Hasbro is following up on last year’s Monopoly Gamer Edition board game, which starred Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser and Donkey Kong, with a Mario Kart-inspired sequel. Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition is coming to stores this spring, and will add a bit of speed to the property-trading game. Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition will feature iconic properties from the karting series, like Rainbow Road and Bowser’s Castle. Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition will include four playable racers at launc

Sony is cutting the price of the PlayStation VR headset — for the second time in the hardware’s lifespan. Currently priced at $349, the PlayStation VR headset on its own will drop to $299 as of tomorrow. As for the Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim VR bundle, that also drops $100, bringing the price down to $349.99. Now, the $100 price drop is permanent. PlayStation VR is definitely the most cost-effective virtual reality option out there, but it also has what may be the strongest library of games.

Sony is cutting the price of the PlayStation VR headset — for the second time in the hardware’s lifespan. Currently priced at $349, the PlayStation VR headset on its own will drop to $299 as of tomorrow. As for the Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim VR bundle, that also drops $100, bringing the price down to $349.99. Now, the $100 price drop is permanent. PlayStation VR is definitely the most cost-effective virtual reality option out there, but it also has what may be the strongest library of games.

Far Cry 5 has one of the better economies we’ve seen in big releases lately, with items and weapons that can be purchased with in-game currency or by buying silver bars with real cash. The most expensive bundle costs $49.99 but gets you 5,000 bars plus 2,250 “bonus” bars, which means you’re getting a price of 145 bars per dollar. So the most expensive item we could find in the store is $5, assuming you’re buying your bars in bundles of 500. Only a few items in the store are 500 bars, however, wi

Far Cry 5 has one of the better economies we’ve seen in big releases lately, with items and weapons that can be purchased with in-game currency or by buying silver bars with real cash. The most expensive bundle costs $49.99 but gets you 5,000 bars plus 2,250 “bonus” bars, which means you’re getting a price of 145 bars per dollar. So the most expensive item we could find in the store is $5, assuming you’re buying your bars in bundles of 500. Only a few items in the store are 500 bars, however, wi

April’s collection of Xbox Games With Gold titles is one of the best months for the program we’ve seen in a long, long time. Three of the best games of the past two console generations will be on offer for Xbox Live subscribers beginning April 1. For the entire month, 2016’s fantastic (and fantastically hard) puzzle game The Witness will be free to all Xbox Live members. On the backward-compatible Xbox 360 games front, Dead Space 2 will be available for free on the same day as Assassin’s Creed S

April’s collection of Xbox Games With Gold titles is one of the best months for the program we’ve seen in a long, long time. Three of the best games of the past two console generations will be on offer for Xbox Live subscribers beginning April 1. For the entire month, 2016’s fantastic (and fantastically hard) puzzle game The Witness will be free to all Xbox Live members. On the backward-compatible Xbox 360 games front, Dead Space 2 will be available for free on the same day as Assassin’s Creed S

Sony announced its April lineup of PlayStation Plus game giveaways. Compared to this month — which features the stellar Bloodborne, worth a PS Plus membership on its own — and Xbox Games With Gold’s April lineup, this list isn’t much to write home about. That’s not to suggest that the headlining games this month aren’t worth checking out. Despite its beautiful visuals, Mad Max for PlayStation 4 received a lukewarm response in 2015, but has found some belated appreciation since its release. The r

Sony announced its April lineup of PlayStation Plus game giveaways. Compared to this month — which features the stellar Bloodborne, worth a PS Plus membership on its own — and Xbox Games With Gold’s April lineup, this list isn’t much to write home about. That’s not to suggest that the headlining games this month aren’t worth checking out. Despite its beautiful visuals, Mad Max for PlayStation 4 received a lukewarm response in 2015, but has found some belated appreciation since its release. The r

Is any genre of video games as closely associated with a single country as role-playing games and Japan? 22: Shining (Camelot/Sega)First entry: Shining in the Darkness, Genesis, 1991Next entry: Shining Resonance Refrain, Multi, 2018Sega’s Shining series will make its return to American shores this year with Shining Resonance Refrain: the first entry of the franchise to have been localized into English in more than a decade. 21: Tales (Bandai Namco/others)First entry: Tales of Phantasia, Super Fa

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars film to be released in 4K on home video, and boy, was it worth the wait. If The Last Jedi’s home video release is an indication of the companies’ future plans for the rest of the Star Wars franchise, it’s an incredibly promising sign indeed. The Last Jedi’s 4K Blu-ray release, which is known as the Ultimate Collector’s Edition, offers Dolby Vision color and Dolby Atmos sound. I can’t watch the disc version in Dolby Vision, since the Xbox One X isn’

Chances are that if you spend a few hours a week on YouTube, you’ve subscribed to at least one or two specific channels. This may not seem like a big deal, but when people are following 10, 20 or even 100 creators, subscriber notifications are important. A new video from Creator Inside, a channel that features YouTube employees talking about different aspects of the platform, focuses on the subscriber notification issue. “We don’t notify all of your subscribers,” a lead project manager identifie

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars film to be released in 4K on home video, and boy, was it worth the wait. If The Last Jedi’s home video release is an indication of the companies’ future plans for the rest of the Star Wars franchise, it’s an incredibly promising sign indeed. The Last Jedi’s 4K Blu-ray release, which is known as the Ultimate Collector’s Edition, offers Dolby Vision color and Dolby Atmos sound. I can’t watch the disc version in Dolby Vision, since the Xbox One X isn’

Not long into your game of Yakuza 6, you’ll get a new app on your phone called Troublr. Let’s talk about what to expect from Troublr missions and what you can expect to get out of them. Accepting trouble missionsWhile you’re running around town — both in Kamurocho and, later, Onomichi — you’ll get what feels like constant notifications about Troublr posts (trouble missions). These are usually timed missions, but there’s (also usually) an icon on your map to point you in the right direction. Also

Sea of Thieves has 64 islands, and finding a chicken, pig or snake can be a slog. With this guide, you’ll be able to find animal locations on every island. Based on a lot of sailing and testing, there’s an element of randomness to Sea of Thieves animal locations. Here are two things to keep in mind as you search for animal locations:There’s no guarantee that you’ll find animals on an island. If you don’t find the animal on the island we list below, then they probably just didn’t spawn in your cu

Because from what I played of the combination action-puzzle-visual novel during this year’s Game Developers Conference, developer Rose City Games has something endearingly unexpected on its hands. It’s a nice touch to what is otherwise a system that’s par for the course. But this ultimately amounts to a lot of reading, which I mentioned to the Rose City Games crew guiding the “pre-alpha build” demo. That’s one of the challenges Rose City Games is working to solve in this early development period

But Epic is making the choice easy for new players with a brand new starter pack for Fortnite Battle Royale. The starter pack, which was released Tuesday, March 27, sells for $4.99 on the in-game store and includes a cosmetic backpack, as well as 600 of the game’s free-to-play currency called V-Bucks. While the V-Bucks and the backpack are nice, the real draw of this pack is its exclusive Rogue Agent player skin that makes the pack just as likely to appeal to the game’s most dedicated players as

This week on The History of Fun, Abby Russell of Giant Bomb joins us for Plante’s final week of paternity leave. And thank god she did, because she’s clearly the perfect expert to talk about the wild, awesome origins of ROLLER DERBY! 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.

The video quickly gained attention and, in late April 2016, Meechan was charged with suspicion of a hate crime. Kent Walker, Google’s general counselor, wrote about Google and YouTube’s efforts to clamp down on hate speech that falls outside its policies last year. Part of that is true; Meechan’s video is hidden behind an interstitial warning and it doesn’t appear to be monetized when played. All of these videos contain anti-Semitic and, according to UK courts, illegal hate content. YouTube’s ha

The video quickly gained attention and, in late April 2016, Meechan was charged with suspicion of a hate crime. Kent Walker, Google’s general counselor, wrote about Google and YouTube’s efforts to clamp down on hate speech that falls outside its policies last year. Part of that is true; Meechan’s video is hidden behind an interstitial warning and it doesn’t appear to be monetized when played. All of these videos contain anti-Semitic and, according to UK courts, illegal hate content. YouTube’s ha