Ethan Gach

One Of The Most Annoying Parts Of Death Stranding Has Been Fixed

A new patch for Death Stranding went live today that finally makes the extended animation that takes place when encountering BTs completely optional. Death Stranding is a long game made even longer by the repetition of bespoke animations. One of said animations revolved around the Odradek Terrain Scanner, the strange-looking piece of equipment that hangs…

Survey Has Players Dreaming About PlayStation 4 Remote Play On The Switch

Some players are salivating over the possibility, however unlikely, of one day being able to use their Switches to remotely play PS4 games after Sony asked about it in a recent feedback survey. The survey apparently went out in an email to PS4 owners, a screenshot of which was provided to Kotaku by Reddit user…

Microsoft’s Bug Bounty Program Will Pay Players To Find Security Flaws In Xbox Live

Xbox Live has never suffered a major hack, and Microsoft would like to keep it that way, in part by rewarding people who report vulnerabilities in the gaming network with cash. “The Xbox Bounty Program invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and…

The Behemoth’s next project is Alien Hominid Invasion, an “all new re-imagination of the studio’s first game.” The studio, best known for Castle Crashers, announced its fifth game with a short teaser. If it’s anything like the original Alien Hominid, Invasion will be a coop arcade shooter reminiscent of Metal Slug

More Bans Are On The Way To Combat Idle Players Farming Experience In Halo: Reach

343 Industries says another wave of bans is on the way in response to the ongoing problem of players trying to farm experience points in matches without actually playing them. When Halo: Reach released on PC and console last month as a part of the Master Chief Collection, it brought with it a new battle…

The Outer Worlds is coming to Switch on March 6. The sci-fi shooter RPG came to PS4, Xbox One, and PC last year. While the game will have a retail version, the box will only come with a download code inside. It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacers Choice 

Untitled Goose Fan Game Unleashes Havoc On Your Desktop

There’s a pixelated goose dragging my cursor all over my computer screen and every time I try to close the program that unleashed it more just pop up, threatening me with bad jokes and a chorus of honks. This is the unnerving magic of game designer Sam Chiet’s Goose Desktop, a riff on last year’s…

Mod Adds Mario 64 Dungeon To Ocarina Of Time

N64 modder Kaze Emanuar is back with another mashup, this time taking the Hazy Maze Cave level from Super Mario 64 and recreating it in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a completely new dungeon. Spotted by GamingReinvented (via NintendoLife), it has giant rolling boulders, spike traps, and fish hanging out in little…

Cuphead Fan Makes Awesome Stop-Motion Tribute

A fan spent four months working on this Cuphead stop-motion animated short and it’s fantastic. Running just over a minute and a half, the video shows Cuphead and Mugman making a mess of things in the Devil’s Casino after placing some bad bets. Creator Davy Productions said they fell in love with the bullet hell…

Pillars Of Eternity II Is Okay On Consoles If You Don’t Mind Long Load Times

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the latest classic-style role-playing game to make its way from PC to console. The console port of the 2018 game comes with a lot of compromises, but some negatives are offset by the turn-based combat mode that was added to the PC version last year. Out yesterday on PS4…

The Star Wars: Battlefront II update adding BB-8 due out tomorrow has been delayed by a week DICE’s Ben Walke confirmed on Twitter that a “critical issue” was found last minute requiring more time to fix. When the update arrives it’ll also bring with it a new Capital Supremacy map.

Nintendo Explains How Pokémon Home Will Work

Today Nintendo announced that its cloud storage program for Pokémon, Pokémon Home, will have a paid and free version. The free version has a paltry max capacity of 30 Pokémon, while the paid version will let you store up to 6,000 at $3 a month or $16 a year. The service, set to launch in…

Japan is getting a new Monster Hunter game for phones next winter. It’s called Monster Hunter: Riders, and there’s not much to glean from the trailer, but the graphics look good and cooking elaborate meals is also present. It’s free-to-play, though, so hopefully it’s not mired in gacha-style microtransactions.

Save Your Eyes And Turn Your Virtual Boy Headset Into A Regular Console

Retro console modders iFixRetro recently undertook the thankless task of rehabbing an old, beat-up Virtual Boy and transforming it into a painless console they could sit on a shelf and play games on their TV with. Who doesn’t wish they could go back and play Virtual Boy Wario Land without burring their face in Nintendo’s…

Animal Crossing Fans Are So Desperate For News That They’re Analyzing Obscure Stickers [Update]

Earlier today, fans spotted some Animal Crossing: New Horizons decals for the Switch on the Japanese HMV store website. Eager fans are now pouring over them trying to figure out which new characters will be in the game. The images were first shared by the Animal Crossing World fansite Twitter account, garnering thousands of likes…

Fallout 76 Players Who Had Their Inventories Hacked Say Bethesda Returned Their Stuff By Cloning Their Characters

Last month someone managed tosteal a number of Fallout 76 players’ items and gear using a cheat program. Now some of those players say Bethesda has finally managed to restore their lost valuables by giving them access to cloned versions of their characters from before the incident. Player IGN Romulox reported on Reddit last week…

Developers at Blizzard prototyped Hearthstone VR during a company hackathon one of the game’s artists said in a recent interview. It allowed you to go into the tavern, sit down for a game, and even flip the table over if the cards weren’t going your way.

While Other Evo Japan Winners Get Cash, Smash Bros. Ultimate Champion Gets Golden Controller

Shuto “Shuton” Moriya won his first ever Smash Bros. Evo Championship this past weekend. His prize? A special gold embossed Switch Pro controller presented by none other than series creator Masahiro Sakurai. It didn’t break, as some tournament-winning items tend to, but it did take a quick tumble. Who could blame the 23-year-old pro Smash…

Patapon 2 is getting a 4K remaster for PlayStation 4 releasing on January 30. The 2008 PSP game was a rhythm-based strategy game where band of walking eyeballs used music to fight monsters and rival tribes. The first game in the series was remastered and ported back in 2018. 

Gorgeous Tactical RPG Duelyst Is Shutting Down Next Month

Duelyst’s servers will go offline on February 27 the game’s developers announced yesterday on Steam, bringing the ingenious tactical RPG card game hybrid’s nearly four year run to an end. “Saying goodbye to any game is never easy, and it’s always hardest when you love the game as much as we all love Duelyst,” the…