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Overwatch Players Are Abusing Custom Games To Farm XP

Overwatch’s new custom game browser has given rise to everything from tense “predator” games of cat and mouse to sex role-play rooms. Good times all around, in other words. Other players, however, have taken to abusing the feature. If you take a look around Overwatch’s custom game lobby, you’ll almost assuredly come across at least…

DayZ’s Dean Hall debuted a game called Ion during Microsoft’s E3 press conference in 2015. Like a lot of other things announcedat a MicrosoftE3 press conference in recent years, it now no longer exists

This Isn’t An Operating System, It’s An RPG

In Kingsway, Andrew Morrish’s upcoming PC role-playing game, monsters are pop-ups, quests are emails and your backpack is a cluttered file folder. That’s right, it’s an OSRPG. Coming to PC later this year via Adult Swim games, Kingsway is a role-playing adventure that takes the form of the Kingsway Operating System, which is basically a…

Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Little Details Are Polished And Well-Styled

The new PS4 game Horizon Zero Dawndoes a lot of big stuff well. Literal big stuff, like robots the size of buildings. It also nails a lot of small things.Amazing leg animations, sure, but also things that more directly affect how it feels to play the game. Given that I sometimeshighlight games thatscrew up their…

Hookshots, Wii U Maps, And Other Things Nintendo Cut From Zelda: Breath of the Wild

To make a game as massive and astounding as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the developers at Nintendo needed to take a lot of experiments. As a result, they left a lot of ideas on Hyrule’s floor. Unlike other Zelda games, Breath of the Wild won’t give you access to environment-altering items…

For Super Bomberman On Switch, TV Mode Is The Better View

As the Nintendo Switch launch title I was most excited about, Super Bomberman R does not disappoint in terms of explosive action, but boy does it make me squint in tablet mode. My first foray into Switch gaming on launch night was purely tablet-based, and so my first impressions of the return of one of…

Nintendo Flags YouTuber For Using Switch Sound

YouTubers who feature Nintendo games and products have long had issues YouTube’s controversial Content ID system, and Nintendo’s aggressive usage of that system is already impacting how YouTubers cover games on the Switch. Recently, a YouTuber had their video flagged by YouTube’s Content ID system over a sound effect from a Switch launch game. YouTube’s…

Frustration Can Improve Video Games, Designer Found 

In video games, frustration is often viewed as a dirty word. If you’re feeling frustrated—like you’ve hit a wall and can’t find a way over, under, or around—the designers must have made a mistake. That’s not always the case, though. Sometimes, game makers try to make you feel irritated, or even livid. Last week, Duelyst…

Ghost Recon Wildlands Impressions: Some Frowns, Some Smiles

I’ve played about eleven hours of Ghost Recon Wildlands, sniping enemies and trolling my hapless squadmates. It’s a pretty good time although I’m a bit worried that the fun won’t last forever. Here are some early thoughts on what works and what doesn’t. This is the love child of Mercenaries and Far Cry At first…

YouTubers Are Fighting Over Destroyed Bases In Conan Exiles

Survival game Conan Exiles is gritty. On one level, that means butt-naked menhacking each other up with axes. On another, that means you can spend a month lovingly constructing a base, only for another player to destroy it. Over the weekend, a huge gaming YouTuber got a ton of hate after griefing a smaller YouTuber’s…

Nier: Automata Lets Your Corpse Join The Fight

In Nier: Automata you play as 2B, an unstoppable android killing machine tasked with ridding the world of alien robot invaders. When she dies, she transfers to a new body and keeps fighting, but don’t count her old body out yet. If you’re playing Nier: Automata on anything over easy mode, you’re going to die.…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Gets Video Game Collectibles Right

Nearly every open world game makes the player collect random garbage, and it’s almost never fun. Instead, collectibles often come across as content fodder, meant to pad up the time a player might spend with a game. Breath of the Wild is not like that at all. To catch some of you up to speed,…

Next week, Hello Games will release new content for No Man’s Sky, according to an announcement on their Steam page. Dubbed the Path Finder update, it will appropriately feature a new vehicle that will, “aid home planet exploration.”

Switch Owners Report Hardware Problems, Though It’s Tough To Tell How Many

With every new console launch comes a suite of hardware issues, and the Switch is no exception. People who bought Nintendo’s hybrid console say they’re running into all sorts of problems, ranging from big (crashes) to small (dead pixels). There’s no way to tell just how many Switch users have received malfunctioning consoles. We reached…

GTA Online’s Free Update Lets You Race Up A Skyscraper, And It’s A Thrill

Last year, Rockstar released a free update that added impressive stunt races full of floating racetracks and large jumps. That update was so good, it became one of my favorite things to do in GTA Online. Fortunately, Rockstar has now added 15 wild new stunt races to the repertoire, and they’re excellent as well. These…

Lego Worlds launches on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One today, slipping out of early access on PC as well. It’s pretty much Lego Minecraft, where players can join together online and build all the Lego stuff their little Lego hearts can dream up.

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Tourist Crashes Replica Mario Kart Into Tokyo Police Box

A Korean tourist renting a replica, real-life Mario Kart (from a company currently being sued by Nintendo) has smashed into a police box in Tokyo. The Mainichi reports that the woman “apparently failed to negotiate a turn at an intersection, driving her vehicle onto a sidewalk and then crashing into the wall of the police…

Torment: Tides of Numenera developer inXile is working on a fix for the game’s console performance issues. “We are currently working on an update to solve this issue as soon as possible, and will keep you informed,” they said in a statement to Eurogamer

My Kind Of Nintendo Portable

I know the Switch is a portable console in theory, but it feels so precious in the hand. This custom handheld, on the other hand, has some heft It’s a portable Super Nintendo that just puts a screen and an actual Super Famicom pad inside the console. Because the screen is where the cartridge slot…