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Mario Maker 3DS Would Be Great If You Could Actually Upload Levels

Super Mario Maker, one of the Wii U’s best games, comes to 3DS today, which would be great if it wasn’t missing a pivotal feature: The ability to upload your courses online. Although you can still build courses in Mario Maker 3DS, you can only share them via local wireless or StreetPass. You can also…

Sims Are No Longer Okay With Other People Watching Them Bang

The Sims 4 was patched yesterday and, big surprise, some of the changes are hilarious. Let’s take a look. Woohoo or Mess Around with a non-household Sim on a non-household lot will now properly shoo other Sims from the room during said action. Before this patch, your sims were apparently okay with their partner’s family…

Bethesda Tells Popular Doom Fan Game To Shut Down

DoomRL is a free roguelike that uses the Doom setting to offer random, digestible adventures full of super shotguns and cacodemons. Now, a takedown request from ZeniMax threatens to put an end to the project. In a tweet last night, DoomRL creator Kornel Kisielewicz shared an email from ZeniMax requesting the removal of all trademarks. They…

Wet dog survival sim The Flame in the Flood is coming to PS4 in January. We liked the game quite a bit on PC.

Our Favorite Games From November

It’s that weird time of year when it isn’t Christmas except everyone thinks it’s OK to play Christmas music (it isn’t, by the way). Before you get inundated with new games from gifts and Steam sales, here were some of our favorite games from November. Pokemon Sun and Moon We enjoyed taking a tropical vacation…

Tiny, Big-Headed Nathan Drake Is Ready For Action

Nothing says “ready for action” like a grappling hook and a fine head of plastic hair. Nendoroid Nathan Drake: Adventure Edition has both. Good Smile Company is now accepting preorders for this big-headed version of Uncharted’s hero, who also sports a machine gun, a pistol, and a clear plastic stand that’s perfect for high-energy poses.…

Guillermo Del Toro Says ‘Fuck Konami’

“Fuck Konami” is an old saying on the internet, but usually, it’s commenters who are lashing out against the publisher. Today, even a Hollywood director is cursing out Konami—and with good reason, too. Del Toro, who is known for making films such as Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, has many potential reasons for hating Konami. He’s…

Overwatch Wins Game Of The Year At The 2016 Game Awards

Overwatch just took top honors as Game of the Year at this year’s The Game Awards. It beat Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4. Eligible games had to have been out after November 24 of last year and before November 24 of this year. While accepting the award, Blizzard’s Ray Gresko said, “While we’ve…

During the Game Awards, Telltale showed off The Walking Dead: A New Frontier The trailer stars Javier, a young man who ultimately meets up with a grizzled-as-hell looking Clementine… after killing his zombified dad. A New Frontier kicks off on December 20.

Five Minutes Of Mass Effect: Andromeda In Action

We got to see a lot more of the upcoming Mass Effect game tonight at The Game Awards, and man, the Andromeda galaxy looks great. Here’s the latest trailer, which showcases actual gameplay: As you might already know, Andromeda takes place hundreds of years after the events of the original Mass Effect games. You play…

Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games just released a gorgeous new trailer for the game’s upcoming expansion (and Shovel Knight prequel), Specter of Torment, at the Game Awards. It will be available for free in Spring, 2017.

New Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Footage Is Triggering Some Interesting Theories

Is that Zelda? FEMALE LINK? Is she playable in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Are people reading too much into this? Tonight at The Game Awards, Nintendo showed off some brand new footage from Breath of the Wild, which will be out this spring for Wii U and Switch. First they showed…

Prey Looks Like A New System Shock

During the Game Awards, Bethesda showed off gameplay of the new Prey The trailer shows main character Morgan Yu shooting and sci-fi super-powering his way through a space station, taking on shadow monsters and transforming into weapons of mass destruction like a coffee cup. Given how much they’ve promoted it, there had BETTER fucking be…

New indie studio Phoenix Labs announced upcoming co-op RPG Dauntless at the game awards tonight. It’s set in an online sci-fi fantasy world in which players slay monsters called “Behemoths” and features a very cool sword. Dauntless will be available for PC in 2017.

That Dragon, Cancer Designer Wins Game Award, Gives Heartbreaking Speech About Son Who Died

During the Game Awards, That Dragon, Cancer won the Games For Impact award. The game is about developer Ryan Green’s young son’s struggle with cancer. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. Green accepted the award in tears. “Often in video games,” he said, his voice shaking, “we get to choose how we’re seen. Our avatars and…

Telltale Announces Guardians of the Galaxy Adventure Game

Tonight at The Game Awards, a short teaser revealed that Telltale’s next big licensed adventure game will be based on Guardians of the Galaxy. Before I play it, I’m gonna need a security band, a quarnex battery, and that guy’s prosthetic leg. The game will be out in 2017. In a press release, Telltale’s Kevin…

Geoff Keighley Gives Emotional Speech For Hideo Kojima, Puts Konami On Blast

A year ago, Hideo Kojima was supposed to receive a trophy at The Game Awards for Metal Gear Solid V. Due to bullshit from Konami, Kojima couldn’t attend the event. Tonight, things have been set right. “Last year, I thought I lost everything,” Kojima said, accepting the award. “But I didn’t.” The whole thing was…

Death Stranding Goes Full Kojima With Mysterious New Trailer

Hideo Kojima revealed a new trailer for his upcoming PS4 game Death Stranding at the Game Awards tonight. It was initially announced at E3 earlier this year. An open-world action game, Death Stranding is the first title from Kojima’s independent studio Kojima Productions, which he formed after leaving Konami last year. Two people featured in…

Remastered Bulletstorm Coming To Consoles And PC In 2017

Tonight at The Game Awards, People Can Fly announced that a remastered edition of their excellent but frequently overlooked shooter Bulletstorm is coming to current-gen consoles and PC next year. It’s called Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and it’ll be out on April 7, 2017. Not everyone overlooked Bullettorm, of course. Our own contributor G.B. Burford…

Rocket League is going to space with Starbase Arc, a new octagonal arena available December 7th.