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Some Better Cop Games Would Be Nice

I played Beat Cop this week. On Monday, I was excited! It looked like Police Quest! By Wednesday I’d given up, because it’s not a good video game, and that’s disappointed me more than I thought it would have. Beat Cop is a side-scrolling game that, with its 80s aesthetic and focus on police procedure,…

This is one of the best infographics I have ever seen. It’s deeply broken, of course, since Sombra’s agonising ARG scorched the search results, but still.

Taking The Battle To The Burning Legion In World Of Warcraft Update 7.2

World of Warcraft’smassive Tomb of Sargeras update went live this week, giving players a chance to unlock the new Broken Shore zone and punch the demon invaders right in the junk. Here’s a quick look at how to do that when you’re a warlock who’s forgotten how to warlock. I’ve been neglecting my gnome warlock…

The newly announced Tribeca Games Festival will feature talks by Hideo Kojima and Ken Levine, as well as some more unconventional surprises like a panel about the movie The Lawnmower Man and VR. It’ll all happen in NYC, April 28-29. Details here

The Best Part Of The Sims 4‘s Bowling Stuff Pack Is The Furniture

I never really got bowling until I reached the legal age to consume alcohol, so the new Sims 4 Stuff Pack, Bowling Night Stuff, wasn’t exactly up my alley (I’m sorry). When I dug into it, however, I found a few things I absolutely loved. Bowling Night Stuff is a Stuff Pack that gives you…

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Best Writing Is In Its Emails

In Mass Effect: Andromeda, I met new aliens, terraformed entire planets, and had a blast shooting down enemy Kett. None of that matched the sheer delight of Andromeda’s quieter moments, however, when I could sit down to read the email that my crew had sent between missions. It kinda makes sense. In real life, so…

Fans Bid Farewell To Club Penguin 

For nearly 12 years, children and trolls of all ages flocked to Disney’s browser-based Club Penguin for all sorts of kid-friendly (mostly) shenanigans. Today the game closes down for good, and players past and present are paying their respects. Disney is shuttering the long-lived and well-loved browser game at 12:01 AM Pacific this evening. While…

Card Thief Is A Perfect Mashup Of Playing Cards And Stealth

I like stealth games. I like mobile games I can play with one hand so I don’t have to decide between playing and holding the subway pole. I like Card Thief I’ve been playing this card-based stealth game for iOS (available now for $1.99) on all my commutes since it came out last week. As…

With Dark Souls 3‘s Newest DLC, The Series Finally Says Goodbye

Dark Souls 3‘s final DLC, The Ringed City, seeks to close the curtain on the series. With some of the best environments in the series and imaginative boss fights, it feels like a fitting end. Even as I shed no tears at the passing. The Ringed City is the last piece of content for the…

Blizzard Overhauls Heroes Of The Storm’s Progression System

Today, Heroes of the Storm announced some big changes to its progression system. Heroes 2.0, launching in beta today, aims to make leveling up more interesting. Currently, each heroes’ level caps at 20 and, at later levels, their XP curve is, in game director Alan Dabiri’s words, “punishing.” Heroes 2.0 will remove the level cap…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s Narrative Director Says They Spent ‘Hundreds’ Of Hours Rewriting The Story

John Gonzalez might have cut his teeth on the beloved Fallout: New Vegas, but the narrative director told Kotaku that helping craft the story for Horizon: Zero Dawn was “hands down the biggest challenge” of his career. Here’s why. According to game director Mathijs de Jonge, the idea for Horizon began as a pitch from…

Here’s The PlayStation Plus Lineup For April

April’s PlayStation Plus lineup features a launch game, Drawn to Death, as well some older games you might have missed. Co-op Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lot of fun if you enjoy yelling at your friends under the guise of teamwork. Remember, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation…

Fire Emblem Heroes Spring Event Comes With Bunny Costumes

Fire Emblem Heroes is about to get a little more colorful. The Spring Festival tosses fan favorite heroes into bunny costumes and adds a new, lighthearted side story to battle through. But it’s mostly about those absurd outfits. The Spring Festival will run from March 30th to April 13th. The biggest draw from the event…

The Xbox One’s new UI just dropped. It emphasizes streaming games with the just-released Beam app, discovery and sharing over navigating to apps you already use regularly. It’s also a little faster.

Final Fantasy XV‘s First DLC Is Short And Pointless

Final Fantasy XV, a Cup Noodles commercial cosplaying as a video game, got its first piece of downloadable content this week, and you really don’t need to bother with it. It’s short, straightforward, and—unless you’re particularly attached to Gladio—really boring. Episode Gladiolus, which came out yesterday for $5, starts off with the Final Fantasy XV…

Funcom Relaunches The Secret World As A Free-To-Play Action RPG

Despite a unique setting, inventive quests and genuinely creepy vibe, Funcom’s supernatural MMO The Secret World doesn’t get a lot of play, so they’re taking all of the content from that game and putting it into a free-to-play online action RPG called Secret World Legends Funcom is calling it a relaunch, but traditionally relaunches involve…

EVE Online‘s New Pirate Ship Can Hold 100,000 Human Corpses

EVE Online is about to get its biggest, most expensive warship ever: the Molok. A version of the game’s giant Titan spaceship that’s aligned with the Blood Raider pirate faction, it’s going to cost three to five times the price of an Avatar-class Titan. But all that cash outlay comes with serious benefits, like the…

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Most of the time when we post about a promising fan-made project, we never hear from that project again, because fans are rarely also professional project managers. But this Halo game we wrote about last yearis making good progress!

Rain World Broke Me

Every time I think I’m getting close to overcoming the brutal learning curve of Rain World, I die. Initially I blamed myself. I decided to spend my first 30 minutes with Videocult’s long-awaited 2D survival gamestreaming over Facebook. Between my lack of familiarity with the game and Rain World’s aversion to hand-holding of any sort,…