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The Witcher Is Getting A Netflix Series

The Witcher series is being turned into an English language Netflix drama by CG visual effects company Platige Image S.A. The Witcher series was spawned by Polish novelist Andrzej Sapkowski and has spawned highly successful (and wonderful) video games. “I’m thrilled that Netflix will be doing an adaptation of my stories, staying true to the…

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has been delayed. The game was originally slated for a 2017, but Namco Bandai has pushed it back to 2018, citing the need for extra time to finish the game. Better late than not ready!

How A Witcher 3 City Was Built

Here’s a recap video from this year’s GDC, via Gamasutra, that details how CD Projekt Red built Beauclair, the beautiful fairy tale city from The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine It gets fairly technical in points, but I think anyone who played the game and marvels at how CDPR are able to fit it all…

New Battlestar Galactica Strategy Game Coming To PC

In an attempt to stop all official Battlestar Galactica video games from being piles of rotting space garbage, strategy publisher Slitherine is releasing a 3D strategy title for the PC based on the first Cylon War. While a game based on managing the dwindling resources of Adama’s Colonial Fleet could have been interesting, this effort—called…

Minecraft Patching Out Controversial Parrot Feeding Mechanic

After a minor controversy, Minecraft will change up the way players tame parrots, VICE Motherboard reports. And while it sounds like the least controversial mechanic in gaming history, the patch was spurned by a Reddit post with 37,000 upvotes that accused the game of potentially endangering real-life parrots. In Minecraft, players feed chocolate chip cookies…

It’s Ridiculous That Nier: Automata Still Hasn’t Been Patched On PC

Nier: Automata came out two months ago on PC. It’s a really good game, and a clear standout during an unusually strong spring. So why the heck is the PC version still loaded with basic bugs and other problems that haven’t been patched? I spent last weekend blasting through Nier: Automata on PC. I got…

Skyrim Modder Wants You To Know Their Child Killing Mod Is The Best One

One of the hottest mods for Skyrim right now makes children killable. While that’s not a new feature in the modding world, the person that made this particular mod really wants you to know this is the definitive child murder mod. Each week, the Nexus Mods index for Skyrim highlights mods that have reached a…

Collecting Sega Master System Games Is A Huge Pain In The Ass

With only 114 U.S. game releases and fairly reasonable aftermarket prices, the Sega Master System is an increasingly popular target for collectors who want to try amassing a single console’s entire library. But as soon as you start, you find out that it’s a lot more of a pain in the ass than you’d imagined.…

Charming mobile rhythm game Deemo is out for PlayStation Vita today. $14.99 scores players the basic game, with nearly $100 worth of downloadable contentrounding out the music library. Or you can just watch other people play on YouTube, because damn that’s a lot.

Twitch’s Mr. Rogers Stream Is The Purest Thing On The Internet Right Now

Yesterday Twitch started a marathon of all 886 episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and thousands of people are watching. Completely by coincidence, I am crying at work. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers on PBS, as well as a ton of other PBS programming, including Arthur, Sesame Street, Masterpiece Theater and Bill Nye The Science…

The latest Sims 4 Game Pack, Parenthood, will be released on May 30th. The pack will focus on changing up the family dynamic, making teenagers more rebellious and adding new traits that are dependent on how you raise your sims. Teen sims will also get acne, a phase I’m sure everyone wants to relive.

Here Is A Fun Thing To Do If You’ve Finished Persona 5

Say you just spent 100 hours finishing Persona 5. You feel exhausted, satisfied, probably a little sad. Here’s something fun you can now do. WARNING!!! SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 5 OMG !!! Now that you’re done, think back to a million years ago when you first started the game. You played through the first half hour, named…

Injustice 2‘s Facial Animation Is So Good It’s Uncanny

Injustice 2‘sstory mode features a strong script voiced by top voice talent, but the real stunner is the way the in-game faces move when acting out the dialogue. Can you make out what Harley Quinn is saying in the animated GIF above? Hint: she’s talking about Gorilla Grodd. Each new snippet of video shown during…

Ubisoft’s Next Year Includes Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry 5, The Crew 2, And South Park

Today is Ubisoft’s annual earnings report, which means it’s time for a big update on what the French publisher will release over the next year. Ubisoft is promising four big games: Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, The Crew, and South Park In a press release, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot said: “Over the last three fiscal years,…

For Honor’s Second Season Adds New Fighters, Maps

Medieval fighting game For Honor’s second season, Shadow & Might, is available on PS4, Xbox One and PC today. Three months post-release, after some pretty damning technical issues, the game is in good shape and getting some anticipated new content. Last month, For Honor’s Viking class emerged victorious in the game’s first season of faction…

Sonic Forces’ Character Creator Will Bring Your Fan-Fic To Life

Sonic the Hedgehog is pretty damn cool but can he compete with Chester the Bespectacled Wolf-Dog? Sonic Forces will allow players to create their own animal heroes to run alongside everyone’s favorite blue blur. Announced via official trailer, Sonic Forces will include a character creator for crafting your own furry personas. (If only there was…

In anticipation of Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming expansion Stormblood, composer Nobuo Uematsu just released the expansion’s theme song. It’s gorgeous.

Natsume today announced Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, coming to Switch, PS4, and PC. This’ll be the first Harvest Moon game on PC, although as you may remember, it’s not really a Harvest Moon game. The real Harvest Moon is now called Story of Seasons

There will be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 6pm Eastern, “exclusively focused on ARMS.” Nintendo adds that there’ll be a Splatoon 2 trailer at the end of the presentation. We’re not getting our hopes up for surprises this time.

Solidus Snake Voice Actor John Cygan Dies

Best known for his video game and TV work, John Cygan has passed away. He was 63. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cygan had long been battling cancer. A versatile actor, Cygan appeared in television shows like Bob, co-starring with Bob Newhart, and The Commish as well as other shows like Frasier, NYPD Blue and…