For more than two decades, David Cage and his company Quantic Dream have been carving out a niche in the gaming world. All of that is still true in Quantic Dream’s latest game, Detroit: Become Human, which launches in a month on PlayStation 4. You won’t know precisely what you could’ve done instead, but you will have an idea of where in the mission you could’ve made different choices. I don’t know yet if the game’s android activism is intersectional, so to speak. You may make very different choi

Sony’s new God of War is an excellent action-adventure game, but it’s not without its minor issues — namely that the PlayStation 4 game’s tiny, tiny text can sometimes be difficult to read. In God of War’s settings, the Accessibility section now includes the option to increase the HUD’s text size. The option stresses that the increase in font size is selective; not every instance of tiny text is affected by the setting. Here are a few examples of where God of War’s wee text gets a boost:But as y

The blindfolded Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Sinister1, you may recall, got all the way to Mike Tyson in a spellbinding performance at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, but he did not beat the final boss then. mPap realizes he is on the move for a blistering record pace and resolves not to lift his visor until the end. After cleaning Sandman’s transmission in 15:42, mPap now 42 seconds ahead of his world record pace. He gets to work frustrating Mike Tyson with blocked body punches and waits out the cha

[Warning: The following will contain spoilers for Westworld season 2, episode 1.] For instance, Westworld is a park where you pay a large amount of money to have sex with — or kill — some robots. One of the most interesting things I found this episode was the sense that this season didn’t need to exist at all. The questions from the first season were mostly answered within that season. The episode ends with a shocking image — it appears as a large number hosts have killed themselves — and Bernar

[Warning: The following will contain spoilers for Westworld season 2, episode 1.] For instance, Westworld is a park where you pay a large amount of money to have sex with — or kill — some robots. One of the most interesting things I found this episode was the sense that this season didn’t need to exist at all. The questions from the first season were mostly answered within that season. The episode ends with a shocking image — it appears as a large number hosts have killed themselves — and Bernar

If you bought a special edition of God Of War with a steelbook — there were two, I think — you might notice the reverse cover has a runic inscription. Well, that has a translation and the Internet being the Internet, someone found it out. Redditor Wolfstrong recognized that the runes came from Elder Futhark, the oldest of the runic alphabets. According to this page, that alphabet was forgotten from the Middle Ages until about 150 years ago, when someone deciphered it. The translation seems to be

Housemarque, which delivered Resogun for PlayStation 4 when the console launched in 2013, announced its newest title yesterday: Stormdivers. Stormdivers will be the second game made in the Unreal Engine by Housemarque (the first being Matterfall, which launched last summer.) The tease trailer doesn’t give a good sense of what Stormdivers’ gameplay involves — the blowing embers suggests some kind of wildland fire motif though. Housemarque said the change in genre was necessary because “our games

Housemarque, which delivered Resogun for PlayStation 4 when the console launched in 2013, announced its newest title yesterday: Stormdivers. Stormdivers will be the second game made in the Unreal Engine by Housemarque (the first being Matterfall, which launched last summer.) The tease trailer doesn’t give a good sense of what Stormdivers’ gameplay involves — the blowing embers suggests some kind of wildland fire motif though. Housemarque said the change in genre was necessary because “our games

The blindfolded Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Sinister1, you may recall, got all the way to Mike Tyson in a spellbinding performance at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, but he did not beat the final boss then. mPap realizes he is on the move for a blistering record pace and resolves not to lift his visor until the end. After cleaning Sandman’s transmission in 15:42, mPap now 42 seconds ahead of his world record pace. He gets to work frustrating Mike Tyson with blocked body punches and waits out the cha

Nintendo Labo’s blueprint patterns are now available for free, online, through Nintendo itself — but remember that Labo requires more than just cardboard to work as designed. This video (below) is a good look at what goes into preparing a Nintendo Labo cardboard toy and how they’re operated. Anyway, download ‘em, print ‘em, lay ‘em over a piece of cardboard and cut them out, voila, Labo spare parts. For those who want official spares, Nintendo is selling those at prices ranging from $2.99 to $11

God of War’s standard box art is … not great. However, the physical case is still worthwhile for fans, because you can always flip around that insert and get a much nicer wraparound box cover, more befitting the game’s rokken-like-Dokken nordic spirit. Moreover, it appears to be a kind of homage to Doom’s wraparound alternate cover from 2016? Really, if the standard packshot ends up being the most (or only) blah thing about God of War, we’re all coming out ahead. Hell, I don’t have any box art

God of War’s standard box art is … not great. However, the physical case is still worthwhile for fans, because you can always flip around that insert and get a much nicer wraparound box cover, more befitting the game’s rokken-like-Dokken nordic spirit. Moreover, it appears to be a kind of homage to Doom’s wraparound alternate cover from 2016? Really, if the standard packshot ends up being the most (or only) blah thing about God of War, we’re all coming out ahead. Hell, I don’t have any box art

Nintendo Labo just launched yesterday, so you’ll be hard pressed to find a deal on the DIY kits for a while. We’re keeping an eye out, but if you’re looking for more traditional Switch accessories there are still plenty of options this weekend. VIP members who register for a free Green Man Gaming account can get an additional 20 percent off sale titles as well as a daily free “mystery game”. Green Man Gaming is offering 10 percent off the excellent, new God of War, which launched yesterday. Any

Nintendo Labo just launched yesterday, so you’ll be hard pressed to find a deal on the DIY kits for a while. We’re keeping an eye out, but if you’re looking for more traditional Switch accessories there are still plenty of options this weekend. VIP members who register for a free Green Man Gaming account can get an additional 20 percent off sale titles as well as a daily free “mystery game”. Green Man Gaming is offering 10 percent off the excellent, new God of War, which launched yesterday. Any

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One week before it was to open, Universal FanCon — a crowd-funded “multi-fandom Con dedicated to inclusion, highlighting Women, LGBTQ, the Disabled and Persons of Color” — has been abruptly postponed, and postponed indefinitely, with refunds for patrons and booth sponsors currently up in the air. Universal FanCon had been scheduled for Friday, April 27 to Sunday, April 29 at the Baltimore Convention Center, striving to attract a crowd of 10,000. We have emailed all ticket holders.” Likewise for

One week before it was to open, Universal FanCon — a crowd-funded “multi-fandom Con dedicated to inclusion, highlighting Women, LGBTQ, the Disabled and Persons of Color” — has been abruptly postponed, and postponed indefinitely, with refunds for patrons and booth sponsors currently up in the air. Universal FanCon had been scheduled for Friday, April 27 to Sunday, April 29 at the Baltimore Convention Center, striving to attract a crowd of 10,000. We have emailed all ticket holders.” Likewise for

Xbox Live’s Games With Gold for May 2018 are Super Mega Baseball 2, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Vanquish and all the Streets of Rage series from the Sega Vintage Collection. We’re looking forward to Super Mega Baseball 2, as its predecessor was our Sports Video Game of the Year for 2014. So if you have a Gold subscription, you get a brand-new video game with a solid pedigree. Metalhead’s followup will deliver online multiplayer, whose absence in the first Super Mega Baseball was that g

Xbox Live’s Games With Gold for May 2018 are Super Mega Baseball 2, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Vanquish and all the Streets of Rage series from the Sega Vintage Collection. We’re looking forward to Super Mega Baseball 2, as its predecessor was our Sports Video Game of the Year for 2014. So if you have a Gold subscription, you get a brand-new video game with a solid pedigree. Metalhead’s followup will deliver online multiplayer, whose absence in the first Super Mega Baseball was that g