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BioWare Promises Big Changes For Mass Effect: Andromeda, Starting Thursday

Mass Effect: Andromeda had a couple of rough weeks thanks to high-profile technical issues, animation wonkiness, and general fan disappointment. In response to that feedback, BioWare has announced improvements to Andromeda that will start easing out the visual kinks, while also teasing some major changes yet to come. Below are the full patch notes for…

Destiny Really Wants You To Pre-Order Destiny 2

Destiny, a three-year pre-order bonus for Destiny 2, is pretty open about its intentions these days. Above is the screen you’ll get when you log into Bungie’s space shooter, which is currently in the midst of an event called Age of Triumph that celebrates Destiny’s best moments. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video…

The 2017 remake of 1999 classic Outcast is coming along nicely.

Computer Learns To Create Its Own Pokémon, And They’re Great

You can train a Neural Network—basically a machine that learns—to do all kinds of things. The best thing, though, is to create a list of its own fake Pokémon. Please welcome Stangute, Tortabool and Ronch to the Pokédex. “I decided to train [a] neural network to randomly generate Pokemon names and abilities based on this…

Ark: Survival Evolved Horse Taming Is Almost Exactly Like Zelda‘s

In a new update Friday, Ark: Survival Evolved added horses, aka the Equus, to its vast menagerie of tameable creatures. The way you tame them is familiar, to say the least. It’s borrowed from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Or “pays homage to,” if you’re feeling more generous. In case you didn’t already…

You Are A Mortician In This Upcoming Game About Death

“Death positive” was a term I’d never heard before I saw the trailer for upcoming indie game A Mortician’s Tale. It describes the movement to embrace and understand death instead of fearing and hiding from it. For morticians, the philosophy isn’t exactly voluntary. In A Mortician’s Tale, you’re a mortician prepping corpses and soothing the…

In Their War With The Wall Street Journal, Top YouTubers Just Played Themselves

Over the last couple of weeks, anger has been bubbling on YouTube over the news that major brands pulled advertisements on the platform in an effort to avoid being matched with objectionable content. The reports, which were published by the Wall Street Journal, were met with such skepticism that they sparked scandalous conspiracy theories among…

Attack on Titan’s Season 2 Opener Is More Of The Same

Attack on Titan’s new season began on Saturday with more of the same, along with a few bombshells that failed to make up for the show’s poor pacing. If you’re already into Attack on Titan, you’ll love what the first episode is doing. If you aren’t a fan of the series, it doesn’t offer a…

Five Ways Nintendo Could Fix Breath Of The Wild‘s Clunky Interface

Nintendo’s latest Zelda game ​Breath of the Wild has garnered deserved praise for presenting users with an immense, emergent open world full of discovery, surprise, and charm. However, as I’ve been digging deeper into the game, I started to notice some areas that could benefit from a few quick user experience (UX) design improvements to…

Persona 5 Is A Great Entry Point For Series Newcomers

The most common question we’ve gotten, when talking about how much we love the new video game Persona 5, is whether there are lots of people to kiss. The second most common question is: Can you play it without playing the other Persona games? The answer to both of these questions is yes. Persona 5 is…

Breath Of The Wild Voice Actor Drops In On Streamer

Over the weekend a streamer finally beat Breath of the Wild, not realizing that the voice actor of her favorite character had been watching the whole time. Haley Ojedi, who streams and makes gaming videos on her YouTube channel, didn’t think her subscribers would even be interested in her streaming the ending to Breath of…

If You’re Disappointed By Ghost In The Shell, Try This Comic

After paying money I will never get back for the disappointment that is 2017’s Ghost in the Shell, I realized that it hadn’t scratched my itch for a Tokyo-esque sci-fi tech opera. It delivered, mostly, on the dystopian vision of Tokyo that Io9’s Evan Narcissecalled “futureshock design porn.” But while its setting contained infinite storytelling…

Agents of Mayhem, the newest game from the makers of Saints Row, comes out August 15, the developers at Volition announced today. It’s a single-player open-world game in which you can swap heroes and fight terrorists. Looks colorful.

Mod Brings Crysis’ Nanosuit To Grand Theft Auto V

Let’s see how those cops like it when you’re rollin’ down Rodeo in your MAXIMUM ARMOUR This isn’t just a cosmetic tweak: You’re actually given the full range of Nanosuit abilities from Crytek’s series, with strength, speed and invisibility all included. Note that you’ll need two seperate downloads to get this working, one for the…

The Biggest Selling Games And Hardware Last Month In Japan 

It’s April! March is over, but Famitsu has Japanese sales figures for the most successful games, hardware, and game companies of the past month. For the period of February 27 to March 26, here are the top five selling games in Japan: 5. 1-2-Switch (Switch) – 138,790 copies 4. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PS4)…

Konami Responds To Diego Maradona’s Legal Threats

Last week, Diego Maradona wrote on Facebook that he wanted to “initiate legal actions” against Pro Evolution Soccer publishers Konami for using his likeness. According to Maradona, it was allegedly done without permission. Today, Konami has issued a response. Konami’s Tokyo headquarters put out a statement: At this time, there have been news that in…

Sega and Creative Assembly announced a new Total War game over the weekend. It’s a sequel to last years excellent Total War: Warhammer

Spend Some Quality Time With Nier: Automata’s Director

In this latest instalment of the excellent toco toco TV, everyone gets to remotely hang out with Yoko Taro,the director of Nier: Automata It’s not just an interview about his processes and the game; like the other episodes in the series, it takes you to a place of great importance in Taro’s career/life, in this…

Take A Moment To Remember One Of The Best April Fools’ Gaming Hoaxes Of All Time

It was 1992 and print was still alive and well with most people relying on monthly magazines for their gaming info. As a result, a joke about a secret Street Fighter character called Sheng Long spread world wide. 25 years later, it’s time we poured one out for all those tortured souls who went looking…

LucasArts Was Really Good At Canceling Star Wars Games

The latest video from GVMERS takes a look back at all of the Star Wars games that never saw the light of day. Consider it a eulogy for a galaxy far, far away still littered with what-ifs. Starting with Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure planed for the Atari and going all the way up…