We all knew it would be rad when Animal Crossing's Good Girl Isabelle brought her knitted waistcoat to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but we had no idea that the secretary doge would tear the crossover fighter asunder with such chaos.Players h...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Spirit system is pretty much what I expected and hoped for. These glowy friends enable the little childish joy of metaphorically fighting against or alongside countless characters that didn’t quite m...

Fallout 76 just can't win. It launched as a bizarrely broken and lonesome mess. Bethesda is trying to fix it, but players discovered that the weekly patch notes actually omitted a ton of important changes that made the game more grind-...

One of the changes at the top of the mind for nearly every Fallout 76 player is an increase to stash size. Your personal stash is the one safe place in Fallout 76. Putting items in there means they (theoretically) won't disappear. That...

Possibly the most interesting thing about Fallout 76 is the way it approaches its end-game content. Players gather fragments of nuclear launch codes and work together to push the big red button. Then, a nuke heavily irradiates a secti...

A contentious and almost-universally hated constraint in Fallout 76 is the stash limit. This game that incentivizes grabbing anything that isn't bolted down will only allow you to keep a collection of items that total 400 weight. It's ...

Security researcher Artem Moskowsky discovered a bug within Steam's infrastructure that could've been incredibly damaging for Valve. If exploited it would've given the user access to generate any number of keys for any game. That's obviousl...

Over the past several years, I've become exponentially more prone to gushing over rad insect characters and rad fan art. Team Cherry's Hollow Knight supplied me with an entire nest of the former, and the (probably objective) fact that it's ...

If you've made some progress in Red Dead Redemption 2 but your camp feels strangely empty, you may be affected by a bug. Players have reported missing people after finishing Chapter 2, and they've speculated that the issue has to do with re...

Although Activision's latest money-maker Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 had a successful launch, some unfortunate server issues have reared there head in the weeks following release day. What with new battle royale centrepiece Blackout being add...

"This is a perfect example of the bizarre shit happening with the kid's face," recounts God of War director Cory Barlog. "Look at that! That's some creepy like Fringe shit right there. That's like Hellraiser." The clip comes from a Sony-san...

Due to unspecified tech issues, Ubisoft has had to cancel the first of the "Elite Mercenary" limited-time events in their open-world adventure Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The first event, which was expected to go live this week, would have al...

[Update: Whilst there hasn't been any clear statement on this irritating bug, Sony Support UK has tweeted out a solution should you find yourself a victim of the DM attack. If you encounter a soft-locked console, you should first delete the...

According to statistics revealed by developer Bluehole and the Korean PUBG Cafe board, Battle Royale instigator PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has banned a whopping 13 million users since June 2017.The majority of booted players were kicked ...

Harmless bugs in games are a guilty pleasure of mine. So long as the bug doesn't break the game or produces some kind of Eldritchian horror, I love to see what managed to slip by testers. This week's first FIFA 19 patch, which is live for P...

Epic Games and PlayStation have announced a new batch of exclusive goodies for Battle Royale extravaganza Fortnite. The PlayStation Celebration Pack is available now to all PlayStation Plus subscribers.Included in the cache are three aesthe...

[UPDATE: Sega has recently released a tweet announcing that the Shenmue I & II patch has been delayed, it will now be released sometime during the week of September 17. The publisher apologised for the delay, saying that they wanted "to...

Epic Games' battle royale phenomenon Fortnite is about to offer players a whole new way to traverse the landscape, reach those perfect sniper spots, and beat a hasty retreat when the going gets tough.The Grappler is arriving as part of the ...

Monster Hunter: World has proven mighty popular on Steam. It's one of the most-played games on the platform right now, with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players hunting the good hunt. That said, the PC port is not without growing pai...

Nintendo has dropped a small update for its Switch arena-shooter Splatoon 2. Version 3.2.1, which is already live in game, was mostly implemented to stop an issue involving the Bubble Blower special.In the past, unleashing bubble-hell upon ...

Approximately 22 months ago, No Man's Sky was left for dead. Hello Games' magnum opus had an abysmal launch, as all the pre-release promises never lived up to the realities of this functionally-infinite universe. It was boring and tedi...

No Man's Sky is finally getting widespread acclaim. Almost two years after launching, Hello Games has eventually shaped No Man's Sky into the game that most everyone originally wanted. It has been quite the redemption story. It's ...

Believe it or not, tomorrow is a whole year since the release of Epic Games' world-dominating shooter Fortnite. Yes, its been twelve months since the game that has taken pop culture by storm launched as a paid Early Access title, before idl...

The new update for Nintendo's fun sports title Mario Tennis Aces goes live today, aside from fixing some minor text issues, the aim of Version 1.1.2 is to subdue the unstoppable pro-player that is Bowser Jr.The young tyrant has been taking ...

The Xbox One version of Battle Royale pioneer PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has received a new update, following a week of testing on the game's pre-release servers.Update 17 brings new weapon balance changes and bug stomps to the console e...