ESA Halts Political Donations After U.S. Capitol Storming

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) plans to stop political donations in the wake of the storming of the United States’ capitol building by a right-wing, insurrectionist mob hellbent on keeping Donald Trump in power, GamesIndustry.biz reports “Given the events and actions that led to the violence at the U.S. Capitol, we are pausing contributions from…

Cyberpunk 2077, One Month Later

After multiple delays, reports of mandatory overtime at the studio, and a years-long, nauseating hype train inescapably intertwined with edgelord marketing tactics and transphobia, CD Projekt Red finally released Cyberpunk 2077 into the world at the tail end of last year, and almost every day of its existence since has been utterly wild and often…

Razer’s Project Hazel Is A Translucent Face Mask With RGB Lighting

If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent plastic front, voice-amplification tech, and RGB lighting effects. Every year at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, gaming hardware maker Razer demos conceptual projects that may or may not wind up becoming real. This…

Grand Theft Auto V Actors Recreate ‘Lamar Roasts Franklin’ Scene

Grand Theft Auto V, now available across two platform generations with a version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on the way, refuses to die. The game’s latest contribution to the online zeitgeist is the brief scene where side character Lamar Davis roasts protagonist Franklin Clinton, which has become the basis of an exceedingly…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Now Runs at 60 FPS On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S

2019’s excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order now looks a little bit better on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to its latest update, though the improvements aren’t as dramatic as some other games have seen. Jedi: Fallen Order’s new optimized version runs at a crisp 60 FPS on all three next-gen consoles, but at…

Oh No, He’s Hot

A new trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario 3D World arrived earlier today featuring a first look at Bowser in Bowser’s Fury and y’all…damn. Bowser’s hot. Super hot. Bowser-Jr.-ain’t-the-only-one-calling-me-daddy hot. There’s something undeniably sexy about a dangerous creature. Bowser’s hit the gym and gotten bigger and more muscly since last we saw…

Machine Games Is Making An Indiana Jones Game

Bethesda studio Machine Games is making a new Indiana Jones game, the publisher announced in a short teaser on Twitter today. The game will feature an original story and be a collaboration between Machine Games and Lucasfilm Games, with Todd Howard as the executive producer on the project. Bethesda didn’t reveal anything further about the…

It’s Giant Cat Mario Versus Kaiju Bowser In Bowser’s Fury

With a month remaining until its February 12 release, Nintendo gives us a peek at what the new Bowser’s Fury portion of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury looks like. They had me at Giant Cat Mario. In Bowser’s Fury, Bowser’s gotten big. Too big. So big that Bowser Jr. and Mario team up…

View from Ebisu Tower, 2016. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr

Japan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation

The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a fan translation for…