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The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons

The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…

GameStop Acknowledges Possible Breach Of Customers’ Credit Card Information

If you’ve shopped at GameStop.com between mid-September and early February, it’s possible your credit card information has been compromised according to a report by the web security blog, KrebsOnSecurity. After reaching out to the video game retailer about the breach, GameStop confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that it had been notified by a third party that possible…

A Look At Super Mario Bros. 3’s Secret Glitch Levels

It’s been almost 30 years since Super Mario Bros. 3 released for the NES, but we’re still discussing its secrets in 2017. In this case: glitch levels that are hiding within SMB3. Perhaps you’ve seen them before. Shesez runs Boundary Break, a YouTube show that’s kind of exactly what it sounds like. Using special tools…

Three Recent Games On Switch That Are Worth A Try

There aren’t a lot of exclusive games on Nintendo Switch right now. But games are trickling out. I played three recent ones that are worth your attention—and worth checking out on other platforms, too. We livestreamed all three on Facebook earlier this week. You can watch an archive of that above. Or, for fans of…

Soon, EVE Online Players Will Help Discover Actual Planets

This summer, EVE Online players won’t just be exploring virtual galaxies—they’ll be helping to map out the actual universe. At Fanfest, the annual gathering of players of the popular MMO taking place this weekend in Iceland, the game’s publisher CCP provided the details of its latest collaboration with Reykjavik University and the University of Geneva,…

You—yes, you—could star in a TurboGrafx game. The fan translators of Falcom’s Legend of Xanadu games are holding open, online auditions for voice actors who want to help re-dub the classic CD-ROM games’ cutscenes into English. They’ve provided detailed instructions for how to submit your samples.

Tinder Parody Game Tries To Turn Your Controller Into A Massager

Mr. Massagy is a PlayStation 4 game in which players go on Tinder-esque dates with a variety of women to unlock, ahem, massage settings for your controller. Who is this game for, exactly? Let’s pause for a moment: is Mr. Massagy actually intended for massaging? All the packaging of the game points to no. In…

Overwatch Fans Love Genji’s Edgy New Backstory

Recently released Overwatch comic Uprising showed off more of the heroes’ pasts. A juicy lore revelation and slick character design for Genji has captured fan’s imaginations, inspiring theories and lots of amazing art. Uprising focuses on the Overwatch team as a crisis erupts in London. Overwatch is barred from intervening and must decide if they will…

GTA Online Can Look Pretty Different These Days

A couple weeks ago, Rockstar added mesmerizing “props” that GTA Online players can use to create stunt races, and the coolest ones aren’t just flashy—they bend and break tracks in new ways. (Seizure warning!) Some fans are using an “underground” glitch to create strange tracks underneath the GTA Online map. While players have pulled this…

Anime Malware Locks Your Files Unless You Play A Game

In 2017, even malware is anime. Anyone affected by the new malware Rensenware, named after the anime-style game Touhou Seirensen (Undefined Fantastic Object), has to score over 200 million points on the game’s “lunatic” level or they won’t be able to access their computer files. Ransomeware is a malicious brand of malware that holds files…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A surprisingly sweet movie with a muggle who steals the show. What it is: The latest movie in the Harry Potterverse. Fantastic Beasts was a fictional textbook the kids read in the original books, which was then turned into a “real” textbook written by Harry Potter creator J.K.…

G2A has acknowledged Gearbox’s demands that they clean up their act. They just told me that they’re in talks with Gearbox now and will have more to say after the weekend. Check out my updated story for more.

Trails in the Sky 3rd, the sequel to FC and SC, will be out for PC on May 3, publisher XSEED said today. They’re also bringing Cold Steel and Cold Steel II to PC in the future. For more on this convoluted, incredible RPG series, read this primer.

Actually, Bulletstorm Is An Excellent Shooter

Bulletstorm was one of the best games of the last generation, tragically ignored because of an awful marketing campaign, an even worse PC port, and the fact that EA wanted audiences to spend $60 for a seven-hour campaign, which is a steep price by any metric. It’s too bad because once players got past all…

Someday, Our Astronauts Might Have Clothes As Cool As These Mass Effect Uniforms

Human beings won’t make it to the far reaches of space for a long, long time, and the engineers who make spacesuits aren’t sure what we’ll wear when we get there. I hope our future astronauts look at cool as the characters in Mass Effect: Andromeda The purpose of a uniform is to broadcast who…

Rain World got a patch that provides some gameplay improvements, including keeping map progress upon death, no longer getting stuck in those fake exits, and some tweaks to karma loss. Will it make the game less maddening? I hope so!

A California court ruled that German cheat maker Bossland, who makes hacks for Overwatch and World of Warcraft, must pay $8.5 million to Blizzard, VICE Motherboard reports And yet, Bossland didn’t even show up to the case. You can read the full articleon it over at VICE.

Two of Paradox’s big grand strategy games, Stellaris and Europa Universalis IV, both got new expansions today. Stellaris attempts to cut down on the slog in Utopia, while EUIV focuses on China in Mandate of Heaven

Persona 5’s Coffee Fixation Is Very Cute

Persona 5 is a game about Japanese teens, but the game never explains the nuances of Tokyo youth culture. It’s a game about the Japanese government, but never briefs you on the finer points of local politics. But if you ever want to talk about coffee, then hoo boy, does Persona 5 want to break…

A Look At The Sketchy Sites That Sell Hacked PSN Accounts

In the world of games, shady key resale sites like G2A are nothing new. On PlayStation 4, however, things are a little different. Many sites sell entire PSN accounts with the promise of delivering particular games on the cheap. Would you be shocked—shocked, I say—to hear that some of them aren’t exactly legit? Waypoint’s Patrick…