BREAKING NEWS: A dog exists somewhere! Sometimes it’s easy to forget what’s important in life. This week we’ve had eighty billionVRheadsetsannounced, and graphics cards that could probablypunch a hole in the space-time continuum, and yeah, that’s exciting and all… but does it actually matter? Probably not. There is only one this in this world thatreallymatters, and that’s dogs. Bethesda has announced that River, the German shepherd that modeled and voicedFallout 4’sDogmeat, won the award for Top Videogame Dog at TheCW’s World Dog Awards:...

Get to know the people that make great videogames On last week’s Sup Holmes (now oniTunesandt-shirts), we welcomed Austin Ivansmith back to the program. We heard all about his fine arts background and formative experiences which brought him to game development in his first appearance on the show, so this time we concentrated on his biggest project to date —DuckTales Remastered. There was a lot to talk about, which lead to use going almost 30 minutes longer than usual....

InDynasty Warriors: Originsthere are ten unique weapon types for you to choose from as you roam the seven kingdoms taking on hordes of armies. Each weapon type offers a unique playstyle and can be empowered by various Battle Arts to make them even stronger. We’ve put together aDynasty Warrior: OriginsWeapons Tier List to highlight which weapons are the best to use when playing. All Weapons Tier List While all ten weapon types inDynasty Warriors: Originscan be used without issue, especially if you take the time to learn them, some weapons offer more strengths and versatility than others making them more ideal to learn to use....

Okay, soState of Emergencywasn’t theGTA III-killer that Rockstar hyped it up to be. So, what? Sometimes it’s fun to play an embarrassingly dumb game about throwing things into other things. I want to flip cars and incite an angry mob! ThoughSoEis forgotten by most,When Vikings Attackcaptures that same kinetic energy and stupidity, albeit in arcade form. When Vikings Attackis a top-down brawler combined with dodge ball. Sounds awesome, right? You control a mob and throw things at enemy mobs, until you clear the small rectangular arena and are shuffled off to the next one....

Wow, this trailer. I’m in love with that upbeat music. Edge of Reality is bringing its free-to-play shooterLoadoutto PlayStation 4 as a console exclusive. Some three million people are already playing iton PCand while I’m not one of them, not yet, I’ve given it serious thought — but, “free-to-play.” Hmm. Does look like silly fun, though. The main draw besides the messed-up cartoonish gore and, uh, nontraditional characters is an extensive weapon crafting system with “billions of combinations....

This is it. The last Friday night beforeBattlefield 3replaces the go-to FNF game of many a Dtoider, myself included. Am I sad? A little. After all, I’ve spent more Fridays playingBattlefield: Bad Company 2than probably any other game since I started hosting FNF, and every one of them has been an absolute delight. I’ve killed more enemies, revived more teammates and captured more M-COM stations than I can even count, but every one of those kills, revives and captures holds a place in my heart, and always will....

A hotfix came out today And so the eternal struggle of balancing PVE-based games and gear continues. Gearbox is actually buffing a few legendaries inBorderlands 3, but not for the reasons you think.The Mayhem 2.0 difficulty is on its way, and Gearbox wants to get ahead of it before a lot of guns feel underwhelming. Faisor is easily the big winner here, with buffs to weapon damage in both firing modes, with a drawback of increased reload time....

A Google whitepaper called “Understanding the Modern Gamer” shows that gamer behavior can be tracked through searches, and shows that there is a link between searches and game sales. One of their key bulletpoints from the paper says that 84 percent of game sales can be predicted from our searches. They found some pretty fascinating stuff in their tracking of searches for the top 20 games of 2010 and 2011. They used their data to create a model and found that if a game nets 250,000 clicks in the 10 months around its launch, it will sell somewhere between 2 and 4 million copies in the first four months....

This 4K60 enhanced New-Gen Edition is free if you own the game on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One Pumpkin Jackhas a decent chance of clicking if you’re into PS2-era 3D platformers, and it’s making the rounds again for Halloween. The Xbox One, PS4, and PC versions launched a year ago, and for 2021, Thunderful and Headup are releasingPumpkin Jackfor PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 27. It’s a free upgrade/cross-buy situation, for starters....

Hands-on preview Here. Knock back an Estus while I tell you about my time with an early closed network beta testing build ofDark Souls II. Oh, wait. I drank them all. Well, watch your back while you listen in then. I happily settled in as the very first person to nab a gameplay seat in a test room at Namco Bandai’s Tokyo offices yesterday. Seated and ready, I jumped into a build ofDark Souls II‘s closed network beta test — an early build of one that the publisher plans to launch fully this October....

All the winners, in no particular order It feels like no matter what show we go to, it’s always the indie games that end up surprising and impressing us the most. There are just so many unique and ambitious ideas floating around in that community, it’s hard to not come away completely endeared each time. The best part is that there’s no shortage of talent out there, so it seems like a constant wealth of new names making their mark....

Rank up, first AlthoughSuper Mario Bros. 35has some issues in regards to its endgame, it’s a fun little treat to boot up every now and then and a nice way to dive back into a classic. One of the things I liked about it was its penchant for tiny little Easter eggs, which includes this newly discovered trick: you can play as Luigi. Sure, it’s just a color swap for the most part, but Twitter user CombotronRobot managed to uncover the secret and I’m sure it’ll get a lot of people talking about the battle royale release again....

What Region is Pokemon Scarlet/Violet set in? We’ve all begun exploringPokemon Scarlet &Violet, the newest mainline entries in the long-running Game Freak series. Alongside the new people, places, and goals set out for prospective Pokemon Trainers, we have also taken a round trip throughout the new games’ expansive region, Paldea. Paldea, the locale for all ofPokemon Scarlet &Violet’sexploration and critter-catching action, plays host to a variety of little monsters to discover....