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We’ve Spent Way Too Much Time Not Playing Games On Our Microwaves

You should probably be playing video games on your microwave or doing absolutely anything other than watching it slowly count down while your leftovers are getting nuked. In the most recent episode of his Invention Show on YouTube, gadget stunt man Colin Furze revealed the “Play-O-Wave,” a fully functioning microwave with a screen and component…

The RPG Puzzle game Vidar leaves Early Access on June 15. Created by litigation lawyer turned developer, Dean Razavi, the game tracks the events surrounding a village in which all the NPCs eventually die. It was successfully Kickstarted back in 2015.

It’s 2017 And Modders Are Still Making Diablo II Better

An update to one of the game’s most popular mods has increased the max character level to 125 and removed the cap on monster health, making the grind more deadly than ever. Median XL 2017, the latest season in the Median mod, was released yesterday. The latest update to one of Diablo II’s most robust…

Golf Story Is Another Twee Indie Game Headed To The Switch

A golf Game with delightfully precious-looking sprites and vibrant-pixelated greens? Yes, please. Created by Sidebar Games, Gold Story mashes together leisure sporting events with simulated town life in what seems like a modern day Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage crossed with Stardew Valley, because what’s a game these days without weird…

Overwatch Double-Ultimate Is A Sight To Behold 

Oyana’s team was in overtime when they countered one devastating ult from the opposing Pharah with an exploding mech suit. There were bright lights, tons of explosions, and a lot of dead players. It was beautiful to watch Oyana took out both the Pharah raining down missiles and the Mercy who had just revived her…

Can we survive Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds and win ourselves some chicken dinner? We’re definitely going to try and you can watch right now on Twitch

FMV Mystery Doctor Dekker Is Messy, But Campy Fun

Lovecraftian horror is a tricky genre to nail down. The creeping sense of dread, of being locked in the throes of insanity, has to have some basis in your own imagination—giving it form or name often softens the scares. The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, which hit Steam last week, is a slow burn. It’s…

Monster Hunter XX On The Nintendo Switch Gets Its First Trailer

This is what Monster Hunter XX, a 3DS game, will look like on the Switch according to a trailer and gameplay footage shown by Capcom at this weekend’s Monster Hunter event in Japan. Revealed earlier this week, the port looks like a crisper version of its predecessor that will try to take advantage of the…

Curious to see what upcoming Nintendo punch-a-thon ARMS looks like? We played the first hour of the live ‘test-punch’ today on Twitch. You can watch the archived stream down below.

Ark‘s New Steam Achievements Could Be So Much Better

Ark: Survival Evolved is getting some proper achievements on Steam in next week’s big update, most of them pulled directly from the console versions. That’s great, kind of. As much as I love this dinosaur-themed survival time waster, it can lack direction, and achievements can give a bit of direction to an open-ended sandbox game.…

Old Man’s Journey Is As Wistful As It Sounds

Old Man’s Journey is a gentle storybook like adventure through an elderly man’s scattered memories as he walks his way to an inevitably sad conclusion. It’s a short game, only taking a couple of hours to finish. But it’s worth the journey, not just for the hand-crafted world, but for its earnest, poignant story. They…

Bungie Explains How They’re Improving Destiny 2 Servers

If you’ve played a lot of Destiny, you know that connectivity issues can be a real bummer. Many of the worst issues are thought to arise from Destiny’s decentralized server arrangement, which leapfrogs partial hosting duties between different players’ consoles. For Destiny 2, Bungie says they’re changing things up. As it stands, if one Destiny…

Zelda Player Builds Ridiculous Metal Block Contraption To Get NPC To Hyrule Castle

When going on a date in Hyrule, location is everything. One player decided to take the timid priestess Paya to his favorite location in the game: Hyrule Castle. After all, nothing’s more romantic than Ganon’s evil lair. Reddit user BOOXMOWO had spent countless hours drawing enemies and friendly character far away from their designated locations…

Prey‘s Final Act Is A Mess

If you are playing Prey, the new immersive sim from Arkane Studios, here is a recommendation: quit once you’ve reached Alex’s office for the first time. Just stop playing. It gets way, way worse. For its first three quarters, Prey is a fantastic game. Creepy, foreboding and darkly funny, the game rewardsslow playthroughsand lets you…

YouTuber Mods The Last Of Us To Play As Tess Instead Of Joel

Ever wondered what The Last of Us would be like if Joel died instead of Tess? One YouTuber has the answer. On May 10th,YouTuber Freako released a video showing off using different NPCs as Joel replacements. While some of them, like Marlene, he couldn’t get to work properly, others, like Tommy and Tess, worked perfectly.…

We Did A Resident Evil Escape Room And It Was Awesome

Getting locked in a room causes a lot of anxiety. Getting locked in a room modeled after Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion? That’s downright scary. The Resident Evil Escape Experience seeks to capture all the intrigue and puzzle solving from the famous horror series. I set out to solve its secrets last night and had an…

Over The Years, Violet From Peanuts Was Defined Only By Her Cruelty

Violet was the original mean girl of the Peanuts gang. She was even the first character to call Charlie Brown a blockhead. Her main weapon was social exclusion: “I’m having a party, and YOU’RE not invited!” She was, on the surface, an unrepentant bully and one of the least likable characters in Charles Schulz’s strip.…

Episode Two of Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy, “Under Pressure,” will be available June 6. Enjoy having that song in your head all day; I know I will.

Here’s an interesting little series of interviews with a crew of Westerners who live in Tokyo and play Street Fighter III, an 18 year-old arcade game they don’t really have regular access to back home.

Here’s the time-twisting first trailer for Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. Looks like temporal super villain Kang is doing something that’ll let us play with characters from throughout Marvel Comics’ entire timeline. Doesn’t seem like such a bad guy, that Kang.