At 10am ET/7am PT on Monday, Nintendo will be hosting the first ever Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase, “a series focused on titles from our development & publishing partners,” where there’ll be “updates on a small group of previously-announced Nintendo Switch games”.
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I don’t care if you’re in Michigan, Manchester or Melbourne, if you have to leave your home and can’t stay away from other people, wear a mask.
Nine years after it first popped up in the background of the game’s main menu screen, some Minecraft players think they’ve finally found the exact same world in the game itself.
At the end of Doom II players face off against The Icon of Sin, which is really just a large and creepy texture that spits out demons. But this boss fight has some odd mechanics and quirks, including a small programming oversight that could lead to players having to wait over a decade for a demon to spawn.
One of my favorite Twitter accounts I follow is Supper Mario Broth, an account that tweets out weird and tiny details and facts from various Mario games. Recently they tweeted about Mario and Luigi’s incredible eyes.
Bantha poodoo is the most notorious insult in Star Wars—well, maybe tied for nerfherder. And I have to admit some confusion.
Bloodborne is a dark and difficult action RPG set in a highly detailed 3D world. Yarntown, a free indie game released yesterday, takes part of that world and reimagines it as a top-down, colorful, Zelda-inspired adventure.
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We now officially know that Far Cry 6 is a thing and does in fact star Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad.) But last week we first heard about this via a leak. So I asked you all to take the actor’s digital avatar and have some fun.
This week on Snapshots: Ghost of Tsushima is out and folks are already taking amazing pictures with its photo mode, a guitar-playing superhero, a calm cliffside sunset, a visitors from another planet, and a cute little fox.
Dog fighting sucks. Not a controversial opinion, but one that always enters my mind when I see or think about Pokémon. While I understand all the reasons why folks claim it’s different, it still feels too much like that terrible “sport.” Ooblets, out now in early access, fixes this major problem with Pokémon and also…
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Politoed!
This week we learn about Yoshi’s tax evasion crimes, learn which member of congress is really good at League of Legends, discuss loading times, and question the point of sesame seeds on buns.
Scores of websites and services went down Friday afternoon due to problems with Cloudflare’s DNS service, sparking rampant speculation about the cause. After all, a global DDOS attack would totally fit the real-life apocalypse movie that 2020 is increasingly turning into.
Paper Mario: The Origami King is out today for Nintendo Switch. Over the course of The Origami King, because it’s a game with “Mario” in the title, you’ll travel all across the Mushroom Kingdom. Even though everything is done up in semi-strange papercraft, it’s still enough to inspire some serious wanderlust.
Great Pretender, the new con-artist anime from Wit Studio (Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga), just ended the first half of its freshman season in Japan. Pretender’s comedy comes together not unlike the machinations of the elite scammers it follows, making for one of the most exciting anime of the summer.
If you give yourself an absurd but subtly practical gamer chair, you’ll ask yourself for a new microphone. When you give yourself the new microphone, you will ask yourself for an all-in-one audio mixer with a studio-quality preamp. When you have the microphone and mixer, you will look into your monitor and realize it…
Next month’s Madden NFL 21 is being altered at the last minute to remove mentions of the Washington Redskins team name and logo imagery, a rep for publisher Electronic Arts has told Kotaku.
Sega’s ill-fated Saturn console is much more loved today than it was when it was released in 1994. Game collectors prize the exclusive rarities in its library. But collecting it can be a total nightmare.
Worms Armageddon was released over 20 years ago and since then has remained a fan favorite. And to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the entire Worms series, developer Team17 has released a treat for longtime fans: A brand new update for Armageddon on the PC, filled with seven years worth of fixes, changes, and…
Hi. You probably don’t remember me. I was the chubby Gek pilot exploring the Nexus for the first time when you both handed me some supplies. I didn’t catch your names, but I want to say thank you!
Weeks after The Last of Us Part 2 was review bombed on Metacritic, the video game review aggregation website now requires people to wait more than a day after a game’s release to submit their personal reviews.
In my 43rd hour of Final Fantasy VII Remake, as the Planet cries out in pain, so too does my soul. What started as a gorgeous reimagining of a tale as old as time (that’s right, time was invented in 1997), has begun to overstay its welcome, and I find myself longing for the days when video games didn’t have to be the…
GameStop will require all customers to wear face masks in its United States locations starting on July 27, the company announced via press release today.
Ghost of Tsushima, out today for PlayStation 4, is a lot of game. As Jin Sakai, one of Tsushima’s last surviving samurai, you’re singularly tasked with the goal of repelling an entire Mongol fleet. No sweat, right?
Without San Diego Comic-Con as a place for Funko collectors to meet this year, the company decided to do something extra special. The tiny toy favorite dug deep into its vault and came out with well over 100 super rare items, including multiple prototypes, which will be auctioned off on eBay with all proceeds going to…
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…
Early in lockdown—when I was trying to tell myself things might all be back to near-normal by summer, even though I knew I was kidding myself—I didn’t want to watch any movie that wasn’t a 1980s comedy. But some five months later, I’ve become so numbed to the horrors of everyday existence that I can watch all kinds of…
The world’s most famous plumber (or not) returns to a two-dimensional state in Paper Mario: The Origami King, out today for Nintendo Switch. This latest entry in Nintendo’s long-running formerly-an-RPG series both sticks to formula (Peach needs saving again) and bucks it (the battle system is one-of-a-kind).
There’s been a flood of stories lately about mean, mean celebrity chefs who present a kind and genial face to the public while doing dastardly things behind the scenes, like abusing their staff, taking credit for their work, and locking them in dark rooms and forcing them to scrape mold off of jam they will later…
If you’re looking forward to the Keanu Reeves-starring Cyberpunk 2077, we have a homework assignment for you. Dark Horse and CD Projekt Red are about to release a 200-page hardcover book detailing the lore of the entire world months before the video game pops into your console, and io9 has an exclusive sneak peek.
The weekend is for no longer being sure exactly how the weekend differs from the week, but being excited for it nonetheless. It’s also for playing video games.
You’ve surely heard about Ghost of Tsushima’s overwhelming large open-world. But Sucker Punch’s action-adventure game is also overwhelming in a different way: In the first few hours, you’re given access to a mind-boggling number of skills to unlock and gear to upgrade. It’s enough to make a new player’s head spin with…
Last month, Nintendo revealed that some of Paper Mario: The Origami King’s boss fights would be against office supplies instead of traditional Mario villains, and a new interview sheds some light on why.
