This month’s Overboard has everything: betrayal, houses, hills and Clayton Ashley doing a very convincing little boy voice. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a game from Wizards of the Coast that involves a ragtag group making their way through a spooky mansion that grows as it’s explored. Then it’s a race against time to see who can make it out of the house alive. Which haunt you play depends on the room and omen you discover, meaning you can play the game dozens of times without replaying the s

This week’s Steam update seems to have nuked services like Steam Spy, promising to shut off the flow of publicly available user data. A post issued late Tuesday also said that Valve’s planning on implementing a new presence mode that would allow users to be invisible while still staying online. But, if you’re like most users, you probably didn’t pay much attention to the privacy settings at the time. The Steam platform update added quite a bit of granularity to the Profile Privacy Settings Page,

The marketing cycle for Avengers: Infinity War is upon us, and that means we’ll be treated to (or forced to suffer through) an endless sea of behind-the-scenes videos and TV spots. But a new behind-the-scenes video, above, is a perfect example of how to tease a product well. The featurette expands the camaraderie at the heart of the first Avengers’ memorable, post-credits shawarma scene. This behind-the-scenes video isn’t anything significant, but it’s cute, and it fills me with the warm, fuzzy

At the GamesBeat conference on Tuesday, former Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Andrew House spoke about the future of PlayStation and of consoles. During a talk with veteran tech analyst Mike Vorhaus, he speculated on the future of consoles, predicting that PlayStation 4 has a long life ahead. “I’m very bullish on longer life cycles for consoles”“In 2013, the vast majority of conventional wisdom was saying that consoles were dead,” House said. “I’m very bullish on longer life cycles for con

An event running in Pokémon Go is causing a stir in the player base, which hyped up the promotion as the possible release of several new Pokémon variations. The Kanto-themed campaign seemed like a good time for Niantic to disperse at least some of the shiny Pokémon; first-generation Pokémon make up the majority of the shiny variations found in the datamine. Instead, Pokémon Go got … more of the same Pokémon players have been catching since launch and a pair of new Raid Battle bosses. “Verdict:

The pain we can imagine happening to us ourselves is much worse than the pain that seems purely fantastical. And we certainly know, or can at least imagine, what it’s like to step on a rusty nail. That nail is going to stick with you, figuratively at least, long after the movie is over. But a laundry sack gets stuck on a nail in the floor during one scene. But we always remember that the nail is there, and we know it’s going to figure into the story somehow.

The pain we can imagine happening to us ourselves is much worse than the pain that seems purely fantastical. And we certainly know, or can at least imagine, what it’s like to step on a rusty nail. That nail is going to stick with you, figuratively at least, long after the movie is over. But a laundry sack gets stuck on a nail in the floor during one scene. But we always remember that the nail is there, and we know it’s going to figure into the story somehow.

Fortnite’s newest update — patch v3.5 — was released today by developer Epic Games, and its main feature is a portable fort that brings a brand new way of building to Battle Royale. The patch also adds replays to Battle Royale, and new skins and questlines for Save the World. Patch v3.5 will also see the return of Battle Royale’s 50 v 50 game mode. The Survive the Storm game mode will also return in this patch and include a whole host of new rewards. For a full look at patch v3.5, you can find E

Fortnite’s newest update — patch v3.5 — was released today by developer Epic Games, and its main feature is a portable fort that brings a brand new way of building to Battle Royale. The patch also adds replays to Battle Royale, and new skins and questlines for Save the World. Patch v3.5 will also see the return of Battle Royale’s 50 v 50 game mode. The Survive the Storm game mode will also return in this patch and include a whole host of new rewards. For a full look at patch v3.5, you can find E

Steam Spy, one of the most-used analytics tools for Steam, created in 2015 by Sergey Galyonkin, will no longer be able to operate in part because of Steam’s new privacy settings. Now that game libraries are private by default, Steam Spy won’t be able to operate. “Steam Spy relied on this information being visible by default and won’t be able to operate anymore. Steam’s new privacy policies come on the tail end of Facebook’s controversial data privacy scandal, in which nearly 87 million accounts

Steam Spy, one of the most-used analytics tools for Steam, created in 2015 by Sergey Galyonkin, will no longer be able to operate in part because of Steam’s new privacy settings. Now that game libraries are private by default, Steam Spy won’t be able to operate. “Steam Spy relied on this information being visible by default and won’t be able to operate anymore. Steam’s new privacy policies come on the tail end of Facebook’s controversial data privacy scandal, in which nearly 87 million accounts

Overkill’s The Walking Dead is still a thing, folks. Originally announced in 2014, slated for a 2016 launch and delayed twice, it’s back again with some more promotional materials. In Overkill’s The Walking Dead, the four characters forming the multiplayer co-op shooter all have special abilities, skill trees and roles on the team. Overkill’s The Walking Dead, from the studio behind the Payday franchise, is coming sometime this fall to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. But if they’re annou

Aubrey “Drake” Graham was back on Twitch last night, once again streaming Fortnite with his friend and big-deal streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. Toward the end of the stream, Drake and Ninja talked about whether Fortnite would get any callouts or samples on his next album. “Dude, you gotta put some Fortnite lingo in the album, man,” Ninja told Drake, who’s prepping his follow-up to 2016’s Views right now. “I say when Epic gives me the emote, when Epic gives me the ‘Hotline Bling’ emote, I’ll do i

This week on The History of Fun, we are exploring the world-wide phenomenon that was Tamagotchi. Reply to this with your favorite Tamagotchi memories and we’ll highlight a few! pic.twitter.com/lCMfHrZDwX — Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) March 12, 2018Enjoying 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.

Combining Twitch culture with a person like Mark Zuckerberg, someone the internet is fond of turning into memes, makes the experience slightly more enjoyable. Every time Zuckerberg spoke, for example, people in chat replied with the Mr. Destructoid robot emotes, playing on the very popular joke that Zuckerberg is a robot. When Senator Ted Cruz appeared on stream, asking Zuckerberg questions about Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, the Twitch chat began to spam the word “Zodiac” and Zodiac Killer-rela

Speaking at GamesBeat on Monday, Hanke spoke of his ambitions for augmented reality and gaming. “It was predicting the future of the industry I was working in.”Having helped create augmented reality hit Pokémon Go, Hanke said he’s “investing heavily in the AR cloud.” The AR cloud is a much-vaunted geo-computing future in which shared augmented reality experiences are tied to specific locations. Hanke asked the audience to imagine going to a coffee shop, sitting down at a table, and being joined

Nineteen original Xbox games will join the list of titles playable on Xbox One later this month, Microsoft announced today, including fan favorites like Sega’s Panzer Dragoon Orta, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and BioWare’s Jade Empire. The list also includes a half-dozen Star Wars games, like the original Battlefront shooters and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. Here’s the list of original Xbox games coming to Xbox One this month:Original Xbox games arriving

Six more Xbox 360 games that are backward compatible on Xbox One are getting enhanced updates — like improved pixel count and enhanced color depth — on Xbox One X, Microsoft announced during a livestream today. Those new Xbox One X-enhanced titles include Rockstar Games’ open-world Western Red Dead Redemption and Epic Games’ third-person shooter Gears of War 2. Sega’s Sonic Generations, which was originally released on Xbox 360 in 2011, also joins the list of backward compatible games — and it t

Multiple sources told Polygon that this wasn’t an attack on YouTube, adding that it didn’t affect any YouTube videos aside from the ones on Vevo’s channels. Vevo only hosts music videos from artists signed to Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment (such as Taylor Swift, Drake and Adele), and those videos are syndicated on YouTube. Vevo is specifically run by administrators who upload videos to the website and the Vevo YouTube channel. That means people who have access to Vevo’s platf

So Radical Heights is in very early access, and it looks like the bushes may not be working completely as intended. Games like PUBG have foliage that make it easier to hide, but Radical Heights currently has bushes that you can clip into to become completely invisible. You can’t hide in all the bushes, you just need to kinda push into the taller ones you see to find out if they’re going to let you in. And once you’re in, you’re completely invisible. Fortnite has a bush that’s an item pickup, but