His voice in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is officially the 100th time he’s performed in a video game as Nintendo’s frontman and, yes, that is indeed a record. So, I stipulate to both Martinet as record holder (officially, it’s “Most video game voiceover performances as the same character”) and to the unassailability of said record. Ultimate marks an even 100 times Martinet has appeared in a video game as the voice of Mario, per Guinness. Fans might more associate his first proper role as 1996’s S

PICO-8, the browser gaming platform that gave birth to Celeste, is celebrating the holiday season with an Advent calendar revealing a new bite-size video game every day for the rest of December. These Advent calendar games are playable within your browser. The other games on the calendar, in order beginning with Dec. 1, are:St. Nick’s: Dash Away All! Created by Lexaloffle Games, it’s a virtual video game console whose users can create very primitive but very stylish games. Working within these c

Dropping the HGC — and the Heroes of the Dorm collegiate circuit — was a sign of no confidence in Heroes of the Storm as a viable esport. Some said that Blizzard told them just a few weeks ago that the 2019 Heroes Global Championship was still happening. Funding equal or greater for next year.”Another longtime Heroes of the Storm content creator, MFPallytime, said he similarly felt left in the dark by Blizzard. Now I’m told it’s canceled. Within Blizzard, developers on the game expressed their o

(And unlocking them in World of Light unlocks them in the rest of Smash Ultimate, if you haven’t gotten them already.) In this guide, we’ve compiled the characters and created maps of their locations, so you can find them. Again, you’ll need Hal Emmerich to open the doors. FoxFox is sitting to the north of the map, right below a beautiful heart-shaped lake. You’ll need a Lapras spirit to get there, but there should be one nearby the route you need to travel to the islands.

The Insurrection Prime boss fight in Destiny 2: Black Armory will test everything you’ve learned in the Scourge of the Past raid so far. In this guide, we’re going to teach you everything you need to know about battling Insurrection Prime, the final boss of Scourge of the Past. Take aim at either the Vandal on the front right building or the back left building — oriented from the map room — first. Before exiting the tank, move it away from the map room a bit and then join your allies. On this se

When you first load into the raid, you’ll be in the heart of the Last City, just under the shadow of the Traveler. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to navigate and conquer the Botza Downtown rooftop brawl. This is a Berserker, and you’ll be fighting several of them throughout the raid. When you get close to the Berserker, you’ll notice that it’s completely immune to damage. Leave an ally — preferably someone with lower Light — with your map Reader to guard them, and have the other four players

I’m reviewing the game for Polygon, but I only got code last night, and so far, I’ve managed to play about five hours. It’s been in development for a long time, but that time has clearly not been wasted. So far, I’ve enjoyed doing so, by trial and error mostly. But I just know I’m going to be playing a lot of Below over the next 72 hours, and not just because it’s my job. If you want to read more about Below, here’s a preview I wrote after playing some early levels two years ago.

“We messed up and rolled the Infinity Blade overpowered/without good counters, especially in the end game,” Epic said on the Fortnite Twitter account. “The Infinity Blade has been Vaulted and we are re-evaluating our approach to Mythic items. Thanks for calling us out on this!”On Thursday, Epic released a post on the game’s subreddit detailing its thoughts on the Infinity Blade. To make things worse, Epic also mentioned that the Infinity Blade was just the first of the “Mythic” weapons that woul

In California, two candidates for an irrigation district’s board of commissioners ended up tied in November’s election and had to make a saving throw last week. That’s right, incumbent Larry Enos Jr. and challenger Milan “Pete” Petrovich rolled a 20-sided die to determine their contest for a seat on the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District’s board. And the die was, in fact, taken from someone’s Dungeons & Dragons set. Scott Konopasek, assistant registrar of voters in Contra Costa County, said someo

Deathtrap Dungeon, the classic Fighting Fantasy adventure by Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingston, could be turned into another video game. Called The Hero of Deathtrap Dungeon, it would be developed for PC by Sentient Play, a start-up based in Austin, Texas with connections to IBM’s Watson project. “The clue [for players] was in the title: Deathtrap Dungeon. It’s also not the first time that the Deathtrap Dungeon source material has been published digitally in a book-like format. The Hero o

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the most comprehensive and arguably the best-looking entry in the Super Smash Bros. series, but it can’t compete when it comes to input lag. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a lot of input lagThere are between 87.87 and 112.87 ms of input latency between hitting a button in Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii U introduces between three and five frames of latency between hitting a button and seeing your character react, compared to the five to six frames

Canada is bringing good government, courteous and neighbourly behaviour, and ice hockey to Civilization 6 with Wilfrid Laurier, the nation’s seventh prime minister and one of its greatest statesmen, as a playable leader. Laurier and eight other historical figures are on the way in Civ 6’s Gathering Storm expansion coming soon. Laurier also gets a discount on buying snow and tundra tiles, and double the extraction from any consumable resource on those tiles. That’s where the country’s unique impr

The third-annual Pokémon Go holiday event will begin next week, rounding out a very long year with a series of gifts for players. From Dec. 18 through Jan. 2, 2019, almost everything in the game is doubled — from candy to experience points — and special Pokémon will arrive alongside them. Players will also receive different bonuses throughout the event, with each one lasting four days straight before cycling out for a different effect. (Perhaps these will include Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie, three m

With that patch, it has also launched the cash storefront for Red Dead Online. Players can now purchase premium currency, called gold bars, with real money and trade them in for some items in-game. Gold bars are available in several bundles:25 gold bars for $9.9955 gold bars for $19.99150 gold bars for $49.99245 gold bars for $74.99350 gold bars for $99.99There’s also a slot for a limited-time offer. Currently, you can buy a single bundle of 25 gold bars for just $4.99. Gold bars are a shortcut

Metro Exodus, the conclusion to the ambitious series of subterranean first-person shooters, now has a release date. Previously delayed out of fall 2018, the game will arrive on Feb. 15, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. The Metro series of video games, based off the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, began in 2010 with Metro: 2033. The second game in the series, Metro: Last Light, was released to critical acclaim. When Exodus is released, fans will be treated to an open-world Metro ex

The future of Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard Entertainment’s MOBA that brings together heroes from Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft and Overwatch, is starting to look bleak. Blizzard president J. Allen Brack and chief development officer Ray Gresko said today that the company is shifting development resources away from Heroes of the Storm and putting those developers on other projects. The company is also canceling its two esports events for Heroes of the Storm, the pro-focused Heroes Global Champions

The final chapter in Marvel’s Spider-Man’s The City That Never Sleeps downloadable content will launch on Dec. 21, developer Insomniac Games announced today. Dubbed “Silver Lining” the third DLC drop will focus on Silver Sable and, once again, Hammerhead. Of course, the DLC will also come with three new suits for players to wear, including one inspired by the animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The other two costumes included in the “Silver Lining” DLC are the Cyborg Spider-Man sui

Nintendo Switch owners have some fantastic indie games, both new and a little old, to look forward to this week. Coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop over the next seven days are the lush puzzle-platformer Gris, the narrative adventure Firewatch and the dialogue-driven short story Quarantine Circular. But there are plenty of retro games for Switch owners who prefer their games pixelated. And for more retro fun, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can download and play NES games Adventures of Lolo,

The next PlanetSide game is, yes, a battle royale. PlanetSide Arena will launch as two paid editions, at $19.99 and $39.99 (the latter offering some extra in-game items. He envisions a later date where the game may transition to a battle pass serving free-to-play and paid versions of PlanetSide Arena. Grid View Daybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game CompanyDaybreak Game Compa

If you buy Super Smash Bros. Wherever you find it, though, note that there is literally no signifier that this specific Smash Bros. message is anything special. The subject is “Thank you for your purchase of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,” which sounds like a nice thank you note. Who among us knew to expect a download code so soon, let alone in a seemingly unspecific email? Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s five DLC fighter packs will launch through 2020, and the game is out now.