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  • No Man’s Sky is almost, but not quite, a new game. We talked a lot about what’s new and what has changed in our No Man’s Sky Next rebeginner’s guide, and here we’ll refine that into bite-sized pieces of advice. Missions, missions, and more missionsMaking money in No Man’s Sky Next is — or, at least, feels — slower. There’s a lot more to do and that’s both good and badThere was a time when you had to make your own fun in No Man’s Sky. No Man’s Sky still lets you make your own fun.
    5 quick No Man’s Sky Next tips

  • PDP has a GameCube-themed controller coming just in time for the arrival of Super Smash Bros. Grid View Performance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llcPerformance Designed Products llc
    Nintendo Switch is getting a GameCube-styled Smash Bros. controller

  • Moss is best described as a living storybook. Within minutes, you’re transported inside a giant tome where you meet an adorable mouse named Quill on her journey to save her uncle. As an otherworldly presence, you’ll help Quill navigate through diorama-like puzzles and battle clockwork beetles. We have five physical copies of Moss for PlayStation VR to give away. If you’re viewing this page on mobile, use the hyperlink.
    Moss PSVR giveaway

  • If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. You can find Xur hiding out just north of the Winding Cove landing zone, hanging out by a Fallen Ketch. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur Exotics on your highest level character. Its exotic perk, Survival Well, causes supers to generate more orbs of light. THREE OF COINSThis old farming buff has returned from the Destiny graveyard to help you farm Exotics.
    Destiny 2 Xur location and items, July 27-30

  • Just six months after Altered Carbon’s first season Netflix announced that the hit sci-fi show will be getting a second season. Joining the cast as the lead character, Takeshi Kovacs, is Marvel-star Anthony Mackie in his first television role. There is no news on which cast members from the first season will be returning — or which characters, like Kovacs, will be recast. It was 10 episodes long and received mixed reviews from critics, but many appreciated its cyberpunk setting and ambitious sto
    Altered Carbon recruits Anthony Mackie for Season 2

  • The first music video for “Yadon Ondo” (Slowpoke’s Japanese name) is three minutes of pure delight, as the large Yadon mascots stumble around and a host of children sing a beautiful Slowpoke serenade. There was a previous reggae-style Slowpoke song made for the 3DS in 2015, but “Yadon Ondo” was made for the upcoming Yadon’s Day festival in Kagawa, Japan. Yadon’s Day (or rather, Yadon’s three days) will start on Aug. 10 and run until Aug. 12. To celebrate, a local Pokémon Center branch will open
    Utterly delightful Slowpoke festival coming to Japan in August

  • There is no post-credit scene in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Fallout isn’t concerned with what’s ahead; after a hyperventilated grand finale, the sixth Mission: Impossible concludes with a deep breath and a group hug. Fallout promises more Ethan Hunt adventures without promising more on-screen Ethan Hunt adventures. The box office receipts of Mission: Impossible will never compete with your Marvel sequels or your Jurassic Worlds. Mission: Impossible started as a star vehicle and, based on Fal
    The ending of Mission: Impossible - Fallout feels like the franchise’s finale

  • Leia Organa is set to return in Star Wars: Episode 9 with the help of “previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens” of Carrie Fisher. Fisher died in December 2016, but in a statement on Star Wars’ official website, director J.J. Abrams explained his decision to use previously shot footage of Fisher in Episode 9. A younger version of the actress appeared, courtesy of CG effects, in 2016’s Star Wars: Rogue One. Also … he’s having his final act be something of myth-making
    Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill will appear in Star Wars: Episode 9

  • One of Destiny 2: Forsaken’s most useful features is the upcoming Collection tab, which will let players track all the gear they’ve collected and pieces they’ve yet to come across. Curious players now have an unofficial way to check their collection progress pre-Forsaken, although they won’t be able to re-print their gear to use in-game just yet. Thanks to a recent update to the Destiny 2 API, Destiny Sets now acts as an unofficial Collection tab for players. Destiny Sets is also highly customiz
    External Destiny program lets you view your Collection early

  • Nickelodeon is leaning hard into nostalgia with a flurry of 1990s cartoon revivals and returns. The cable network is now expanding that strat to include video games, with a Nicktoons-centric kart racing game heading to consoles on Oct. 23. Nickelodeon Kart Racers, developed by GameMill Entertainment for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, will include characters from 12 different series. We’re led to believe by its screenshots that the roster will stretch back to the golden days of Nick
    Nickelodeon Kart Racers isn’t the prettiest game, but it’s captured our millennial hearts

  • Electronic Arts’ “On The House” program, which gives out free, classic games on PC, appears to be over. The page for the promotion now links over to EA’s Origin Access home. The subtle change comes shortly before the launch date for Origin Access Premier, which was announced to investors in the quarterly earnings call yesterday. But the timing next to Origin Access Premier’s announcement sure looks like the free lunch has come to an end. Origin Access is the companion program to the EA Access su
    It looks like EA’s ‘On the House’ freebies are over [Update]

  • World of Warcraft patch 7.3.5 introduced a slightly slower, more interesting leveling experience through the old world. But since Blizzard introduced patch 8.0 two weeks ago, players have been struggling to level through the old content effectively. With 8.0, Blizzard introduced World of Warcraft’s second ever stat squish — where all the numbers in the game are lowered across the board for clarity. Since the patch, Blizzard has been throwing out hotfixes each day, fixing things that the stat squ
    Blizzard responds to leveling problems in World of Warcraft

  • After the unmitigated disaster that was Summer Skirmish week one, it’s a little surprising that week two was enjoyable at all — let alone one of the most fun esports events of the year so far. So, in advance of Summer Skirmish’s third week, let’s take a look back at what worked so well with week two of Epic’s summer Fortnite tournament series. Improved formatIn hopes of earning back a bit of community good will, Epic threw everything from the first week of Summer Skirmish out the window and star
    Week 2 of Fortnite’s Summer Skirmish proved that Epic can put on a good show

  • Friday saw the Charity invitational portion of the PUBG Global Invitational pit 40 celebrities against 40 pro players, divided into teams, but all of whom hoped to win money for the charity of their choice. After the dust settled in all four matches, the winning team was the Korea squad of streamers Evermore and JuanKorean, who were teamed up with pro players from Gen.G Gold Esca and Simsn. This is the second first-place finish so far at this tournament for these pro players; they also won the T
    Teamed with Gen.G Gold, Evermore and JuanKorean win the PUBG Invitational charity tournament

  • ThinkGeek is now selling wireless earbuds modeled after the pointed Vulcan ears of everyone’s favorite science officer. These aren’t a cheap novelty stocking stuffer though; these wireless Vulcan earbuds are made by an officially licensed cosplay and collectibles company, Anovos. The rubber ears are color-matched to Leonard Nimoy’s original Vulcan makeup, which means they definitely won’t match most human skin tones. They’re probably better suited for cosplay than casual use, but we won’t judge
    Star Trek fans can now buy Spock earbuds at ThinkGeek

  • Epic Games is switching things up for the third week of its Summer Skirmish Fortnite tournament; this week is going to focus on brutality and speed. Today’s duos event will be played on custom servers — we’ll see how the new update holds up — and the rules go a long way to discouraging camping or other forms of conservative play. “The first Duos team to reach 13 points is the winner,” Epic Games stated on the official site. The top 20 teams at the end of the Summer Skirmish will be awarded.”This
    Fortnite Summer Skirmish week 3: start time, live stream and schedule

  • Paul said “the doc is not a documentary about how hard my life has been this year,” following the incident. “It’s about a story of a young man from Ohio, a seemingly regular kid, falling into the social-media machine over the past four years,” Paul told Neistat. It was ‘create content, create content, create content.’ There was no, ‘Take a step back and breathe.’”There are a few more questions about Paul’s time in Japan, including whether or not he’s learned from his cultural insensitivity. “Thi
    Logan Paul’s candid interview with Casey Neistat: ‘I don’t think people can ... sympathize with me’

  • That first version of No Man’s Sky was conceptually impressive, but felt like a chore to play, with few moments of true excitement or surprise. Those are all viable goals in No Man’s Sky, but all of them hinge on the biggest flaw Next doesn’t fix: the grind. That’s the rub: Everything in No Man’s Sky is interconnected, for better and worse. The core of No Man’s Sky is the freedom to explore its near-infinite worlds. With all of these enhancements, No Man’s Sky is unquestionably a better game tha
    No Man’s Sky Next is an astonishing update, but don’t expect a brand-new game

  • In his head, he says, it’s still weird to not be the studio just making the company’s first game, Oxenfree. Robot mobile game and porting Oxenfree to seemingly everything with a screen, the team is working on its next game, Afterparty, set to release in 2019. I really think that worked. I don’t think Adam [Hines] or our other writers are dying to write 1,600 pages. And this game, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to be drinking the whole time.
    How to make a game about drinking with Satan

  • NBA Live 19, launching in September, will allow users to create women players for the first time in series history. NBA Live 19 will also offer abilities and perks modeled on stars from the women’s game, such as Candace Parker, the five-time all-star for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. Last year, NBA Live 18 included all 12 teams of the WNBA. Though the WNBA’s inclusion in NBA Live 18 was applauded — and the league was not a part of the dominant NBA 2K series last year — NBA Live 18 still barely
    NBA Live 19 brings women to its career mode

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