The American Sega Genesis and the Japanese Mega Drive are the same machine on the inside, yet their cultural legacies are entirely different. Rare Japanese Mega Drive games frequently shoot to incredible prices, in the hundreds of dollars, in the used market. Six-button versus three-button controllerI bought the Mega Drive Mini W (read ”Double”) package, which comes with two six-button controllers. Note that, due to the slight size difference between the Genesis and Mega Drive cartridge slot, yo

Apex Legends’ season 3 gameplay trailer is here — but not before it leaked first, because of course it did. We see more of the newest legend, Crypto, as well as the World’s Edge map coming on Oct. 1. EA Korea apparently let it slip early, and the Reddit hounds were all over that very late last night. The trailer stars Bloodhound dying, because of course, and sets up World’s Edge as a collision of molten rock and “chemical ice,” according to the YouTube description. Apex Legends Season 3 — Meltdo

Fallout 76 is getting a public test server. Bethesda Game Studios reported on Thursday that it hoped to get Fallout 76’s PTS running in 2020. Typically they are PC only, though PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds does make a public test server available to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Fallout 76’s manifold troubles are well known, ranging from matters as technical as item-duplicating exploits, to problems as structural as the fact there are no human NPCs. Multifactor authentication and social menu fixe

After a 2014 update moved all Source engine games to the SteamPipe distribution system, all non-scripted actor NPCs stopped blinking. Maybe it sounds like a little thing to you, but when the G-Man goes through one of those monologues without blinking, you’ll be reaching for some Visine in sympathy. The update went out on Thursday, Sept. 26 and covers Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two: Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life: Source. Valve updated the original Half-Lif

Doom Eternal will have three free Doomguy skins at launch and all of them rock an aluminum four-pack of rectus abdominis. You can put more Men’s Health in your Doom Eternal by having the re-releases of Doom, Doom 2 and/or Doom 3, plus a Slayers Club card and a Bethesda.net account. Link the latter two, and a skin corresponding to the game (indigo, bronze and red, respectively) will be in Doom Eternal when that launches. Doom, Doom 2 and Doom 3 are available ($4.99 for the first two, $9.99 for th

Minecraft Earth, the franchise’s augmented reality mobile title, will be launched in early access beginning in October. A free-to-play game, Minecraft Earth is currently in a closed beta in a small number of cities, including London, Seattle, Stockholm and Tokyo. The early access launch will be staggered across countries. Minecraft Earth then tasks players with building their own augmented worlds on “build plates,” which can be earned or purchased. We’ll also be reviewing the early access releas

The Coalition, the studio Fergusson leads, wasn’t going to want for an audience; they’d probably get the biggest one any Gears of War game has ever seen. The game is, effectively speaking, free with a Game Pass subscription. Biggest Game Pass launch ever, but no sure thingMicrosoft, which owns The Coalition and bought the Gears of War franchise in 2014, last week touted a launch week audience of 3 million people for Gears 5. in a Gears of War game! “Over [the game’s] lifetime now, 40 percent of

Grid View Link’s Awakening Mabe Village Secret Seashell locations. Grid View Link’s Awakening Toronbo Shores Secret Seashell locations. Grid View Link’s Awakening Mysterious Forest Secret Seashell Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo via PolygonLink’s Awakening Mysterious Forest Secret Seashell Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo via PolygonLink’s Awakening Mysterious Forest Secret Seashell Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo via PolygonIn the northwest corner of the Mysterious Forest, just south of Mr. Write’s ho

to collect from the Trendy Game claw game in Mabe Village. To collect the next, you’ll have to place each figure on its stand (they say “Is this a stand for something?” when they’re empty). How to find the Mario figuresThe Mario figures in Link’s Awakening are always in the Trendy Game (the claw game in Mabe Village). The stands for each figure are located in the houses in Mabe Village (we’ve got a map below to help you). Mario figure stand locationsThe stands for the Mario figures you collect a

Later Alligator, out now on Steam, continues the humor-filled legacy of point-and-click mystery games with its own twist. The crane game and its mechanics aren’t particularly special, in fact most of the minigames in Later Alligator aren’t, at least mechanically. Later Alligator is filled with these moments. But every moment of Later Alligator is layered with charming quirks and lovingly groan-worthy jokes, all leading up to the very last moment of the game. While Later Alligator is a fairly sho

The same is true of the new Mario Kart for phones, a free-to-play racing game that looks and sounds like Mario Kart, but lacks the joy of its fully-featured counterparts. Mario Kart Tour is unsurprising in how it plays. Related Mario Kart Tour players are having a hilarious time steering and driftingCurrently, Mario Kart Tour consists of a variety of cups. Mario Kart Tour stalls right from the starting line. It lacks the competitive thrills of other Mario Kart games, focusing more on an endless

FIFA 20 is an end-of-cycle iteration that can still legitimately claim to be different and better than its predecessors. Sure, its Career suite has gone so long without substantial changes that anything there might make all of FIFA 20 feel like a new game. But Volta Football, a street soccer/futsal story mode, is what distinguishes this edition the most. The simple fact is no sports video game this year added an all-new mode as dynamic as Volta Football. Volta Football isn’t FIFA Street mainly b

And among all these options, I’ve long advocated for what I still think is the most successful supplement to my daily workouts: exercise video games. What can be a repetitive, exhausting, even embarrassing experience becomes emphatically less so when paired with a video game. Video games by and large were sedentary, meant to be played in a comfortable chair ad infinitum. But in that strangeness comes something wonderful: an exercise game that is wildly fun to play, and a good workout, too. Video

Untitled Goose Game is a hit. We’ve watched hours and hours of people play-testing, and the slight changes make the jokes funny again. The non-player characters in Untitled Goose Game are familiar archetypes. Untitled Goose Game is published by Panic and is out now on Nintendo Switch, Windows PC and Mac. If you’re playing the game, take a look at our helpful Untitled Goose Game guides.

Everyone’s specifically talking about The Masked Singer this week because of a very surprising celebrity reveal. The two eliminated celebrities this week were revealed to be figure skater Johnny Weir and Tyler Blevins, aka Ninja. Yes, that Ninja, the Twitch streamer turned Mixer streamer who’s really good at Fortnite and also has a book out. Performing as Ice Cream, Ninja sang a cover of Devo’s “Whip It,” as well as Lil Nas X’s viral sensation “Old Town Road,” as seen in the clip above. In an in

I like to imagine the lives of drivers that travel through my Mini Motorways cities each day. Mini Motorways is developer Dinosaur Polo Club’s follow-up to Mini Metro, a strategy simulator game where players created public transit maps. Unfortunately for the imaginary citizens of my Mini Motorways cities (Los Angeles, Beijing, Tokyo, Dar es Salaam, Moscow, and Munch), I’m all they’ve got. None of the cities available in Mini Motorways are Boston, but I’m putting a little Boston stamp on all of t

We may finally be seeing the demise of Fortnite season 10’s most controversial addition: the B.R.U.T.E. As of Wednesday’s patch v10.40, it seems that most, if not all, mechs in Fortnite are dropping from the sky and then immediately self destructing. But even with complaints at a relative whisper, fans were still happy to see the mechs start exploding in patch v10.40. Whatever the cause of these mechs’ self-destruction, Fortnite season 10 will end in just a couple of weeks on Oct. 6. When that e

The Twitch website got a new update today, revamping the look of the website, while not changing any of the core features. There’s also less of the iconic Twitch purple, which is now only used in the logo and in some links. Twitch streamers will also be able to use a Creator Color tool to set a specific color of their choice to accent their brand. These color changes will show alongside subscriptions or bits in the chat, as well as bordered around your channel thumbnail. The website isn’t much d