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We Happy Few‘s Early Access Version Is Definitely Early

We Happy Few is a survival game set in an alternate 1960s Britain. Citizens of Wellington Wells take a drug called Joy to forget, to function. The game wears its BioShock influences on its puke-encrusted sleeve, but in its current state, it’s still got a ways to go before it can live up to its…

Watch Us Play Headlander, A Retro Sci-Fi Metroidvania 

Headlander is a wild new Metroidvania for PS4 and PC from the folks at Double Fine Productions and Adult Swim Games. It is a disco fever dream mix of shooting, puzzles, and exploration. It’s pretty damn swell to play as a floating head! Join me as I talk about director Lee Petty’s approach to design,…

WWE 2K16, Beyond Good & Evil Headline Xbox’s Games With Gold For August

Microsoft’s revealed what games Xbox Live Gold owners will get access to next month. As a bonus, it’s been juuust long enough for someone to convince themselves Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still in development. Remember, though Microsoft advertises these as “free” games, you need an active Xbox Live Gold subscription to play them.…

Acclaimed slash-and-dash RPG Hyper Light Drifter is now available for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. We really loved it on PC.

Wahaha, Smash Bros. Players Mod Waluigi Into Brawl

Project M, the unofficial lovechild of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Melee, has been abandoned by its developers, but fans are still churning out content for the popular mod. As of last Sunday, our favorite conniving Mario underdog has earned his own—again unofficial—Smash character in Project M. Waaahaaahaa Currently in Smash, Waluigi exists as a…

Report: Nintendo NX Is A Portable Console With Detachable Controllers

As Sony and Microsoft battle over who has the most teraflops, Nintendo’s hardware makers may be taking a different approach. The next Nintendo console, code-named NX, is a portable system with detachable controllers and a docking station for TV gaming, according to a new report from Eurogamer Many observers have expected the NX to fuse…

Lovely Planet Arcade‘s Cute Visuals Hide A Brutal Shooter

Lovely Planet Arcade’s bright world and cheery soundtrack are a trick. They’re simply delightful bells and whistles to lure you into the unforgiving, hardcore PC shooter that lurks within. A sequel to Quicktequila’s 2014 Lovely Planet, Lovely Planet Arcade tasks the player with shooting usually (but not always, the jerks!) stationary enemies while moving as…

Shiren The Wanderer Is A Mystery Dungeon Game Without Pokémon Or Chocobos, That’s All

We’ve run through Pokémon Mystery Dungeons, Chocobo Mystery Dungeons and even Gundam Mystery Dungeons. Released today for the PlayStation Vita, Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is just like those, only without the licensed characters. Spike Chunsoft’s Mystery Dungeon has been sending players off to die in roguelike fashion…

Twitch Streamer Swatted While Playing Pokémon Go Outside

Normally, parks are a great place to chill and capture lots of monsters within Pokémon Go. This particular excursion, however, ended with cops pointing guns at a Pokémon Go player instead. Summit1g, a Twitch streamer with 86 million views, was broadcasting a Pokémon Go playthrough at a park yesterday, only to have it interrupted by…

Exactly What Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Missing

The first two rounds of downloadable content for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens drop today, along with some apples from the slippery hands of that lovable scamp, Jar Jar Binks. About time we got some prequel action up in here, am I right? No, I am not right. Still, it’s nice to see some…

Pokémon Go Players Robbed, Two Men Shot

A shootout took place in Las Vegas early yesterday morning when a man and a teenage accomplice tried to rob a group of people playing Pokémon Go AP reports that the pair, in a large SUV, drove to Gary Reese Freedom Park, which has become a popular Pokémon Go hotspot in the city. They approached…

Blame!, My Favorite Manga, Is Getting A Movie

Blame!, the story of a guy with a fancy gun wandering the wastes of a dystopian sci-fi future, is my favourite manga of all time. So it’s exciting to see Tsutomu Nihei’s tale finally get the movie treatment it’s long deserved. Having been teased as a TV commercial inside the world of the anime adaptationof…

Madden’s Greatest Highlight Player Retired From The NFL Today

In 2010, a guy by the name of Demetry James uploaded a video he made while he and some buddies were playing Madden. It went on to become the most famous highlight clip that video game series has ever seen. The clip featured a heroic effort by Green Bay receiver Greg Jennings, who went 99…

VR painting in 3D—like this image of WoW’s Illidan Stormrage—is black magic, and no amount of demos or explanations will convince me otherwise.

FGC Raw is a new documentary series focusing on “the top players in the fighting game community”. First up is Long Island Joe, who made one hell of a run at this year’s EVO.

Three Anas Can Get An Overwatch Player Kicked From A Match

Overwatch’s new sniper mom hero Ana, it turns out, has secret trolling capacities. Ana’s “Sleep Dart,” which makes enemies unconscious for a few seconds, can actually render a player inactive and kicked from the game. If you collect three Anas around an enemy and keep that enemy constantly asleep, that player will get removed from…

False Rumors Of A Legendary Pokemon Appearance Created A Scene At Comic-Con

This was the scene outside San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H yesterday, after rumors flew that legendary bird Pokemon would be released during Niantic’s Pokemon Go panel. It didn’t happen, but hundreds of people still gathered outside the building (the panel filled up fast) in hopes of being among the first to catch one. “I’m gonna…

We’re Weeks Away From A New Style Savvy You Guys

This is not sarcastic excitement. Every since I was assigned to review the original back in 2009, Nintendo’s fashion design series has been my jam, and Style Savvy: Fashion Forward looks to be the best of the bunch. It’s character creation that never ends. Character creation that keeps adding new elements with each new iteration…

Get Pokémon Go Alerts On Your Phone So You Can Walk Around Like A Human Being

I own a smartwatch. It’s…somewhere around here, gathering dust, because it’s useless when I’ve already got my phone in my pocket. That said, if anything in July 2016 is going to convince me to try using it again, it’s Pokémon Go There’s an app on the Play Store called PokeDetector, which pairs an Android Wear…

Gal*Gun: Double Peace Is Exactly What It Looks Like

Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a game about firing your “pheromone shot” at love-crazed anime schoolgirls until they collapse in ecstasy and disappear. Armed with that knowledge, nothing in this video should surprise you. The sequel to 2011 Japan-only Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title from developer Inti Creates, Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a game that…