Uncategorized

The Future Of Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 surprised people. The World War 1 setting came out of left field, as did a remarkably deft single-player campaign. At a recent event at EA’s Redwood City studio, I spoke to Valerian Noghin, lead designer of the new They Shall Not Pass expansion, about what’s next for Battlefield 1, as well as how…

What Gear Are You Using With Your New Nintendo Switch?

The Nintendo Switch has been out for a little over a week now, which is ample time to run out of games to buy and start looking for extra accessories. Here are some of these cases, stands and accessories I’ve been using with my new hybrid gaming system. Hybrid Cover Manufacturer: Power A Function: Protective…

Flexible Lego Tape Is A Great Idea

One of the biggest problems facing today’s Lego builders is there are only so many surfaces that can accept bricks. Team Nimuno proposes flexible solution to this dilemma—rolls of colorful, cut-table, Lego compatible tape. They’re calling it Nimuno Loops, and lots of Lego aficionados were talking about it during Toy Fair 2017 in New York…

The Level That Shows Why Halo: Reach Is Awesome

You drop right into a firefight, plasma crackling as it flies past your head. You push forward, blasting away at a pack of grunts, causing them to panic. An Elite taunts you with a burst of blue fire from his rifle, but he backs off when, having caught your attention, you go after him. Starting…

Kinda Funny Co-Founder Colin Moriarty Leaves YouTube Group After Controversial Joke

Colin Moriarty, a co-founder of the popular YouTube channel Kinda Funny, said today that he plans to leave the group. This announcement comes several days after Moriarty drew fire for a controversial Twitter joke targeting women, although to Kinda Funny fans, the split appears to have been a long time coming. “It’s with a heavy…

Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting An Official Companion App

Coming soon to PC, tablets and phones, D&D Beyond is the official digital companion to fifth edition D&D, giving players and dungeon masters instant access to rules, character builders and more. Does this mean we’ll stop using the unofficial support apps? No, but it’s nice. D&D Beyond is the latest stab at an official digital…

PlayStation Now Is Getting PS4 Games

You may be playing Uncharted 4 on your PC real soon. PlayStation Now, Sony’s streaming service for PC and PlayStation 4, will start supporting PS4 games in the near future, the publisher said today. Sony hasn’t yet said which PS4 games they’ll be adding to PlayStation Now—which costs $20/month and currently lets you stream a…

I Swear, If It Rains In Zelda: Breath of the Wild One More God Damn Time

Breath of the Wild is an amazing game, but I do have some gripes with it. My biggest annoyance has to be the rain, an entity that has caused me more pain and suffering than Ganon’s evil forces. Estimating conservatively from my ~60 hours of playtime, I’d say it pours more often in Hyrule than…

Final Fantasy XV‘s First DLC Pits Gladio Against Gilgamesh

If you, like many Final Fantasy XV players, have been wondering just what happened to Gladiolus when he mysteriously left your party in Chapter 6, here’s your answer: Episode Gladiolus, which comes out on March 28. Over the weekend, the developers at Square Enix released more info about the DLC as well as a new…

Breath of the Wild‘s Shark Prince Is Getting A Lot of Love From Thirsty Zelda Fans

No one could have predicted how horny people would get for the shark man crown prince from Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Prince Sidon is Zora royalty, and you meet him as you head to their domain to take on the Divine Beast Vah Ruta. He’s generally affable and brave, and well liked by his people.…

The Modders Who Decided To Fix Skyrim’s Bad Romance

Skyrim is has plenty of dragons, warriors and adventure. One of the more disappointing features, however, is romance. In this video, we discuss the shortcomings of vanilla romanceable NPCS, and how modders such as myself sought to create more realistic relationships in a classic RPG. Alan Torres is a freelance journalist, and a Stormcloak rebel.…

Players Dig Their Own Goal In Rocket League‘s Dropshot Mode

Arriving alongside the launch of competitive season four on March 22, Rocket League’s free new Dropshot mode sees players smashing open the ground underneath their opponents in order to score. Dropshot takes place in a hexagonal arena called Core 707, which doesn’t feature any traditional goalposts. Using an electrified ball that grows stronger as it’s…

Megadimension Neptunia VII, that game in which anime girls are game consoles, is getting a VR version for the PS4. Titled Megadimension Neptunia VIIR (geddit?), it’ll be out this summer in Japan. No word yet on an international release. 

What To Expect From Battlefield 1‘s First Expansion

Battlefield 1‘s first expansion, They Shall Not Pass, is just around the corner. It’s not about 32 Gandalfs fighting 32 Balrogs for 32 eternities, unfortunately, and instead focuses on the long-awaited French army. The expansion introduces the French army with four maps set on the Western front of World War 1. Fort de Vaux is…

Glitchy Roach Card Is Too Good Not To Leave In The Witcher 3‘s Gwent Spinoff

At PAX East this weekend, members from CD Projekt Red working on Gwent showed off four new animated cards, including one starring everyone’s favorite Witcher steed. Gwent is a standalone collectible card game being developed based on The Witcher 3 mini-game of the same name. The game’s been in beta for sometime, with CD Projekt…

Rocket League is all about being in the right place at the right time. No one wants to play with someone who’s constantly going out of position. Unless, that is, they can pull this off

A Game Jam About Watermelons All Started Because Of A Joke

There are game jams about all kinds of things. The subject doesn’t really matter so much as the constraints introduced and the creativity that flows from game designers working to overcome them together. So why not a game jam about watermelons? It was originally born from an inside joke that began at last year’s A…

Painting Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Different Colors Isn’t As Scary As It Looks

Truly painting your Joy-Con controllers will require taking them completely apart. The process looks gnarly but the people who have done it say it’s not that bad. Take Imgur user Retaihec for instance. Not satisfied with the neon-colored Joy-Con that arrived with the Switch they took to disassembling them so they could spray paint both…

Anime, Video Games, And Funk Flow Together In Thundercat’s Drunk

Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references to Mobile Suit Gundum and Sonic at the heart of new electronic soul music. Drive around Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos for long enough and you might hear Thundercat’s falsetto blurt out “I’m on ecstasy.” Possibly…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Players Are Tricking Amiibos To Grind For Rare Loot

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is amazing in its own right. Its world is breathtakingly gorgeous and bursting at the seams with surprises. So why am I and other players wasting so much time resetting the Nintendo Switch’s clock so we can keep spawning new treasure chests with our Amiibos? For me…