Hori is making a left Joy-Con controller for the Nintendo Switch that features a cross-button directional pad, in lieu of the stock Joy-Con’s four buttons, but it comes with some serious drawbacks. Notably, it only works in handheld mode, meaning you can’t slap this and the right Joy-Con into the Joy-Con Grip and play off the TV, nor does it work for local multiplayer. Even playing with it in handheld mode loses more features on the left side: No HD rumble and no gyroscope. Hori’s page touts it

Hori is making a left Joy-Con controller for the Nintendo Switch that features a cross-button directional pad, in lieu of the stock Joy-Con’s four buttons, but it comes with some serious drawbacks. Notably, it only works in handheld mode, meaning you can’t slap this and the right Joy-Con into the Joy-Con Grip and play off the TV, nor does it work for local multiplayer. Even playing with it in handheld mode loses more features on the left side: No HD rumble and no gyroscope. Hori’s page touts it

Moderated by Independent Game Developer Association director Jen MacLean, whose public reservations about unions generated pushback ahead of the discussion, “Union Now? Pros, Cons, and Consequences of Unionization for Game Devs” ended with a room firmly divided when the hour was up. And those fronts have only increasingly solidified during this year’s GDC, as a grassroots unionization campaign called Game Workers Unite gained major public support. And based on the tepid applause offered at the e

Moderated by Independent Game Developer Association director Jen MacLean, whose public reservations about unions generated pushback ahead of the discussion, “Union Now? Pros, Cons, and Consequences of Unionization for Game Devs” ended with a room firmly divided when the hour was up. And those fronts have only increasingly solidified during this year’s GDC, as a grassroots unionization campaign called Game Workers Unite gained major public support. And based on the tepid applause offered at the e

It’s a good year for Crash fans. In addition to news of the N. Sane trilogy heading to the Nintendo Switch, Dark Horse is publishing a hardcover reprint of the original Crash Bandicoot developer’s bible. Diehard Crash fans will have an opportunity to see which of the initial stylistic elements survived and didn’t, what could’ve been in the games and of course, their favorite hero: Crash. Priced at $29.99, The Crash Bandicoot Files: How Willy the Wombat Sparked Marsupial Mania will be available i

Characters from Westworld’s upcoming mobile game may make it into the show itself, thanks to closer-than-usual collaboration between the writing teams of both, said the head of the studio making the game. Knight spoke to Polygon during a demo of the Westworld mobile game — a theme park management game meets traditional RPG — and mentioned how integrated the game’s team and the show’s writing staff were throughout the development process. We’ve developed new characters for the game that are certa

Fortnite’s latest patch, v3.3.1, is adding the new heavy shotgun to Battle Royale, Epic announced late Wednesday. While shotguns may already be the most dominant guns in Battle Royale, the newest addition to the class looks to make them a little more versatile. The heavy shotgun has a tighter spread, which should mean a much longer range than the shotguns that are currently in Battle Royale. It’s not exactly clear how long the heavy shotgun’s effective range is, but the trade-off for this additi

20th Century Fox has released its latest trailer for Deadpool 2, the sequel to 2016’s Deadpool, and, it seems, an X-Force origins movie. X-Force has been greenlit for their own movie, with Deadpool in tow, but no release date has been pinned to the project yet. The superhero team got its start in the ‘90s, as a black-ops mutant paramilitary team lead by the time-displaced mercenary, Cable, and often found itself clashing with Ryan Reynolds’ sardonic, superpowered mercenary, Deadpool. Morena Bacc

20th Century Fox has released its latest trailer for Deadpool 2, the sequel to 2016’s Deadpool, and, it seems, an X-Force origins movie. X-Force has been greenlit for their own movie, with Deadpool in tow, but no release date has been pinned to the project yet. The superhero team got its start in the ‘90s, as a black-ops mutant paramilitary team lead by the time-displaced mercenary, Cable, and often found itself clashing with Ryan Reynolds’ sardonic, superpowered mercenary, Deadpool. Morena Bacc

This isn’t the first streaming backpack ever developed, and the ones that have come before it haven’t really caught on. “It represents a fundamental understanding and acceptance of a 24/7 streaming culture that, right now, purely exists online. IRL streaming in particular has been associated with doxing, because how easy to uncover someone’s location from their live footage. Ignacio has designed a plain black backpack that does everything I want a streaming backpack to do. There’s no doubt that

Characters from Westworld’s upcoming mobile game may make it into the show itself, thanks to closer-than-usual collaboration between the writing teams of both, said the head of the studio making the game. Knight spoke to Polygon during a demo of the Westworld mobile game — a theme park management game meets traditional RPG — and mentioned how integrated the game’s team and the show’s writing staff were throughout the development process. We’ve developed new characters for the game that are certa

Sea of Thieves is a role-playing game in the truest sense of the phrase, and the exchange below exemplifies its highs and lows. Sea of Thieves gives you next to no direction on what you should be doing, apart from some brief tutorial pop-ups. I’m sad to say that the doldrums extend into the foreseeable future of Sea of ThievesIt’s then that Sea of Thieves starts to feel routine. And honestly, if the minute-to-minute gameplay of Sea of Thieves were more interesting and complex, limiting things to

Sea of Thieves is a role-playing game in the truest sense of the phrase, and the exchange below exemplifies its highs and lows. Sea of Thieves gives you next to no direction on what you should be doing, apart from some brief tutorial pop-ups. I’m sad to say that the doldrums extend into the foreseeable future of Sea of ThievesIt’s then that Sea of Thieves starts to feel routine. And honestly, if the minute-to-minute gameplay of Sea of Thieves were more interesting and complex, limiting things to

A Way Out has a lot of flaws and a lot of heartShare A Way Out has a lot of flaws and a lot of heartDuality is at the heart of A Way Out. A Way Out’s duality extends to its own success as a work of entertainment and art. At other times, it’s more like a high-budget narrative game, a kind of walking-together sim, in which the point is simply to discover through exploration. Even so, the characters go a long way toward making up for these shortcomings. A Way Out has many faults, but a lack of hear

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will join the special events craze of battle royale games when it adds an Event Mode. Developers PUBG Corp. announced the new mode late Wednesday night in a Steam community post and said it would come to the game’s test server soon. PUBG’s Event Mode will feature rotating custom games that differ from PUBG’s standard Solo, Duo and Squad modes. “We know it’s not a huge change from the public matches but .. this is just to get things rolling,” PUBG Corp. said. The ann

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will join the special events craze of battle royale games when it adds an Event Mode. Developers PUBG Corp. announced the new mode late Wednesday night in a Steam community post and said it would come to the game’s test server soon. PUBG’s Event Mode will feature rotating custom games that differ from PUBG’s standard Solo, Duo and Squad modes. “We know it’s not a huge change from the public matches but .. this is just to get things rolling,” PUBG Corp. said. The ann

The Council is an episodic historical detective adventure in which I roam the corridors of a mansion, searching for clues. In 1793, I play the part of Louis de Richet, a youthful French aristocrat in search of his missing mother. I earn abilities through careful navigation of dialogue trees, or by puzzle-solving. A bold approach, which just about holds togetherThis makes for an intriguing narrative that plays on both the conventions of mystery novels, and on the opportunities delivered by mergin

The Council is an episodic historical detective adventure, in which I roam the corridors of mansion, searching for clues. Set in 1793, I play the part of Louis de Richet, a youthful French aristocrat in search of his missing mother. I earn abilities through careful navigation of dialog trees, or by puzzle-solving. A bold approach, which just about holds togetherThis makes for an intriguing narrative that plays on both the conventions of mystery novels, and on the opportunities delivered by mergi

Nintendo’s Nindies independent game showcase may have been brief, but this week’s eShop update runs long. The big release this week is Detective Pikachu on Nintendo 3DS. That game stars the pint-sized yellow Pokémon as a gumshoe, complete with a dashing deerstalker cap. (Tim’s mostly in it to get this Pikachu to find his missing father, which … well, we’ll just go with it.) The game — which is absolutely not for children or, possibly, anyone who attended Catholic school — will be available for

Fortnite’s latest patch, v3.3.1, is adding the new heavy shotgun to Battle Royale, Epic announced late Wednesday. While shotguns may already be the most dominant guns in Battle Royale, the newest addition to the class looks to make them a little more versatile. The heavy shotgun has a tighter spread, which should mean a much longer range than the shotguns that are currently in Battle Royale. It’s not exactly clear how long the heavy shotgun’s effective range is, but the trade-off for this additi