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Analogue has announced that the next in their line-up of limited edition Analogue Pocket colors. This time, they’re revisiting the rainbow of Game Boy consoles. Even Game Boy Light.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that a stop-motion animated Pokemon series is in the works. We’ve gotten our first trailer and it’s outrageously cute.

Even vampires deserve treats. One of the many sacrifices that people make in exchange for eternal life in vampire lore is flavor. They can only eat one thing for the rest of their elongated lives, and it’s a metallic, salty, sinister thing. We all know this. We accept this. But vampires shouldn’t have to give up texture, too. So, in 2013, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch was brave enough to create a vampire with the vision to turn that blood into something good to eat: Eve and her blood Popsicles in Only Lovers Left Alive.

The Pokémon world is full of trainers hustling to bethe very best like no one ever was. But sometimes, you gotta stop the grind and learn to chill. Enter Pokémon Concierge, a new anime about the easier-breezier side of the Pokémon world.

Monomi Park today launched the latest update for Slime Rancher 2, called “Come Rain or Slime.” As the name would suggest, the new update introduces a weather system into the game, including thunderstorms, cyclones and allergy-triggering pollen covering the in-game environments. As with all things in Slime Rancher, the new update makes the weather as adorable and beautiful as possible.

With the introduction of its 14th Gen processors just last month, Intel introduced a new feature called Application Optimizer, or APO for short. It's a new scheduling technology to help boost frame rates in select games—very few select games, in fact, there are just two that support APO today. But that's not the only way this feature is limited, It's a 14th Gen exclusive feature and Intel says it has no plans to roll it out to older chips.

Roblox is a den of the bizarre. Luckily for you, we have sifted through everything the site has to offer in order to bring you the twelve weirdest Roblox games.

Coral Island includes every feature you’d expect from a farming sim game while remembering its Indonesian roots with its novel diving mechanic. We know the basics of fishing, farming, and mining all too well, but what is this new activity all about?

Humble Games and Memorable Games have announced their investigative life sim, On Your Tail, for a 2024 release window.

Disney is more fun with friends, especially now that Disney Dreamlight Valley’s full release amps up its multiplayer finisher with the full release version on the horizon.

We review Smug Owls, a word based party game designed by Runaway Parade Games. In Smug Owls, players are coming up with snappy answers to questions in the hopes of scoring the most points .

Wordle 877 answer for November 13: The developers of Wordle have gone hard on players recently by providing answers such as ARDOR, MANIA, AZURE, PHONY, and MASON. However, today is not expected to be one such day, with a pretty simple answer awaiting you! It can be guessed easily by most players. However, players should know that they only have a limited number of attempts to get the word right, throwing any guesswork out the window. If you're concerned about running out of attempts and losing your winning streak, it's the perfect time to consult our Wordle hints and clues.

As with all emergent tech, AI has been an absolute rollercoaster. We've gone from funky deep-dream psychedelia and crunchy robot voices that sort of sound like Spongebob to a legal and ethical minefield. While it's been used for some cool stuff, like DLSS upscaling, it's also, uh, been used by the UK government for welfare benefit claims, or to make NSFW mods without the original voice actor's consent. Boot, meet mine.

It was a normal Monday morning: Lofi Girl, as she always does, sits at her desk studying. She’ll glance out the window and turn the page of her notebook, all while her orange cat lazily peers out the window. But sometime after 9 a.m. EST, Lofi Girl disappeared — during Kanisan’s “morning moon” — as music continued playing. As it turns out, Synthwave Boy dropped off his stream, too.

Rainbow Six Siege’s latest crossover is here and it’s great news for fans of Street Fighter. Two bundles have been revealed which allow operators Grim and Ying to dress up as iconic fighting series characters Ryu and Chun-Li respectively. 

Eight years, 32 seasons, 70 operators. In all that time, Rainbow Six Siege players can point to only a few moments where the cornerstone of its meta—breaching—saw upheaval. In 2015 the Bandit trick proved Thatcher could be countered, in 2018 Maverick offered an unstoppable (but risky) option to brute force a wall, then Kaid offered protection for hatches. Alternate options for breaching charges and EMPs have slotted nicely into the meta since then, but I'm not sure anyone is ready for Tubarão.

It used to be the case that comparisons between Rainbow Six Siege and Counter-Strike ended at their 5v5 team sizes and bomb rulesets, but Ubisoft is cooking up its own version of a feature that's become synonymous with Valve's tactical FPS: the skin marketplace.

As a kid, I sometimes played odd games I found on the internet or watched playthroughs of them. Most of these were RPG Maker horror games because something about mixing cute art styles with terrifying imagery and plots resonated with a young me.

You remember Subway Surfers, right? Or maybe Temple Run. Well, make way for Bubble Rangers, an arguably cuter counterpart.

Ubisoft and esports data provider Grid have signed a multi-year exclusive partnership to support the Rainbow Six Siege competitive ecosystem. Grid streamlines access to real-time competitive data for broadcasts, monitoring competitive integrity, coaching and betting. Additionally, the two companies hope to fuel Rainbow Six Siege’s growth through this partnership.

Few games come with the giggling delight I was immersed in while playing the quirky, shop-management sim and dungeon-crawler Cuisineer. From smacking chickens with a spatula to “inheriting” an emptied storefront, this cute game is quintessential cozy.

This essay on the much-debated problems with Love, Actually and how to fix them was originally a Christmas piece. It’s been updated and reposted for the movie’s 20th anniversary re-release.

I’m just as surprised as you, but DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing is actually quite entertaining. It even brings its own unique mechanics to the overpopulated scene, iterating on a genre with loaded expectations.

I was overly critical of Harvest Moon: One World, and for good reason. Many things about that game bothered me, but the most egregious of them all was the laziness in development. I was shocked that instead of naming characters, they used descriptions to describe people, such as the “Busy Man.” It was lazy development, and that laziness seemed to trickle down and permeate almost all aspects of the game.

A few years ago, Steam added the option to hide your activity and thus your library and playtime. For those of you who are ashamed of your hundreds of hours in Cute Girls VR, Rich MILF Drama, and HuniePop, it was a bandaid to mask the truth. But now Steam is adding a better way to manage your games - marking individual titles as private.

Disney Dreamlight Valley has launched on multiple platforms during its early access period. When juggling multiple platforms, inquiries like “Can I team up with my buddy playing on a different console?” and “Are my saves transferable between consoles?” start to pop up.

Disney Dreamlight Valley has gobbled up all of my time in the past year. After logging in every day to say hi to your Disney faves in the early access version, I think you’re entitled to know when the full version is coming out.

We review Sushi Go Spin Some for Dim Sum, a family weight game published by Gamewright Games. In Sushi Go Spin Some for Dim Sum, players are drafting sushi tiles hoping to score the most points.

Ubisoft Montreal is the latest company hit by ongoing cuts as 75 members of staff have been laid off at the Canadian studio.

In Loki may have formally introduced Miss Minutes, but it looks like the cute clock may be working her way around the Marvel universe, as one fan has spotted her in the third Ant-Man movie. 

BitLife is an incredibly popular life simulator that puts you in control of someone’s life from birth to death. If you’ve been playing non-stop and are now looking for something a little bit different, there are plenty of other games to check out that are like Bitlife.

When it comes to meta games for Pokemon spinoffs, none is as complex or ever-changing as Pokemon Unite. In the true fashion of a MOBA, new characters coming out can change the entire course of the game’s meta, more or less being solidified in their tiers from the moment players get a good handle on how they function.

The best part of Starfield is undeniably your spaceship, which can be customized or built from scratch to look like anything from a cute little ladybug to a massive Star Destroyer. 

It looks like Overwatch 2’s next hero is properly coming to the game next month and you can try them out this weekend to mark BlizzCon 2023.

Embracer Group has made layoffs at Neverwinter developer Cryptic Studios. Several current and former Cryptic employees confirmed there has been a "reduction in force" at the studio, although it's unclear how many people have been let go.

2023 has been a great year for games, no doubt — but it’s a lot, isn’t it? There are so many brilliant games clamoring for our attention, and a lot of them are quite busy, noisy, or complex in themselves. Alan Wake 2 is an intense, fractured, and scary psychotropic horror game. Spider-Man 2 is a whole, bustling city full of slick distractions. Super Mario Bros. Wonder is an ever-shifting psychedelic fever dream of a platformer. Or maybe you’re considering resuming one of this year’s weighty role-playing games mid-playthrough — Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, or Baldur’s Gate 3. Somehow, Diablo 4 is already deep into its second season. It’s all a bit overwhelming.

Ubisoft has teamed up with mental health charity Safe In Our World to create the Good Game Playbook, a guide which aims to offer support to players experiencing toxic behavior online, as well as those behind it. 

Persona 5 is the game-turned-franchise that just keeps giving. After the success of Persona 5 Strikers, which came after Persona 5 Royal, which came after Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, we have a brand new genre-smash for fans of jazzy Japanese teens: Persona 5 Tactica!

Here’s how to do the with an that is trending on. This will turn your pet into a cute Disney character.

Disney Dreamlight Valley spent 40 minutes spitting rainbows and new content at their player base in the DDV Showcase. Every minute was put to good use, and the most exciting news is the confirmation of the upcoming Multiplayer Mode.

It's an understatement to say that Disney Lorcana has been a success, and the frantic rush for cards is about to kick off again when the second wave drops this November 17. To give you a sneak peek of what's to come, the game's publisher – Ravensburger – has given us an exclusive reveal for you.

Though we'd known for some time that Disney Dreamlight Valley had plans to incorporate multiplayer in its cozy social sim, Gameloft has been quite tight-lipped on the details—until now. In its digital showcase today, Dreamlight Valley unveiled all sorts of updates coming to the game over the next year: a first game expansion, lots more free realms and villagers, and those long-awaited multiplayer details. And, as promised in the original 2023 roadmap, multiplayer is landing before the end of this year.

The new RoboCop video game RoboCop: Rogue City has a deep reverence for Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 gory action satire movie, from the game’s cast of characters to its authentic re-creation of a dystopian, derelict Detroit. RoboCop: Rogue City also takes RoboCop’s penchant for shooting bad guys in the nuts to heart: Groin attacks are an important part of gameplay.

(Formerly) indie developers System Era, known for planet-exploring space sandbox Astroneer, have been acquired by Devolver Digital, known for putting out that offbeat indie game you like, probably.

Reports are showing that Modern Warfare 3’s file size is absolutely massive. Call of Duty game files are notoriously large, but how big is Modern Warfare 3 exactly?

You may remember my report on this game back in September! Well, the Refind Self release date has been officially confirmed. Back then, we only had a November release window. But we now know that the narrative game will be available to download and play on November 14.

Silent Hill: Ascension aired its first episode yesterday, but players are lambasting the game for its monetisation options and overwhelming UI.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is getting one last DLC, which will introduce new maps and characters. 

With God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, and other blockbusters happily taking root on PC, I can only assume that the continued absence of Bloodborne from our platform of choice is due to either a mummy's curse or Sony executive spite, but who needs it anyway? Bloodborne's true form—Bloodborne Kart—now has a proper release date, meaning we can turn Yharnam into our own personal Rainbow Road incredibly soon.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to roll out its final bundle of Booster Course Pass tracks and racers, and this is a particularly meaty one. Wave 6 offers a number of fan-favorite tracks, including the Wii version of Rainbow Road, Double-Dash’s Donkey Kong Mountain, and more. Players can also look forward to four additional characters (Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, and Peachette), a whack of new Mii costumes, a music sound test, and more. Check out the trailer for Mario Kart 8 Booster Course Pass Wave 6, below.

Nintendo has revealed that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass Wave 6, the final wave of DLC for the uber-popular kart racer, goes live next week on November 9. It includes eight new courses, including fan favorites like Mario Kart Wii's Rainbow Road, three new racers, a new music player feature, and more. With it being the final wave of DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it brings the game's course count up to 96, which is double the 48 available in the base game. 

Nintendo has finally announced when Wave 6 – the last wave – of the Booster Course Pass DLC is going to hit. It will drop November 9, 2023.

On October 27, 2023, the Japanese card sets, and were released. Though some of the cards from the and sets are fairly forgettable, many of them, particularly a few of the 58 Secret Rares, are incredibly beautiful and are, without question, cards that many of the most dedicated and discerning connoisseurs and collectors will undoubtedly want to have in their collections.

Halloween may only just be over (literally), but Squishmallows is already going all-in on the holidays.

Cats and Soup has cooked up a new pot of fun in the Halloween update which will run until November 21st, 2023. This spooky festivity invites a new wardrobe for the kitties as well as a new freaky feline friend.

Microsoft has announced the first wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in November 2023, taking subscribers up to November 14.

Deltarune, the sorta-sequel to the absurdly popular indie game Undertale, has nearly finished development on its third chapter, according to a new Halloween blog on the game's official newsletter. It's full of cute touches, like a visitation from a certain white fluffy dog. The bigger news, however, is that Chapter 3 is «pretty much content complete». The creator of both games, Toby Fox, goes on to write: «Hooray!»

Endless Dungeon’s weary space western theme feels perfectly in tune with the pioneer spirit that runs throughout the game. This ragtag bunch of space miscreants – led by an actual cleaner wielding his mop – need to get off this drifting leviathan, but the only way to get iyt is by going through, delving ever deeper into the bones of the station in the hope that they’ll find something other than alien hordes lurking in the dark. To be fair, it’s mostly alien hordes.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

A free passion project from a team of game devs has released on Steam after a few years in Early Access, and it's entirely free. Planet S is a game where you're dropped, with your single colony ship, into an uninhabited solar system either alone or alongside others with their own ships. From there, it's your job to try and expand to get the resources you need to survive and thrive.

Doctor Web's latest monthly mobile threat report has identified several Android apps with more than 2 million installs that masquerade as gaming or productivity apps but are actually adware.

Most people love the Metal Gear series and are quick to rank their favorite games in the franchise. But are most people going to bother to rank the actual Metal Gear robots? Nope! Let’s dive in.

Disney Dreamlight Valley developer Gameloft announced earlier today that its popular cozy Disney life sim game will not be going free-to-play in December as planned. And unsurprisingly, its bustling player community has, well, a lot of thoughts about that!

In ARK: Survival Ascended, baby dinosaurs can be tamed. While it’s a bit cruel to take a youngling away from its family just because they’re cute, I simply can’t help myself, and I know you won’t be able to either.

Hotel management sim Yog-Sothoth's Yard strikes me as Cult of the Lamb with all the combat stuff replaced with cute anime girls and some business decisions, and it's made quite a name for itself on Steam.

Mario is perhaps the most iconic video game character, and he’s only in his late 30s. The times and technology have changed a lot since his debut in the mid-1980s, but the popular Brooklyn plumber is up to the same old shenanigans of sliding through pipes, jumping on heads, and racing karts — plus some new ones, like being an elephant in his latest gaming adventure, Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac has patched out the now fan-favorite glitch that turned Peter Parker and Miles Morales into a little cube.

French publishing giant Ubisoft has reported a 14 per cent increase in revenue for the six months ending September 30th.

Ubisoft reported its first half of 2023-24 earnings yesterday. The financial results were pretty good for the company, which registered record net booking for the first half of a fiscal year and also outperformed Q2 guidance thanks to the successful launches of Assassin's Creed Mirage and The Crew Motorfest and the overperformance of back catalog games.

Ubisoft released its first-half earnings report today, posting revenue growth, which the firm attributed to its latest releases and back catalog performances. Here's what you need to know for the company's six months ended September 30.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is such a dense and rich game that completing the campaign even once is a feat. But doing just one playthrough means you inevitably miss out on certain paths and branches in the game. There are few differences so extreme as doing your next playthrough as the Dark Urge. The Dark Urge is an origin character, found in the same part of character creation as our good friends Shadowheart, Astarion, Lae’zel, Wyll, and Karlach. Now that Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for long enough for fans to compare and contrast between campaigns, it’s worth taking the time to recognize how dang cool the Dark Urge is.

The Final Fantasy 14 x Fall Guys event has been in the pipeline for a while now, and we've just been treated to a full list of details, as outlined on the game's official website. 

One Halo modder has turned a mainstay Phil Spencer meme into an in-game heavy cannon.

The Spider-Bots in are cute references to Spider-Man's legacy throughout the Marvel canon. Each looks like a different Spider-Man suit, villain, or alternate heroes like Spider-Ham or Peni Parker. There are 42 cute Spider-Bots across New York City. However, there's one problem in tracking them down; unlike Marko's Memories or the Mysteriums, Spider-Bots do not immediately appear on the map.

If you thought Yakuza minigames peaked with running an amateur baseball team, think again, as Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealthis introducing Dondoko Island.

If Stardew Valley took place in a world not dissimilar to the classic Studio Ghibli animated movie Spirited Away, I'd imagine it would look something like this promising new life/management sim RPG. Spirittea launches on November 13 for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Game Pass, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has revealed the zany, chaotic Animal Crossing-style mode I've always dreamt of.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder and my 73-year-old grandma now have one thing in common: Both have an utterly uncanny ability to capture my worst angle.

After watching episode 3 of Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix and seeing a coked-up, half-naked Rayman — eating sushi off a fully nude cow-woman, by the way — scream at his television, I started to wonder how Ubisoft felt about this whole thing. Minutes earlier, Rayman had just called a superhero a “fucking red prick” on his nightly news show, and spent part of the episode swigging from a quart of whiskey in his tighty-whities.