Ethan Gach

Bungie Is Fixing Fashion In Destiny‘s Fourth Year

Destiny 2 is a game about grinding for loot, and one of the biggest motivators is how cool that loot looks. In recent seasons, a lot of these cosmetics have been locked behind the game’s microtransaction shop. Bungie says that will change come September. “In today’s Destiny 2, the balance of the game’s rewards is…

Destiny 2 is coming to next-gen consoles, Bungie announced today following Microsoft’s Xbox Series X event. The studio didn’t given any specifics about when, but said more details would be coming in the future. The game’s fourth year and annual expansion get underway this fall. 

Everything Microsoft Showed During Today’s Xbox Series X Event

Microsoft finally showed its next-gen Xbox Series X in action today during a special edition of Inside Xbox featuring a slew of trailers for upcoming games, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Dirt 5, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon Over a dozen games were shown during the roughly hour-long event and while many of them were from…

Mario Bros. Masters Set New Arcade High Score While Stuck At Home

Steven Kleisath and Stephen Boyer are no slouches when it comes to Nintendo’s original Mario Bros. platformer. Recently they achieved something truly spectacular, reaching a high score of 1,280,550 while playing the game cooperatively over long distance. Unlike its linear and better known successor Super Mario Bros., 1983’s Mario Bros. is an arcade game where…

Fallout 76 Players Donate To Wasteland Doctor Whose Real-Life Home Caught Fire

Brent “CJ Martin” Fairchild role-plays in Fallout 76 as a doctor offering aid to other players. After his real-life home caught on fire over the weekend, players have been raising money for his family to try to return the favor. As first reported by Polygon, a GoFundMe page was set up by Fallout 76 podcaster…

Halo 2: Anniversary will be on PC starting May 12. It’s the latest game in the series to get ported as 343 Industries transitions the entire Master Chief Collection to PC. It’s also not-so-secretly one of the best Halo games.

Perhaps you, like me, missed pixelated-action adventure game Arrest of a stone Buddha when it came to PC earlier this year. If so you’re in luck. The latest game from the maker of the fantastic beat ‘em up Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is coming to Switch on May 21.

Microsoft Will Show Xbox Series X First-Party Games In July, Still Promising Halo For Launch

Microsoft says it plans to show updates on its first-party games some time in July and is still planning on launching Xbox Series X and Halo Infinite later this year. The company shed more light on its plans for the rest of 2020 in a blog post today, including announcing a series of “monthly moments”…

Massive Nintendo Leak Reportedly Includes Wii Source Code, Developer Materials, And N64 Test ROMs

What appears to be an unprecedented trove of information related to several past Nintendo consoles was leaked to the internet starting last Friday. Many of the thousands of leaked files concern Nintendo’s 2006 Wii console, including detailed design documents and even seemingly its source code. Such information would be of great interest to emulation enthusiasts,…

EA is moving ahead with its E3-adjacent event this year as a completely digital showcase. EA Play Live 2020 will take place on June 11 beginning at 7:00 p.m. There’s no schedule for it yet, but EA says the livestream will include world premiers and other news.  

Fallout 76 Wastelanders: The Kotaku Review

Fallout 76 is an incredibly frustrating game. Its combat feels like trying to unseize an overheated engine by hand. Bugs and occasional game crashes, though much rarer than at launch, remain ever present. Fallout 76 demands a lot of you if you just want to survive, and a ton more if you want to flourish…

Last Of Us II Leakers Are ‘Not Affiliated’ With Naughty Dog, Sony Says

Earlier this week what appeared to be major spoilers from The Last of Us Part II leaked on YouTube and Reddit. Sony now says it knows who the leakers were, and contrary to widespread online speculation, can confirm they were not a disgruntled Naughty Dog employee. “SIE has identified the primary individuals responsible for the…

Bungie Hopes To Make Destiny 2’s Seasons And Bounties Feel Less Punishing In The Future

In its latest weekly blog post Bungie laid out plans to address some of players’ biggest complaints about the current state of Destiny 2, including how content disappears once a season ends and the game’s recent emphasis on grinding bounties. Destiny 2 operates on a seasonal basis with new activities, quests, and guns rotating in…

Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal Set For May 7

Microsoft will finally show gameplay from Xbox Series X games, including our first look at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in action, on a new episode of Inside Xbox airing May 7. While Microsoft has already shown the console itself, as well as shared deep dives into its specs, this will be the first opportunity to see…

The Makers Of Jackbox Are Launching A Celebrity Livesteam Show For Charity

A new livestreaming series called Celebrity Jackbox: Games & Giving will pit some mildly famous people against one another as they play Jackbox party games to raise money for those affected by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. “Every episode, a new crew of famous personalities will play a variety of games from Jackbox’s collection of 30…

Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the stat in a new blog post outlining the downloadable game service’s continued growth. That’s up from 9.5 million monthly users last year. Spencer said subscribers are playing games twice as much since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. 

Tom And Isabelle Dance It Out In Animal Crossing Fan Videos

Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have been making clips of the game’s two stars getting their groove on at work, set to all sorts of music. It’s become my new favorite playlist for chilling out during these stressful days. Run by three Animal Crossing fans, the Twitter account TomAndIsabelleDanceTo takes short clips of island administrators…

Modern Warfare‘s Massive Updates Are Gobbling Up Players’ Hard Drives

Yesterday Call of Duty: Modern Warfare received a new update and additional data pack, adding over a dozen gigs to an already huge game and eating up ever more space on people’s console and PC harddrives. Lots of games want to be the only one you play; Modern Warfare seems to want to be the…

Goodbye Maddy Myers, Blog Bounty Hunter And Revered Mutantologist

Maddy Myers, deputy editor and undercover Samus clone, has wrangled her last blog and now prepares to take up a new position as weekend host for Here’s the Deal As is tradition, we will now say mean things about her, only it’s hard, so we mostly said nice things. Who cares if she’s disappointed about…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Coming To Stadia Later This Year, Other EA Games To Follow

Electronic Arts has agreed to bring a number of its games to Google’s video game streaming platform, Stadia, including FIFA, Madden, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, according to The Hollywood Reporter While Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will arrive on Stadia some time later this year, sports series FIFA and Madden won’t arrive until…