Super Mario Odyssey’s demo, we found the saddest man in New Donk City. We’ll have more sights and sounds to share in the coming days.

Doomfist Finally Comes To Overwatch

At long last, Overwatch’s gauntlet-wearing villain Doomfist is seeing the light of day. The new character has been teased since before publisher Blizzard even released Overwatch, and now, players can finally try him out on Overwatch’s public test region. Doomfist, whose real name is Akande Ogundimu, is a cybernetic offense character whose hand cannon gauntlet…

You Can Import Your Old Shadow of Mordor Nemesis Into The Sequel

Do you really hate your Shadow of Mordor nemesis and wish you could kick their ass again? The newly launched Nemesis Forge will let players import their orc rivals to fight once more in Shadow of War. The most memorable feature of Shadow of Mordor was the nemesis system, which dynamically created orc baddies for…

How A Designer Accidentally Opened Every Door In The Witcher 3

Video games like The Witcher 3 are enormous, complicated pieces of machinery with thousands upon thousands of moving parts. Make one mistake and you can break everything—or, as one developer discovered, you can accidentally unlock every door in the game. In October, I visited CD Projekt Red’s offices in Warsaw, Poland, for my book on…