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Evolve Goes Free-To-Play On PC

Evolve, the 4v1 multiplayer game that launched last year to tepid responses, is now free-to-play on PC. It’s also getting some major gameplay changes and an entirely new progression system. The developers at Turtle Rock announced the news in a heartfelt letter posted on the forums last night. Turtle Rock co-founders Chris Ashton and Phil…

A DIY Version of FFXIV In VR

While there are no plans for an official PlayStation VR version of Final Fantasy XIV, there are actually some pretty cool unofficial ones you can try. This week in the FFXIV subreddit, a fan named Donald Annis posted a 3Dvideo in which he rode his mount around the Lavender Beds zone. He made the video…

Nvidia’s $250 Geforce GTX 1060 Brings Pascal Power To The Masses

Launching July 19 and priced for mass consumption, Nvidia’s Pascal-powered GTX 1060 promises power comparable to the company’s former flagship GTX 980 and twice the energy-efficiency in virtual reality. Now that Nvidia’s gotten the high-end GTX 1080 and mid-range GTX 1070 out of the way, it’s time for the mainstream event. The GTX 1060 is…

One Piece Isn’t Becoming A Monthly Manga, Says Publisher

One Piece is slated to miss the next issue of Weekly Jump magazine. It’s only a one-week break, and One Piece will be back on July 18. This has caused all sorts of speculation. Namely a rumor that One Piece will go from a weekly publication to a monthly one. A spokesperson for One Piece’s…

15 Pokémon Go Captures Made While Sitting On My Ass

In case you were worried about having to walk to capture anything in Pokémon Go, my phone’s been sitting at my desk since I downloaded the game this afternoon, and I’ve done alright. As much as I enjoyed wandering the streets of my neighborhood in the Pokémon Go beta, normally my workday movements are a…

Pokémon GO Is Now Out In The US

Americans, your long and torturous wait is over. Pokemon Go is now out on both iTunes and the Google Play Store. Don’t spend all your money at once That means the game is now out in America, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else? Nintendo says “The mobile game is also coming soon to Canada, Europe,…

Modders, What Hell Hath You Wrought On This Very Serious Strategy Game

Hearts of Iron IV is a very serious video game. Or, it was, until modders got their hands on it. The game, like most of Paradox’s titles,is very mod-friendly. And, like most of Paradox’s titles,there’s a strong historical slant to it, which means you would expect users to create boring, accurate things like improved divisional…

Thatnew Pokémon game’s name sure sounds familiar. I wonder if anyone noticed… Nicely handled.

Prey for the Gods, an ambitious survival game influenced by Shadow of the Colossus, continues to look incredible, as it seeks $300,000 on Kickstarter

Meet The Developers Who Are Still Making A Kinect Game

When Microsoft unbundled Kinect from the Xbox One in 2014, it was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately for the developers of Fru, the game they were building required Kinect. They were more than two years away from shipping. “We were shattered,” designer Mattia Traverso told me. When Microsoft announced Xbox One in 2013, Kinect…

Pokémon Go Players Love Catching Monsters On Their Toilets

Pokémon Go is a game that dares you to go outside and explore the world, and yet some of the most popular screenshots of the app in use is people literally pooping while capturing Pokémon. This should be no surprise: people love using their phones while in the bathroom. But in this particular case, playing…

What Makes Shigeru Miyamoto Tick

Shigeru Miyamoto, esteemed creator of Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda, usually does interviews to hype big new Nintendo game releases. A new Mario game is coming out? He’ll talk about that. New Star Fox? He’s down to talk Star Fox. But when most of Nintendo’s games upcoming games are secret? That was the situation last…

Star Trek Online Throws Temporal Physics Out The Airlock

Sending players on a mission to save the future by killing the past, or saving the past in the future? Days of future past? It’s all very confusing, but that’s what happened when Star Trek Online released its Agents of Yesterday expansion seven years ago. Or today. Stupid time. Bringing elements of The Original Series…

The First Five PC Games I Use To Test A New Graphics Card

First, you spend too much on a new graphics card. Then, you fire up your chewiest, toughest PC games and make them beg for mercy. For one brief moment, your exorbitant purchase feels completely reasonable. Last week I bought a new top-of-the-line GTX 1080, a purchase I rationalized by telling myself I should get it…

Finding A Magikarp In Pokémon Go Is Hilarious

Yes, the GOAT is in the newly released Pokémon Go, and boy, is he turning up in some pretty unexpected places. As you may already know, Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that lets you catch Pokémon located in the real world. (We wrote our impressions here, if you’re curious.) Right now, Pokémon Go…

Doom‘s New Photo Mode Is A Beautiful Nightmare Factory

As part of Doom’s first major post-release update last week, id Software added a photo mode, and people are already doing amazing things with it. Here’s what it looks like when the photo mode kicks into gear: You spend much of Doom running ‘n gunning, not really paying attention to the details unfolding around you.…

Hearthstone‘s Most Ridiculous Card Reignites Debate Over Randomization

Is Yogg-Saron broken? Hearthstone’s most ridiculous new card is reigniting debates over one of the game’s core principles and a tenet that Blizzard has stood by for years now: RNG. RNG, a colloquial video game acronym that stands for “random number generation” and is used to refer to any outcome that’s determined by randomized decisions…

VR Has Its Roots In Ancient Rome

Probably my favorite virtual reality experience was unearthed around 1863 in the Roman suburb of Prima Porta. Well, it’s not a virtual reality experience as much as it’s an illusionistic fresco on four walls, but bear with me. In the villa of Livia Drusilla (58 BCE-29 CE), the wife of the first emperor of Rome,…

Watch This Excellent Speedrunner Power Through Zelda: Link’s Awakening

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is one of the best—maybe even the best Zelda game, so it’s a treat to watch speedrunner ZorlaxSeven blaze through it all in just under an hour and a half. Performed earlier this week at SGDQ, this Link’s Awakening run is really fun to watch thanks to some great…

Pokémon GO Players Are Saying the Game Kills Battery Life 

In what should surprise no one, Pokémon GO seems to drain phones. Pokémon GO has been rolled out in Australia and New Zealand (check out these microtransactions). The game sounds fun, but one common comment seems to be that the game uses a whole bunch of battery life. Website CyberShack notes that the game’s heavy…