TheTomb Raider“R-word” controversyjust won’t quit, especially withKotakupoking at it with a big stick. The outlet recently spoke to Crystal Dynamics’Karl Stewart, attempting to push him further on the whole issue of potential rape attempts in the game. Stewart’s response essentially amount to, “What’s rape?” “He said something which is certainly a word that is not in our vocabulary and not in our communication,” he said of Ron Rosenberg’s original assertion that enemiestry to rape Lara Croft....

A Switch-like Steam handheld It seems like Valve might be working on a new PC gaming device that’s a little more portable than a PC. A new report fromArs Technicasays that Valve has been working on a portable, Switch-like PC that could run games on the Steam platform through Linux. Earlier in the week,SteamDB’s Pavel Djundik noticed a changein Steam’s code pointing towards a device named “SteamPal,” which seemed related to another codename, “Neptune....

Another five day spirit event When I first playedWarframeback in 2013 on the PS4, I never would have thought it would eventually be ported to a Nintendo system, much less be featured in a new SuperSmash Bros.iteration. But here we are! Announced this week by way of the officialSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateaccount, new spirits will be making their way into the fray for the classic five-day weekend spirit event. This time in addition to severalPokemon,Game & Watchsprites,Marioenemies and Infinite fromSonic Forces(the creepy guy in the bottom left), the Lotus spirit (as well as transformed Natah) will appear....

Puppy time! (We’ve moved the player down to the bottom of the post because we can’t turn off the autoplay and it’s annoying the hell out of me, sofollow through to the full postfor the stream.) Activision is about to drop some knowledge aboutCall of Duty: Ghostsahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo this week. An informative stream with all manner of details is set to launch at 11am Pacific and you can watch the whole thing in this little player doo-dad....

Nice work, NIS Good newsDanganronpafans — NIS has announced that bothTrigger Happy HavocandGoodbye Despairhave sold over 200,000 units in North America. For a niche visual novel that’s only available on the PS Vita, that’s pretty good. These numbers come from North American NIS CEO and President Takuro Yamashita,as confirmed to MCV. Well, that’s just fantastic. Imagine how well it would have sold on a system like the 3DS! ExpectDanganronpa: Another Episodein September in Japan, followed by a fall release in the west....

And who do you play as? For me, it’s unquestionablyMount Wario. The snowy setting, the fact that it’s all one giant course, that final adrenaline rush of a descent down the slopes toward the finish line — I love it so much. But there are quite a few other tracks inMario Kart 8worthy of “favorite” status. What’s yours? Mount Wario might be my number-one, but figuring the runners-up would be much more of a challenge....

Bye Magic: The Gatheringstandard is in a very weird spot right now thanks to the new rotation. In the hundred plus games I’ve playedsince Zendikar hit, the vast majority of decks in competitive play err on the side of ramp. For those of you who don’t playMagic, the concept of ramp is to literally ramp up your lands early on, so you can afford to play powerful game-changing cards. All you have to do is survive a few turns to do it, which is easy when you have things like life gain on your side....

In today’s installment of “Predictable, but disappointing,” it’s revealed that in order to move data from your Wii to your eventual Wii U, you’ll need both systems at the same time for the transfer process. At least we found out before everyone went andtraded in their systems, I suppose. After reaching out to Nintendo, Gimme Gimme Games received the following response from a rep: I can confirm that you will be able to transfer your content from your Wii to the new Wii U....

See what they did with the name? SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE?! NEStalgiatakes the classic 8-bit RPG and makes it a online role-playing experience. This comes fromSilk Games. Create parties and go on an adventure in a blocky world full of random encounters and jerky three-frame walking animations. There’s little towns, inns, caves, dungeons, bosses and even that wooshy sound effect when you’re encountered out of nowhere. Sounds like a retro overload to me....

It’s going to be ‘intense’ AnotherAliensvideo game is in development, this time atSurvios, the VR-centric studio behind games likeRaw Data,Creed: Rise to Glory, andThe Walking Dead Onslaught. The studio hasn’t announced the name yet, but says the game will fall into the single-player, action-horror camp, which is something I can vaguely latch onto.Vaguely. It’s another “original storyline, set between theAlienandAliensfilms,” in which a “battle-hardened veteran has a vendetta against the Xenomorphs....

If you’re on PlayStation, prepare to be confused too Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2just launched Warzone 2.0 (read: battle royale) with the Al Mazrah map, on top of a beta forthe DMZ mode. If you’re in the mood for more battle royales, it sounds exciting. But of course, it’s a AAA game release, so not everything is rolling out quite so smoothly for existing owners. I went through this process today, and can save you a headache....

Evil publisher Activision loves the color of money, and apparently having the biggest game franchises in the world just doesn’t rake in enough cash for the nefarious company. With that in mind, Activision is looking at ways to profit even more from big names likeCall of Duty, “monetizing” the experience even more than it does now. “It’s definitely an aspiration that we see potential in, particularly as we look at different business models to monetize the online gameplay,”says CFOThomas Tippl....

Welcome to the Asylum American McGee, owner of the nation’s second most patriotic name after Flaggy McStars’n’Stripes, is riding high after his successful Kickstarter campaign for theOut of the Woodscard game. He’s so high that, after saying plans for a newAlicegame wereout of his hands, he’s ready to take control of the franchise once more. Sending out a tweet at the very reasonable hour of 2:25 am, McGee announced he’s polishing off a proposal to EA for the third game in the series, tentatively titledAlice: Asylum....