Valve founder Gabe Newell said the company, which hasn’t shipped a new, full-size game since 2013’s Dota 2, is back in the business of “making and shipping games.” Its next game, Artifact, is supposed to be released this year. Newell spoke at a recent press event, and his quote about Valve getting back to making games comes from Geoff Keighley, who played Artifact with other members of the media. Fans of Valve’s work are aware that for the past few years, the company has not shown much interest

Watching a Nintendo Direct presentation is like going to see your favorite band in concert. You have a basic idea of what this is going to sound like, but you’re still hoping to hear your favorite song. And many Nintendo fans got to hear their favorite song last night. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had a lot of news, but very little of it was truly surprising or worthy of an extended reaction. It looks like Nintendo is playing the song everyone wanted to hear.

Watching a Nintendo Direct presentation is like going to see your favorite band in concert. You have a basic idea of what this is going to sound like, but you’re still hoping to hear your favorite song. And many Nintendo fans got to hear their favorite song last night. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had a lot of news, but very little of it was truly surprising or worthy of an extended reaction. It looks like Nintendo is playing the song everyone wanted to hear.

Frictional Games is offering the entire Amnesia franchise in a free bundle for a limited time, and it’s worth picking up if you didn’t get them in a previous deal. “Add Amnesia Collection to your account permanently and play for FREE starting now for a limited time!” the announcement says on Steam. “The Amnesia Collection includes both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. “Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs doesn’t provide the pure scares of its predecessor,” Polygon’s review stat

Frictional Games is offering the entire Amnesia franchise in a free bundle for a limited time, and it’s worth picking up if you didn’t get them in a previous deal. “Add Amnesia Collection to your account permanently and play for FREE starting now for a limited time!” the announcement says on Steam. “The Amnesia Collection includes both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. “Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs doesn’t provide the pure scares of its predecessor,” Polygon’s review stat

Yesterday’s news of Undertale coming to Nintendo Switch was notable for more than just the fan-favorite game being ported to the platform. It also kicks off a deal between Nintendo and the makers of GameMaker Studio 2, the engine behind Undertale. “I’m excited to use GameMaker Studio 2 to put Undertale on Nintendo Switch,” Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, said in a statement. Undertale, which debuted on Windows PC in 2015, was tabbed for a Switch launch sometime soon. No launch date was given

Yesterday’s news of Undertale coming to Nintendo Switch was notable for more than just the fan-favorite game being ported to the platform. It also kicks off a deal between Nintendo and the makers of GameMaker Studio 2, the engine behind Undertale. “I’m excited to use GameMaker Studio 2 to put Undertale on Nintendo Switch,” Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, said in a statement. Undertale, which debuted on Windows PC in 2015, was tabbed for a Switch launch sometime soon. No launch date was given

Tennis World Tour has been given a launch date — May 22, 2018, and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Breakpoint Studio, which was formed with alumni from the PAM Development and 2K Czech studios that made the Top Spin series, made the announcement this morning. Federer also graced the cover of 2006’s Top Spin 2, 2008’s Top Spin 3, and 2011’s Top Spin 4 by 2K Sports. We previewed Tennis World Tour last weekend, focusing on a career mode that Breakpoint expect

Tennis World Tour has been given a launch date — May 22, 2018, and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Breakpoint Studio, which was formed with alumni from the PAM Development and 2K Czech studios that made the Top Spin series, made the announcement this morning. Federer also graced the cover of 2006’s Top Spin 2, 2008’s Top Spin 3, and 2011’s Top Spin 4 by 2K Sports. We previewed Tennis World Tour last weekend, focusing on a career mode that Breakpoint expect

Sony Bend’s open-world action game set in a post-pandemic world, Days Gone, never had an officially announced release date, but it’s now confirmed that the game won’t make its way to PlayStation 4 until 2019. Days Gone was certainly expected to hit sometime in 2018, but the game page on the PlayStation website was recently updated with a 2019 release window. A Sony representative confirmed the delay in a statement to USgamer, but provided no further details or explanation for it. Sony announced

Sony Bend’s open-world action game set in a post-pandemic world, Days Gone, never had an officially announced release date, but it’s now confirmed that the game won’t make its way to PlayStation 4 until 2019. Days Gone was certainly expected to hit sometime in 2018, but the game page on the PlayStation website was recently updated with a 2019 release window. A Sony representative confirmed the delay in a statement to USgamer, but provided no further details or explanation for it. Sony announced

From now until next week, Mario Kart has overtaken Google Maps, letting users race around the world as they navigate to their destinations. Yes, it’s not technically March 10 yet; consider “Mario Maps” the company’s early present to fans. You’ll have to update your Google Maps app in order to access the Mario Kart feature; you’ll then be able to click on a yellow Question Mark block to turn it on. Check out #MarioMaps on Google Maps now for a week. The best version of this was an April Fools’ ga

From now until next week, Mario Kart has overtaken Google Maps, letting users race around the world as they navigate to their destinations. Yes, it’s not technically March 10 yet; consider “Mario Maps” the company’s early present to fans. You’ll have to update your Google Maps app in order to access the Mario Kart feature; you’ll then be able to click on a yellow Question Mark block to turn it on. Check out #MarioMaps on Google Maps now for a week. The best version of this was an April Fools’ ga

Welcome to Week in Revue, a one-minute musical recap of all of the gaming news you need to stay in the loop, curated (and promptly mangled) by Brian and Jenna. Articles discussed:

Welcome to Week in Revue, a one-minute musical recap of all of the gaming news you need to stay in the loop, curated (and promptly mangled) by Brian and Jenna. Articles discussed:

Masahiro Sakurai, the longtime director of the Super Smash Bros. franchise, announced on Twitter that he’ll be back for the game’s upcoming Switch entry. Following the release of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, Sakurai famously opened up in interviews and his frequent Famitsu columns about just how taxing development on those games was. It didn’t help that he also began to suffer from a serious physical condition as he worked on the fourth Smash Bros. With Smash Bros. so reliant on button-m

Masahiro Sakurai, the longtime director of the Super Smash Bros. franchise, announced on Twitter that he’ll be back for the game’s upcoming Switch entry. Following the release of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, Sakurai famously opened up in interviews and his frequent Famitsu columns about just how taxing development on those games was. It didn’t help that he also began to suffer from a serious physical condition as he worked on the fourth Smash Bros. With Smash Bros. so reliant on button-m

“With this new update, Epic rerolled basically all of everyone’s Dragon weapons to become trash and useless. Epic Games has posted an apology to the subreddit in an effort to explain the changes and try to contain the damage. “When we first released the Dragon Weapons they were able to roll completely invalid sets of perks,” Epic explained. If the schematic had more than two gray perks, four blue perks, or four gold perks — the item was re-rolled. We reached out to Epic Games for comment, and wi

“With this new update, Epic rerolled basically all of everyone’s Dragon weapons to become trash and useless. Epic Games has posted an apology to the subreddit in an effort to explain the changes and try to contain the damage. “When we first released the Dragon Weapons they were able to roll completely invalid sets of perks,” Epic explained. If the schematic had more than two gray perks, four blue perks, or four gold perks — the item was re-rolled. We reached out to Epic Games for comment, and wi

The orcs in Warcraft have always had a very unique silhouette. Because of NPC orcs like Thrall standing tall and proud over the past few years, players have wanted the same for their own World of Warcraft characters. Thanks to some WoWhead datamining, we can now see some of the customization options for upright orcs. This change is currently on the PTR, alongside the Mag’har orcs. These orcs now stand tall, giving them a much bigger profile overall.