The studio and indie publisher Crytivo (The Universim) will be donating proceeds from its sales for the next two months to support wildfire relief efforts in Australia. Through February, the company said that 100 percent of revenue from its own online store and 30 percent of Steam sales of its games will go toward rebuilding lost homes, paying firefighters who are working overtime, and environmental cleanup. The bushfire season in Australia, exacerbated by climate change bringing drought and rec

The Monster Hunter series loves its meat. Some of that meat is so damn big that it’s actually designed to wallop the world’s monsters, in fact. It’s a giant chicken drumstick you can craft in the Iceborne expansion for Monster Hunter: World, as part of the game’s second anniversary celebration, Appreciation Fest, starting Jan. 23. Monster Hunter: Generations offered players a chance to earn “Ham of Hams,” a giant hammer shaped like meat on a stick that would “erupt with juice upon each hit, igni

Nintendo released a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX demo for the Switch yesterday, and the remake opens with a personality quiz. But in this case, I didn’t want to game Mystery Dungeon into giving me a specific outcome just because I believed I should be a specific creature. True, true. The game followed this up with its final verdict: I’m a Squirtle, the classic water-type starter from the original games. Or maybe I’m putting way too much stock into a quiz about tiny fighting monsters an

Capcom’s soon-to-be-released remake of Resident Evil 3 will modernize the 1999 PlayStation original — and add a brand-new multiplayer mode called Resident Evil Resistance — but it will also do away with some aspects of its source material. Namely, Resident Evil 3’s Mercenaries mode and its multiple endings won’t return, according to a story in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine UK. Producer Peter Fabiano told OPM UK that other features of Resident Evil 3 will be expanded. Capcom c

Microsoft has offered glimpses of two first-party Xbox Series X games, 343 Industries’ Halo Infinite — scheduled to launch alongside the console — and Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. Cross-generation compatibility is great news for the tens of millions of Xbox One owners out there, since they won’t have to buy an Xbox Series X to play the new Halo game. Across both generations, the full Xbox “family of devices,” as Booty put it, runs the gamut from the launch Xbox One all the way up to

Capcom released its Iceborne expansion for Monster Hunter: World on Steam on Thursday, and some players are reporting problems with their save data. Specifically, players on Reddit and the Steam forums appear to have their old saves overwritten when previous saves are unable to load. Players have a few theories, from issues with mods to an uninstalled previous update that adjusted save data formatting. At this time, players are recommending to each other to back up their cloud save data on Steam

The Circle, Netflix’s new reality show, sounds like a mediocre episode of Black Mirror. They’re trying to present a better version of themselves, and in fact most players present as themselves, and a sense of genuine connection is always prized in conversations. Instead they’re always focused on the screen, making them seem more natural, and less guarded, than what we’re used to in reality shows. Some players are just trying to win money, but others have deeper, more interesting reasons for pret

Death Stranding, Control, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Untitled Goose Game, and Outer Wilds are the nominees for Game of the Year at the 20th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, which will be held in March at Game Developers Conference 2020. The quintet of games each earned nominations in multiple categories, with Death Stranding getting a nod in seven, the most of any game. Death Stranding is up for Best Audio, Best Design, Best Narrative Game, Best Technology, Best Visual Art and the GDC’s Inn

For those on the hunt for Gigantamax Pokémon, the spawn rates for Lapras, Coalossal, Alcremie, Flapple, and Appletun have increased in Pokémon Sword and Shield. Players in Pokémon Sword will see Gigantamax Flapple and Coalossal spawning more often in their raid dens, where players from Pokémon Shield will see Gigantamax Appletun and Lapras more often. It was possible to get these special Gigantamax Pokémon before, but they spawned a much lower rate. During a Pokémon Direct this morning, The Poké

It’s a new decade and Apex Legends is celebrating the start of the 20s with a new event. It’s called the Grand Soirée Arcade, a giant party hosted by Pathfinder. The Grand Soirée’s main feature is its Limited-Time Mode Arcade. As you play each one, you’ll earn progress toward the Grand Soirée suite, which includes new weapon skins, as well as a Mirage skin. The Grand Soirée will begin on Jan. 14 and continue until Jan. 28.

Emma Kinema, co-founder of Game Workers Unite — a grassroots organization eager to unionize the video game industry — has joined the Communications Workers of America, one of the nation’s largest and most influential labor unions. At its core, the CWA is a group of workers in the telecommunications, internet technology, media, and entertainment industries whose interests and expertise align well with the video game and technology sectors. The issues plaguing game workers are well-documented. Of

The top-50 list did include highly anticipated indie games including 12 Minutes, Carrion, Griftlands, Minute of Islands, Nuts, The Red Lantern, Sable, Saturnalia, Skatebird. But there are so many curious and intriguing indie games coming out, I wanted to highlight a few extra gems. This is by no means a definitive list of cool indie games coming out this year. Thanks to all of you who contacted us with suggestions on indie games coming this year. Please use comments to highlight indie games you’

Bethesda Softworks’ re-releases of the first two Doom games are getting some nice upgrades. Both Doom, the 1993 original, and Doom 2 have been updated to support 60 frames per second visuals, quick save functionality, and “curated” add-ons, including Doom co-creator John Romero’s 2019 release, Sigil. Doom and Doom 2 now natively support 60 fps on “all platforms,” Bethesda said on its website. Players can also quick save their games by pausing Doom or Doom 2, then pressing R/R1/RB, depending on p

After the game, injured Golden State superstar Steph Curry had a friendly chat with the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo. Fans were quick to accuse Curry of tampering — trying to recruit last year’s MVP while he’s still under contract with his current team. pic.twitter.com/LwEqvLFJnB — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) January 9, 2020″All he was doing was giving Giannis his gamertag,” Haynes says about Curry. Of course, there is another game that Curry and Antetokounmpo could team up in to do some damage

Sixteen Twitch streamers are participating in a $20,000 Uno tournament this afternoon. The tournament is unfolding over the course of a few hours this afternoon, with two group stages feeding into the finals. It’s not totally random that it’s Uno being played in a tournament on Twitch. Back in late March and early April, Uno overtook Fortnite in viewership numbers on Twitch, all thanks to Fortnite. Fortnite players were upset with the game and top streamers got invested in Uno, partaking in mone

This year, Hollywood filmmakers are making headway in their ongoing crusade against gimmicky television technology such as motion smoothing. motion smoothing, etc.) The most infamous of these post-processing techniques is known by a number of names, including “motion smoothing,” “video interpolation,” and “the soap opera effect.” Motion smoothing has the effect of increasing the viewer’s perceived frame rate, which makes the video appear, well, smoother. Along with Johnson and Dunkirk’s Nolan, n

Hearthstone’s Solo Adventures have arguably been the best part of the card game in 2019. The story campaigns offer a more puzzle-oriented, roguelike approach to Hearthstone’s usual card-combat formula. Galakrond’s Awakening takes place in the Northrend region of Dragonblight. Now, that skeleton comes to life and takes a starring role in the culmination of Hearthstone’s Year of the Dragon storyline. Galakrond’s Awakening returns to Hearthstone’s original Solo Adventure format, which featured in e

Nintendo and The Pokémon Co. have some Pokémon news for you, and you can watch a new Pokémon Direct presentation live right here to hear the latest. The roughly 20-minute Pokémon Direct will air Thursday, Jan. 9, at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT on Nintendo’s YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. Possible topics of discussion include new content coming to Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield for Nintendo Switch; Pokémon Sleep, which wants to turn your good night’s sleep into e

Pokémon Sword and Shield is getting an expansion pass, Game Freak announced during its Pokémon Direct this morning. Two different expansions, The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra, will be released in June and fall 2020, respectively. Players can expect new gyms, accessories, and, of course, more Pokémon — in the Pokémon Direct, Game Freak said it’ll add more than 200 creatures. The Pokémon Company and Game Freak showed off new legendaries, new Gigantamax forms of existing Pokémon (like Sword a

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX is joining the Nintendo Switch lineup on March 6, according to today’s Pokémon Direct stream. This game, as usual, has you turning into a Pokémon and joining another Pokémon of choice on a long journey. Not too much was shown about Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX, but it is a remake of the original Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team games from 2006. The last Pokémon Mystery Dungeon title was Super Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, which released on Nov. 20,