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Black And White Strategy Battler Aztez Is Finally Coming Out This Summer

The last time we checked in with Team Colorblind’s Aztez was in 2013, and the hybrid strategy board game/beat-em-up was slated for a 2014 release. Three years later the game is set for a summer release. No really, there’s a Steam page and everything What took so long? When I played an early build of…

Persona 5 Gets A Small Change To Avoid Further Controversy In South Korea

When PlayStation Korea uploaded the Persona 5 title sequence for the game’s upcoming release in the country, fans noticed something: Ryuji Sakamoto’s shoes. As Record China reports, fans were upset that his shoes depicted a Rising Sun Flag motif. Obviously, due to historical associations Korean people have with that flag, there will certainly be greater…

PlayStation Store Now Has Curation From Big Developers

As we’ve discussed, Steam’s implementation of third-party curation has been a bit of a mess. So it’ll be interesting to see how Sony fares now that they’re trying something similar. Launching today, The Creators is an attempt by Sony to get curation on the PlayStation store, only instead of turning to “influencers”, they’ve asked people…

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The Switch Is The Perfect Platform For Disgaea 5 

It’s been a long time since I was able to sink dozens of hours into one of NIS America’s deep and silly tactical role-playing games. But now that Disgaea 5 Complete is on the Nintendo Switch, I never have to put it down. That’s wonderful. Also dangerous. For those of you unfamiliar with Disgaea, it’s…

Leaky Gaming Season Continues With Glimpse Of Mario-Rabbids Switch Crossover

The gaming internet was agog today over what appear to be leaked marketing images of an upcoming Super Mario team-up with Ubisoft’s Rabbids characters, despite word of the game’s existence having trickled out via various gaming news outlets (including this one) for months. The words “Mario is going to be in a game with the…

Five Skyrim and Fallout Mods That Fix Obvious Cat Problems

The greatest tragedy in my life is that I am allergic to cats. I’d normally supplant my desire for cat ownership by getting one in a video game, but, a cursory look at the mods on Nexus shows me that video game cats in popular games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 aren’t quite right. Here…

God Of War 3 Art Director Surprise-Releases Indie Narrative Game

The Fidelio Incidentis a narrative game, out now on PC, designed by former God of War 3 art director Ken Feldman and the team at Act3 Games. With a gorgeous game world and genuine sense of mystery, it manages to tell a compelling story, but it works a bit too hard to impress. The Fidelio…

Division Developers Finally Fix Notorious ‘Coward’s Corner’

Players in Ubisoft’s third-person shooter The Division will no longer be able to camp near a certain spawn point and easily shoot down other players. That’s thanks to a new patch that removes the so-called “Coward’s Corner” just over a year after the camping spot began pissing people off. “Significant level design changes have been…

One Of Steam’s Top Sellers Right Now Is A Nicer, Gentler Dwarf Fortress

Oxygen Not Included is like a kinder, cuddlier Dwarf Fortress. Sure, you’ll still get into a starvation spiral where everyone in your colony dies, but this base-building game looks cute while it happens. Oxygen Not Included is a game in the vein of Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld—you select some colonists and juggle all their needs…

Why Video Games Are Delayed So Often

In the wake of yesterday’s news that Rockstar has bumped Red Dead Redemption 2 to 2018, you may be wondering: why do so many video games get delayed? I heard a few explanations for game delays while reporting for my new book on game development, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels. During this process, I spoke to…

Assassin’s Creed III, Watch Dogs Headline June’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

June’s Xbox Live Games with Gold has a solid lineup, including Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed III. In addition to the usual four games, subscribers can also get multiplayer DLC for last week’s Phantom Dust. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. Xbox One SpeedRunners (June…

It’s Adventure Time In Minecraft

Coming soon to all versions of Minecraft, the Adventure Time pack turns one of the more popular fan-made mashups into something you’ll be able to buy. Fans have been combining Minecraft and Cartoon Network’s popular fantasy cartoon for years now, building elaborate treehouses and kingdoms made out of candy and skinning their blocky heroes to…

Wargaming Apologizes For Threatening YouTuber, Promises Change

The studio behind the massively successful game World of Tanks walked backtheir controversial actions against one of their former community YouTubers today. “We acted too quickly and over the line when we threatened to have YouTube remove SirFoch’s video through a copyright infringement complaint,” the company said in a statement. “And we are apologizing for…

Hearthstone Players Are Trapped In A Cycle of Salt

It’s been just over a month since the release of Hearthstone’s Journey to Un’Goro expansion, so you know what that means: it’s time for the Hearthstone community to remember how much they hate the game. But don’t worry, they’ll get over it. It’s all one big cycle. If you’ve ever followed any game with a…

The Wii U Gets A Video Game Today

It is May 23, 2017, and somebody just released a video game for the Wii U. Congratulations to the publisher THQ Nordic for this impressive accomplishment, and congratulations to Darksiders Warmastered Edition for coming to the Wii U today. This is, of course, a port of the first Darksiders, which came out in 2010. The…

Overwatch Anniversary Event Brings Some Killer Dances

Overwatch’s one-year anniversary event is live—that means tons of new Legendary skins, three new arena maps and a slew of new bringing-me-to-tears adorable dancing emotes. Happy birthday, Overwatch, and may each year bring a new iteration of Sombra doing the Shuffle. First, let’s take a look at some Legendary skins: And my favorite…. The new…

Fans Take Nintendo Switch Skydiving, Make Rad Trailer

The best trailer for the Nintendo Switch so far was not actually made by Nintendo at all. Watch as the folks at Юзя take their handheld system everywhere, from the woods to the sky, all while pretending to be the characters from Donkey Kong. At one point, Юзя skydives while using the paraglider in Breath…

Battlefield 1 DLC Adds Female Soldiers

Battlefield 1‘s upcoming DLC In The Name Of The Tsar will open up the Eastern Front with the addition of the Russian Army. In doing so, it will bring an underrepresented group to the battlefield: women. Who will kick your ass. In a tweet yesterday, the official Battlefield Twitter account confirmed that the Russian Army’s…

Pokémon Go ‘Cheaters’ Say Niantic Is Punishing Them By Hiding Rare Monster Spawns [UPDATE]

For the last couple of days, the Pokémon Go community has erupted over a new security measure that allegedly hides rare monster spawns from cheaters. By now you’ve probably heard about the myriad of third-party applications that Pokémon Go players use, such as tracking maps that tell people what creatures appear in a given area.…