Pokémon Quest, Game Freak’s new Switch, and later mobile, free-to-start title, is pretty simple; it’s a mobile screen-tapping game with a very simplified version of a Pokémon battle system. The Gengar Balloon is especially important, because items that multiply your rewards in Pokémon Quest stack on top of each other. The Gengar Balloon is especially important, because items that multiply your rewards in Pokémon Quest stack on top of each other. For example, mission 8-1 has a recommended power l

Below is an example of people responding to Tran’s character Rose on the official Star Wars Instagram account whenever she appeared. It’s also a story about how absolutely toxic a very loud, reactionary part of Star Wars fandom has descended into. Tran was a positive, happy ball of energy when she made her debut at Star Wars Celebration in 2017. Her enthusiasm for Star Wars, her absolute obsession with the franchise and her admiration for being cast in a series she dreamed of was infectious. But

Onrush is a racing game without traditional racing. In Onrush’s first hours, you aren’t just learning a new game; you’re actively working to forget the training of an entire genre. Though Onrush looks like a racing game, it plays more like a multiplayer shooter. On one hand, Onrush reminds me of Rocket League, another game that transplanted the act of driving fast cars into an unexpected genre. Wrongly, I expected them to make a racing game that looked like that test footage.

Or rather, it would be a choice if Sweet Business wasn’t on that list. Sunshot is great and so is Graviton Lance, but nothing compares to the glory that is Sweet Business. There’s a reason why Bungie gave beta players a chance to play with Sweet Business before Destiny 2 launched. Sweet Business is designed for these moments more than any other gun. Sweet Business deserves better, and hopefully you’ll understand that when I’m running around with my exotic catalyst for Sweet Business, creating mo

Neko Atsume, the cat-collecting mobile game that charmed us all, has been released in Japan for PlayStation VR. The PlayStation VR version of Neko Atsume was announced back in September, when PlayStation Japan tweeted a single image of the title screen with details in Japanese. Fred plays with the watermelon ball in Neko Atsume VR #PS4share pic.twitter.com/wYcOap9wGY — ShellE Productions (@ShellEPro) June 5, 2018Here’s some more feather toy action, this time featuring Shadow, the peculiar gray k

In Destiny 2: Forsaken, players will be returning to the Prison of Elders. In Forsaken, the game’s September expansion, the Prison of Elders looks to be making a return as the home of Gambit, a new cooperative and competitive mode for Destiny 2. In the Forsaken reveal stream, Bungie unveiled Gambit, a new PvPvE mode. Players start the mode being dropped into an area that looks very similar to the Prison of Elders. The first team to summon and kill their arena’s final boss will win Gambit and, pr

Bungie and publisher Activision are already selling Destiny 2’s Annual Pass on the game’s website as part of a bundle. That bundle, which includes Destiny 2: Forsaken and the Annual Pass, costs $69.99 — a $5 savings over buying the expansion and the Annual Pass ($34.99 by itself) separately. What’s in the Destiny 2 Annual Pass? But it sounds like specifics about what will be available to Annual Pass holders isn’t totally locked down. Update: We’ve edited the article to clarify the pricing for th

A new gameplay trailer for Code Vein, Bandai Namco’s vampire-action RPG, confirms a release date for this fall: Sept. 27 on PS4 and Xbox One, and Sept. 28 on Steam. Code Vein is directed by Hiroshi Yoshimura, who has led various projects on the God Eater games. In a post-apocalyptic world, a hidden society of vampires (known in the game as Revenants) live in a place called Vein. The Blood Veils that you collect from enemies can increase your character’s strength and create new abilities for mons

The event kicks off EA Play 2018, marking the publisher’s third year of doing its own thing outside the official E3 show floor. Here is what we expect from Electronic Arts at EA Play and E3 2018. AnthemWe were given a brief glimpse of Anthem at EA Play last year, followed by a longer look during Microsoft’s Xbox One press briefing. We expect it to play a huge role in the EA Play showcase. A Way Out, which launched at the end of March, was announced at last year’s EA Play, and it got a lot of buz

Developer and publisher Paradox Interactive is acquiring Harebrained Schemes, maker of the Shadowrun series and most recently of the BattleTech turn-based strategy game, the companies announced today. Paradox is paying $7.5 million for Harebrained, plus a portion of Harebrained’s earnings over the next five years. “Harebrained Schemes have proven themselves as a world-class studio with a very talented team within a genre where Paradox wants to be present,” said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Int

Northern Undead Asylum serves as your introduction to the world of Dark Souls Remastered. There are two bonfires in the Undead Asylum. They’re both pretty close together, but there’s a giant Asylum Demon between them. That Demon teaches you a lot about Dark Souls Remastered. If you’re careful (or lucky), your second encounter with the Asylum Demon will be over pretty quickly.

Firelink Shrine is Dark Souls: Remastered’s hub. Firelink serves as your hub for the rest of Lordran. There are paths to and from Undead Burg, Undead Parish, Lower Undead Burg, The Catacombs, and New Londo Ruins. When you finally free the elevator from Undead Parish to Firelink, you’ll be able to interact with Snuggly the Crow both to trade shiny items and to return to the Undead Asylum. There are only a few enemies — low-level hollows on the path toward Undead Burg and very hard to kill skeleto

After the tutorial of the Undead Asylum and the hub of Firelink Shrine, Undead Burg becomes your first experience out in the “real” world of Lordran. It’s a pretty “gentle” (nothing in Dark Souls is gentle) introduction to Dark Souls Remastered’s level design philosphy — lots of verticality and paths that loop back to connect with earlier areas. Undead Burg is pretty densely populated with low-level enemies, so it serves as a great place to farm for souls early in your game. You can also buy the

Undead Parish is full of tough enemies. You’ll face a Fang Boar, a Black Knight, several Baldur Knights, a Channeler, and a Berenike Knight along with a bunch of various Hollows. There are several useful items in the area (souls and weapons, mostly), but the most important to pick up is the Firekeeper’s Soul which you can give to the Ash Maiden in Firelink Shrine to expand your Estus Flask. There’s also an extremely useful shortcut that leads back down to Firelink Shrine. Most importantly, thoug

YouTube’s first video was published on April 23, 2005 by company co-founder Jawed Karim (a PayPal Mafia member!). Karim uploaded two polls to his YouTube page yesterday asking his 300,000 subscribers whether he should upload a new video. There are a couple of insults littered throughout, but most of the comments ask Karim to return to the zoo and upload a similar video. “I think this channel should upload a video every thirteen years for the remainder of YouTube’s existence,” BerryWeasel said. K

Fortnite’s patch v4.3 content update is here and it introduces a new item: the Bouncer trap. This new Fortnite Battle Royale item is really a combination of two old items: the vertical and horizontal jump pads that used to be in the game. Now, instead of two different pads, the new Bouncer trap will bounce you in different directions depending on how you hit the pad. Once you’re in the air, the Bouncer trap acts a little bit like the Hop Rocks. The new Bouncer trap item drops in stacks of three

The first teaser for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, the highly anticipated sequel to 2014’s The Lego Movie, shows a new side of the Lego world. After the events of the catastrophic “Taco Tuesday” from the first movie, Bricksburg is left in a post-apocalyptic state, reminiscent of Mad Max and other sci-fi thrillers. While everything might not be awesome, Emmet still believes that it is. The heroes of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part will face a new threat: Lego Duplo. The Lego Movie 2: The S

The next game in IO Interactive’s Hitman series appears to have leaked via publisher Warner Bros.’ website. On Monday, Warner Bros. and IO Interactive teased a reveal scheduled for the morning of Thursday, June 7, in two separate posts on the official WB Games and Hitman Twitter accounts. Hitman fans quickly deduced that WB Games’ teaser was set in the Hitman universe. Your next target is… pic.twitter.com/0l1Tyu4gho — HITMAN (@Hitman) June 4, 2018Shortly after the teaser, fans dug up the logo

On The History of Fun this week, we have some timely content: a look back at the John Madden Football franchise, which turns 30 years old in 2018. But it’s not all about Madden himself — consider this also a history of Electronic Arts. Here is the full thread of responses:Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do.

E3 is next week, but Destiny 2 developer Bungie is getting things out of the way today by lifting the lid on its plans for the game’s second year of content. For the sequel, there was Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris last year and then Destiny 2: Warmind just under a month ago. Year Two of Destiny 2 will kick off this September with the game’s third expansion. Bungie announced Monday in a teaser for today’s reveal livestream that the expansion is called Destiny 2: Forsaken. Bungie’s livestream is set