Nothing brings families together and tears them apart quite like Mario Kart Nintendo has detailed the baseline deals you can expect for Switch and 2DS during Black Friday 2018. If you’re picking up a Nintendo Switch ($299.99) this shopping season, you’ll get a downloadable copy ofMario Kart 8 Deluxeat no extra cost. Considering it was one of the best games available on Wii U and it’s even better nowadays on Switch, that’s a great pack-in offer....

Secrets from Monkey Island development Aric Wilmunder worked on some of LucasArts’ most famous classics, fromMonkey IslandtoDay of the Tentacle. He sits somewhere between sentimental and pack rat, too, having kept a ton of the original documents behind the creation of these classics. Slowly but surely, he’suploading them to his website, where he explains, “Years ago I visited the LucasArts facility in the San Francisco Presidio and brought along two grocery bags of design documents....

Hunterson Roblox is one of the better Solo Leveling games I played. An RPG format in my opinion dunks on an auto-clicker in terms of Solo Leveling. There’s a lot going on in the game though so a Trello is incredibly important to gather all information. Here’s theofficialHuntersTrello and Discord links. Hunters Roblox Trello and Discord Guide Here’s every social and community HUB you need to play Hunters and stay informed:...

CEO of Evening Star (creators ofPenny’s Big Breakaway), Dave Padilla,has announcedthat the studio has had to part ways with six of its employees. This adds to a growing tally of game developers who have lost their jobs throughout the year. In a statement, Padilla says that Evening Star “has been swept up in the same turbulence that has affected so many of our peers in the games industry for the last year and a half....

First look at this current-gen title The latest installment of thePro Evolution Soccerseries,PES 2014, will share the same engine asMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. TheFox Enginegets around! Konami is going all in with hyping this one, stating that PES Productions worked from the ground up and won’t be bogged down by “dated animation systems and AI elements.” “Thinking outside the box on an annual series such asPESis not easy, but the Fox Engine has allowed us to develop such a level of freedom that we are constantly realizing ways of makingPES 2014a true representation of football,” said creative producer Kei Masuda....

You can watch the first six now Remember when the US gotMetal Gear Solid 2over two weeks before Japan? It was a huge thing back then, but it happens more often than you’d think even today. The first six episodes ofPokemon Generations, the new miniseries, are now available in Japanese by way of the show’s official YouTube account. If you absolutely positively must watch your anime in Japanese, head on over and give it a look, or just watch the first episode below....

Tabletop is fine though When Nintendo announcedSuper Marty Partyat E3, info slowly came trickling in that insinuated that the game could only be played with a single Joy-Con per player (meaning, no Pro Controllers). Fans kind of rested on that information for a few months; and now the situation recently came to a head once they realized that the scheme also nixed handheld mode (read: like a Game Boy or DS)....

Looking at life down the barrel of a gun Shooters seem simple. You step into the shoes of your typical tough guy space-marine or mercenary and empty clip after clip into the faces of Nazis, or aliens, or alien-Nazis from the vaguely disembodied gun bobbing up and down in front of you. It’s a time honored video game tradition, one of the most easily understood and digestible play experiences out there....

Hey, what are you doing here! There’s a ton of good games that came out this week! No wait, come back and watch this video for a couple of minutes, read the article,thenyou can go play those games. Mario Kart 8(Wii U)Developer: Nintendo EAD Group No. 1Publisher: NintendoRelease Date: May 30, 2014MSRP: $59.99 Mario Kart 8is my favorite series entry sinceDouble Dash, and if it gets arena battle tracks at some point by way of DLC, it will be a near-perfect package....

‘This is never our intended design’ Death inSea of Thievescan come swiftly. Sometimes you’re simply outwitted or outplayed, and that’s fine, if a bit irritating in the moment. Other times, you might be offed in a less-than-commendable fashion. That’s how I’d sum up the so-called “double gun,” a maneuver that executive producer Joe Neate says has grown “more prevalent” as of late. It’s a bad way to go, even among pirates....

You’re too DMCA’ed Nintendo is notorious for sending out cease-and-desist notices for fan games based on its IPs. Just this year, we’ve seenAM2RandPokémon Uraniumtaken down despite the creators not asking for money. It seems like fans looking to pay tribute to their favorite games are at a loss. Sega has been fairly lax with its stance on fan games and a recent YouTube comment from the officialSonic the Hedgehogchannel confirms as much....

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2was one of the big surprises of last year, being so successful that it even took overHelldivers 2‘s title of the gaming community’s darling third-person shooter for a little while.Space Marine 2‘s latest major step forward, then, is a proper Public Test Server. Though we’ve known for some time now that the developer Saber Interactive was looking into setting up a PTS forSpace Marine 2, the exact timeline was murky for a while now....

Prices to tickle a Ferengi’s lobes It’s still hard for me to believe thatStar Trek Onlinehas been around for ten years at this point, but it’s true: The game my Steam clock tells me I’ve played the most ofanygame ever (with more besides that, since I was playingSTOlong before it showed up on Steam) is still a going concern, happy to tickleTrekfans’ fancies with lovingly crafted appeals to their nostalgia....