The PlayStation Network is currently down, and players online are complaining about the interruption in their service. Sony’s official site is confirming that the account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Now, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Music services are all “experiencing issues” across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. The PlayStation Network has been suffering from outages in the past week, and it doesn’t look like all of the issues have been fixed. The launc

Does that mean you should play Monster Hunter: World, even if you’ve never been able to hang with the franchise before? Monster Hunter: World is not easy. Monster Hunter: World shrewdly allows its fabulous beasts to take center stage, never letting story or cookie-cutter quest givers interfere with the promise of the game’s crux. The streamlined additions to multiplayer are just one massive quality of life improvements evident in Monster Hunter: World. Monster Hunter: World is still complex.

Kentucky Route Zero, an episodic game that’s been in production for more than seven years, has suddenly sprung back to life. Un Pueblo De Nada — https://t.co/UzKsdTQhDZ — cardboard computer (@cardboardcompy) January 25, 2018Cardboard Computer, the indie team behind the game, made the announcement this morning on Twitter. They’re known for making these types of “interludes,” small projects which fill the gap between Kentucky Route Zero’s larger episodes. Cardboard Computer’s Kentucky Route Zero

Kentucky Route Zero, an episodic game that’s been in production for more than seven years, has suddenly sprung back to life. Un Pueblo De Nada — https://t.co/UzKsdTQhDZ — cardboard computer (@cardboardcompy) January 25, 2018Cardboard Computer, the indie team behind the game, made the announcement this morning on Twitter. They’re known for making these types of “interludes,” small projects which fill the gap between Kentucky Route Zero’s larger episodes. Cardboard Computer’s Kentucky Route Zero

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But I’ve logged hundreds of hours in the virtual world thanks to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and I’ve come to appreciate certain existential truths because of it. It turned out that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was one of several N64 titles to require the Controller Pak, Nintendo’s memory card, for saving. The game’s heartlessness seemed to confirm a subversive agenda, as though Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was out to prove that life is pain. Due to a confluence of circumstances (namely, laziness and entitlemen

Preeminent fighting game tournament Evo, aka the Evolution Championship Series, will hold its first major event in Japan this weekend. Evo Japan 2018 will take place Jan. 26-28 at the Sunshine City complex in Tokyo, and you can watch the action live on Twitch. Evo Japan 2018 starts at 9 a.m. JST on Friday, Jan. 26. Viewers can also watch Japanese-language streams on the official Evo Japan OpenRec channel. Seven games will be featured during Evo Japan 2018’s main tournament: Street Fighter 5 Arca

Destiny 2’s January update, the game’s first major patch of 2018, will launch alongside the year’s inaugural Iron Banner week, developer Bungie announced today. The studio is introducing unique perks to raid armor, perks that only function when you’re on the Leviathan. “For now, it was important to us that you know it’s on our workbench.”As for 2018’s first Iron Banner, it will run from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6. In addition to receiving Iron Banner rewards from engrams or buying them outright, players

Destiny 2’s January update, the game’s first major patch of 2018, will launch alongside the year’s inaugural Iron Banner week, developer Bungie announced today. The studio is introducing unique perks to raid armor, perks that only function when you’re on the Leviathan. “For now, it was important to us that you know it’s on our workbench.”As for 2018’s first Iron Banner, it will run from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6. In addition to receiving Iron Banner rewards from engrams or buying them outright, players

Some MoviePass subscribers were confronted with a problem this afternoon when AMC Theatres and MoviePass’ official Twitter accounts sent out conflicting information. Earlier today, MoviePass responded to a subscriber who complained that a specific AMC theater location in New York City wasn’t accepting MoviePass anymore. — MoviePass (@MoviePass) January 25, 2018MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe said certain theaters won’t be covered by MoviePass as of today, Jan. 25. The theater company said it hasn’t spo

More players showed up to a fight in Eve Online than ever before earlier this week, making the siege at 9-4R the biggest battle in the game’s nearly 15-year history. But the game’s sub-par performance during the engagement has rubbed some in the Eve community the wrong way. “Our entire strategy for the fight revolved around preparing to send wave after wave of carrier-based fighters — thousands of them — against the keepstar,” Gianturco told Polygon. As the keepstar’s timer rolled over, thousand

While Celeste was brewed from the same cauldron, it’s more of a gateway drug than the hard stuff. And the adventure is held together by a gorgeous low-poly 3D model of Celeste Mountain that helps to convey the scale and trajectory of the climb. Beautiful masocore games are a rare breed, but how many of them have characters you actually care about? Wrap-upIt’s ironic that a platforming game’s greatest, most innovative elements lie not in the platforming itself, but around it. Celeste reaches beyo

Toys R Us will be closing around 180 stores as the toy retailer struggles under a heavy debt load. Toy stores are here to stay“I think it would be absolutely gut-wrenchingly horrible if communities didn’t have a toy store,” Volk-Weiss told Polygon. “There’s a Toys R Us near my office, there’s a Toys R Us near my home, and especially the Toys R Us near my office … and I mean no offense to anyone’s religion, but I view that Toys R Us as my temple or my church or my mosque. “The reason that Toys

Toys R Us will be closing around 180 stores as the toy retailer struggles under a heavy debt load. Toy stores are here to stay“I think it would be absolutely gut-wrenchingly horrible if communities didn’t have a toy store,” Volk-Weiss told Polygon. “There’s a Toys R Us near my office, there’s a Toys R Us near my home, and especially the Toys R Us near my office … and I mean no offense to anyone’s religion, but I view that Toys R Us as my temple or my church or my mosque. “The reason that Toys

I predicted the day before Logan Paul broke his YouTube hiatus and posted an educational video about suicide awareness that he’d so something along those lines. He didn’t upload a video to YouTube; he didn’t tweet; as far as anyone knew, Logan was gone. The only indication that Logan was planning to make his return to YouTube were testimonies from his entire family on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. After three weeks away, Logan’s return to YouTube was a rebranding moment. “I think a lot of peop

I predicted the day before Logan Paul broke his YouTube hiatus and posted an educational video about suicide awareness that he’d so something along those lines. He didn’t upload a video to YouTube; he didn’t tweet; as far as anyone knew, Logan was gone. The only indication that Logan was planning to make his return to YouTube were testimonies from his entire family on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. After three weeks away, Logan’s return to YouTube was a rebranding moment. “I think a lot of peop

Jon Malin, the current artist on Marvel Comics’ Cable series, caught a lot of attention this weekend with tweets that many found confusing at best, and offensive at worst. SJWs are not Nazis but Nazis are SJWs and X-MEN aren’t SJWs. I made this comparison the best I could in 240 characters on Twitter when asked if the X-Men were SJWs. Marvel Comics terminated its contract with Artist Ardian Syaf in last April of last year, after Syaf snuck references to a Koranic verse that is often used to expr

Jon Malin, the current artist on Marvel Comics’ Cable series, caught a lot of attention this weekend with tweets that many found confusing at best, and offensive at worst. SJWs are not Nazis but Nazis are SJWs and X-MEN aren’t SJWs. I made this comparison the best I could in 240 characters on Twitter when asked if the X-Men were SJWs. Marvel Comics terminated its contract with Artist Ardian Syaf in last April of last year, after Syaf snuck references to a Koranic verse that is often used to expr

We join the battle royale just about every week on our extremely good series Awful Squad. We’re not exactly Solid Snake out there, but we come pretty close to the chicken dinner. Add a two-headed sweater and a wizard’s curse to the mix, and things get a little more complicated. On this week’s Game Ogre, we’re tasked with getting to the top 10 of a public PUBG match. Game Ogre is a bi-weekly series that we’re forced to do because of an ill-advised theft of wizard gold.

While some fans hoped that we might see resolution of a certain Marvel Cinematic Universe plot line in Black Panther or Avengers: Infinity War, a recent tie-in comic seems to have tied the whole thing up in a tidy bow. With both Black Panther and Infinity War being partially set in Wakanda, either movie has the opportunity to return to Bucky’s story — and Infinity War has to, as Bucky is clearly present and awake in trailers. Or, Marvel could release Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War Prelude #1, w