Overcooked will be the main Xbox Games With Gold free game during October, Xbox Live’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb announced Tuesday on Twitter. Overcooked, the kooky cooperative cooking game from Ghost Town Games, will be free all month long on Xbox One. Victor Vran is the other free Xbox One game for October; it will be available at no cost to Xbox Live Gold subscribers from Oct. 16 through Nov. 15. On the Xbox 360 front, Microsoft will offer the early-generation game Stuntman: Ignition for free

(Both the state and federal laws require advance notice of 60 days.) Related Disappointment turns to anger after Telltale layoffsRoberts’ complaint says the total layoffs at Telltale amount to approximately 275 employees. Under the WARN Act, businesses that undertake plant closings or mass layoffs with fewer than 60 days’ advance notice are subject to significant financial penalties. The federal law offers some exceptions for businesses, situations in which a company would be exempt from the 60-

Fortnite may be a free-to-play game, but that hasn’t stopped console companies from creating bundles that focus on the extremely popular game. The latest of these bundles is Microsoft’s new Xbox One S bundle, which comes with 2,000 V-Bucks and a few exclusive cosmetics, which Microsoft revealed during its Inside Xbox stream Tuesday afternoon. The V-Bucks total up to about a $20 value overall, but it’s the other cosmetics that represent the real draw for this bundle. The skin, a legendary item ca

Microsoft’s Xbox One will finally offer keyboard and mouse support for some games. Phil Spencer, executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, made the announcement during Tuesday’s episode of Inside Xbox. “You shouldn’t expect that every game on the platform now supports mouse and keyboard,” Spencer said. “There are certain games out there that require mouse and keyboard, and those can’t come to console today. Correction: An earlier version of this article indicated that the first title to o

After four weeks in Destiny 2: Forsaken’s Dreaming City location, secrets are finally beginning to pour out. Each week following the completion of the Last Wish raid, the city has gotten more and more corrupted — filled with Taken enemies. But this week, players have already discovered some serious secrets around the galaxy. The Dreaming City now has a secret dungeon located in The Confluence, under the Blind Well. Finally, Forsaken’s new Gambit mode also has some secrets to discover.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is no longer available to purchase on digital storefronts like Steam, the PlayStation Store and GOG.com. A note on the GOG page for The Final Season says that Telltale specifically requested that the retailer “pause” sales of the game. “Telltale has requested a temporary pause of sales of The Walking Dead — Final Season,” according to the store page. “For all up to date Telltale news, please refer to their official Twitter page.”At time of writing, Telltale has

Parkasaurus, on Steam Early Access, isn’t a game for everyone, but it scratches some very specific itches and does it very well. Then, when you first pick up the game and work your way through the tutorial, you’ll abandon your initial thoughts of Jurassic Park-style disaster. Just like in Theme Park Tycoon, your guests won’t hesitate to let you know if they’re not happy. The thing that elevates Parkasaurus above your garden-variety theme park simulator is that you have to keep both your dinosaur

Telltale Games laid off most of its staff late last week. The surprise news hit fans of its long-running series, The Walking Dead, especially hard as its narrative arc was just months from winding down. Telltale’s The Walking Dead began with the release of its first episode in 2012. Called The Walking Dead: The Final Season, its first episode was released on Aug. 14. It’s unclear if that same team would also be responsible for work on final episodes of The Walking Dead.

The Super Crown’s some spicy new Mario lore pic.twitter.com/7DQe6UXvLQ — haniwa (@ayyk92) September 19, 2018This Bowser-turned-Peach was dubbed Bowsette by fans. Variations of Bowsette exploded across the internet, with artists trying their own versions of this hybrid. Some stuck true to the first version; others thought the initial version needed more Bowser and changed the coloring of Bowsette. Though not officially part of the Mario universe, the possibility of Bowsette raises some questions

Pokémon Snap came out almost 20 years ago, and in retrospect, it was ahead of its time. Years before Instagram, Pokémon Snap was about capturing and sharing the best possible version of a moment. Pokémon Snap evoked the experience of using a digital camera before digital cameras became mainstream; it was all about the fun of taking pictures. Although it’s a stand-alone game, Snap extended and enriched the Pokémon universe. The formula for Pokémon games hasn’t evolved much over the years, which i

Following the gutting of Amazon Prime video game pre-order discounts, Target is stepping up to the plate with an interesting new deal. The wording on Target’s pre-order promotion is a little confusing, but essentially customers who pre-order an upcoming game through Target’s website can take an extra 30 percent off any game that’s currently available. There’s definitely a pre-order void where Amazon Prime and GCU used to be that Target could be looking to fill. Either way, Target seems to be fol

While Jared Leto’s Joker won’t be the star of the upcoming Joker origin story, there’s some good news for all those awaiting his potential Suicide Squad spinoff with Harley Quinn. The duo called the film a combination of two of their previous collaborations: dark comedy Bad Santa and hit TV drama This is Us. “It was sort of like, we wrote Bad Santa a couple of years ago, and it was that sensibility mixed with our This Is Us sensibility. “We were doing a relationship movie but with the sensibilit

Ditto as Electrode spawns from the Pokémon Center’s Ditto Collection, a line of plush toys featuring Ditto transformed into other Pokémon. Electrode was included in the most recent update to the Ditto Collection, which also featured the later generation Pokémon Alolan Vulpix, Absol, Shaymin, and Whimsicott. Select plushes in the Ditto Collection are available directly from the Pokémon Center’s website or from resellers at marketplaces Amazon and Walmart. I hope that the Pokémon Center continues

The first American games, Pokémon Red and Blue, raked in $70 million in earnings in their first six months on the market. Pokémon embodies everything good and appealing about video gamesYou’d think Pokémon might have earned a pass by now, but no. Pokémon transcends age and skill to find successIn many ways, Pokémon embodies everything good and appealing about video games. By no means is Pokémon the only video game about collecting and acquisition, but capturing Pokémon requires genuine effort. A

So the choice to go with a soundtrack of quasi-improvisational New Age solo piano jazz seems even stranger in retrospect. Composed by Jerry Martin, with help from jazz pianist John R. Burr and Marc Russo, The Sims’ soundtrack is iconic. The New Age jazz piano that scores the game’s build mode is particularly memorable to a generation that spent countless hours designing and redesigning their Sims’ houses. We look at not just how he blended improvisational jazz with optimistic New Age music, but

Season 6 of Fortnite begins this Thursday, Sept. 27, but Epic Games has already begun to release hints about what might be on the way. The giant, purple cube that rolled across the map has melted into Loot Lake to create a large, bouncy structure, and today’s tweet from the game’s official account suggests that the cube situation may point toward the future of the game. Whatever’s going to happen is going to happen soon, however. Will this season be one giant dance party? After looking at all th

The qualifying rounds for the 2018 Overwatch World Cup have come to an end, and we finally know exactly which eight teams will be advancing to BlizzCon to compete. South KoreaFinlandUSACanadaChinaAustraliaFranceUnited KingdomEach of these eight teams will travel to California to face off in the final rounds of the World Cup later this year. Once there, teams will compete in the Knockout Stage of the tournament, until finally one team is left standing as the Overwatch World Cup 2018 champion. Alm

The bundle includes a 1 TB PS4 Pro system, a DualShock 4 wireless controller and a physical disc copy of Red Dead Redemption 2 for $399.99, according to the announcement. Sony’s relationship with Rockstar for Red Dead Redemption 2 seems pretty cozy; we already knew that PS4 players would be getting some form of exclusive content with the game. You could, in fact, still purchase this bundle and the $99.99 Collector’s Box edition of the game, since that package doesn’t come with a copy of Red Dead

Telltale Games, the developer of licensed adventure titles such as the Walking Dead series, Game of Thrones and Batman, has laid off most of its staff, with the intention of closing the studio. The last season of the Walking Dead game released this year. A Verge feature story from earlier this year described layoffs coming from a company that suffered from mismanagement and lack of innovation, leading to a push for fewer, higher-quality games. Founded in 2004, Telltale Games spent nearly 15 year

The new grenade launcher, Edge Transit, has been popping up more frequently than is wanted for players. The Edge Transit problem is so rampant in the game that you can find joke posts about it even when you’re looking for simple raid advice. In the known issues section of its weekly blog, Bungie posted that the team started investigating the Edge Transit drop rate after players reported “aggressive drop rates” for the gun. Bungie was then able to confirm what we all knew already: Edge Transit is