Suburban Basketballis a game thatlives on in my brain, long after I finished it. It’s an aggressive attack to the senses and seems to say a lot and nothing at all at the same time. It hurts. It may never stop hurting. So, I was excited to see whenwalkedoutneimanshad a new game lined up. Okay, maybe “excited” isn’t the correct word. It’s more like morbidly curious. I really had to know ifSuburban Basketballwas just a one-off eruption of brilliant insanity or if the developer was intentionally trying to hurt us....

Consider yourself relieved of duty, Private Nerdlinger! Before this generation, there was only one type of person who played videogames — geeks. Ubisoft had to cater to these subhuman specimens of societal failure, and Ubisoftloathedevery mournful second of every miserable day. At least, that’s what I like to imagine when I hear how happy Ubisoft is that gaming’s not just for us lot these days. “We are at a new start in the industry, a moment where gaming is no longer just for geeks,” explained managing director Xavier Poix....

Plus listen to most of the music from the game! Nintendo has releasedall the cup and track names forMario Kart 8, along with little video snippets of each track. Or you can watch this video by YouTuber Nintendomination that takes all the video previews and makes on giant 34-minute long video to save you the hassle. Plus there’s a video preview of all the playable characters too, along with a look at how, uh, lame the battle mode is now....

Finally, metal being twisted Sony hasdropped a new trailerfor their upcomingTwisted Metalshow coming to Peacock on July 27th. It’s, uh,certainly a direction they’ve decided to go with it, but at the very least, it’s an improvement ontheir last trailer, if only in the fact that it includes cars. The trailer establishes that the world has been apocalypse’d somehow, and the major cities have erected walls to protect themselves from everything else....

Stealth Sub Shenanigans Following up on its more obscure teaser last month, Bandai Namco has released an action-packed trailer for the latest DLC drop in its jet-fighting sequelAce Combat 7: Skies Unknown, which is live now on all platforms. The new mission, titledUnexpected Visitor, concerns a plan to capture an incredible state-of-the-art submarine – The Alicorn – that is packing enough firepower to level a small country, and at least dent a fairly large one....

We put an adventure game on your Switch so you can adventure while you adventure Switch ports have been all the rage ever since the system was released, and rightfully so. Who doesn’t want to play their favorite game while on a long road trip or their daily commute? Well, now the fine folks at Inkle Studios are porting their two most popular narrative adventure games to the Switch. 80 Daysis a steampunk retelling of the famous Jules Verne novel and if you were to ask me, it stands at the pinnacle of what’s possible with branching storytelling in video games....

Craft your own narrative in early 2023 As a fan of both literature and puzzle games,Storytellerhas been one of my most anticipated games of the year. The game takes place in the pages of a storybook, and requires players to combine different elements like characters, settings, and objects to create coherent stories. There are multiple ways to solve each puzzle, making for some fun, creative, and challenging gameplay.Storytellerwasfirst announcedduring last year’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, which showed off the basic mechanics of the game in a short trailer....

Last Gen Standing Today is a big ‘un forApex Legendsfans. As announced by publisher Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment, the sci-fi shooter not only kicks off its newest in-game event “Warriors Collection” but it will also finally bring its battle royale action to the PS5 and Xbox Series X platforms. The “next-gen” editions ofApex Legendscontain support for 4K resolution, longer draw distances, higher resolution shading, and full 60 Hz gameplay on both PS5 and Xbox Series X....

Seems to match a Nintendo owned patent Back in December of 2015,Destructoid reportedon a Nintendo patent for a game console controller, which many assumed to be for the upcoming NX hardware Nintendo has been teasing. According to a post byAlexander Maier over at Dual Pixels, what follows is a leaked image of the NX controller, which matches the patent we previously reported on. The image was apparently provided to Maier by a new source, going by the name Idriss2Dev....

It has come to heal the world Bow thine heads in reverence, dogs. O, ye rebels! Miscreants! Peddlers of blasphemy and spawn of she-goats! Thou art unlean, and unworthy, and must be washed in the purifying light of the holyWatch_Dogsscreenshot! Behold its sanctity, in its glorious oneness. A single golden teardrop a-rolling down the cheek of God Himself. Unworthy are ye to stain its majesty with eyes that do letch and leer in the shadows of this poor Earth....

Another amazing toy from NECA The mecha George Washington figure fromBioShock Infiniteis up for pre-order for just $34.99. The figure comes in at 9 inches tall, has 20 points of articulation, interchangeable heads, a bigass gatling gun, and two flags of Columbia. Head on over toTomopopto see all the places you can pre-order the figure from. NECA gives Bioshock fans a terrorizing Founding Father[Tomopop]

Stranded Deep If I were stuck on a desert island, I’d simply curl up and wait to die. Dehydration, starvation, extreme sunburn — unlike Destiny’s Child, I am not a survivor. I probably wouldn’t even get the TV hooked up to watch my three desert island movies! You, like Gloria Gaynor (or Cake), will survive. You will simply build yourself a gyrocopter and fly high above the sharks. It’s so easy, I’m not sure why everyone isn’t building themselves gyrocopters at all times....

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