“Dirt is where the bulk of time was spent in NASCAR Heat 3.” Burke said. But it also felt like there’s a more permissible drift on NASCAR Heat 3’s dirt. It’s fun, but “There’s definitely a learning curve with dirt,” Burke agreed. So, NASCAR Heat 3 will also feature the “Roval” at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which the game brought in last year as a downloadable content extension. Charlotte’s Roval event, the Bank of America 500 on September 30, will be featured in NASCAR Heat 3 and the track will b

Warframe is coming to the Nintendo Switch, publisher and developer Digital Extremes confirmed today at TennoCon, a fan expo dedicated to the game. The third-person shooter doesn’t yet have a specific launch date for the Switch. Warframe on the Nintendo Switch opens up a huge new channel for the fourth-most popular game on Steam (as measured by current players) today. Panic Button, the studio that has brought Rocket League and Doom to the Switch, is behind the port. Warframe’s launch on the Switc

As a staff illustrator for Marvel, Ditko designed the red-and-blue costume, underarm webbing and bug-eyed mask that distinguishes Spider-Man more than 50 years after his debut in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15. Ditko is most famous for creating two: Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, who first appeared in 1963. He began his professional career in 1953, moving to Atlas Comics, Marvel’s forerunner, beginning with Journey Into Mystery #33, which would become the vehicle for Marvel’s Thor a decade later. Di

Sometimes, when watching Steven Universe, I get the impression that Rebecca Sugar’s animated series operates on a strict balance of joy and angst. What matters is that “Reunited” was one Steven Universe’s best episodes to date, and while it certainly answered some questions, it still leaves some unanswered. [Warning: Major spoilers for Steven Universe’s “Heart of the Crystal Gems” arc ahead.] The episode opens with a musical number that intertwines euphoria and anxiety as the Crystal Gems prepar

The Painted World of Ariamis is an optional area in Dark Souls Remastered. First, you’ll have to return to the Northern Undead Asylum and retrieve the Peculiar Doll from your prison cell. The Painted World is a relatively small location, but it’s dense in terms of level design, enemies, and useful items. Once you retrieve the Annex Key from the catacombs under the area, you’ll be able to find the Dark Ember which you can give to Andre of Astora in Undead Parish. The ring of Phalanx in the middle

After finishing his Zero Escape trilogy in 2016 with Zero Time Dilemma, creator Kotaro Uchikoshi has been keeping his follow-up under wraps. At this week’s Anime Expo, however, Spike Chunsoft showed the first teaser for Uchikoshi’s next game: AI: The Somnium Files. The minute-long teaser for AI: The Somnium Files doesn’t tell us much. We do know the game will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, whenever it does launch. Until then, the entirety of the excellent Zero Esc

Destiny 2: Forsaken is the star of Game Informer’s August issue, which has finally revealed some of the details surrounding the nine new supers in the upcoming expansion. Perk: All void ability damage attaches a void detonator to the target. Picking it back up will fully recharge the player’s melee ability and regenerate some health. Basically it’s like the Death From Above perk in the original Destiny, but as a normal melee ability instead. Destiny 2: Forsaken will be released on Sept. 4 for Pl

No, it’s not another video game. It’s a tabletop role-playing game, developed and published by R. Talsorian Games. Announced in the summer of 2015, The Witcher Role-Playing Game is an opportunity for fans of the franchise to explore that world through a traditional pen-and-paper experience. You can expect the book to be full of lore drawn from CD Projekt Red’s video game series, as well as the original novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski. The original sourcebook, Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk 2020,

But it hasn’t strayed from what players perhaps like best about Pokémon Go: events that introduce new, adorable Pikachu costumes. From July 6 through July 31, players can find more Pichu and Pikachu in the wild than usual as part of the second anniversary event. Anyone with a gold Pikachu fan medal can buy all of the item, among them a shirt and Pikachu ears. Maybe you’re not a hardcore Pikachu fan. There’s no concrete timeframe there, but keep an eye out for Celebi as Pokémon Go Fest nears.

It deals with the events of Avengers: Infinity War. Ant-Man in the quantum realmOur main after-credits sequence picks up after the cheery end of the movie. If you’ve seen Avengers: Infinity War, you’ve probably already guessed what happened. It’s an interesting development, given that Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are confirmed to appear in Avengers: Infinity War’s sequel, the unnamed Avengers 4. Or the Time Stone, which could rewind him until before he dropped into the quantum realm.

The utter disaster of TanaCon, a poorly organized YouTuber fan event hosted by personality Tana Mongeau and thrown opposite of this year’s VidCon, has caught the attention of just about every YouTuber and fan, including VidCon creator and former CEO Hank Green. In his post, Green called TanaCon “terrifying.”“Running events is hard,” Green said. Watching the event that Good Times put on devolve into a dangerous situation was not fun or pleasant for me or the VidCon team. Tana was part of our cont

Ubisoft’s toys-to-life game Starlink: Battle for Atlas looks like a mostly unremarkable space shooter, with customizable ships and a number of planets to go shoot up. But in comes Fox McCloud, the brilliant pilot from the Star Fox games, and suddenly Starlink looks a heckuva lot cooler. Starlink seems something like a Western reinvention of the classic Star Fox games. Otherwise, though, Starlink is clearly gunning for that throwback Star Fox vibe. He’s got his Star Fox Zero-garb on, but we quick

User reviews are the latest feature Netflix is removing from its streaming platform, citing a decline in use “over time.”Netflix will no longer allow users to write reviews directly on the platform for desktop users, and any previous user reviews will be removed entirely by mid-August, a rep told CNET. It isn’t exactly in plain sight; it’s hidden, and there are multiple steps to actually tracking down the reviews. That’s a decent number of people wanting to jot their thoughts down, but Netflix h

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. THE JADE RABBITThe Jade Rabbit is a returning Exotic from Destiny. The Fate of All Fools Exotic perk causes chained body shots to stack damage on your next precision shot and return ammo to the magazine. While that may have been enough to ruin the gun on its own, the Exotic perk is also fairly useless. The Exotic perk, Vampire’s Caress, will grant health regeneration, melee ability energy, class ability energy

Sorry to Bother You is a sharp-witted movie with a lot on its mind — racial inequality, economic strife and corporate overreach, to list a few. In all its madness — both in anger and absurdity — Sorry to Bother You develops into a journey that defies classification. Even his decision to sell out his coworkers and push away Detroit isn’t so much a betrayal as an act of desperation. Sorry to Bother You is a satire typed out in bold, colorful letters. There is almost no forgetting the crescendo the

Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 has a continuity behind it — a completely ludicrous confluence of fictional events in which Frank Castle (the Punisher) obtained the powers of Ghost Rider (the flaming skull motorcycle guy) and the Silver Surfer (who wields the Power Cosmic) at the same time. This is a Frank Castle from an alternate timeline in which Thanos took over the entire universe, a tidbit I discovered only after devouring the entire issue. My turn to be punished.”That establishment of the book’s emo

Valley Of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley appears to further complicate the legacy of Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Author Adam Fisher interleaves what appear to be several disparate interviews to tell the story of the early days of Atari. Atari’s first big game was inspired by table tennis, a standup arcade machine called Pong. Chris Caen, early Atari employee: I started at 15 as a summer intern. In the context of Fisher’s book, these anecdotes appear add color to the early

Two ArenaNet developers were dismissed this week following a social media blowup between a YouTube content creator and a designer of the developer’s Guild Wars 2 MMO. Guild Wars 2 narrative designer Jessica Price and writer Peter Fries, a 12-year veteran of ArenaNet, are no longer with the company, following an argument on Twitter this week that seized Guild Wars fans’ attention over Twitter and social media forums. On July 3, a Guild Wars YouTuber and streamer known as Deroir offered a critique

Unlike many other parts of the entertainment industry, PC gaming is remarkably opaque when it comes to sales data. For the briefest of moments this week, we had a fabulously clear snapshot of the number of games Steam has actually sold. With the stream of user data that Valve had traditionally shared turned off, he surmised that you could instead use a game’s achievement data to do roughly the same thing. The result is a massive CSV file containing sales data for every game on Steam that offers

Netflix is investing major resources into developing original anime series, and this week announced two new series and the renewal of a fan favorite. Aggretsuko, the short anime series that launched earlier this year about a bored, heavy-metal-loving office worker cat, will return for a second season. Netflix didn’t release too many details about the second season, but did confirm in a teaser, seen below, new episodes will debut in 2019. The company also announced two new anime series alongside