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The Expanse Season 2: Entertaining if uneven, reaching ever closer to greatness. What it is: The second season of SyFy’s increasingly popular sci-fi political thriller. The show is based on books by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who collectively write under the pen name James S.A. Corey. What I’ve watched: Took my time with season…

Infinite Warfare‘s DLC Maps Are Great, They Just Never Show Up

The $49.99 season pass for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare gets you four map packs with four new multiplayer maps each. What it doesn’t guarantee is that these new maps will actually come up in multiplayer matches online. In my experience so far, playing a DLC map is like finding a unicorn. You can own…

How To Trash Talk

Trash talking is divisive among gamers. If you go too far, you run the risk of sending your friend home crying and never again playing another round of Mario Party against them. Or, if you’re conflict-averse, a few unsavory words over Madden could make you think worse of your good buddy. Some stand by trash…

Battlegrounds, As Told By Steam Reviews

Battlegrounds is a battle royale game taking Twitch and YouTube by storm. It’s also generated some wild Steam reviews. Battlegrounds is still in early access and has a lot of optimization issues, but that doesn’t mean that Steam users can’t still see the value in it. It’s been called the best of its genre, wherein…

Two Months In, I’ve Barely Taken My Nintendo Switch Off The Dock

The big concept behind the Nintendo Switch is that it can be enjoyed both on the TV, and in handheld mode. Instead, the Switch largely operates like any other console system in my household, and I like it that way. Oh, I’ve tried to take the Switch with me. I’ve braved the dangers of on-the-road…

Destiny Players Kill Every Raid Boss Without Using Guns (Or Dying)

We’re rapidly approaching the end of Destiny, a video game in which players must travel through space, finding dumb ways to entertain themselves. And now a team of raiders has done the dumbest, most impressive thing yet: beating every raid boss, challenge modes activated, without firing a single gun. Oh, and nobody died. To do this,…

People Are Reminiscing About A PS1 JRPG That Didn’t Exist

Two game devs made up a classic JRPG to help promote their new title, a twine game about fandom, nostalgia and Usenet boards. What they didn’t count on was people believing the fake game was real. Sophia Park and Penelope Evans initially gave out jewel cases for Arc Symphony, a “classic” JRPG that they made…

Quake Champion‘s Beta Is A Bloody Disaster

Quake Champions is an upcoming free to play arena shooter that revives the beloved franchise. It is currently running a closed beta. It’s bloody and fun in short bursts but it is also amazingly frustrating. I wanted to enjoy my time with Quake Champions. Old school shooters formed a cornerstone of my time as a…

Project Rap Rabbit Is A Rhythm Game With RPG-Style Rap Battles

Traditional rhythm games give players a series of set songs to tap along to. In Project Rap Rabbit, the newly-announced collaboration between Parappa the Rapper’s Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man’s Keiichi Yano, players participate in rap battles powered by RPG-style dialogue trees. According to the Kickstarter video for Project Rap Rabbit, the battle system in…

Elgato’s Stream Deck Is Fancy Tool For Fancy Streamers

Streamers seeking more control over their broadcasts often use external keypads to do things like switching scenes and controlling chat. Elgato’s $150 Stream Deckaims to replace those makeshift solutions with 15 dedicated LCD buttons capable of handling up to 210 different actions. It’s quite fancy. The Stream Deck, launched today and available at Elgato’s website,…

Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is coming. A teaser trailer for the latest all-star Lego Marvel game popped upon Facebook, giving us a brief glimpse of baby Groot and Doctor Strange, suggesting another game rooted in the cinematic universe. Look for more come May 23.

Report: Nintendo Is Bringing The Legend of Zelda To Smartphones

Nintendo’s beloved Zelda series is headed to smartphones, states The Wall Street Journal in an unconfirmed report. It’s somewhat unclear if this is a port or an entirely new game like Super Mario Run. If true, that seems most likely. According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say this is Nintendo’s latest effort to expand…

Half-Life 2: VR Lets You Get A Little Closer To City 17

Here’s a Steam Greenlight campaign, run by fans, featuring a virtual reality mod for a game made by the guys who own Steam. Playing a proper VR version of Half-Life 2 seems like a no-brainer for anyone with a VR headset. It also seems like something Valve would have made and released for free with…

Paradox Publishing A “Hardcore” Strategy Game About Mars

Surviving Mars is a strategy game coming to the PC, Xbox One and PS4 courtesy of Paradox, the publishers of games like Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron. It’s all about building cities from Mars, and trying to avoid getting everyone inside them killed in the process. Developed by Haemimont Games, Surviving Mars is described…

A new gameplay trailer for Sonic Mania shows Knuckles flying, climbing, and doing all the things you’d expect. Everything looks great and sounds even better. Too bad the game was delayed until an unspecified date later in the year.

The Moms In Chrono Trigger Had It Rough

How would you feel if your son had died trying to save the world and his best friends never told you? Chrono Trigger is one of the most famous video games ever made. You’d be hard pressed to find a top 100 list that doesn’t include it, and when it comes to the SNES’s library…

Here’s A Brief Look At The Maps Coming In Call Of Duty Zombie Chronicles 

Just over a week ago this guy revealed Black Ops III’s fifth and final Zombies DLC would be a collection of eight remastered maps from previous games by unzipping a hoodie. Set to release on Tuesday of this week, here are some videos showing just what they’ll look like. Three of the maps below are…

Charlie Murder and The Dishwasher Vampire Smile are now on Steam. Ska Studios’ indie beat-em-ups finally made it off of Xbox Live Arcade and onto PC yesterday, and if you enjoyed Salt and Sanctuary or like the idea of Edward Gorey meets violent side-scroller, definitely check them out.

Apparently Barcelona’s Soccer Team Loves To Play Mario Kart 8 On The Switch

Four out of seven Barca players give it a thumbs up. What better way for some of the best soccer players in the world to mentally prepare themselves for Sunday’s match against Las Palmas than a little battle mode? The Catalan team’s captain, center-mid veteran Andrés Iniesta, tweeted the below while en route to the…

The Binding Of Isaac Dev Releases Second Mod Pack And Teases New Project

It turns out that Edmund McMillen will not in fact spend the rest of his life making expansions for 2011’s macabre roguelike, The Binding of Isaac. In a post describing the latest fan mods to be added to the official version, McMillen said he and programmer Tyler Glaiel have spent three months in crunch time…