Bethesda announced today that The Elder Scrolls: Blades wouldn’t be available on Nintendo Switch until “early 2020.” The 1.5 update as it’s called will alter the loot system, and also add player-versus-player gameplay. “We know how eager our players are to dive into Blades on the Nintendo Switch and we’ve been hard at work to make it happen,” Bethesda wrote in today’s post. “Unfortunately, amidst all the other changes we’re making to Blades, we’ve had to delay our Switch release until early 2020

The good folks at IGN recently sat down The Outer Worlds co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky to watch a blistering speedrun of their new role-playing game. [Warning: This video spoils one of the potential endings in The Outer Worlds, while the audio itself spoils much of the rest of the game.] The speedrunning community has been hitting The Outer Worlds pretty hard since it came out just one month ago. That allows you to skip some sections of the game, and foolishly launch the colony ship

Void SpiritThe first new hero is Void Spirit, who joins his brethren Storm Spirit, Ember Spirit, and Earth Spirit. Aether Remnant Void Spirit dispatches a remnant aspect of himself to stand sentinel over a small area. The remnant peers in a single direction, waiting to pull in and damage enemies that cross its gaze. Resonate Pulse Void Spirit wraps himself in a protective shield that absorbs physical damage and emits a single damaging pulse around him. The official Dota 2 site has more informati

The Steam Autumn Sale kicks off today, just ahead of the Black Friday shopping frenzy, offering discounts on more than 13,000 games on Steam. And if you’ve ever been curious about Valve’s gamepad, the Steam Controller, that’s on sale for just $5 (plus shipping). Valve says there are limited quantities remaining of its Steam Controller, so you may want to act fast. As for Steam games, those won’t ever go out of stock. The Steam Autumn Sale runs Nov. 26 through Dec. 3.

Oculus Link is currently in beta, and it’s in beta; it took me a surprising amount of wrangling updates, plugging in cables, hard reboots, and sacrificing goats to get things running. Oculus Link does what it’s supposed to do: It lets you play Oculus Rift games, through your PC, using the standalone Quest headset connected to that PC via a single UBS C 3.0 cable. Existing Quest owners are likely thrilled — especially since you’ll be able to play Half-Life: Alyx with a Quest using Oculus Link, as

These aren’t the best TVs available, but in less than six months, the current best TVs won’t be, either. The best 4K TV under $1000: The Hisense H9FFor months, almost every tech site imaginable has lauded Hisense’s H9F as the cost-to-performance king of 2019 4K TVs. This is true for nearly every 4K TV out right now, though, which makes spending less on a TV like the H9F an arguably smarter move in 2019. Another great 4K TV: The TCL R625TCL’s R615 was last year’s budget TV of choice, and the R625

The technical hook of 1917, a World War I action drama told in one continuous shot, is an illusion. But when a film is trying to evoke the full tragedy of war, “How’d they do that?” War games like Battlefield 1 or the Call of Duty series have already delivered the experience of 1917 over and over and over, and to more immersive effect. Modern war movies have found ways to see war from a new perspective, whether through slick docudrama (Saving Private Ryan), pulpy action (Fury), or stripped-down,

There’s no better gift for the console or PC gamer in your life than a nice new gaming headset, and there’s no better time to find deals on new headsets than the week of Black Friday. This year’s headset promotions are a little slow to roll out, but so far we’ve found decent deals on headphones from Astro, Razer, SteelSeries, Sony, and more. Also keep in mind that fancy headphones aren’t just good for gaming. Let’s kick things off with discounts on our picks for the best headsets of 2019. Polygo

The fact that Fire Emblem games have permadeath exacerbates the situation, since each title needs a plethora of playable characters that can take the place of those that die in battle. The most recent entry of Fire Emblem: Three Houses brings the total playable character count to a mind-boggling 596. It might not be possible to remember the minutiae of each minor playable character, but every new Fire Emblem game has characters that are similar to ones in previous entries. Using these archetypes

Listen to Gone Home’s music as it was intended: on cassette tape. Independent punk music label Kill Rock Stars is selling the Gone Home soundtrack and score on a two-sided cassette tape. Gone Home’s synth score by Chris Remo is on one side, with its soundtrack — with music from The Youngins, Bratmobile, and Heavens to Betsey — on the other. The Gone Home cassette is on sale now for $7 and will begin shipping on Nov. 29. hey collectors, weirdos, and @GoneHomeGame-lovers of all stripes: just in ti

After generations of Pokémon games, the community is finally coming to its senses over Pokémon Sword and Shield’s version of the creepy lamp-ghost Pokémon, Lampent. In a recent post on the Gaming subreddit, user sycoskater pointed out some alarming subtext surrounding the sentient lamp. Lampent isn’t exactly a subtle Pokémon — it’s a floating lamp for god’s sake. When camping in Sword and Shield, players with Lampents in their party can get this message: “Lampent looks like it wants to be with y

2K Games is “sunsetting” Gearbox Software’s online multiplayer game Battleborn, which will go offline and become unplayable in January 2021. The publisher announced the game’s end in a series of tweets and an official support notice on 2K Games’ website. The sunsetting process has already begun; 2K has removed Battleborn from digital storefronts, and the game is no longer available to download from the PlayStation Store, Steam, and Xbox Games Store. Battleborn went free to play in June 2017, and

After a rough few months in the wild, Ubisoft is reworking the customization process for Ghost Recon Breakpoint. In the studio’s upcoming patch, update 1.0.3.1, players can customize their Ghost at anytime — specifically by changing their gender or face mid-game. As part of this update, players also have more customization options available to them from the start. Previously, players needed to find these items in the world or purchase them with the Skell Credits currency. This update — which als

The chocobos in Final Fantasy 7 Remake are fluffy and glorious, as all chocobos should be, as shown in a new PlayStation Blog post. The last trailer we saw from Tokyo Game Show revealed some of the bigger summons, like Shiva and Ifrit, but now we get to see what happens when you summon Chocobo and Moogle. The screens show the special “Stampede” attack, which summons a ton of chocobos to plow through the enemies. There’s also some nice clear shots of Reno, Rude, and the Avalanche crew, which you

If you’ve managed to hold off on buying Sega’s mini plug-and-play Genesis console, now is the time to strike. The Sega Genesis Mini is down to just $49.99 — the original asking price was $79.99 — as part of an early Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal. You can snag that deal at retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, and Walmart through Dec. 7. The Sega Genesis Mini was released in September. In our review of the Sega Genesis Mini, we called the system “a best-in-class retro console wit

The raid exploit may very well be the culprit. “One of my friends keeps doing the raid reset exploit, so I’m getting spammed with raids I can’t even join,” one Twitter user wrote. “Side effect of the exploit being used — one step involves opening a bunch of raid lobbies that then go abandoned,” another Twitter user said. Related The Pokédex is bullshit and I have the dead Pokémon to prove it”This exploit has completely ruined Raids tbh,” another Twitter user mused. For now, though, if you’re hav

In Pokémon Sword and Shield, Gengar can enter Gigantamax mode where he becomes not only large, but his form changes, too. Essentially he goes from deadly baby to all mouth — a mouth that’s filled with “cursed energy” and leads not into his body but “directly to the afterlife,” according to Gengar’s Sword Pokédex entry. It gets worse in Gengar’s Shield Pokédex entry: “It lays traps, hoping to steal the lives of those it catches. who knew it only took a few tweaks to turn gengar’s mouth from “lova

The Pokémon Company has filed a lawsuit in a Seattle court alleging three unnamed defendants leaked Pokémon Sword and Shield information ahead of the game’s release. The leakers — John/Jane Does 1-3 — posted photos from the official Sword and Shield strategy, thereby sharing new details about unreleased Pokémon. Related Epic Games suing Fortnite tester who leaked Chapter 2The Sword and Shield strategy guide was released on Nov. 22, a week after Sword and Shield’s Nov. 15 launch date. The Pokémon

Over the weekend, players found a new Legendary weapon in Borderlands 3: the Good Juju. Borderlands 3’s Good Juju shares quite a bit with Destiny’s Bad. Like Bad Juju, Good Juju is a steady, multi-round burst weapon with great stats. Borderlands 3 players can pick up the weapon from The Rampager on the new Mayhem 4 difficulty, according to Borderlands 3 YouTuber Joltzdude139. Fans are fond of Bad Juju because you can use it in basically any situation, and always get some kind of use out of it.

Here’s a nifty tidbit, as spied by Destructoid: Konami’s Yie Ar Kung Fu, almost 35 years old and one of the first games to set forth the standards of the fighting games genre, is available now for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Still, for video games historians, Yie Ar Kung Fu is an important work. It and Data East’s Karate Champ (1984) established the one-on-one, side-by-side convention that is used by fighting games across the board today. Yie Ar Kung Fu, which I only ever saw at a skating