Mario Kart 8 Deluxehas dozens of courses, tons of characters, a cornucopia of cars and car parts, and generally more content that you can shake a stick at. But no matter how many courses, characters, or comedians in cars getting coffeeNintendoadds to the game, it will never be able to recapture the experimental fun of my favoriteMario Kartgame, theGameCube’s Double Dash. Double Dash is the only entry in the series to depart significantly from basic Mario Kart play....

Insistent that IP butter should always be scraped over too much bread,Warner Bros. and New Line have made a deal with Embracer Group to create new feature films based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The Lord of the Ringsmovies were made at the perfect time. Like Titanic a few years earlier, Peter Jackson’s trilogy was the perfect handshake between incredible practical effects and well-deployed CGI. Those movies, and James Cameron’s romantic epic, still feel huge in a way that basically no movies being made today ever do....

I was fighting a multi-coloured butterfly in a swamp, firing off shotgun blasts that were actually scatter-shot bubbles, whittling down its health in a reluctant battle against beauty. Eventually, it started to sweat and dance around the arena with an empty boss bar—I’d won, but there was more. I had to whip out my lasso and circle it, all the while it fired panic-stricken pellets of its own in a frantic last-ditch effort....

Outcast 2 - A New Beginning is a sequel to a game that came out in 1999 and it absolutely feels like it. That may sound like a criticism, but after playing the short demo atPAX Eastover the weekend, I mean it as an endorsement. When the THQ Nordic representative demoing the game asked for my impressions, my first unfiltered thought was that it reminded me a whole lot of Dinotopia....

Vice NDRCVR — pronounced “Undercover” despite the vowel-free stylization — is a game about hacking databases in a retro futurist version of the 1980s. Like Miami Vice meets Hackers with gameplay that should feel familiar to anyone who has played games like Hypnospace Outlaw, Stories Untold, or Telling Lies. It imagines a world where the internet, as we know it, was already in widespread use in the Reagan era. It also imagines the kinds of crimes hackers might commit online and how a hacker cop might stop them....

LittleBigPlanetdeveloper Media Molecule has announced that it is ending support for its video game creation systemDreamson August 02, 2025. This is because the team is shifting its “focus to an exciting new project”. As stated in itsblog post, you’ll still be able to play, create, and share projects after support is pulled, but there won’t be any more updates. To do this, Dreams will migrate to a new server in late May, which means that there will be a new storage limit of up to 5GB, though existing creations will not count toward this....

Niantichas finally bitten the bullet and confirmed rumors that have been swirling for a little more than a month. That it will soonput a limit on how many Remote Raids players can participate in per dayinPokemon Go. Not only that, but it will also increase the price of Remote Raid Passes when bought individually and as part of a pack of three. The bad news for those of you who prefer to raid remotely was broken viaa blog poston Pokemon Go’s website....

Ubisoft has bannedRainbow Six Siegecontent creator Thaqil after the developer learned the creator was uploading racist TikTok videos.NMEreportedthat it had viewed a series of TikToks, which have been deleted, where Thaqil was making racist comments about Castle, a black character in Rainbow Six Siege. NME contacted Ubisoft to make it aware of the situation, after which a spokesperson announced Thaqil has been sanctioned.Related:The Reaction To The Racism In Spider-Man: Lotus Shows How Selfish We All Are"Ubisoft does not tolerate any form of racism, bullying or harassment", the spokesperson shared....

Magic: The Gatheringis best known for its cards– made of paper, they represent creatures, enchantments, heroes, and equipment for pushing your opponent to their demise. But its legacy is greater than its place on tabletops, spawning novels, animations, and even video games. Related:Magic: The Gathering - Building Your First Modern Deck Though the most common way that Magic has been adapted to gaming is one-to-one ports of its gameplay, you’d be surprised to find that many games are more inspired by its themes than its cards....

Mafiahas grown gracefully over the last two decades. The game revolves around themes of loyalty, betrayal, and family as you play as Tommy Angelo as he ascends the ranks of the Mafia. The Definitive Edition is a full-blown remake, and adds all sorts of loving and small touches to the game while retaining the general story and missions. RELATED:Where To Find Every Black Mask Magazine In Mafia: Definitive Edition One of the most enjoyable parts of playing Mafia is the wide range of weapons....

There are many ways that a game, or upcoming features of a game could get leaked. The most common way is someone from the dev team itself sneakily puts out images or videos of the game during development. Then there are hackers and dataminers who get their hands on new content via the source code; sometimes the developer itself goofs up and Tweets something by mistake; and sometimes stores receive copies a bit too early, resulting in someone streaming it before launch day....

Resident Evil 4 remakehas everything you’d expect from the original game. It’s got Leon, Ashley, alien parasites that turn the residents of a Spanish village into homicidal chainsaw-wielding maniacs, atiny Margaret Thatcher, and the ability tokill yourself by shooting at the lake. But it is missing one thing that has been in every Resident Evil game since RE7. I of course refer to the humble-yet-useful bolt cutters. True, bolt cutters weren’t in the original Resident Evil 4, but that hardly matters to disappointed Resident Evil fans....

Consoles and video games seem like they’re getting ever more expensive, but if you were hoping for them to get cheaper then we have some possible bad news.Segacould be the latest publisher to decide to launch their games at a higher price. The Japanese veteran could be among the games companies to release titles for $70, which appears to be increasingly the standard for this generation. In a recent Q&A session, Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Koichi Fukazawa were asked about the likelihood of increasing game prices following the publication of the company’s full-year earnings in April (thanksVGC)....