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Lando Calrissian’s best not-quite-human pal didn’t make the cut in Star Wars: Battlefront II. Sad! The upcoming Star Wars shooter’s alpha test yielded some juicy details, thanks to one code-savvy fan. This may not be representative of what’s in the final game, but Reddit’s uninspired_zebra claims to have discovered a list of playable heroes andRead more

Sometimes the best cosplays are the ones that nobody expects. A few attendees at the 2017 Anime Expo this week dressed up as one of the best Persona cosplays ever: the Persona 5 battle menu. Yep, a menu. And it made lots of other attendees’ cosplays twice as awesome as they already were. THE IMPORTANTRead more

Rockstar has teased the existence of aliens in Grand Theft Auto V since the game launched in 2013. Nearly four years later, we finally have real evidence of extraterrestrial life in GTA. A group of mystery-hunters and data-miners managed to find evidence of an alien mission in the most recent GTA Online update that introducedRead more

Welcome to July, the sleepiest month for video games in 2017 thus far. It’s not that there’s nothing new to play. Nintendo fans especially have some exciting stuff coming up. But in a year that’s already seen bona fide Game of the Year contenders like Horizon: Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath ofRead more

Pokémon Go is celebrating its first birthday this month with discounts on items and something for fans of the original Pokémon TV show: Pikachu, donning Ash’s hat. Starting today and running through July 24, Pikachus found in the wild will be wearing Ash’s hat from the first season of the Pokémon anime. Pikachu was theRead more

For the first time in the core Super Mario series, Super Mario Odyssey will not have a Game Over screen. The official Super Mario Odyssey Twitter account for Japan shared this game-changing piece of information this week, showing what happens instead when Mario runs out of health in the upcoming Switch game: マリオの体力が0になったり、奈落に落ちると、持っているコインが10枚減ってしまいます。ただし…！いくらミスしてもGAME OVERはありません。 pic.twitter.com/6oEia6LcVrRead more

When a prominent member of a video game community lost their dog, the game’s developers found a small but adorable way to tribute the pup inside the game. A Titanfall 2 player who goes by the name Iniquity has been streaming and making entertaining Titanfall videos for years. After his dog Onyx passed away recently,Read more

Hearthstone is cooling off this summer with a wintery, death-themed expansion called Knights of the Frozen Throne inspired by the northern home of the undead Scourge, Northrend. Blizzard revealed Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne last night with a handful of new cards and a tease of what’s to come in August: heroes turning intoRead more

The latest Overwatch hero, Doomfist, only just came out on the game’s public test region yesterday. It didn’t take long for someone to rig up a boxing glove controller to play as the gauntlet-wielding hero with their actual fist. Twitch streamer ATwerkingYoshi wired up a boxing glove Thursday to control Doomfist’s punch-based abilities: his RocketRead more

Almost the entire Halo series will be playable on the Xbox One soon thanks to Microsoft’s backward compatibility initiative, Halo developer 343 Industries revealed Thursday. The Xbox One will be backward compatible with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (a.k.a. the Xbox 360 version), Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo 4 “soon,” joining the Xbox One’sRead more