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Nintendo, Please Stop Your Hit Console From Capping My Perfect Tweets At Just 140 Characters

Although Twitter increased character limits on posts from 140 to 280 in late 2017, Nintendo has yet to reflect this change through the Switch’s screenshot and video sharing functionality. As someone who spends much of the day reading Twitter and weeping, I think this is A Big Deal. This problem has vexed me for awhile,…

G4 Is Coming Back, Apparently

The gaming-focused television network G4 has hinted at something happening next year via a brief video on its revived Twitter account. And while that’s exciting for those of us who grew up watching G4 in the early 2000s, it’s unclear what exactly it will bring to today’s audiences. The teaser was released during an IGN…

Let’s Talk About The Paper Mario: The Origami King Scene That Blew Us Away

The best thing about the Paper Mario franchise is its willingness to take a peek into the internal lives of characters that are usually just gunk at the bottom of Mario’s boots. For today’s VG Chat, Ari and Ash discuss the best character of Paper Mario: The Origami King, a little Bob-omb with a dream,…

Published last year in Japan as Iwata-San, Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Nintendo’s Legendary CEO is the English translation of Hobonichi’s biography of late, great Nintendo leader Satoru Iwata. The English translation was announced today by Viz Media, with digital and print release scheduled for next year.

I’m Finally Clearing My Gaming Backlog, And It Rules

We all have backlogs of games we keep meaning to get to, all those games we promised ourselves we would totally, for sure, for real, play eventually. Recently, I’ve started actually finishing up some games on my backlog. It feels amazing. I love finishing a game. It’s satisfying to see the credits roll, and even…

Suikoden Developers Get The Band Back Together For New RPG

Key developers responsible for various entries in the Suikoden series have formed a supergroup to develop a spiritual successor called Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, which they plan to crowdfund starting next week, according to reporting by The Verge Yoshitaka Murayama, who is often credited with creating Suikoden due to his extensive work as a director,…

Apex Legends Developers Respond To Criticism Of Pandemic Work Schedule

Screenshots of a post on Glassdoor criticizing Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment appeared on Reddit yesterday. The anonymous poster described a negative work-from-home environment that severely impacted their mental and physical health. “I feel extremely stressed and burnt out trying to keep our seasonal releases on the same aggressive timeline as pre-shelter in place productivity,”…

After A Long Wait, Red Dead Online’s Next Big Update Is Out July 28

After seven months of waiting and player protests, Red Dead Online players are finally getting a big new update, including a new Outlaw Pass, on July 28. GTA Online will be receiving some big updates and new heists later this year as well. Rockstar announced the updates today via a post on its official blog.…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for maybe baking another cake, which I did last weekend, only to end up with far too much cake, just like last weekend. It’s also for playing video games while the cake cools. I’m really excited to play Roki, a folklore adventure game that came out this week. I got excited about…

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Basically Sounds Like A New Game

When Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis was announced during yesterday’s Xbox Game Showcase, it wasn’t immediately clear what it was. An update? A new expansion? Something more? Based on a new trailer with a lot more information than yesterday’s reveal, New Genesis seems like it will be a huge overhaul of the original 2012…

Australian Streamer Attacked By Magpie

Even streaming inside in Australia doesn’t guarantee you’re safe from an old fashioned swooping. That’s what Aussie gamer Lynchy discovered this afternoon. In the middle of a lengthy overtime game of ranked Valorant, the 28-year-old Australian got interrupted by a cheeky magpie who flew in from a side door. After being initially startled, the Aussie…

Riding Out For A Couple Of Cold Ones With The Boys

Ilker Serdar Yildiz is an illustrator from Turkey who has worked on games like Gwent and Mount & Blade 2 You can see more of Ilker’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Now This Is Some Nintendo LEGO

Anyone left as disappointed by Nintendo’s first LEGO offerings as I was—I wanted huge Mushroom Kingdom/Hyrule playsets!—can find solace in the fact that, since this is LEGO we’re talking about, you can just make and remake whatever the hell you want. So @crownavy took the weird blocky Mario figure that’s shipping with the first official…

EA Reveals FIFA 21, Sequel To FIFA 20

Following the success of its football title FIFA 20, Electronic Arts has decided to release a sequel due later this year, called FIFA 21 Once again based around the sport of football, and featuring licensed players, teams, leagues and stadiums, it will allow users to recreate the sport in both solo and, more commonly, in…

Clarifying Just How Exclusive The Xbox Series X’s Third-Party Exclusives Are

The idea of an “exclusive” has always been imaginary—or at least ephemeral—in the world of video games, but in 2020, it’s less real than ever. Today, Microsoft seemingly announced several new third-party Xbox exclusives. That are coming to multiple generations of Xbox. And also PC. And probably other consoles too, in the future. During a…

Microsoft Sends Mixed Signals About Cross-Gen Exclusives

Microsoft showed off a number of first-party games during today’s big Xbox showcase, but contrary to previous statements by the company, it’s not clear how many of them will be coming coming to Xbox One in addition to next-gen’s Xbox Series X. Many games shown were listed just for Xbox Series X, not for Xbox…

Carrion’s Current Switch Icon Is A Monster Vagina

Phobia Game Studio’s Carrion, out today for Switch, Xbox One, and PC, is a nifty “reverse horror” game in which players control a terrifying alien monster stalking a remote science outpost. Its Switch icon is a pretty gory-looking vagina suspended by meaty tentacles. It’s due to be changed soon. To be fair, the star of…

Paper Mario: The Origami King Is A Rare Game I Actually Want To 100%

I don’t 100% video games. Most of the time, I don’t even finishthem because I hate ending journeys I’m having so much fun on, or my brain goes “ooh shiny” and I bunny-hop to the next big thing. For the most part, all I want in a video game is to mainline rails of story.…

Everything Microsoft Showed During Today’s Xbox Showcase

Microsoft finally showed off what it has planned with Halo: Infinite and a bunch of other first-party exclusives today during its Xbox Games Showcase. There were a lot of games, and a lot of exclusives, but not a lot confirmed for this holiday launch of the Xbox Series X. Still, Halo: Infinite at least will…

Xbox Is Bringing Back Fable

Fable is back. The next installment of the irreverent roleplaying series is being spearheaded by Forza developer Playground Games and will be on Xbox Series X and PC. It’s been nearly a decade since Fable III landed on Xbox 360, leaving fans to make due with spin-offs like the Kinect-focused Fable: The Journey and 2017’s…