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  • WarioWare Gold is coming to Nintendo 3DS on Aug. 3, marking the first time the beloved troublemaker’s minigames have made it onto the handheld. One of those “toys” is a mode called “Wario’s amiibo Sketch” and it’s an absolutely wonderful and silly use for amiibo. By using the NFC reader on the 3DS, Wario will know which amiibo you’ve scanned and will make a unique drawing for each. Of course, when you scan a Wario amiibo, he goes all out. Sadly, you can only scan three amiibo per day because you
    WarioWare Gold makes the best use of your amiibo collection

  • Those Grimoire entries could be read online, but for many players, that wasn’t the ideal delivery mechanism for Destiny’s expansive lore. Now, Destiny’s Grimoire is coming in book form, an anthology series that will kick off this fall. Destiny Grimoire Anthology Vol. 1: Dark Mirror will include 128 pages of Destiny lore in a slick, hardcover package. Each volume of the Grimoire anthology aims to “illuminate a facet of the world,” Bungie says, and offer “new and differing perspectives on the cosm
    Destiny’s Grimoire will be printed in book form this fall

  • The Army announced this week that it will stage a worldwide Street Fighter 5 tournament, open to all active-duty service members, beginning July 28. Soldiers at Fort Bliss, Fort Gordon, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Fort Wainwright, Fort Riley, U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys, U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, and Fort Knox will participate. These skills help improve a Soldier’s overall readiness to help with normal job duties.”Fort Bliss, N.M. is home to the 1st Armored Division. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, i
    U.S. Army staging a Street Fighter 5 tournament; winner competing at PAX

  • Star Trek Online, the free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, will explore the final frontier of Star Trek: Discovery, the most recent iteration of Gene Roddenberry’s venerable sci-fi franchise, this fall. The MMO will explore a new Star Trek era in a multi-part adventure called Age of Discovery. Here’s the official story set up for Star Trek Online’s Age of Discovery content:Age of Discovery opens in the year 2256, just after the Battle at the Binary Stars. From there, they will journey
    Star Trek: Discovery coming to Star Trek Online

  • Nintendo will release a new kit in its Nintendo Labo line of cardboard creations this September. The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit will add cardboard-based controllers for a car, submarine and plane to the lineup of Toy-Cons that Nintendo fans can build and play with on Switch. You can see the Vehicle Kit in action, including some special moves for the Toy-Con car that involve a buzzsaw and a bomb-tossing arm, in a new video released by Nintendo today:The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit will be released o
    New Nintendo Labo kit is all about vehicles

  • Nintendo is getting ready to join its competitors, Microsoft and Sony, in offering a premium online service for its flagship console. Nintendo Switch Online will launch sometime in September (Nintendo has yet to be more specific about the date), but Amazon is already listing pre-orders for three- and 12-month memberships as part of its Amazon Digital Services program. Nintendo Switch Online has been a long time coming. Come September, Switch owners will also have to subscribe to Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch Online membership pre-orders go up on Amazon

  • Switched (Netflix Original)From Netflix: High schooler Ayumi’s perfect world evaporates when her envious classmate Zenko somehow steals her body, her boyfriend and her life. On Children (Netflix Original)From Netflix: These uncanny tales reveal a world where individuals face the tragic consequences of social pressure, parental oppression and family dysfunction. Magic for Humans (Netflix Original)From Netflix: From baffling people on the street to orchestrating elaborate tricks, Justin Willman bl
    Every movie and show coming to Netflix in August

  • In 2017, Wall To Wall Media, a joint venture of the BBC and Warner Bros., put out a casting call for secret agents. The result of that effort is a hybrid of reality competition TV and historical reenactment, an exploration of what it was like to be a British-trained secret agent during World War II. Now streaming on Netflix, Churchill’s Secret Agents: The New Recruits is one of the most intoxicating new documentaries I’ve seen in years. This clandestine military organization dropped secret agent
    Churchill’s Secret Agents is the best reality TV show on Netflix right now

  • Deadwood, HBO’s groundbreaking Western drama that last aired more than a decade ago, has been greenlit for a feature-length movie that wraps up its canon. Casey Bloys, the HBO chief of programming, made the announcement during the Television Critics Association press tour this week. Deadwood, much like the gunfighters appearing within it, had a short run and unceremonious demise, airing three seasons from 2004 to 2006. A feature-length Deadwood had been rumored for years, ever since the show’s c
    Deadwood movie coming in 2019, HBO confirms

  • This week’s release of Infinity Wars Prime #1 kicks off Marvel’s latest cosmic event. However, the strain of the task caused five of the six Infinity Gems to shatter, while the Time Gem disappeared into the time stream. As for the Infinity Stones themselves, several of them have changed hands over the course of Infinity Countdown, some more than once. But if you’re really looking for a character to watch in Infinity Wars, don’t count out Gamora. There’s also Loki, who has been featured a lot in
    Marvel’s new Infinity Wars series is building towards a major villain reveal

  • Now, he’s the focus of a new video from comedian Jim Jefferies, who called out Meyer for his views on diversity in comics and those who create them. “RiRi Williams, who replaced Iron Man — if you don’t like her, it’s because you’re racist or sexist, but probably both.”“It would upset a racist,” Jefferies replied. Jefferies spoke to a group of other Comic-Con attendees about their opinions on the issue surrounding diversity in comics, and their thoughts on Meyer. Regarding the Jim Jefferies video
    Comedian Jim Jefferies confronts Diversity and Comics creator over offensive remarks

  • The 2018 PUBG Global Invitational is almost here and it’s going to be the biggest competitive PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tournament of the year. The PGI 2018 will gather 20 of the world’s best PUBG teams to compete against each other in Berlin, Germany for a $2 million prize pool. Each of the teams competing in the Invitational have progressed through their region’s grueling and intense open qualifier system. The 2018 PUBG Global Invitational will kick off live from the Mercedes Benz Arena in
    Where to watch the 2018 PUBG Global Invitational: Streams, schedule and results

  • Embracing evilIn Vampire, players take on the role of modern-day vampires. To inspire players, V5 offers up more than 30 pages of artfully designed background lore starting on page one. When you run a Vampire game, you’ll want horrible things to feel horrible, but you also want your game to remain playable and accessible to your players. In a way, Carl created her based on the feedback I had given him during character creation. Many people are familiar with vampire and horror role-playing and al
    Vampire: The Masquerade’s latest edition is trying to deal with sex and power in 2018

  • Playground mode has returned to Fortnite and that means the window for a new type of competition has opened: a 1v1 tournament. In a 1v1 tournament, players would compete against one another head to head in whatever way they saw fit. During the initial release of Playground mode, 1v1 build fights became a common pass-time for streamers and one of the pro community’s favorite activities. The game tournament organizers over at Players’ Lounge even managed to put together a 1v1 tournament near the e
    With Playground mode back, Fortnite needs a 1v1 tournament

  • Cellar Door Games updated its action-platformer Rogue Legacy this week, the first major patch for the game in four years. In addition to expanded language support, the developer added brand-new gameplay features to Rogue Legacy, which first launched in June 2013. Rogue Legacy is now playable in English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. That’s no mean feat, but Cellar Door is letting players who have previously acquired 100 percent of Rogue Legacy’s ach
    Rogue Legacy just got a big update after four years

  • Miami is the scene for the next big total-conversion mod in Fallout. The mod makers launched the trailer above yesterday, and are seeking volunteers familiar with the Fallout Creation Kit to join the project. Officially speaking, Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout franchise is headed to West Virginia with Fallout 76 when that launches Nov 14. Other big Fallout mods on the way include Fallout: New California, a PC adaptation of Fallout: New Vegas that serves as a prequel to the 2010 RPG’s story. So Fall
    Fallout modders’ next destination: Miami

  • But now Jigglypuff is taking its siren song to the real world and sharing its mesmerizing voice with tunes that we’re a little more familiar with. A new Twitter account, @jigglysinging, overlays hit songs from artists like Charlie XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen and Lady Gaga over a clip of Jigglypuff performing for Misty, Ash, Brock, and Pikachu. After discovering the Jigglypuff on a stump, Misty encouragingly requests, “Please sing for us, Jigglypuff.” Jigglypuff agrees. Grimes.”jigglypuff singing focus
    Let this Jigglypuff Twitter account sing your worries away

  • Hello Games already kept the storefront’s users waiting longer than everyone else to download the Next update; it didn’t arrive until later yesterday afternoon. No Man’s Sky Version 1.3 first introduced asynchronous multiplayer nearly a year ago, but this “joint exploration” feature never came to GOG. This time around, however, Hello Games attributed the delay to tech problems. “Hello Games is however joining forces with GOG.COM to introduce full multiplayer via the GOG Galaxy platform.”Not bein
    No Man’s Sky multiplayer delayed indefinitely for GOG.com buyers

  • World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will release in only a few weeks, on Aug. 14. But as usual, the new expansion’s first raid won’t drop until Sept. 4, giving players ample time to prepare their characters once the expansion is released. Uldir will open with Normal and Heroic difficulty on Sept. 4. The first wing of Uldir in the Looking For Raid matchmaking difficulty will also be released on Sept. 11. On Sept. 25, wing two of Looking For Raid will open, with the final wing opening on Oct. 9.
    World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s Uldir raid releases Sept. 4

  • “Ghost peeking” in Fortnite has been around about as long as the game itself, and while Epic has tried to remedy the issue in the past, the latest attempt may have done the trick. Here’s the example Donaldson provided at the time:It may look small, but that one little animation was causing this nearly unbeatable bug to persist. But the ghost peeking problem remained. This time, it’s a little less clear what Epic did in attempt to fix the issue. As you can see from the new, post-update image, the
    Epic finally fixed ghost peeking in Fortnite

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