This Target-exclusive party game from North Star Games comes with 72 cards with “dude” written on both sides. Best of all, Dude is dead simple to teach, and games usually take no more than five minutes. Root: A Game of Woodland Might and RightThere may have been more intense strategy games at this year’s Gen Con, but there were none more cute than Leder Games’ Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right. Detective: A Modern Crime Board GameFinally, perhaps the most high-concept board game to get go

In July, Nintendo re-released its 2014 puzzle adventure game Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for Nintendo Switch and 3DS. That Zelda game was scrapped, but Nintendo ultimately returned to some of its core gameplay ideas in Super Mario 3D World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. “We thought that Captain Toad in Super Mario 3D World was perfect because it brought in the element of searching to [Mario’s] world. We wanted to explore that as a core mechanic of Captain Toad, and that’s how we ended up

A Nintendo Direct on Aug. 8 will have new information about Super Smash Bros. New charactersIt would be a bummer if we didn’t get a classic “just one more thing” during the Smash Bros. Returning modes and featuresBreak the Target and Home Run Contest are as inextricable from Super Smash Bros. as anything else. That being said, we expect Super Smash Bros. DirectNintendo will stream the Super Smash Bros.

WarioWare Gold is packed with over 300 minigames — or rather, microgames — and dozens of extra features. One of the strangest features lets you dub over all of the game’s cinematics with your own voice. When players start a stage for the first time, they are treated to a story cinematic featuring WarioWare favorites like 9-Volt, Mona and Dr. Crygor. To get your own dialogue into the game, you must first select which character’s voice you want to replace. Behold, below:The mode isn’t perfect, but

Bungie finally shed some light on the revamped weapon customization system for Destiny 2 in a livestream Tuesday. While no new weapon systems are coming in Destiny 2: Forsaken, the studio is seriously overhauling the Masterwork and mod setups from the base game. Each time the level is raised, the weapon’s Masterwork stat will go up by a single tier. Once the weapon gets to 10, players will be able to choose between Crucible and PvE kill tracking with a perk node on the weapon itself. The new mod

The beauty of Overcooked 2’s level design is its ability to reveal the key to success when there are only 30 seconds left on the clock. Overcooked 2, now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, thrives in the stress of delegation. If one player is stuck on a raft with chopping boards and ingredient bins, their entire job will be chopping and throwing ingredients. They could keep throwing ingredients constantly, or they could throw them when the ingredients are immed

Common Vending Machine Spawn chance reduced from 7.27% to 6.67%. Uncommon Vending Machine Spawn chance increased from 14.55% to 20%. Rare Vending Machine Spawn chance increased from 14.55% to 20%. Epic Vending Machine Spawn chance increased from 5.45% to 18.67%. Legendary Vending Machine Spawn chance increased from 3.64% to 8%.

In terms of additions to the game, patch v5.20 is easily the smallest released so far this season. In other words, patch v5.20 is going to feel like playing a better version of the same game, rather than switching things up too much. For a full look at the patch notes for Fortnite’s patch v5.20 you can check out our notes post. Thankfully, Epic is taking a balance pass at vending machines in hopes of making them even slightly useful. As of patch v5.20, vending machines will now spawn more often

The World Ends With You is now set to be one of Nintendo Switch’s marquee fall titles. Nintendo announced that the Final Remix version of the game, revealed earlier this year, will launch on Oct. 12. The World Ends With You’s version of hip Shibuya incorporates bold colors, great fashion and stylized character designs that remain unlike any Square Enix game since. There’s also remixed music (hence that title) and a two-player co-op mode to make The World Ends With You: Final Remix more like an o

With just under a month until Destiny 2: Forsaken’s release, Bungie is hosting a livestream to show off some of the new systems at play. The studio’s description for the stream suggests that players will see the new subclass trees in action, as well as some developer-on-developer PvP action. Players have had many questions — and a great deal of confusion — over Forsaken’s updated weapon system. Bungie has promised to answer all of those questions and more in this stream. Most importantly, Bungie

Dead Cells is one of the best 2D games we’ve played in the past few years, and it’s often the little details that show the level of care put into this kind of release. Your dietary options can be changed at any point in the game. Related Dead Cells beginners guideFruitarian and vegetarian are self-explanatory; they’re for the adventurer who just can’t stomach eating any kind of flesh, while carnivore is the opposite. Castlevaniaesque mirrors the food options of the game from which Dead Cells tak

James Chambers, a security researcher at Red Balloon Security, decided to delve into the mystery behind the letters of Animal Crossing and shared his findings in a Twitter thread. If there’s only spaces or if the ratio of spaces to other characters is less than 20, then the letter loses 20 points. Essentially, if your letter has decent punctuation and capitalization, and isn’t terribly long, it will receive a good score, because proper grammar is apparently what the villagers of Animal Crossing

As the Fallout 76 beta nears its October launch, Bethesda has provided additional details about the invite-only trial. That doesn’t mean that Steam and other digital retailers won’t have Fallout 76 for sale at some point. Fallout Shelter didn’t come to Steam until nearly a year after its initial PC release on Bethesda.net, after all. We’ve reached out to Bethesda about if and when Fallout 76 will come to Steam and will update when the company responds. The good news is that, no matter what platf

The Expanse, the wildly popular series of science fiction books that became a beloved Syfy television show, was at one point a homebrew tabletop role-playing campaign. Now, with the help of Green Ronin Publishing, it’s going legit. “We’re nothing alike.”Now the team at Green Ronin Publishing is trying to bring the history of The Expanse full circle. Its Kickstarter campaign for The Expanse Roleplaying Game is already successful, having raised more than $270,000 on a modest $30,000 ask. The Expan

With a month to go until NBA 2K19’s launch, publisher 2K Sports has released the first gameplay footage of the annual basketball sim in its debut trailer. Dubbed “Take the Crown,” the minutelong trailer is set to Jay Rock’s “Win.” Both of NBA 2K19’s cover athletes are featured heavily in the trailer: LeBron James, now of the Los Angeles Lakers, and young Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. (NBA 2K19 is the 20th iteration of the NBA 2K franchise; its 20th anniversary will technically come

Unlike traditional CCGs, which rely on randomized booster packs to build out competitive decks of cards, KeyForge will be sold by the deck. For the liberal arts majors in the audience, that’s roughly 32 billion unique decks of cards for every human now living on the planet. Where Magic publishes a very limited number of pre-built decks every year, each box of KeyForge cards on the shelf at your local hobby store will be complete and ready-to-play. Not only does that speed up play considerably, b

When you first start playing Dead Cells, you may think it next to impossible. But in actuality Dead Cells is much more approachable than most games in the genre, so long as you know what you’re doing. For more about runes and how to unlock them, check out our Dead Cells runes guide. The reason is that dodging is super important in Dead Cells and your finger should essentially be resting on the dodge button at all times. #3 – LET THE TRAPS DO THE WORKThe easiest way to get deep into the later gam

Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are looking to add Supergirl to their cinematic universe roster, Deadline reports. All other details remain light for now, but it’s interesting to speculate on how and where Supergirl would fit into the existing DC Entertainment universe. It’s likely that we’ll be introduced to a unique setting and storyline for a potential Supergirl movie, which sounds like a good way to kick off her first big movie in more than three decades. Supergirl — a Kryptonian who’s oth

Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop role-playing game, has had hands-on time with Cyberpunk 2077, the latest effort from CD Projekt Red. Pondsmith told Polygon about his biggest takeaways from that demo during this year’s Gen Con. Those include his affection for the game’s controversial first-person perspective, as well as his appreciation for the developer embracing his universe’s moral and political themes. “I got to wander through a lot more than was shown at E3,” Pondsmith

Microsoft Movies & TV, the Windows- and Xbox-based digital video service formerly known as Xbox Video, is joining Movies Anywhere this week. But the welcome page on the Movies Anywhere website already features the Microsoft Movies & TV logo, suggesting that it is now one of the supported digital storefronts on the platform. This applies for existing collections of digital movies in the Movies & TV app, and for future purchases. You can see a video that includes Microsoft Movies & TV as the sixth