Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the side scrolling action game from former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, will no longer support Mac or Linux. “Bloodstained will no longer be supported on Mac and Linux,” he wrote. The effort to create Bloodstained began in 2015 with a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $5.5 million from nearly 65,000 backers. The failure by Bloodstained and other high-profile video game projects to meet self-imposed deadlines has led to a precipitous decline in v

Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition’s in-game ads have come and gone. The garish and intrusive ads, optional though they may be, no longer display in Capcom’s fighting game, and Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono said the company is looking at ways to improve them. Sponsored content came to Street Fighter 5 in early December. Ads for the Capcom Pro Tour were slathered over the flesh and costumes (and children’s skulls) of the Street Fighter roster. Capcom never said that sponsored content

Valve released a list of the best-selling games of 2018 on Steam today, some of which are discounted as part of the PC games retail portal’s winter sale. Among its “platinum” sellers — the 12 games that returned the most revenue in 2018 — only three were released this year. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey ($29.99), Far Cry 5 ($23.99) and Monster Hunter: World ($39.59), this year’s platinum releases, are currently discounted. The silver and bronze levels (the 25th to the 100th best-sellers) also feature

Since the earliest days of the Overwatch League, Blizzard has had a tough time getting fans, and even pro players, to behave themselves in Twitch chat. Whether it was spamming emotes or simply posting offensive messages, every week of the Overwatch League meant more and more bans. However, as we head into the league’s second season, Blizzard is trying combat Twitch chat toxicity through a new program that it will first test during Overwatch Contenders. Contenders, the semi-professional division

Sony released the PlayStation Classic on Dec. 3 for $99.99, but the retro console apparently didn’t find an audience willing to put up with its poor emulation and mediocre selection of games. The good news (if you didn’t buy it at launch) is that you can now buy the PlayStation Classic from most major retailers for only $59.99, saving $40 from the original price after only 23 days of release. Here are retailers currently offering PlayStation Classic for the updated price:“The PlayStation Classic

Bethesda has banned a swath of Fallout 76 players for using third-party software, including mods and cheating programs. JuiceHead, a YouTuber and active member of the Fallout Reddit community, reported that numerous players received emails from Bethesda’s customer support, explaining that they were banned for cheating. Some players argued that these bans were unprompted — that Bethesda falsely accused them of using third-party software or exploits in Fallout 76. That’s a comically strange way to

Sony revealed January 2019’s set of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers, including Ubisoft’s open-world winter sports game Steep. Steep is an appropriate game for the wintry months that kick off the year; players can ride snowboards and skis, and even fly paragliders. For something a little warmer, Portal Knights is also available for PS4 owners with PlayStation Plus memberships. The company previously announced that it will phase out PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita games from the program

It’s called Doomba, and it uses the popular Roomba vacuuming robots to create levels for Doom, the classic first-person shooter. The Doomba module works on similar principles; it just takes the digital maps created by the Roomba’s own internal software and converts them into Doom levels. To do the work, some Roombas use a creepy little electronic eyeball to create detailed maps of your home. Whitehouse included a map that he created himself, along with instructions for tailoring the algorithms t

SimCity on Super NES introduced a generation of console fans to a strategy game that was, until that point, only available on personal computers. The game’s role in popularizing city-building simulations is well known, but the collectors and historians who recently discovered and documented a functional but incomplete NES version of the game found a surprise: a unique, long-lost score by Super Mario Kart and Pilotwings composer Soyo Oka. “While Oka also wrote the music for the Super Nintendo ver

Grand Theft Auto 5 players can enjoy car soccer without having to fire up Rocket League, thanks to a new mode in Grand Theft Auto Online. Bomb Ball, part of the Arena War update for GTA Online that went live earlier this week, offers a more explosive take on car combat sports. While Rocket League is a good natured, non-violent car-based sport, Rockstar’s implementation infuses a lot more Mad Max into the formula. Well, new Arena War Mode Bomb Ball gets rid of all those fussy technicalities and r

Jordan Peele’s latest, entitled Us, might be the best Christmas present you get this morning. In the trailer, we see the son of the family wander away from the beach toward an eerie lone figure with hands dripping blood. Later, when the family gathers in their beach house, four mysterious figures wordlessly show up in the driveway. They look like them, they act like them, they think like them — everything is the same, except with unsettling creepy smiles and some deeper, darker motives. Rounding

Sold as a pair for $59.99 (not including the cost of a Nintendo Switch Online membership), the Switch-compatible NES controllers look and feel much like the real thing. These NES controllers slide right between your hands with ease, the buttons sitting in the same familiar places as the original Nintendo Entertainment System controllers’ did. The controllers’ start and select buttons are much more helpful than their indiscriminate comparisons on the Switch Joy-Cons, a bonus that makes the NES co

Fallout 76 players will get some free Fallout next year for their troubles. Bethesda Softworks said on Twitter yesterday that it’s giving players, both on console and PC, the Fallout Classic Collection for free if they’ve played Fallout 76 at any point this year. The Fallout Classic Collection includes the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics. ANYONE who logged into the full release of #Fallout76 in 2018 will receive an entitlement for Fallout Classic Collection on PC. Bethesda is als

White Wolf, the company which created the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing franchise, is handing content creation over to an outside company. “White Wolf is moving away from internal development and publishing,” wrote Paradox’s vice president of business development, Shams Jorjani in a statement. The tumult at White Wolf began last year when an early beta version of Vampire’s fifth edition tabletop RPG was released to eager fans. Later, on the eve of the new edition’s release at the Gen Con

Sony delivered 76 video games for all of its platforms to PlayStation Plus subscribers in 2018 — PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. What do the numbers say about the value of this PlayStation Plus benefit? These questions may shed light on where these free games programs are headed, especially as Sony will no longer offer free PlayStation Plus games for the PS3 or the PS Vita in March 2019. Getting StartedIn all, there were 76 games in PlayStation Plus’ instant game collection fo

Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age is coming to Nintendo Switch next year, in Japan at least. At this weekend’s Jump Festa event in Japan, Square Enix released the first teaser trailer for Dragon Quest 11 S for Switch, showing off Japanese-language voice overs for the game. When Dragon Quest 11 was originally released in Japan on Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation 4, the role-playing game did not include voiced characters. Square Enix said it plans to reveal more details on the Switch version o

Microsoft once again served up 48 video games, for Xbox 360 and Xbox One, to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in 2018. The review average of this year’s free games is 1.1 points better than 2017 but the total dollar value is sharply lower, by $163.24All Xbox 360 games in Games With Gold are compatible with Xbox One. (Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, For Honor, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Trials of the Blo

New video game consoles are going to be popular presents this holiday season. Doing so will help everyone in your family, not just the recipient of the gifts. Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Switch bundle requires you to download the game since there’s no card included. If you bought an Xbox One bundle with Forza Horizon 4, for example, you’re looking at a hefty 67 GB download. Long gone are the days of plugging in a disc or cartridge and playing right away.

There are literally hundreds of Pokémon, including some that we can’t believe got the green light. So it’s always fun to see those that didn’t make the cut, especially from the series’ early days. A show on Japanese TV channel NHK recently aired illustrations of several Pokémon, including those that have never appeared in-game. But these pieces of concept art also prove that most classic Pokémon went through some rough drafts too. But we’ll take what we can get, because the history of Pokémon co

EA DICE shared a raft of concept art from Star Wars Battlefront 2, which added Geonosis (above) to the game three weeks ago. Concept art, a DICE blog post explains, isn’t just material to get developers on a more technical side of things into some mood or state of mind about what they’re building. “Same goes for every other location that we bring to the game,” they write. “The legacy of Star Wars needs to be treated with care,” DICE writes. Because then it simply wouldn’t be Star Wars.”