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

Showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy delivered upon their promise to give Westworld fans something, but the 22-minute video that hit YouTube last night only contained the grimace-inducing echoes of the internet’s favorite practical joke — the Rickroll. The decision to turn a Westworld joke about spoilers and fan theory culture on Reddit into a Rickrolling prank is almost endearing. If the link came from Jonathan Nolan himself on Twitter and went to Astley’s actual video, it might have even be

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

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

Fortnite Battle Royale’s building game is about to change, thanks to a new item: the Port-a-Fort. Epic Games revealed the new item, which is “coming soon” to Fortnite, that will let players build defensive structures in the blink of an eye. It’s essentially a grenade that gives players the high ground and tactical advantage, according to its official description: “New portable fort sprouts a quick defensive position upon impact.”A quick trailer for the Port-a-Fort shows how it can be used in pra

Overwatch’s new limited time event, Retribution, is now live on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Of course, players can also earn a bunch of new cosmetics in new Retribution loot boxes. Stuffed into Overwatch’s event loot boxes are new skins for characters like Mei, Winston, Sombra, Doomfist, Lucio and Hanzo. Of course, last year’s skins from the similarly story-based Uprising event are also back (and discounted), which includes some old-school looks for Reinhardt, Mercy, Torbjörn and Tra

Illusion Software has become infamous both inside and outside of Japan for its very explicit 3D eroge, also known as pornographic games. But none of them have ever been available to play in English — until VR Kanojo, a virtual reality experience now available on Steam. But while Steam’s version supports English subtitles, it doesn’t include the parts that go all the way, as typically seen in Illusion Software’s games. Instead, VR Kanojo looks more like a hornier Summer Lesson, PlayStation VR’s c

Illusion Software has become infamous both inside and outside of Japan for its very explicit 3D eroge, also known as pornographic games. But none of them have ever been available to play in English — until VR Kanojo, a virtual reality experience now available on Steam. But while Steam’s version supports English subtitles, it doesn’t include the parts that go all the way, as typically seen in Illusion Software’s games. Instead, VR Kanojo looks more like a hornier Summer Lesson, PlayStation VR’s c

Square Enix released the first of multiple promised patches for Chrono Trigger on Steam today, restoring the game’s original graphics to be more in line with the original Super NES release. Players can choose in Chrono Trigger’s settings whether they want to use the game’s “Original” graphics or “High Resolution” filtered graphics. The game’s dialogue boxes also look more like their 16-bit source, rather than a mobile phone port. Here’s a peek at the new dialogue font, from Steam user Crasher TN

Square Enix released the first of multiple promised patches for Chrono Trigger on Steam today, restoring the game’s original graphics to be more in line with the original Super NES release. Players can choose in Chrono Trigger’s settings whether they want to use the game’s “Original” graphics or “High Resolution” filtered graphics. The game’s dialogue boxes also look more like their 16-bit source, rather than a mobile phone port. Here’s a peek at the new dialogue font, from Steam user Crasher TN

At first glance Radical Heights feels like flailing. While it’s very clear that the game isn’t finished, Radical Heights is doing some very interesting things. It’s familiar, but not too familiarMoving through Radical Heights, the environment itself looks very familiar. While PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and H1Z1 before it were firmly post-apocalyptic, Radical Heights skews more towards Fortnite with a casual, almost playful tone. Radical Heights comes at the concept it in a slightly different

At first glance Radical Heights feels like flailing. While it’s very clear that the game isn’t finished, Radical Heights is doing some very interesting things. It’s familiar, but not too familiarMoving through Radical Heights, the environment itself looks very familiar. While PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and H1Z1 before it were firmly post-apocalyptic, Radical Heights skews more towards Fortnite with a casual, almost playful tone. Radical Heights comes at the concept it in a slightly different

God of War is no different. Without the full HUD, players will need to be more attuned to built-in visual and audio cues. There’s also a third option: having HUD elements pop up only when players brush against the PlayStation 4 controller’s touchpad, and then disappear shortly afterward. Sony Santa Monica also detailed the four difficulty options available at the start of God of War. Everyone will be able to see for themselves how it all unfolds next week, when God of War launches April 20 on PS

God of War is no different. Without the full HUD, players will need to be more attuned to built-in visual and audio cues. There’s also a third option: having HUD elements pop up only when players brush against the PlayStation 4 controller’s touchpad, and then disappear shortly afterward. Sony Santa Monica also detailed the four difficulty options available at the start of God of War. Everyone will be able to see for themselves how it all unfolds next week, when God of War launches April 20 on PS

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

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

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.

The most surprising thing about Fortnite is how nice the community seems to be. Dealing with random Fortnite players is task that’s much easier, more often than not. But the inverse seems to be true in Fortnite, where the nice, friendly players seem to handily outnumber the toxic, angry ones. Other games’ shenanigans are cruel and tragic, which makes them not shenanigans at all, really. The game has, somehow, hit a critical mass of nice players, and just about everyone seems to want to keep that

Tolkien’s epic Middle-earth setting, The Fall of Gondolin, will be released this August, according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The elven city of Gondolin — and its sacking by the dark lord Morgoth — was “the first real story” of Middle-earth. It stood for 400 years, before its location was revealed to the dark lord Morgoth — of whom Sauron was merely a servant — by Turgon’s nephew Maeglin. And that’s a good thing, because Idril and Tuor wound up being Elrond’s grandparents — which me