Work continues on netplay woes Bandai Namco have released notes on the first major patch coming to their anime fighting titleDragon Ball FighterZ, which launched to public and critical acclaim last month but has suffered with some irritating online issues. DBFZproducer Tomoko Hiroki released a video responding to the annoying problems concerning disconnects and and the game’s “Ring Match” lobbies. Plans are to fix these ongoing issues in two patches, one this month and one scheduled for sometime in March....

Everyone’s been saying that E3 09 has marked the return of the “real” E3. What does that mean? I’m not rightly sure, but I think it has something to do with all the batsh*t insane, barely videogame-related stuff that was constantly afoot in and around the convention hall this year. Andy and I tried to capture all of it as professionally as possible, but we definitely weren’t able to catch everything....

Spec Ops Survival is a new wave based co-op experience inCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3where you and a buddy will fight wave after wave of of increasingly difficult enemies. Survival can be played on any multiplayer map either by yourself or with a friend (online or split-screen) and the goal is to get loads of cash and survive as long as possible. So yeah, it’s like the Zombies mode fromBlack Opsexcept you’re fighting soldiers with guns....

Kickstarter campaign to publish a beautiful hardbound book of videogame art Backing videogame projects on Kickstarter is pretty commonplace these days but it’s rarer to back a physical, videogame-related product.Everyday is Playis a book designed by Matthew Kenyon, a graphic designer from West Yorkshire in the UK, featuring a contributions from a variety of artists, spanning photography, illustration, ceramics, sculpture, hardware mods and even song lyrics. The plan is to create a 200+ page, cloth-covered hardback book that will showcase works from the like of Fangamer, Insert Coin, Indie Game The Movie, Iam8Bit and a variety of independent artists and designers like Cory Schmitz, Ian Anderson and personal online acquaintance Daniel Grey....

Fortifying ATLAS Fallout 76is still trucking, and Bethesda isn’t shying away from delivering rather big patches from time to time for it. Next Tuesday, Patch 21 is set to shake things up a bit, and hopefully fix some of the bugs from Patch 20 (and maybe introduce some new ones!). As revealed by the publisher, Patch 21 will arrive next week and will bring with it a community-wide event called Fortifying ATLAS....

I’ll grab any excuse to promote a good comedian, so this week I would like to remind everyone that Ray Peacock exists. Here’s one of the few bits of stand-up that you can actually find of the guy. He’s a very funny man indeed and his work with fellow comedian Ed Gamble is highly recommended. Check out thePeacock & Gamble Podcast. It’s very good for doing a listen at. Speaking of things that are good, we played videogames this week....

There’s a lot to take in Falloutgames are convenient in that each of the stories are independent of one another. That is to say, you don’t need to have playedFallout 3to understand and enjoyFallout 4. However, there is quite a lot of backstory to the world, and diving into that will provide context for why things are the way they are. That’s a daunting task to say the least. This video makes it considerably less taxing, though....

Harvest Moon 64 was Wada’s favorite Did You Know Gaming’s latest video is all aboutHarvest Moon. One of the biggest things I learned here is that the series started life after series creator Yasuhiro Wada moved to Tokyo from the countryside. He would regularly reminisce about his former life, thinking of what made that life so special. From there his idea evolved, taking influences from a few games he was playing as he developed his project....

Discussing the past, present, and future with CEO Fredrik Wester Paradox Interactive is best known for their hardcore grand strategy titles on the PC market. Makers of such hits asCrusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Magicka,and many more games, the Sweden-based company celebrated 10 years of independence since splitting off from Paradox Entertainment last month in Miami, Florida. Made up of seven people in 2004, Paradox now has 120 people working across four different studios, with an additional 150 other people on contract making games externally....

InMadden NFL 25, you’ll come across the latest NFL squads, which are updated based on real-life transactions and movements. But you can also enjoy any custom squad you want, which could be based on reality or fantasy. It’s possible to play with older draft classes, future draft classes, and more, and all of this is possible since you can download and use custom squads. Additionally, you can tweak the squads manually and use them across different modes....

With so many potential disheswaiting to be cooked inWuthering Waves, all of which offer select buffs, it can be difficult to decide which to cook. One of the stronger and most useful early game recipes is Jinzhou Skewers. Jinzhou Skewers are a dish that’s available relatively early on and, when eaten, will increase the ATK stat of every member of your party (excluding co-op players) by 100 for 15 minutes. This is especially helpful during early fights with Fractsidius or other high level encounters with Tacet Discords....

I could have sworn we had coveredHydrophobiaa few times before, but alas, Google cannot tell a lie. Kind of a bummer, because the game sounds intriguing as all heck. To quickly recap, the world is flooded, and you control an engineer aboard a city-sized ship that’s being forcibly taken by terrorists. Also, the character you play as, Kate, is afraid of water — hence the title. Equally interesting is howHydrophobiawill be presented: it’s getting an episodic release for Xbox 360 through Xbox LIVE Marketplace; not something you see happen every day....

If everyone around you’s a jerk, maybe YOU’RE the jerk Maybe it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but the beings hanging out in the Tokyo Game Show showing ofBloodborneweren’t exactly enamored by my presence. That’s putting it lightly. Cautiously trekking through the village that the demo thrust me into, I quickly found out that none of them wanted to be my friend, and all of them just wanted me dead....