Ethan Gach

Panzer Paladin is coming to Switch and PC this summer. Tribute Games, who you might remember from Mercenary Kings and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, announced the released window ahead of the game’s return to PAX East this year. I loved it when I played it at last year’s show.

Mobile Dragon Quest game Dragon Quest For The Stars is finally out in North America today after releasing first in Japan back in 2015. The free-to-play spin-off revolves around turn-based battles against slimes and the like just like the main series but with the addition of stamina meters and microtransactions.

Someone Spent 7 Years Making Metroid Fusion In Minecraft

There’s a popular video of Samus running down corridors, hopping between platforms, and shooting parasites. It looks like any other piece of Metroid Fusion gameplay—until the camera slowly zooms out to reveal that the entire simulation is happening inside Minecraft That moment feels like an epiphany, in part because of how the fluid pixel animations…

Streets of Rage 4 will have four-player co-op according to a new trailer While online you can only play with one other person, offline on the couch together you can punch bad guys to a pulp with three other friends, a mode that seems perfect for the Switch version.

New Checkpoints Make The Mega Man Zero Legacy Collection Worth It

The excellent Mega Man Zero and ZX games have always been trapped in the shadows of their more popular Mega Man and Mega Man X predecessors, but thanks to Capcom’s latest collection, the unique side-scrolling run-and-gun platformers finally get their due. Out tomorrow on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, the Mega Man Zero/ZX…

After Confessing To Playing 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild, St. Vincent Realizes She’s Played 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild

The above picture is of indie rock artist St. Vincent from a recent interview with Variety. It’s also the face of someone who would rather be playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild than admitting how many hundreds of hours they’ve already spent with it. Variety’s interview with the infamously enigmatic St. Vincent…

Destiny 2’s Load Times Are Getting To Be A Real Pain

Loading times and lag have been annoying Destiny 2 players, especially on base PS4 and Xbox One consoles, for some time now, but the game’s latest season has truly pushed the envelope on how much time you spend waiting for things to happen. Today, I booted up Destiny 2 from the home screen of my…

Sony is backing out of this year’s Game Developers Conference due to concerns over the coronavirus. This comes a day after the company said it wouldn’t be attending PAX East because of the virus either. Facebook also announced it won’t at GDC 2020 for the same reason. 

Death Is Like A Hurricane Here In Darksburg

There’s a sinking feeling I get every time my team in Darksburg gets surrounded by purple-tinted goth zombies. Waves of them break against us, driven back by our attacks, only to reform and come at us again. Surely this is the last one, I think, only to find our party of four overwhelmed once again…

One Step From Eden is a strategy deck building game coming to Switch and PC on March 26. Kickstarted in 2019, it takes a page or two from the Mega Man Battle Network series’ book, combining cards, grid-based combat, and real-time action into what looks like a fun little arcade game.

Fallout 76 Players Keep Crashing Servers To Duplicate The Game’s Strongest Armor [Update]

Fallout 76’s Strangler Heart Power Armor is very strong and it’s supposed to be incredibly hard to get, but thanks to the game’s latest duplication exploit, more players than ever are running around in it. While Fallout 76 has been plagued by duplication glitches of one sort or another for most of its existence, the…

Half-Life: Alyx is coming out March 23, Valve announced today. That’s the Monday after Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal come out. Sure, why not?

The Witcher card game Gwent is finally coming to Android on March 24 There’s shared accounts between the PC and mobile version of the game so I’m looking forward to many more Witcher-themed distractions in the future. Gwent previously came to iOS last fall.

What The Hell Has Final Fantasy VII Remake Done To Carbuncle

Square Enix released a big batch of new Final Fantasy VII Remake screenshots today, including one of Carbuncle, who is usually one of the Final Fantasy series’ cutest summons. It now looks like an alien from a 1950s science fiction B-movie. Is it a fox or a dog? Why is its head so big? Why…

Destiny 2 Is Having An Extremely Wall Street Moment Right Now

Destiny 2 players need to harvest billions of pieces of Polarized Fractaline in order to complete the construction of a mysterious new tower on Mercury for the Empyrean Foundation event. Instead of simply donating the material outright, they’re trying to invest it to grow their own Fractaline nest eggs, turning the event into an opportunity…

Activision Blizzard Pulls Its Games From Nvidia’s Streaming Service

Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service only came out of beta last week, and it’s already lost some major games. This week, Activision Blizzard pulled its entire catalog, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Overwatch, from the monthly subscription service. “Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the…

Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone is coming to the eShop in Japan in March. The excellent tactical RPG originally came to the GBA in 2006 before later getting ported to PSP. It’s also on smartphones but only in Japan. It would be amazing to have on Switch.

I Can’t Believe This Game Boy Advance SP Still Works

Uh, that doesn’t look good. Or at least that’s what I thought when I brought my Game Boy Advance SP down from the attic. You see, my niece had recently fallen in love with Pokémon Sword, and was now as obsessed with Pokémon as I was around her age. I wanted to show her Pokémon…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline Again After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has once again taken Destiny 2 offline, following fresh reports of some players losing crafting materials following today’s hotfix. “Destiny 2 is being brought offline for emergency maintenance. Stand by for updates,” Bungie announced on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Today’s update was small, addressing problems with certain achievements not being properly recorded and changing…

Outriders, the coop RPG shooter revealed at last year’s E3, has been delayed until this holiday and will be coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X as well as current consoles according to a new trailer. It’s by People Can Fly, the studio behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgement