Just like an old-fashioned murder story, Return of the Obra Dinn poses a complex mystery, layered with personalities, motives, secrets and lies. Each time I correctly match three people, the book updates itself, piecing together wretched tale of the Obra Dinn’s disastrous voyage. Likewise, Return of the Obra Dinn is rendered in retro style — this time, beautiful black and white line drawings associated with early Macintosh graphical adventures. This isn’t an L.A. Noire kind of game, in which I’m

Soulcalibur 6 launched today and it again, foolishly, trusted fans with the “Create a Soul” feature, which is a very well endowed tool for creating custom characters. Many players have used Create-a-Soul to pay homage to heroes from movies, comic books and other video games. The apple, cylinder and heart objects in Soulcalibur 6’s creation suite can be made into a phallic shape. And when Lizardman is then given the gyrating and hip-thrusting move set of Voldo, you have a serious case of reptile

Last night, everyone’s favorite friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Tom Holland, swung his way onto Jimmy Kimmel Live. full-costume, but substituting a cone over his head for his mask, Holland chased after Kimmel’s “sidekick” Guillermo Rodriguez, who swiped the mask. pew!” Holland removes the cone. “I think Thanos is robbing a bank,” Holland said, cutting Kimmel off and pivoting away from the question. Spider-Man: Far From Home is set to premiere two months after the untitled fourth Avengers film,

The following excerpt comes from the book Shovel Knight, available now from publisher Boss Fight Books. Shovel Knight served as a vessel for the spirit of 8-bit gaming from the halcyon days when the NES reigned supreme in millions of living rooms. 3DS was at its height at the time, and we’d all got WiiUs and were excited about that.”Adelman set up a meeting to see Shovel Knight. At the end, she put down the controller and announced that Shovel Knight was fun. “First of all, it feels like an NES

For David Gordon Green, the concept was a hunch and gamble, but most of his movies have been. Dying to do a horror movie, Halloween became the high-stakes IP puzzle he was more than ready to crack. Strangely, in Halloween II, there’s a woman that he looks at it through a window and she’s cutting a sandwich. Related Halloween director explains his creepy choice for the endingSo you kill a kid in this movie. But anytime you talk to him about movies, you’re just talking to him about comedies, which

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. CRIMSONThe Crimson hand cannon arrived in Destiny 2 with the Curse of Osiris downloadable content. Its first exotic perk is Banned Weapon, which causes it to fire in three-round bursts. Its exotic perk, Wraithmetal Mail, will reload all of the Hunter’s weapons when they dodge, which also increases movement and handling speed for a brief time after. Its main exotic perk is Bring the Heat, which causes the Fusion

This is partly due to the fact that Starlink looks and plays like a traditional Star Fox game, no matter which console you play it on. There may seem to be some deja vu here: Some parts feel like Star Fox, while other aspects of Starlink reminding me more of No Man’s Sky. And having the Star Fox characters themselves involved in the game’s story is as good as Nintendo giving its official blessing. This may not be enough to satiate everyone who is still hungry for a standalone Star Fox game, but

But where The Raid had a bigger focus on the character drama, The Night Comes for Us aims to play out like the most brutal rounds of Mortal Kombat brought to life. note: this article contains mild spoilers for The Night Comes For Us.] I can’t emphasize this enough: At least 85% of The Night Comes For Us is just people punching, stabbing, shooting, maiming, and otherwise killing each other. The Night Comes For Us is not without fault. The Night Comes For Us is an almost two-hour parade of button-

Today’s update for Marvel’s Spider-Man on PlayStation 4 adds a bunch of new things: new game plus mode, three new suits for Spider-Man and some helpful improvements to the game’s photo mode. The 4.7 GB update for Spider-Man, which Insomniac detailed earlier this week, is available now. Shortly after its release, Insomniac Games’ user interface/user experience lead Gil Doron tweeted about its most amusing addition:We have a new patch today! A Reddit thread (with more than 30,000 upvotes) and twee

Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris expansion brought with it the Infinite Forest, an activity that promised players some semi-random combat engagements. The Haunted Forest — a spooky makeover for the Infinite Forest — works similar to the greater rifts in Diablo 3. Haunted Forest asks you to kill strategically and move as quickly as you can through the arena. The Haunted Forest is inherently random, something that Bungie said it purposefully avoided when creating the Infinite Forest. Haunted Forest tak

Where to stream: Twitch or YouTube? Both Twitch and YouTube have partner programs that allow streamers with a large audience to make money by running ads. To stream directly to Twitch from an Xbox One, you’ll have to download the Twitch app. The software will ask for a “stream key” that can be found on your Twitch or YouTube profile. iPhone users will have to rely on a third-party app to stream to Twitch or YouTube.

Days Gone, the PlayStation 4’s zombie-apocalypse/motorcycle gang adventure, is being delayed two months. Sony Bend, the studio developing the game, said it will use the extra time “to further polish Days Gone.” The game was first revealed at E3 2016 and at one point was slated for a 2018 launch. Moving to April makes Days Gone the biggest-name console launch for that month. Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure set in the high desert of the Pacific Northwest. We got a look at Days Gone in

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is just the game that keeps on giving. A Chinese player, who emulated the game on PC, found the latest way to transform Link’s Hylian journey into a high-speed spectacle. How this trick seems to work is that Link hurtles downward, ready to do some shield surfing. There are tons of examples of players messing with Breath of the Wild’s physics to give Link an in-air boost. Think you’ve seen everything Breath of the Wild has to offer?

RimWorld, the ambitious colony simulation from the small team at Ludeon Studios, has exited early access. The game was available for players to purchase at a discount during early access, and according to the team, they have already sold more than one million copies. The colony simulation genre is a fairly small where hardcore titles, such as Dwarf Fortress, tend to loom large. In RimWorld, players take on the role as the overseer of a threesome of colonists crash-landed on an alien world. The t

The Black Market, the cosmetic marketplace for Call of Duty, is now live in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on PlayStation 4 and will be live on PC and Xbox One on Oct. 26, developer Treyarch announced on Friday morning. The Black Market will also feature special events that only stick around for a short time. The final addition to the game’s Black Market is Blackjack’s Shop. Here, players will be able to purchase specific cosmetic pieces that will only be available for a week at a time. Blackjack’s S

The final moments of Halloween were an inevitable conundrum for director David Gordon Green (Stronger). But how do they put a button on Laurie’s arc while staying true to the semi-supernatural mythology of Michael Myers? note: this post contains major spoilers for the ending of Halloween.] So did Michael Myers die in Halloween? Maybe it’s not.”Halloween is definitely not the last Michael Myers as far as producer Jason Blum is concerned.

is the best horror game ever made. It was a walking simulator, the answer to the question “What if Gone Home really was a horror game?” In action, it functioned almost like a short movie, light on interaction but heavy on atmosphere. will always be perfect, whereas the portrait of Silent Hills withers in the attic, hiding whatever sins or failures the full game might have had. No game will ever be able to live up to the sheer potential of an idea, and that’s what P.T. Watch the video above for m

It also, most importantly, drops at a power level of 600 for all players who own the Forsaken expansion. The best drops, like gear from raids and rewards from Dreaming City activities, drop five points above your current power level. The further behind you are, the more your power level will gain with this one piece of gear. This is the second Iron Banner since Forsaken launched, and this one has some new features. The weekly bounties are a little easier this time, and they award Powerful upgrad

While Lego Batman: The Video Game, Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham all follow a satirical version of the caped crusader, this latest title, Lego DC Super-Villains, has a new angle. Rather than following Batman and his fellow DC Comics heroes, Lego DC Super-Villains naturally lets players see the world as a range of super-villains. It’s a wider world than any other DC Lego game, expanding from Gotham and Metropolis to Smallville, Gorilla City and Nanda Parbat. Tho

The new Zombies maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 are no different. But Treyarch seems to be leaning harder into allure of Easter eggs as a feature with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. In Zombies, Black Ops 4’s in-game menu offers hints on player objectives and shows them how close they are to completing an objective, while also alerting them to when they’re successful. Since at least the first Black Ops, hardcore Zombies fans have been coming together to find these Easter Eggs and piece together the