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The Witcher 2 Can Now Run On Xbox One And Is Free Right Now

Got an Xbox One? Love The Witcher games? Well, you can now play the middle gamein CD Projekt’s beloved action-RPG franchise for free. UPDATE: This post has been updated to note that the free Witcher 2 download requires an Xbox Live Gold Account. The news of gratis Geralt came as part of Microsoft’s latest backwards…

Players Are Already Doing Crazy Things In Diablo III‘s Season 5

Only a few days have passed since Season 5 started (as part of patch 2.4) in Diablo III’s PC version, and some players are already grinding on difficulty levels that most of us will never reach. Season 5 will last three months and it’s enough time for an average player to level up a character…

Undertale Fan Animates One of the Game’s Best Boss Fights

This being the creator’s first attempt at serious animation, there’s lots of rough… animation, in the clip. And there’s also spoilers for Undertale’s Pacifist route, so if you haven’t beaten the game yet, beware. Otherwise, you’re in for a good time. The short was made by DeviantArt’s WalkingMelonsAAA, and it depicts her version of how…

Invisigun Heroes Is A Shooter Where Everyone’s Invisible, Even You

Invisigun Heroes is “a multiplayer, single-screen stealth battle arena game with a twist”. That twist being that every single player—even the one you’re controlling—is invisible on the screen. Which sounds like a nightmare! But while the player model is invisible, your effects on the game world aren’t, so any time you (or another player) run…

LEGO Dimensions Does The First Ghostbusters Movie In 30 Minutes

The Ghostbusters Level Pack for LEGO Dimensions dropped this week, compressing the classic comedy down to about a half hour while still hitting all the beats. So I took that half hour of gameplay and condensed it down to under seven minutes. Every plot point is there—just imagine some standard LEGO-style fighting and driving and…

Star Wars Battlefront III Prototype Apparently Leaks

A playable version of the old, cancelled Star Wars Battlefront III has apparently surfaced, popping up on Reddit this afternoon via a user who claims to “take interest in prototype games.” Reddit’s moderators quickly deleted the post, explaining that they need to remove links to pirated copyrighted material, which this apparently was. I say “apparently”…

The Best Silver Surfer Series Comes Back This Week

The Silver Surfer is one of those superheroes who’s always looked cooler than he actually was. The character’s visuals point to an ideal of unfettered freedom and navigating the cosmos with a slick, frictionless ease. But, in the main, the actual stories featuring the former herald of Galactus have had him weighed down by guilt…

Mobile Games Website Uses Patreon, Things Get Messy

It’s not easy to make money running a video game website. In June 2015, popular mobile outlet TouchArcade said it was having cash problems and asked for help, and lots of people did—including mobile developers. But recently, following a mixed game review, one developer decided to pull their funding. “We could load the site up…

Players Are Recreating The Entirety of GTA V In Minecraft

Los Santos has never looked so…blocky. What you’re looking at above is the creation of N11cK and friends, who have endeavored to created the latest ridiculous Minecraft construction: a 1:1 scale recreation of GTA V inside of Minecraft. Damn. The map is still a work-in-progress, and they estimate it will be 7,500 by 7,500 blocks…

Fans’ Intense Love For Fallout: New Vegas Must Be Weird For People At Bethesda

Picture this. You spend years putting together a massive, ambitious RPG. After countless hours of hard work, you release your baby out into the public. Curious to see what people think, you start looking around the internet…only to see a small but vocal chunk of your fanbase wishing someone else had made your game. That’s…

Star Wars: Episode VIII Delayed To December 15, 2017

The next Star Wars movie in the new trilogy has been pushed back a bit: Episode VIII will hit theaters on December 15, 2017, several months later than its initially scheduled summer 2017 release date. Per StarWars.com, the Rian Johnson-helmed sequel to last December’s The Force Awakens will be in theaters almost two years to…

In Rainbow Six Siege, you’re never completely safe. Case in point: in this GIF by uhmsay, an enemy is hunkered down with the (reviled by many) riot shield and heavy armor in a difficult-to-breach room. And yet, their death is still swift and brutal. The lesson? When in doubt, reinforce the floor. And here’s the…

The Rick and Morty Version of Pokémon Is Brilliant 

Pocket Mortys is a shameless rip-off of Pokémon —but that’s exactly what makes it so good, too. There are no cute monsters to collect in this mobile (iOS, Android) game. Instead, Pocket Mortys riffs off the fiction of Rick and Morty itself. Thanks to the show, we know that there are many different universes with…

The underappreciated Wii adventure game Zack & Wiki will come to the Wii U virtual console tomorrow, Nintendo has announced. It’s $20 and well worth your time.

Layers of Fear, a promising horror game about a tortured artist, is leaving Early Access on February 16 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Patricia took a look at the in-development version of Layers of Fear last year, and having played it for myself, I can back her up: it’s terrifying. Contact the author at…

Heroes Reborn Is A Garbage TV Show But Damn It’s Got A Cool Game

For a single season, Heroes was a fun TV show. Somehow, it stayed on for another three seasons, but I didn’t stick around to find out why. The equally boring Heroes Reborn reboot is on its way out, bringing with it yet another surprisingly good tie-in game that makes great use of the license. Wait,…

The New Star Trek Game Is Great at Fan Service, Bad At Being Fun

Weaving Star Trek characters from all different eras and realities into one galaxy-spanning game is a wonderful thing. Wrapping that concept around a twisted mass of free-to-play mechanics and bugs is not. In these days of Star Wars fever, I proudly identify as a Star Trek fan. I’ve watched every episode of each television series,…

Unstoppable Destiny Player Goes Solo In Trials Without Dying

These days, people are running out of things to do in Destiny, a video game where players travel through space trying to overcome their Destiny malaise. So what can a godly PVP player do to occupy his time? Well, if you’re Ramblinnn, you tell your Trails of Osiris teammates to leave so you can go…

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New Assassin’s Creed Set In India Won Me Over With Its Beauty

The recently-released Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India plays ok (very much like ACC: China before it), but, wow, does it look pretty. The game’s artists took splendid advantage of how rare it is to see a game set in India. I had to capture some footage to show you. Enjoy! To contact the author of this…