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Looks like there’s a GTA Online cheating crackdown going on right now: two more “modding menus” have been shut down since yesterday. Read more here.

In Super Mario Odyssey Gaming’s Original Damsel In Distress Might Finally Get Her Due

Over three decades ago she was stuck sitting atop steel beams waiting for “the plumber” to rescue her, but in 2017, Pauline has risen to the highest public office of New Donk City, the fictional urban backdrop for Super Mario Odyssey Looking back at the Donkey Kong arcade game from 1981, it’s hard not to…

Portal Looks Great As A Lego Diorama

Look at that orange hole in the wall! adBrickBuilder, who goes by Anthony Wilson on Flickr (where you can see other Lego creations), posted their latest project to Reddit. One commenter pointed out that this wasn’t the “correct solve” solve for the puzzle at hand, but it looks sleek and rad nonetheless. Just look at…

Take-Two Shuts Down Paid GTA Online Cheating Tool, Forces Creators To Donate To Charity [Update]

Days after Take-Two Interactive shut down a popular GTA V modding tool, another modding service has come into the publisher’s crosshairs. Force Hax, a GTA Online PC modding menu that charged users money for its cheating and harassment services, has not only been taken down, Take-Two asked the developers to apologize in an unusual way.…

Neuro Voider is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year it’s co-creator confirmed on Twitter today. The colorful twin-stick shooter you probably missed when it came to Xbox One, PS4, and PC in March features four player coop and will have auto-aim for the Switch version.

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E3 is over. It’s time to vote on the stuff that matters most.

E3 Was Different This Year, And It Wasn’t Just The Crowds

It’s the first day of E3. I’m walking the show floor—or more accurately, oozing across it, slug-like, followed by a trail of my own sweat. I’m shoulder-to-shoulder with swathes of people. Across the way, crowds of people whoop and holler, each of them hoping to win swag they can stuff in their floor-length swag bags.…

Final Fantasy XIV’s New Expansion Off To A Predictably Rocky Start

Stormblood launched in early access today, and the servers are getting bodied. As I see it, we wouldn’t have constant lag, frequent disconnects and players forming massive lines in a desperate attempt to get a quest done if Final Fantasy XIV didn’t make such attractive expansion packs. What seems completely ridiculous to folks who haven’t…

A Moment That Captures Why Super Mario Odyssey Seems So Special

We’ve written a lot about E3 this week and covered a lot of games, including Super Mario Odyssey. Still, here’s one more post about that game, because it’s too cool not to share with you. The above video is from Nintendo’s Treehouse Live demo of Mario Odyssey’s forest level. In the first six minutes, the…

E3 2017’s Best Dressed Video Game Characters

We’ve seen all the E3 trailers, announcement and gameplay demos, but one question remains: which game characters were the best dressed? Here’ a few of my favorite looks from the games we saw. A Way Out 70s looks are coming back in a big way, and the two main characters from A Way Out embrace…

How Many Games At E3 2017 Had Guns? A Scientific Investigation 

Clifford “Cliffy B” Bleszinski once described video game guns’ profound appeal with this simple sentiment: “reach out and touch someone . . . with your gun.” Since the early 1990s, guns have pretty much been the telephone of choice for video game characters: they speak to their rivals with bangs, booms, and headshots. Now, however,…

The Creator Of Metroid II Fan Game AM2R Isn’t Mad About Nintendo

DoctorM64 spent over ten years remaking Metroid II: Samus Return in his free time, only to have Nintendo send him a DMCA and have to take the project down. Now that Nintendo has announced their own reimagining of the same game, he’s just as pumped as everyone else is. When DoctorM64 was working on Another…

I Squished A Bug Inside My Monitor’s Screen And Now I Want To Die

It all started when I thought I saw a bug crawling across my computer monitor. Huh, I thought, it’s a bug crawling across my computer monitor. I reached out to flick it off, and found that I could not. I stared at it, unsure of what I was seeing. The bug was there, but I…

The Six Biggest Announcements Of E3 2017

E3 is drawing to a close, and the rain of game announcements has abated. EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo all did their thing. It’s up to us to sort through the rubble. Among the dozens of hype reels, hardware breakdowns, marketing buzzwords and game announcements, a few things stood out. If you don’t…

Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s Director On Localization Changes: ‘I Didn’t Mind Much At All’ 

In the heated ongoing conversation over “censorship” in localization, we’ve heard a whole lot from fans and even translators, but we haven’t seen much discussion from Japanese developers. Which is why, when speaking to Tetsuya Takahashi this week in Los Angeles, I asked him for his thoughts on the matter. His answers were a little…

Watch a bunch of Nintendo fans completely lose it over the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 Their enthusiasm is infectious.

Curious about Koji Igarashi’s successor to the Castlevania series? Heather Alexandra played 10 minutes of new demo at E3 that you can watch right here.

PlayStation just showed some gameplay footage of gross 1v1 fencing game Nidhogg 2. Compared to the original, Nidhogg 2‘s weapons system is expanded and its simple pixel-art graphics are totally overhauled. It’s slated for release this summer.

The Makers Of Final Fantasy XIV Are Still Deciding How To Add Blitzball

Blitzball is coming to Final Fantasy XIV, but director Naoki Yoshida doesn’t know how to make it happen. He’s torn between two options, he says, and both of them sound pretty good. Blitzball, which is sort of like underwater soccer except players can poison one another, is both a minigame and significant plot point in…

Arms’ first DLC character is Max Brass, the boss in the game’s single-player campaign. Downloading him will be free. The game is alsoaddinga “Spectator Mode.”